{"id":2374,"date":"2018-05-03T00:10:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T00:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/?p=2374"},"modified":"2018-05-03T00:10:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T00:10:01","slug":"mutation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/03\/mutation\/","title":{"rendered":"mutation"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a dream where I found myself several generations in the future. \u00a0I met an extended family – the Millers – and visited them at their huge house where they all lived together. \u00a0Parents, siblings, cousins, grandparents – but not many children.<\/span><\/p>\n

They seemed normal enough, but every so often I would notice a distortion on their faces and extremities. \u00a0Like an illusion breaking down for a moment. <\/span><\/p>\n

They tell me about a \u201cradiation event\u201d that caused mutations and I realize that they are all able to generate an illusion to present a normal appearance and hide their deformities. \u00a0And they keep the children hidden until they are old enough to hide themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

They tell me that the radiation – if it\u2019s still around – might mutate me in the same way. \u00a0I explain that it\u2019s more likely to just kill me and that their mutations are caused by their parents\u2019 reproductive cells being damaged. \u00a0And that the illusion ability must now be a dominant gene since a normal appearance would make it more likely for someone to reproduce.<\/span><\/p>\n

They are impressed at my reasoning.<\/p>\n

One of the women decides to show me what she really looks like \u00a0– but decides to put on her wedding gown first. I\u2019m guessing she thought the veil would be dramatic.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just as she\u2019s about to lift the veil without the illusion, a child wanders in from the neighborhood. \u00a0He\u2019s from the Weir family and the Millers don\u2019t want anything to do with him. They shun that entire family.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m a little worried about the kid – he seems \u201coff\u201d – and since none of the Millers will help, I offer to try and help him get home. <\/span><\/p>\n

I take the kid to a neighbor\u2019s house and they offer to help him from there, but based on his behavior and the comments of the neighbors I realize that the Weir family is being shunned because they are cannibals. \u00a0And the cannibalism has led to a prion-based disease – like Mad Cow – and that explains the odd behavior.<\/span><\/p>\n

With the kid on his way home, I head back to the Miller\u2019s house to find they\u2019ve all decided to reveal their true faces to me.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, all at once, I\u2019m surrounded by monsters. \u00a0And I take it pretty much in stride. <\/span><\/p>\n

Since everyone is dealing with and passing down damaged genes, any child I have would be less mutated (since my genes are clean), but would likely still be able to cast illusions.<\/span><\/p>\n

I realize that an influx of my DNA might be make me the savior of mankind and I\u2019m considering my destiny as I wake up.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had a dream where I found myself several generations in the future. \u00a0I met an extended family – the Millers – and visited them at their huge house where they all lived together. \u00a0Parents, siblings, cousins, grandparents – but not many children. They seemed normal enough, but every so often I would notice a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2375,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374\/revisions\/2375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}