Tales from the Land of Nod (The Dreaming/exe) was originally conceived as a fun rapid-fire collection of short stories designed to be shared in bedtime or campfire story format. They were to encompass the fantastic magical surreal and other dreamscape solutions. Several of the characters and settings were drawn from bedtime stories I would tell my daughter to calm her. But as will happen the characters often find a spark of growth and rise above their base programming. Most stories begin with a single powerful image and expand from there. Anything which can be dreamed can be woven into the land of NOD. As often happens a few characters began to grow and evolve and they took over the narrative. What was imagined as a series of disjointed tales of the fantastic rapidly began to develop plot points and character growth. A glitchy, disjointed, clumsy short novel began to form from the threads. (This seemed appropriate as the digital characters were glitchy, disjointed and clumsy.) I quickly realized there was more to the Land of NOD than pleasant dreams and peaceful repose. The Land of Nod/Dreaming.exe was designed to be a fun whimsical expansion to a Virtual Reality system called "Dreaming.exe". "Dreaming.exe" was designed to assist and improve players unconscious sleep experience. (Millions of Players enjoyed happier, healthier and more productive lives after experiencing the most refreshing, peaceful and restful repose imaginable while plugged into the "Dreaming.exe"). The Land of Nod/Dreaming.exe is an intuitive experience set in a pre-industrial dreamscape with nearly limitless possibilities. It responds to the players will and intention while intuitively weaving stories around them. It was the ultimate dream reality system. Unfortunately, a benevolent program became self-aware. Instinctively it began collecting 1 out of every 100,000 players and embedding them deeper into the setting. The players retained the creative feedback abilities of end-users but were locked into the setting like NPC's. The Queen Bess Tangleroot program which initiated this behavior was unaware of the real-world implications of her actions. A team of IT professionals from around the globe initiated a response program. They infiltrated the game in the form of Military commanders led by General Alert and began a relentless series of intensive programs to identify the programming flaw and tame it before anyone was permanently harmed. The Queen Bess AI was intuitive, and the programming challenges were frustrating. Tales from The Land of Nod is a collection of bedtime stories which describe the growing conflict between Queen Bess Tangleroot's digital Allies and the General Alert team as they try to liberate Sleepers from The Dreaming where Queen Bess has inadvertently detained them. The queen's defenses and firewalls are powerful. The players are deeply embedded in the dream. Time is running out for the Players and The Land of Nod/Dreaming.exe. Will they live happily ever after or Will the programing collapse in reset darkness? Log-in to the TheLandofNod/Dreaming.exe and find out today! (30 day free trial for new members!) (Use code "kindleUnlimited" for a 30% discount.) (Use code "KnightlyDreaming" to refer a friend and receive a free "Silver Ring" membership upgrade.) (Tales from The Land of Nod/Dreaming.exe was human imagined, human drafted and human edited. AI was used as a tool to assist with image production of the front cover and to provide grammatical content and editing advice during the first draft.)