You’ll sit there for what feels like an eternity trying to scream, watching your childhood self play with your insufferable super villain cousin in slow motion. It will be what you imagined hell to be like, banal shit foisted upon your mind, unwelcome and inescapable and a little bit uncomfortable in a way you can’t quite put your finger on.
You’ll feel, rather than hear, Lasercut’s amusement at your discomfort. Ha ha ha he’ll mind-laugh inside your skull.
You’ll realize suddenly that this is exactly what he expected. He expected you to fight, to return to the present at any cost. You’ll bite your lip and do the hardest thing you’ve ever done: you’ll fall deeper into flashback, trying to take control.
The world will spin around you and you’ll cascade into your own memory, falling through awkward sexual experiences and the first time you shaved your genitals and things of that horrible nature, your consciousness tumbling inexplicably through the framework of your own mind. You’ll scrabble to come to rest before finally catching hold on the film Real Genius.
In Val Kilmer’s eyes you’ll find peace for the first time in days. Staring at him you’ll wonder why you came here and then you’ll remember. The laser.
You’ll watch the film intently, laughing as you recognize the actor who would one day play Uncle Rico in the cult blockbuster Napoleon Dynamite, enjoying every line, savoring every second away from your cousin. In the real world only a few instants will have past but here in the dream it will have been a luxurious two hours spent watching one of your favorite classic films. It will have been divine.
And when the credits finish and Kodak’s logo flashes upon the screen the memory will go black and you’ll find yourself standing face to face with Dr. Lasercut. His eyes will flutter and it will quickly become apparent that he is leaving the flashback just after you. Smiling you’ll flex your fist and tense your legs as you leap towards him
Congratulations on Breaking Out of the Hellscape of Your Own Memory!
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