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Save and Revert★★★
March 26, 1997
Mass Transit Malls

Rebecca and I are wandering about a dangerous run-down city. The sky is murky and brown. At certain spots in the dream I would SAVE and then return if things got bad to do it with better preparation or do it differently. In some areas, my fear, I believe, was conjuring up bad stuff, like gangs. One came after us — teens with death-ray guns were harassing us. I realized that they intended to rape her, and that it was my fear that created that. I did not want it to continue. I said to Rebecca “Revert?” and she accepted. So we went back to an earlier scene and took another route. It was so bad that someone and I had brought guns. I felt I had failed when I did so. . . . Our ultimate goal was to get to an airport. The airport was also a mall, of course.

Try Again?: Rotes can be rewound or restarted as often as you like. They’re essentially like recorded movies. The idea of saving and reloading has made its way from dreams into video games.