#hemi jack

bedman from a drawing that failed. he looks vaguely ok on his own though

extra pieces under the cut

You misunderstand, Hemi Jack is the ‘living embodiment’ of a Nightmare.

When people try to sleep, they visualize ‘sheep’ at first as a sleep-aid.

But that’s usually the only thing they remember before going to sleep.

Bedman says that the world of Dreams is actually a brief subconscious 'connection’ Humans have with the Backyard, as he said to Axl Low.

The 'sheep’ in this case is a Magic Focus that is designed to help calm Humans before they process all the daily stimuli and recorded memories they just observed.

Processing all that information is not unlike an Information Dump, but the end result only allows Humans to retain only a fraction of their immediate and past memories.

So where does all that 'recorded data’ go?

Much like your typical security cameras, all the boring and uneventful data is purged to make room for significant events to be preserved as memories.  But that information is also getting processed through the Backyard itself!

Sorting and processing that data means watching near-endless streams of footage in a sped-up state (REM Sleep is said to be linked to this process).

But sometimes information and data gets disjointed and scrambled, creating a distorted paradoxical sequence of events.

This here is what we call a 'Nightmare’.

Whether it was tied to our stress levels, emotional state, what we ate before bed, etc. makes no difference, we end up seeing a Distorted 'Reality’ that could have happened, or an Omen of events yet to truly pass!

But is that truly 'just a dream’?

Not according to the Backyard it isn’t!

And just like with other Magical Foci humanity has created, the Backyard still has to find a way to dispose of that “Information Landfill”.

So who or what is given the task of turning all that processed data in to bio-degradeable “Dream Sand” for information compression?

Most likely our poor sheep friend Hemi Jack has to do all that!

The things he’s seen make his eyes bleed a constant stream, and what he’s experienced would turn your hair 'white’ if not kill you outright!

That’s why people who have touched him feel like they got hit by a freight train, that’s all remnant data he’s processing!

Bedman knows the TRUTH behind the Backyard, and the reason Dream Sheep exist!

Every time someone posts a Spoiler, it gives Hemi Jack a Nightmare.

For the sake of poor Hemi Jack, stop posting Spoilers!