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SCP-5763: I dreamt I was a butterfly

Author: CompleteIndie

Written for DeptCon2022.

The ramblings of the architect can become clear. Do you wish to be enlightened?

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Item#: 5763

Containment Class: esoteric

Secondary Class: thaumiel

Disruption Class: dark

Risk Class: notice

Special Containment Procedures: To ensure the comprehension of this document to Foundation personnel, only the current Department of Surrealistics Director is permitted to alter this file, and only after two (2) weeks of abstaining from SCP-5763. Additionally, no member of the Department of Surrealistics is allowed to access this file's description, as doing so could render the anomaly ineffective.1

Due to the requirement of SCP-5763 for the Department of Surrealistics to maintain functionality, SCP-5763 and all related anomalies are to be kept at Site-⌘ under the direct supervision of the Department of Surrealistics Director. Due to the highly addictive property of SCP-5763, it is strictly for use by the Department of Surrealistics only.

As of present, Marcel Sequitur is the Department of Surrealistics Director.

The file from here on out has experienced corruption.

Description:

A state of delirium self-inflicted. Can you handle the ramifications?

Agnostics, an anomalous chemical refined by the Foundation for use by the Site-⌘ Department of Surrealistics. SCP-5763 effects include the following:

Semantic disassociation

Auditory and visual hallucinations

[DATA REDACTED] hallucinations

Partial lack of [DATA REDACTED] awareness

Complete lack of object permanence

Unknown grasp on reality

Flawless grasp on reality

What is reality?

Is it a dream, or is it when you awake?

Agnostics. A substance that is refined, but crude. There is a wonder to being able to let go of your inhibitions, don't you agree? And yet, in that final question, I wonder who I am.

The methods by which SCP-5763 operates is unclear. The ingredients used to create it have varied greatlyover the endless time they've seemed to exist, praying that the secret doesn't get out.

We don't want to be exposed.

SCP-5763 was created by Senior Researcher Jamie Robertson, shortly after a transfership to the now-titled Site-⌘. How fitting in his own creation would send him in spirals. Just like his spiral-bound notebook.

The ramblings of the architect can become clear. Do you wish to be enlightened?

Yes.

You will wake up someday. Right?

This is the first testing of Foundation disbelief chemical. Currently unnamed. I am Senior Researcher Jamie Robertson, testing a chemical intended to rationalize the most ridicu make anomalies simpler. The skip I've been working on is impossible to wrap my head around, but usually, there's always a way. That way is just often anomalous.

I will be taking a minor dose. Will see the effects.

Senior Researcher Jamie Robertson. No effects were noticed on any of the previous trials, and as such, the dose is being doubled for the fifth time.

S. Researcher Jamie Robertson. Ineffective. Likely a result of ingredient failure. Looking into possible alternative options. I've heard Site-██ experiments with this stuff, the Department of Inconceptuals. Might look into being transferred.

S. Researcher Jamie Robertson. Site-██ is great, and the Inconceptual Department has a lot of work on this already. Hypothesis, speculation. No clue how much of it is right, but perhaps there's a step here.

Site-██ is interesting, to say the least, although I'll be inking out the number going forward. Turns out, major no-go. They've been thinking of renaming the Site and Department even.

Maybe my chemical will have to wait.

The sky took on a golden color and the grass was grey. I think I could see myself somewhere in the distance. Whenever I tried to walk, the sky got brighter and the ground got darker, until it was blindin

I apologize. This was not intended for my work journal.

I was thinking about dreams because I used this journal, the wrong journal earlier today. What if the key ingredient to making some delusional is placebo? If I believe it makes sense, or that it works, it would, correct?

Might run that by Director Sequiter. Sequitur

Site-⌘ is the new name, something to do with symbolism. Makes no sense to me. But that's why I'm here. Foundation technology, fancy dream reader, can't cognize my dreams or make it reality, but maybe it'll give me clarity when I'm awake enough to make heads or tails of alchemy and efficient placebos.

I might have an answer. This is so bizarre, but if this works, at least no one will get accidentally dosed on disgenics.

DATA REDACTED

It worked.

It worked. How is the key dreaming? And believing?

I can't believe it.

Disassociate solutions

Disassolutions

Dissolutions

Disutions?

Dilution?

Disbelief?

SCP-1278 2999 4721 4923 5763

Mnestics taken

Demnestics

Conceptions

Concepto

Atheogstic

Athetostic

Athosic

Agnostic

Agnostics are currently still being tested. I don't think the staff will buy it.

I might need to fake some sort of drug.

Hello friends and coworkers, I'm here

Mr. Seq

AGNOSTICS: the drug to remem

AGNOSTICS - blue pill to be taken before sleep, cognitive sleepwaking

Sequitur bought it. He fell for it.

Is it tricking my superiors to say something works if there isn't anything at all? What if it works despite that?

The placebo is just a part of the step I suppose. Makes it cheap though.

Might take a short break from research, figure out what I want to do. Maybe I'll look into 4923 again. the odds i wanted that number for agnostics seriously

frankly fantastic

120 000 000 000 000 just the nine o

neurons screwed it slowly turns to stone.

note to self gods of cognitive curses?

SEMNATIC ANCHOR FA KE

AGNOSTICS

AGNOSTICS MAKE YOUR DOUBT

warrior of truth

brevity?

we are mad

What the fuck did I write?

Somehow overnight I became aware enough on SCP-4923 to rewrite huge chunks of it conprocs. Might do this a few more times. Sleeping medications might extend it?

Actually, could sleeping pills work as agnostics? If the user thinks it'll work, right?

I'm tearing that out. But that said, I have it. Time to rewrite it, see how Markel likes it.

Ive worked here 4 months and only learned now his name is Marcel with a c not a k

Anyway, Marcel was fine with it.

carl jung

thomas huxley

john locke

i could write a book

Jamie Robertson's Guide to the Guide to the Guide of Nothingness.

Can't publish it but it'd be neat.

Need to make it feel more real maybe.

Addictive

Expensive to create more paycheck for me?

Major symptoms

What happens if I tell a staff member that their teeth will fall out?

Marcel was about to fire me over the teeth thing. Maybe I should come clean?

I thought I knew how my own drug worked. And chemically, it does.

to my dearly beloved

this is my final message i need to confront the dream and nightmare I made. This is my final task to the Foundation. What I created wasn't a drug

i made a doorway out of lies

this job is too much for me ill let them solve it

The story doesn't end that easy.

Footnotes

1. They are encouraged to access the containment procedures for clarity's sake.

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