What did you dream?

I dream about all sorts of different things. The one I'm about to tell you about was from approximately this time last years. I told somebody, like the day after I had it, but now I'm telling you too. I went back in time, to the moment the very first creature crawled out of the ocean onto the land, to prevent another time traveler from killing that creature. To protect it, I brought it inside my impermeable time travel bubble. It could somehow communicate with me, through thought, and understood mine, so it knew that I was there with good intentions and didn't mean to harm it. It wasn't frightened, just curious. It started walking, and I would have to walk alongside it so that the bubble would roll and we could both remain inside it. It would stumble to climb up on rocks and grass, and I was extremely worried it was going to hurt itself, and I was sent there to protect it, so I couldn't let that happen. It almost fell into a hole, so I calmly guided the bubble toward one side and it walked right over it instead. And then I looked around. There were other creatures now. Thousands of them. They had all crawled out of the water at roughly the same time this one had, but millions of years had passed, and they were already evolving and had become something other than what this creature still was. And it dawned on me, that the whole time I was trying to make this thing stronger by giving it a chance at survival it otherwise wouldn't have, I was instead preventing it from growing. It could still read my mind, and when it knew this thought came to me it looked at me as if to say it was perfectly fine because it knew that what I meant to do was something entirely different, the exact opposite. So I let it out of the bubble, and I watched it walk away. It would crawl over rocks and stumble into holes, but it did so freely. I still couldn't escape the thought that it was going to hurt itself, but I knew I shouldn't interfere, so I didn't. I just stood there, and let it walk into the distance. Long after it was out of sight, I was still standing there. And millions more years passed, the whole time me, reflecting on the fact that I was a complete fool for not doing what I had always known to be true in my life, to let nature take its course. I watched countless other creatures evolve and become more and more human like as time passed. When that happened, I knew if I didn't act quickly I would miss coming back to my own time. My mind went blank, and I began moving at the same speed as everything around me. I found myself envisioning brief moments of human history from different places all over the world. It was like a series of flashbacks from different historical events from ancient Egypt all the way up to modern day.

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