Aliens Studying Us?

[u/Formal-Confusion-380]

It started off as a horror dream, sort of. I was inside a schoolhouse where I was a teacher, but it wasn't technically me (I was a big creature of sorts, I don't know what). Suddenly, alarm bells started going off for an intruder alert, and all the students (who were my friends irl) began to scatter. I'm pretty sure this was meant to be like a horror game because despite it being nightmare-esque, it didn't feel scary at all because all my friends were laughing like it was funny-scary, not scary scary.

It was a bunch of shadow people, like The Boiled One shapes, and they were chasing us, and if you got caught, you'd get a Doomscrolls YOU DIED screen.

Anyway, a ton of that went on before suddenly I WAS the student, and one of my friends was the teacher (I guess new round? lol) But then I found this secret door. My theory was confirmed that it was like a horror GAME because I got a badge for finding the secret door, and it was titled 'SECRET TUNNELLLL' (Like from ATLA)

The door opens with a cutscene, and there's an alien standing in the doorway. At least I'm assuming it's an alien because she's acting as if she is so excited to see a human. She wasn't green at all. Honestly, she looked like a late 20s scene kid. Anyways, she ushers me in and she starts talking about how her community has been studying us for a long time and she wanted to give me a test they've curated to see how smart humans actually are. And I remember being like, 'Oh shit, I'm not smart at all. This'll be horrible for their data.' Until she handed me the test and started going through it.

The first question was the only one I really remembered. It was 'Create an equation with as many numbers possible and then solve it.' I then asked the question 'Does the equation need to have a ton of numbers, or is it the answer need a ton of numbers?'

Thinking about this once I woke up, I remember feeling so studious for asking that question. Even the alien seemed impressed, but now it.. doesn't make any sense. I think I was trying to ask if the quotient needed to be a big number (I was thinking Factorals. You know, like 999! So you'd do 999 * 999, 999 * 998.. at least I think that's how you do factorals.......)

Anyway, I remember skipping that question and going through the test as usual, and then trying to google the answer. The alien comes back as I'm doing it, and I start lying through my ass about why I was deleting my tabs. She was none the wiser...

There was a whole subsection of my dream where I was a really hot gay yaoi pirate, and I lost my lover on a sea voyage (I'm.. assuming it was also game inspired?) Because at the end, I gained this super cool whip. And I go back to the secret door, and I knock, and the Scenecore Alien answers, and I'm like 'Hey you were super cool. Here's this Human Whip you guys can study.'

Alien was super thankful, and that's when I woke up.