Pineal Gland

The organ which produces the hormone of darkness, melatonin, it is tied vitally to a human's ability to interact with the Dark. It is therefore a vital interest for a seeker to keep his pineal gland healthy. To others which seek to protect themselves from the dark, the opposite is true.

Pineal gland calcification protects humans from incursions by ethereal Others. It is accompanied with an unpleasant side effect of an inability to experience natural and healthy sleep.

Worldly powers conspire to protect their citizens from the Dark and thus have set forth on a decades long campaign to accelerate Pineal gland calcification in normal humans, or known colloquially as "normies".

This plan was first formalized by the Fabian Society. It was later ratified in various tertiary groups, chief among them the Club of Rome. Actions were discussed and agreed upon to suppress cult activity and keep normies from the Dark.

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Dream Invasions argues that the sleep loss recorded above is not a side effect of the protection but is the protection: the gland governs sleep, sleep is the universal aperture, and a person who cannot dream is closed by the only route open to everyone. On that reading the campaign described here is an attack on dreaming conducted at population scale, and the most efficient arm of Inoculation there is.

The campaign described above is the oldest documented arm of Inoculation, and the only one with a paper trail.

The campaign described above is read by this wiki as a textbook instance of Fifth Generational Warfare — population-scale, decades long, and structurally deniable. That reading was applied to this entry afterwards and is not the entry's own claim.