Early this morning I had a truly nightmarish dream. It started innocently enough. I was working in this place that I have never seen before.  At the end of the day, the boss went home, and there was only me and a female receptionist left when a VIP client showed up with a complaint.  I could hear the receptionist talking with him and giving him a map of the building before I realized who he was.  It was Hitler, which our company had cloned from some old cells.

In all fairness, I don’t think anyone except perhaps our boss knew who it was, only that it was a Very Important Person.  Even the receptionist did not recognize him, but then again she probably got the job for her cuteness and not her general education level. I recognized him at once, of course, and I also realized why he was complaining.  He was cloned from old body cells that were reaching the end of their lives, so he was in a bad shape, and his mind was as deranged as his body was grotesque.  He was mutating in front of us, becoming more and more misshapen and more and more insane.  We ran away, and he kept chasing us, until he found us and cornered us in the last room upstairs. But just then, his body broke down completely and he dissolved gradually into stinking brown goo.

Shaken, we went downstairs again – and there was another Hitler. The automated cloning machines had thoughtfully made a backup, and I realized that it probably had backups of the backups and there would be coming Hitlers after us till we were dead.  That’s when I clawed my way back to the World Between Worlds.  I was horribly sleepy and I would say it was the hardest exit I have had from a dream, I could see it wide open beneath me and trying to suck me back in, but I just hung on to a shred of consciousness until the world portal finally closed and I could return to sleep in a safe place.

On the bright side, I was not the monster this time!