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The dream-machine could also be used to inflict dream-torture on the user:
“No, damn you!” Stanton said hoarsely.
“Another spool, Slih Drin,” ordered the Chief. “Break him down.”
The dream-machine started — and Stanton was plunged back again into the darkness of the dream-sleep. This time he awoke to find himself staggering through a terrific frozen-air blizzard on icy Pluto. He was dying on his feet of cold and starvation. The oxygen inside his suit was running out, and his lungs were a gasping pain. The hopelessness of his situation crushed his spirits. He fell, got up and struggled on again, then fell once more and lay freezing, dying —
Abruptly, the dream changed. He was in a space-liner that had been wrecked by a meteor and was falling into the sun. The heat inside it was already terrific. He was gasping for breath, people were falling and dying around him. The seams of the liner were beginning to give way as it rushed toward doom. The metal floor seared his flesh, his blood was boiling in his veins...
Fettered, still shaken by the horrible dream-torture, Stanton was dragged out of the chamber by the two guards and then dragged down flights of dusky cement stairs to the underground levels of the ancient fortress.
Roger Zelazny anticipated this idea in his 1966 novel The Dream Master; see the entry for the dream console. See also the lucid dreamer from Peter Watts' 1999 novel Starfish and the empathy box from Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. Also, the Compare to the peeper from Shadow World (1957) by Clifford Simak. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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