Special Containment Procedures: SCP-1236 1 to 4 are to be 
draped with black, light-blocking fabric and kept in locked cases 
when not being studied. These cases may be stored in the same 
storage area. The locks securing each case will be individually 
keyed. Upon removal from the case, any of SCP-1236 1 to 4 will be 
placed upon a floor-mounted easel, still draped in the black fabric. 
Only when the set-up team is safely behind the paintings, will the 
black fabric covers be pulled back to reveal the images painted upon 
the canvas. 


Description: SCP-1236 is a series of 4 paintings, labeled 
SCP-1236 1 through 4. Each is 100cm high by 75cm wide and are 
framed with plain, black wooden frames. They are painted in a style 
reminiscent of Keith Haring, though signed on the back with the 
name “Serl’. When viewed through a remote viewing device such as 
a monitor camera, by way of a mirror, through a sheet of glass, or a 
recorded image such as video footage or still picture, the images 
feature a colored background with a differently colored figure in the 
center of the image. The figure is humanoid in shape, with no 
physical features other than head, arm, leg and torso outlines, as is 
typical of Haring’s work. 


When viewed directly, however, each image takes on a specific 
characteristic, depending upon the viewer. The original image is not 
visible to the viewer, and instead an alternative image is seen. 


Following investigation into 4 staff suicides and multiple emotional/ 
social problems reported to staff psychologists, non D-class 
personnel are barred from directly viewing any of the SCP-1236 set 
of paintings. 


SCP-1236-1: This canvas will show a full-length portrait of a person 
who is the viewer’s ideal of physical perfection, based upon sexual 
orientation. This is not an image of any real person, but is a 
representation of every desire and subconscious drive brought 
together in a single individual. This individual represents the ultimate 
in physical and sexual attractiveness to the viewer. This impression 
works down to the mental/personality level, with the viewer being 
able to describe in vivid detail aspects of the portrait’s personality 
and character traits that will make him/her even more attractive to 
the viewer. 


SCP-1236-2: This canvas will show an image of the viewer him-or- 

herself as a physically perfect specimen. They view themselves as 

the ultimate in attractiveness and desirability. Regardless of actual 

appearance, and how extreme the change to become “perfect”, the 
viewer will still recognize him-or-herself as the subject of the image. 
Again, this works to the personality level, any personality flaws are 

removed and more desirable traits included. 


SCP-1236-3: This canvas features a portrait of the viewer’s current 
or most recent significant other. This image, much like the previous 
two, projects an image of physical and mental perfection. The viewer 
sees their significant other rendered in the most physically and 
mentally appealing manner possible. Any actual imperfections are 
eliminated and the subject is seen in the “absolutely best possible 
light”. 


SCP-1236-4: This canvas reveals another portrait of the viewer, but 
in this case, in the “worst possible light”. Each imperfection is 
magnified and character flaws are obvious and horrendous. Upon 
seeing this image, the viewer is given the impression that he/she is 
a horribly repulsive person and that there is no way any person 
could ever be attracted to him/her. 


Addendum 1236-A 

All four of the paintings were found in August, [REDACTED] in an art 
gallery in New York City. 

When interviewed, the owner of the gallery could not recall where he 
had acquired them, but had 6 paintings in the series. He only 
displayed them for part of a day and reported that they made people 
"very uncomfortable". The owner, who wears glasses due to severe 


myopia, reported taking the paintings off display, but not before 
selling two of them to an unnamed buyer for several thousand 
dollars each. The remaining paintings were transferred to the 
Foundation, but no gallery records exist to show who may have 
purchased the other two paintings in the series. The owner of the 
gallery reported having taken the information of the individual who 
purchased the paintings, but that the information had somehow 
been deleted from his database, along with all other information 
related to the six paintings. 


« SCP-1235 | SCP-1236 | SCP-1237 » 


SCP-1237: The Epsilon Wave 


Item #: SCP-1237 
Object Class: Keter 


Special Containment Procedures: Due to its pandemic and 
incorporeal nature, SCP-1237 cannot be contained in a traditional 
sense. Containment of SCP-1237 at this time shall be focused on 
information management and on identification and containment of 
SCP-1237-1-positive individuals. 


Any non-Foundation scientific research which could lead to 
discovery of SCP-1237 is to be suppressed by any means 
necessary. Conscription of researchers involved in such studies, as 
Foundation personnel or as D-class, is authorized. 


The Foundation is to sponsor efforts wherever and whenever 
possible to promote widespread DNA testing of civilians for the 
purpose of identifying SCP-1237-1-positives, including but not 
limited to mandatory testing of sex offenders and other convicted 
offenders, DNA testing as prerequisites for employment or insurance 
eligibility, DNA fingerprinting as a means of identification, universal 
prenatal screenings, and "home DNA testing kits" ostensibly for the 
purpose of determining a person's ancestry. All Foundation 
personnel, and any civilian who is allowed to know of the 
Foundation's existence, must be tested immediately. 


Information is to be disseminated in the medical community to the 
effect that an SCP-1237-1-positive result in a prenatal screening is 
evidence of a deformative condition with low viability and extreme 
health risk to the mother, and doctors are advised to recommend 
that such pregnancies be terminated. If a known SCP-1237-1- 
positive pregnancy is not voluntarily aborted, induction of involuntary 
abortion is authorized. 


The Foundation is to sponsor any and all organizations or charities 


providing prenatal screening and abortion services, whether legal or 
not, in developing countries where these services do not exist. If 
these efforts are unsuccessful, sponsorship of organizations 
participating in campaigns of involuntary sterilization, ethnic 
cleansing, or genocide is authorized against populations with 
statistically high rates of SCP-1237-1. 


Any person presenting at hospital or police, or otherwise identified 
as having experienced an SCP-1237 event, is to be detained for 
study and testing. If the individual is SCP-1237-1-negative they are 
to be debriefed, administered a Class-B amnestic, and released. 


Any person found to be SCP-1237-1-positive, or to have caused an 
SCP-1237 incident, is to be detained immediately for study and 
debriefing. After debriefing they are to be administered a Class-O 
amnestic and detained indefinitely. Positives are to be regularly 
dosed with Class-C amnestics to prevent any development of new 
memories regarding the existence of the Foundation or any staff 
handling them, benzodiazepines to minimize slow-wave sleep, and 

to prevent REM sleep and, during sleep, shall be 
monitored at all times by EEG. In the event that any positive enters 
an SCP-1237 state during observation they are to be terminated 
immediately. 


If any SCP-1237-1-L is identified by the Foundation, authorization is 
granted to employ them once and only once to attempt to neutralize 
a Keter-class SCP object at the discretion of O5. After said attempt, 
whether successful or not, subject is to be terminated immediately. 


If any high-profile person/s or public place/s is/are affected by an 
SCP-1237 event, the Foundation is authorized to take whatever 
steps necessary to prevent public knowledge of this change - up to 
and including termination or complete destruction of the person or 
place so affected. 


Description: SCP-1237 is a state of electrical activity in the human 
brain (a "brain wave" in common terminology) observed in certain 
individuals during periods of extremely deep sleep. This state, 
informally dubbed "level 5 sleep" or "epsilon wave sleep", is 
profoundly difficult to awaken the subject from - prior to adoption of 
current containment protocols, experiments with loud noise, bright 


lights, chemical injections, electrical stimulation, oxygen deprivation, 
physical injury and mutilation, and [REDACTED] all failed to arouse 
the subject. The ability to exhibit SCP-1237 is controlled by a gene 
designated SCP-1237-1. SCP-1237-1 is present in approximately 
0. %of the total world population; however, this number is as high 
as 1. % among : , and ethnic groups. % of 
SCP-1237-1-positives experience at least one SCP-1237 event in 
their lives; % experience two or more. The majority of SCP-1237 
events occur when the subject is in their late teens to early thirties. 


Whereas SCP-1237-1-negative individuals do not exhibit REM 
activity during the deepest stages of sleep, SCP-1237-1-positives 
do. Dreams experienced during an SCP-1237 event are not of a 
significantly different nature than dreams experienced by negatives; 
they may involve the dreamer participating in routine daily activities, 
find them in impossible or illogical situations where people they may 
or may not know behave uncharacteristically, or find them in 
scenarios most persons would find terrifying. As with ordinary 
dreams, the subject has no apparent control over the setting or 
events of the dream or their actions therein. When dreaming during 
an SCP-1237 state, however, the brain waves responsible for REM 
activity and SCP-1237 activity interact to produce a reality-altering 
effect. 


After an SCP-1237 event occurs, any physical or mental changes 
that occur to the subject in the dream will occur to their waking form 
as well. If the dream involves persons or places that the subject has 
personally interacted with or visited, those persons and places will 
be altered as well in accordance with the nature of the dream. 
Imaginary persons or places, or persons or places not personally 
known by the subject, are not affected. Transformation is 
instantaneous in all cases that have been observed. In general, 
memories of people not involved in the dream are unaffected. 
People encountering persons affected by an SCP-1237 event will 
believe that the changes are "correct" and that the person has 
always been that way; however, they will have memories that this is 
not the case. Attempts to reconcile this among witnesses to an 
SCP-1237 event tend to result in chronic uneasiness, paranoia, and 
[REDACTED]. 


Documented effects of SCP-1237 events have included; 


¢ Loss of limbs and organs, or spontaneous regeneration of 
limbs and organs previously lost. 

* Complete and total changes in physical appearance, gender, 

personality, memories, age, or species. 

Acquisition of "superhuman" abilities including the ability to fly, 

lift extremely heavy objects, survive without oxygen, or see 

through solid objects. 

Significant changes in the architecture and floor plan of 

buildings, of the layout of city streets, or of the appearance, 

characteristics, or names of landmarks. 

¢ Changes in the outcome of historical events the subject was 

involved in. 

Individuals returning to life several years after dying. 

¢ The spontaneous transformation of national governments from 
one form to another - e.g., from a republic to a constitutional 
monarchy, or from a democratic confederation to an autocratic 
dictatorship 

¢ [REDACTED] 

¢ [REDACTED] 


A very small percentage of SCP-1237-1 positives (believed to be in 
single digits worldwide), designated SCP-1237-1-L, are capable of 
"lucid dreaming" - the ability to control the nature of their dreams, 
including those occurring in SCP-1237 events. To date, only one 
SCP-1237-1-L has been identified by the Foundation (see 
Experiment Log T-98816-OC 108/682 for details pertaining to its 
disposition.) 


Addendum - Note from Sr. Researcher : It is of the utmost 
importance that all agents assigned to SCP-1237 containment 
understand exactly how dangerous this phenomenon can potentially 
become. 


We have no idea how much of our world has been changed by 
these dreamers in the past. A single positive, having a single dream, 
has the potential to change the world for the worse. What if a 
mortician watches a scary movie, then falls asleep and dreams their 
town is part of a zombie apocalypse? What if a globetrotter dreams 
about the end of the world? What if someone aware of our existence 


dreams of a world where there's no such thing as the Foundation? 
We're talking CK, maybe even XK-level events here. As it stands 
right now, we don't even know how many of these people are out 
there that we haven't found. 


For this reason, | want to stress that any means necessary to 
implement universal DNA testing, and to remove these people from 
the gene pool, is authorized, and that there is absolutely no margin 
of error for "mercy". When you became part of this organization, you 
understood that we sometimes have to do horrible things in the 
name of the greater good, things that make it hard to sleep at night. | 
must ask you to do those horrible things, and to continue doing 
those horrible things for as long as it takes to neutralize this threat, 
because it only takes one positive who can sleep at night to create a 
world where the rest of us will never wake up again. 


« SCP-1236 | SCP-1237 | SCP-1238 » 


SCP-1238: Tunnelfish 


Item #: SCP-1238 
Object Class: Keter 


Special Containment Procedures: Any wild colonies of SCP-1238 
are to be destroyed as soon as possible until such time as 
SCP-1238 can be reduced to and maintained at pre-1850 population 
levels. The Foundation shall liaise with the National Oceanographic 
and Atmospheric Administration, and with other oceanographic 
research institutes as necessary, to track SCP-1238 movements 
and attempt to locate entrances to SCP-1238 tunnels. Any tunnel 
discovered should have its entrance sealed by any means 
necessary that will not result in seismic instability until such time as 
a means of completely filling in existing tunnels or rendering them 
structurally stable is developed. 


The Foundation is to monitor seismic activity within the Gold Zone at 
all times for indications of new tunnel construction or evidence that 
Event 638-Mu-34 is imminent. Whenever possible, persons living 
above known tunnels should be relocated. No other SCP objects, 
except those the nature of which renders them immovable, are to be 
contained within the Gold Zone. No mission-critical Foundation 
personnel are to travel, remain, or operate within the Gold Zone 
except as necessary to monitor SCP-1238 or other SCP objects 
within the area. No member of the O5 Council is to enter the Gold 
Zone at any time. Personnel whose "home town" is located within 
the Gold Zone, or who have immediate family members residing 
within the Gold Zone, are disqualified from participating in SCP-1238 
containment. 


In the event that Event 638-Mu-34 is determined to be imminent, all 
Foundation personnel are to attempt to evacuate the Gold Zone 
immediately Foundation personnel within the Gold Zone are to effect 
immediate evacuation of high-ranking government officials, military 
personnel, and culturally significant individuals as per Plan Contra-