Just had another crazy dream. There was some girl, I'm not really sure who she
was, but at one point she was me. Or I was her? Anyway, we were assigned
(maybe blackmailed) to go through this crazy place with super high security
and learn... Something? At the end of the dream I'm not sure what we were
actually supposed to learn.

It started out where we got this fake ID entered into the system. We show up
for work and there are armed guards everywhere and we're in this sort of call
center with supervisors everywhere, watching all of the desks that are in a
grid in the center. You have to raise your hand to be able to get a drink of
water or go to the bathroom. I raised my hand and I was actually taken by
someone who wasn't an armed guard, because a guard just took someone. On the
way to the bathroom there's this place with a ceiling that goes up and down,
kind of slowly. But there are clearly ladders and supposed mysteries up at the
top. There was some wispy fabric floating in the breeze, and my guide kind of
stopped there and seemed to "not" be suggesting that I check it out. When the
ceiling drops I jump and grab part of the edge - I didn't want to actually
climb on because when it lowered it was obvious there were lots of spiky
things on it that would get you impaled. I didn't want that.

So I just hung on a bit so I could see if there was somewhere I could duck to,
but as I did the ceiling went up way faster than it did before. I dropped back
down and we continued on to the bathroom, which you could see, because most of
the walls were clear glass, though at certain angles you were obscured from
other people. It was very interesting, the architecture, because it was all
painted white beams and glass - clear or frosted - and if you knew where to go
you could actually be fairly invisible walking through there.

I ended out walking towards the bathroom to get some water and kind of lost my
guide, but me grabbing the ceiling triggered this melodious, softly malicious
alarm that warned people to stay put. I'm getting water from the water
fountain in my water bottle (it looked like one of those filtered bottle
fillers in airports, only white) and the boss lady supervisor comes round the
corner, from a different direction than we came, and pleasantly grills me and
I'm just like playing dumb, "Oh, I'm just getting some water here. Veronica
was just behind me" (or maybe it was Karen? I don't know). Anyway, this stream
of guards rush past me - I can't quite see where Karen went, and all of the
sudden I hear her shrieking and pleading and being dragged off. The supervisor
said something vaguely threatening like, "We're keeping our eyes on people
here, don't wander where you're not wanted."

After that I somehow end out in this kind of amazing food court park thing.
There's a bunch of water features, and some sort of hang-by-your-chin reverse
zipline/zipline? Like there's a saddle that you stick your chin in and then
you hang there for about 30s as it drags you up and across this court to get
you up onto the second floor walkway that sort of surrounds the interior.
There are people randomly swimming and shirtless and people eating meals, and
a couple of regular staircases that are kind of oddly crowded, because
otherwise the room, lit by tons of natural light, is bright and airy.

The first time I don't really take in this courtyard thing, and I'm not sure
how I get through this area but I'm on some other floor where they're doing
operations? And it's not like they're really hidden, I mean there are giant
windows in plain view.

I think somehow I'm in contact with the person that sent me here to find out
things (we don't know what things, just things are going on. Or at least *I*
don't).

As I'm walking around this upstairs room there are plenty of people who are
plainly not human, but apparently that doesn't really bother me so apparently
it's not really out of place (although there aren't any non-humans just
walking around elsewhere?). Some places they're in giant protective suits
working on something large and organic. At one place there's a semi-muscular
human, and a super large Draax-like character. I get the impression that
they're sidekicks - it's weird that I recognized them though, because they
were working in a room where they were really just silhouettes on the wall.
The big dude was clearly hacking at this small humanoid character and
eventually pulls out some small fleshy bit, and the humanoid walks out from
behind the wall as the Draax-y guy yells, "Hah! Got it!" and flips this fleshy
bit at other dude with big handlebars.

Handlebars walks across the hall - he's more or less coated in gore, but I
don't notice that he tracks any across the hall - to another room. I don't
actually see what's inside and for some reason it's not really all that
interesting to me?

Then I'm not sure if I here more of Veronica/Karen's screams from a room or
maybe I'm looking through this image broadcast to my eyeballs or something.
Anyway, some psychotic doctor has these giant pincer things and just like
poke/tears out her eyeball and then the feed that I'm watching stops (either I
moved on or whatever, I don't really remember).

Then somehow I'm on the ground floor and there's this empty "intake" office
that has a couple of desks on it. There's a bit of a U shaped room with two
desks and two doors. I go inside with the intent to start snooping but there's
someone coming and it's I think the supervisor chick who just reeks of evil,
and there's a parent and a child there (Mother and daughter if it matters) and
the mom is just in disbelief like, "Why in the world do we have to sign some
kind of crazy waiver???" but the daughter is trying to say that all the cool
kids work (go to school here? Because apparently people have to pay to get
in?) and the evil supervisor is placatingly saying something like, "Oh that's
totally standard, every thing that's worth it has the same kind of waiver. We
have secrets to protect and death and dismemberment is just natural for
someone who doesn't follow the rules," which is weird because it feels like
she's talking to me though I had ducked out of the room into an adjoining
office. Then this security guard walks past and I duck out behind him and he's
like zipping up or something like he had just come out of the bathroom and
evil psycho supervisor pleasantly threateningly tells him that guards aren't
supposed to leave their post and I can tell that he's not going to have a
great rest of his day as I quickly make my way back to the courtyard. For some
reason the courtyard is an A-OK place to be, there's not really any sight of
security like there was on the desk arrangement we had in the place where I
was supposed to be working.

So I'm in this courtyard and I want to try this chin-line to go up to the
second floor again, but there's some gal who wants to try it instead, so I
give up my spot to her and she takes off and goes up, and I'm waiting for it
to return to get my place in line...

And I wake up. I still don't know what I was supposed to find.

Oh, and somehow at some point some other dude died, and I managed to get both
of their lanyards & IDs/security tokens for some reason. I kind of feel sorry
for them because I got the feeling they were basically in my same position,
just not as good or as lucky.


Weird.