Egocentric Concentric Circles

What are Egocentric Concentric Circles?

I will define what I mean by the title. But I won't tell too much, for I intend to write a series of stories based around this idea of "Egocentric Concentric Circles." Let's breakdown the title. There are at least six words in there that I have purposefully placed. 1.

Poems

Dream: Authority

5/4/22 Freewrite Authority. I am unyielding authority. Thy knees shall bow to my every decree. Thy crypt is bequeathed to royal thane. Thy fear falls from the core of pain. Never leave thy name to my dream. Cry to the train of thought. Train of thought. Train of…

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PSA: Same Face Syndrome

March 11, 2022 They say that your brain can’t create faces. Every face you see in your dreams is a face you have seen in real life. That means those monsters do exist, or at least people that look like their heads have been mutilated. … PSA: Same Face Syndrome

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Long Road to Arcadia

10/13/22 freewrite The infant girl lies in her crib, watching the toy horses dancing in circles above her, hanging from the spinning mobile. The night light allows her to distinguish their silhouettes against the darkness that pervades over the rest of the room. The little child is tired,

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Dream: Ghost Town of a Metropolis

Dream Sept. 26 I remember in the dream the view like that of a drone panning over parking lots filled with cars. Every advertisement and image is replaced by Lightning McQueen from the movie Cars. … I remember an old-fashioned single-room schoolhouse. Rows of wooden benches instead of chairs. Black chalkboard

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Dream: "How will I die?"

Dream: February 1st, 2023. I remember that I woke up at 6:00am for my alarm but then went back to sleep until 12:30pm. Let’s see if I can quickly recite a tale enough of my dream so that I will be able to remember it. There was

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Myopic Medley

8/29/2022 Shadows creeping at the edges of my vision. Glaucoma seeping from cornea to iris. Figures hiding outside myopic blindness. I prefer your faces blurry; Don’t give me prescription glasses. I’ve got contact with the supernatural. But to contact lenses, I must say “No.” … In the

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First of May. Dreams and Poems

May 4th, 2022 First of May. Dreams and Poems. You’ve forced my hand. Don’t make me do this. You’ve forced my hand. I don’t want to go through with this. You’ve forced my hand. I can’t resist. You’ve forced my hand. Our relationship

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Dream: Julie

This appears to be the dream which inspired the poem titled: "Dream: Warning! You've been kidnapped!" 5/15/2022 Julie–Old lady, whitish-grey curly hair just past the ears. She kidnapped you and kept her in your house. Lily–There is a story about how Lily lost… something. I’m

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Colloquial Terror

March 31st, 2022 Colloquial terror is in the name. What was the error of your ways? Trying the father of the familiar particular errors. What was the monster in your psyche? What was the typhoid in your fever? What was the nightmare in your mind? There are waves in the

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Dream: Ordial

Dissappointing. When I saw the name of this doc, I thought iit was the dream I had about Ordial. Perhaps it is, but I must not have gotten around to writing the part of the dream that contained Ordial. Alll i know about ordial is that he was the first.

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Dream: Retriever

March 27th, 2022 The series will end. The series will end. The series will end. A final three movies to add what was thought of as a quadrilogy. I see the stone tablets etched with engravings of heroics fly in through fog. Now we come to the 5th movie. We

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Dream: Arthropods & Backrooms

This doc I found seems to be the origin of namuhnI, Dream: January 6, 2023 Have you heard of the Backrooms? The premise of the Backrooms is terrifying because it is a place that you cannot escape. I have had many dreams lately that feature such places. Realms from which

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Dream: Interdimensional Dragons

This doc I found appears to be the origin of the Dragon Time poem. April 23rd 2022 I need to go to church. I need to go to church because it’s Sunday. But I can’t go to church, there are so many cars parked in the driveway. Who

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Dream: Dark Dragon

I found a document which appears to be the origin of my Sleeper Agent poem. Sadly, it does not appear that I finished recording the dream. It goes as follows: March 22, 2022 Dark Dragon Awakes. Form of raven, He takes. No refuge. No escape. No surrender. No pain. He

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Dream: Cinema

December 15th, 2023 Eyes are inverted, White stars in black pits. Pupils split open To shining ast’risks. The darkness burns bright: Photonegative. Pupils now dilate, Wait, where’s the iris? - We go to California as a family. I’m biking with the Boyscouts. (Wait, why did they join

Ego Concentric Circles

Erage Origins

12/21/2020 I don’t know what to call this story, or if I can even have a fun story with this idea. This is an idea that originated back when I still played with my shovels. When I had this idea, I was probably still in Elementary School.

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Dream: Succubus Scene

6/2/2023 Only a small scene from a much larger dream. I was at home, pacing. It was late at night. Dark. Probably near or past midnight. I looked over Google chat. I dared not post any more in the chat lest I wake those that are sleeping. I

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List of Dream Lords

7/19/2023 The Vampire Lord has returned again and again. I guess I should call him Erigmaden. A shape-changing shadow panther in the form of a woman. I’ll call her nahmunI because she’s Inhuman. Hidden in plain sight, these critters crawl. Queen of the Arthrocentaurs, Korthatha [Edit:

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Dream: Origin of Miniboss

Dream 5/21/22 - The Swarm holds against the marines, We drive the men back, but it’s not as it seems. They flee but not of our might in terror. They evacuate for the approaching bomber. - I command my Swarm to burrow and hide, Dirt and stone

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Slinwey on Trial

This is an interesting find. It seems I mistook prosecution for persecution. Anyway, let's take a look at this free write from 5-31-22. Judge: “The Zone of Truth is up on the witness stand. Witnesses who resist the Zone of Truth will be imprisoned for perjury.Persecution , you may bring

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Dear Diary

freewrite 6/3/22 9/18/2115–Dear Diary, it’s me again, Gherda. I’m still trying to work out who I am in this post apocalyptic world. I feel like I would have had a better sense of identity if I had been born before the outbreak, like

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Dream: Larva

7/24/23 Water pipes overwhelmed because someone turned on too many faucets. The pipes burst and water floods the apartment. There is a larva that has taken hold in the minds of some people. The person describes suffering nightmares about this larva. After mentioning the larva, everyone is weary

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Dream: Barbie

7/23/23 Barbie, like the doll, was walking through a meadow with a few scattered trees next to a reflective, motionless,pristine, and undisturbed lake. Or perhaps it was too small for a lake. A pond? Her boyfriend, Ken, was there. As well as her three younger sisters. They

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Dream: Red Eye

7/26/23 When I woke up this morning I remembered that I had a dream but couldn’t remember anything about it no matter how hard I tried. Around 1:30pm today, I was struck with a sudden flash of mental images as the dream began to seep into