Another dream… It was actually dreamt in a third-person aspect, and so it was written.

Heh. Out of everything that exists in nature, the Cordyceps scares me the most… Wiki it if you’re unfamiliar with this nasty little ’shroom.

I’m confused as to what exactly the spore in your story does to the brain. It appears to trigger irrational or aggressive behavior from the given examples, but I’m still trying to figure out if this is triggered by a specific event or if it was just coincidence that it activated at the same time as the med tech started talking about it. Still, entertaining story, well done.

Coincidence, really. It’s a very basic propagation drive (incubation happens in the head, so the head shot is necessary to spread the spores), not a secondary intelligence.