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Your Eyes Opening and the Sun Rising
A man wakes up in a field, on a sole-adventure, exploring nature. Gradually, he becomes exhausted and overwhelmed completing this journey on his own. He desperately tries to find civilisation, trekking through all forms of weather, rendering him weak. A town is discovered, he is rescued and sent to hospital.


I Needed To Get Away
While in bed at hospital, the man explains to his family what his motives were for his sole-adventure. The scene is inaudible and as the man explains himself, his dark side is revealed. The scene loses color and turns black & white.


Hooded Man Enters the Room
A dark, hooded figure enters the colorless hospital room. The adventurous man has fallen asleep and is having a nightmare. He sees himself working in a factory, completing tasks with big, heavy machinery surrounding him. He becomes tired and the sound fades away. He finds a hidden spot behind a machine and falls asleep, sitting on the ground. Machines start failing and malfunctioning due to his selfishness.


Deflagration
There is an explosion in the factory. The man is woken up to flames and utter chaos, with machines malfunctioning, killing and injuring other workers in the factory. The scene is ghastly. He tries multiple routes to escape the massive complex, getting stuck and trying new routes, eventually finding his way to an exit.


You Keep Giving Me Flac
The factory is destroyed and bodies are being piled up in the parking lot. The man stands in the background, taking in the scene and trying to figure out what has just happened. Nearby, a stranger is selling CDs on the street, being turned down by everyone he offers a CD to.


The Condition of Your Heart and Lungs
The man is examined by doctors in the back of an ambulance. He is out of breath and begins to feel cold. Doctors put a blanket around him. He has flashbacks of the machines inside of the factory.


Japanese Anime in Background
The man is transported into a first-floor family room of an unknown family. He cannot move and his fixed in the center of the family room, with strangers sitting on couches and reclining chairs watching anime. He begins to notice flashing lights outside this room, it is nighttime and snowing outside.


The Condition of Your Back and Feet
Now able to move, the man walks out the front door of the house, walking to an ambulance parked outside. His coworkers are in the ambulance, they are deceased. He doesn’t know these men yet he begins crying uncontrollably.


Gossamer Haze
Staring up at the sky, the man questions where he is and what he is doing. None of this makes sense to him anymore; the factory and the crying. The clouds fill the sky, illuminated by a bright sunset. The clouds freeze and solidify, gently falling to the ground. The man breaks off pieces of the clouds and eats them as if they are cotton candy.


Have Fun With That Data Entry
Suddenly, the man is sitting at a lunch table in an office building. He returns to his desk and begins typing on his computer, entering numbers that seem to make no sense. The man seems confident at first but swiftly get confused and angered by his task. He closes his eyes and imagines that he is leaving the building, speaking to none of the strangers that work there. He runs to the parking lot and heads for a forest he sees in the distance.


Sightings Over the Hill
He opens his eyes and his cubicle desk has been transported to a hilly field near the forest he saw. There are dead factory workers around him but they are now alive. Their wounds are still visible. They begin to see someone in the distance walking towards them. All of the men begin running to this figure. More and more factory workers disappear as they run up and down these hills. It becomes just the adventurous man running by himself. When the man gets close enough to this figure, he sees that it’s just himself. He falls backward into the hill, losing his vision.


What's Your Success Rate?
The man wakes up in hospital with an unknown family member and a doctor in the room with him. They are discussing medical operations to perform on the adventurous man. Confused and exhausted, the man somehow feels that his nightmares are not over yet.

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released January 11, 2017

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