Dream CCXXXIII

There was a general sense of entropy all over the world; physical things were breaking down, and people had largely stopped dealing with each other.

An old man told me this was because time was leaking out of all matter in the universe.  He explained that this meant that things couldn't properly continue to move along the time-line as it progressed, leaving more and more of themselves in the past.

He pointed to a dead mouse in a plastic cup.  The mouse's tail was whirling as if caught in a heavy breeze, but there was no wind.  "That's time escaping from the body," the old man said.