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Dream

3:55am CDT Tuesday 12 September 2000

(dream)

Outside in a playground type area, near a shelter, some youth yelled "check in!" or something and we all had to scramble run inside to not be caught and shot by the bad guys (actually I got the idea that we were rebels and they were the good guys). Several of us ran into the shelter, and scanned our cards to prove our presence and sat down against the wall as if nothing was unusual. We had 30 seconds to get everyone inside, and when 30 seconds had elapsed, we started counting seconds that we had gone over. I and three other guys were counting seconds to ourselves, and we were in perfect unison, cause when the last set of people ambled in, we all said, "sixteen seconds late."

It was my first time in this group, but I wanted to give a pep talk of sorts. I was all, "I noticed one thing during this exercise - the people who came in first, ran in. The people who came in last did not. So let me ask some questions. If this were real, what happens to people who are caught outside?"

"They get shot."

"and what happens if they get shot?"

"They die."

"And are they any use to this organization if they're dead?"

"No."

"Okay, let's try it again!" and everyone was all, "awww" but they got up anyway and went outside. I noticed two helicopters hovering significantly over us and thought, "uh oh- this is for real this time." And everyone essentially ran around the building and someone hollered, "check in! Confirmed real this time!" and I ran inside to check in, went to the card swiper, but couldn't find my card at first. A girl ran up and she had her card so I let her swipe her card first, then I found mine and swiped it and sat down against the wall.

We all got into the building faster this time, but in reality, it was taking the helicopters *longer* than we had estimated it would take them. So we really had more time. I woke up while we were waiting for the helicopter guys to storm in and check everyone.

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