The Dream Asylum: A Tale of Selling Dreams and Lost Memories
The Dream Asylum was a mysterious building where dreams could be sold for profit, but with unforeseen consequences. People started experiencing dangerous side effects and lost not only their dreams but also their memories. The building became a villain, taking more than just dreams. The story explores the dark impact of selling dreams on individuals' lives and identities.
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Date: Title: The Dream Asylum The Dream Asylum was not a nice place. It was a tall, concrete building that occasionally oozed a sinister blue light and never had the same number of floors as before. There were hardly any windows and they often changed position. It was almost as if the entire building rearranged itself when no one was looking, a playful child intent on making the adults doubt their sanity. Answer the following questions: Answer the following questions: 1. Name two things that we learn about The Dream Asylum 2. What does the word sinister suggest when talking about the blue light? 3. What does the fact that there were hardly any windows suggest about this place? 4. Can you locate the metaphor? What does this suggest about The Dream Asylum, in terms of what it did to people?
Date: Title: The Dream Asylum The whole Asylum was built for one purpose: giving the 'treatment'. The 'treatment' was a brilliantly clever idea, so well thought out and planned that nothing could ever go wrong. Of course, similar people had claimed the Titanic was the 'unsinkable ship'. Tell me three things things that people started to do as a result of The Dream Asylum. three In principle, it was perfect. You'd have a bad dream, the horrifying type that harasses you night after night, and simply sell it to the Asylum. Your dream is gone, never to return, and you get paid for it. Perfect, right? Or, that was the idea. In reality, people began selling good dreams, (as those are worth far more) for a little extra cash. Or they began scoffing cheese before they went to bed, hoping for a nightmare they could part with. Challenge: What does the phrase similar people had claimed the Titanic was the 'unsinkable ship' suggest about the people who came up with the idea of The Dream Asylum?
Date: Title: The Dream Asylum Is selling your dreams a humane thing to do? Of course, an idea so perfect and wonderful simply had to go wrong at some point. People who had sold their dreams began getting side effects, ones they hadn't been warned about, ones that made their thoughts dangerous and terrifying. Soon, the Asylum even began taking dreams you didn't want to sell; your family holiday at the beach or when you learnt to ride a bike. The Asylum became its own person; a building that suddenly didn't need staff to operate the machines anymore. Explain how the narrator narrator creates the idea of the building being the villain villain. Use the quotes in bold and underlined underlined to explain your answer. bold and Then, it wasn't just taking dreams; it was taking memories too. People left the building with a wad of cash and no idea who they were or how they came to be there. The worst part about the Dream Asylum, though, was that no one realised how dangerous it had become until it was too late. The damage was done; thousands of people wandering around without a clue as to who they were or what had happened to them. Remember to comment on the use of subject terminology. Why do you think the narrator uses repetition of the verb taking?
Date: Title: The Dream Asylum Why do people no longer believe, why is this ironic? It was shut down, supposedly. The plan was to knock the building down, pave over the foundations. But somehow, the planning always got delayed, until suddenly it was as if the planning was never there to begin with. The building remained, oozing its new blue light. Explain how there is a sense of irony sense of irony within the extract. Use the quotes in bold and bold and underlined underlined to explain your answer. As time went on, it became part of the landscape, just another building in the background. Occasionally mothers used it to scare their children; 'If you don't behave, the Dream Asylum will reopen and gobble you up! Remember that this word was also used at the beginning of the extract. Why would the narrator use it again to close the short story? People soon forgot the horrors the Asylum caused; it was easier than remembering. Why is this? Remember what The Dream Asylum actually did to people.
Date: Title: The Dream Asylum In the short story we are told that many people left The Dream Asylum with little recollection of who they were before entering. Your task is to produce the opening to a short story describing your life as Your task is to produce the opening to a short story describing your life as you leave The Dream Asylum, however you need to remember and you leave The Dream Asylum, however you need to remember and consider that: consider that: Part of your memories of who you were before have gone. You may have no recollection of what has happened in The Dream Asylum, although you probably do not feel yourself. Can you make use of an extended metaphor in the opening of your short story?
Summarise the short story in no more than two sentences.
