The Dream: Part Ichi

It was dark, not because I was blind but that the lights they were gone. It felt as if I could have been blind. It was to the point of blackness that I couldn't even see the clothes I was wearing. I could hear a faucet dripping water in a pattern I could repeat because I've been hearing it for so long. I tried to stand up but my legs wouldn't move. Why couldn't they move? The door opened slightly light just instantly filled the room, and I couldn't see, my eyes had been surprised by the amount of light that shone into the room. When my eyes finally adjusted I was sitting in a chair with little spots of white still visible but fading. All around me was brooms, mops, dust pans, and cleaning supplies. A janitors closet? I tried to stand up again and this time it was different I could feel the blood pulsing through my legs, had the darkness taken my ability to stand?

I stumbled out of the door into a mall. Why was I in a mall? I could see people walking, shopping, talking, but there was no sound to any of it. It was quiet. I looked at a couple people walking by, they had expressionless faces. The weird thing was that no one really moved like they were doing anything. It was as if someone had placed them in a diorama of a mall and that was exactly the only function they were to do. For example, There was this woman, maybe mid 30's, she had short red hair and a motherly figure and all she kept doing was scan the same bar code of the same shirt over and over again. Nobody stopped her and she didn't mind, it was as if it was new to her every single time she did it.

I walked in and asked her, "Umm excuse me, do you know where this is?"
She looked up for the first time since re-scanning.
I said again, "Do. you. know. where. this. is?"
she shook her head no, and looked back down and started to rescan the shirt again.
I sighed and walked out of the store.

I began to look around again, the people just didn't seem to notice that I was there. I kept walking and a girl maybe a couple of feet ahead of me looked like someone I knew, so ran as quick as I could to her and when I touched her shoulder and turned her around to look at me, it wasn't anybody that I've met before. She didn't even hesitate and turned back around and kept walking like she was supposed to.
I went up the escalators like stairs because they didn't seem to be working. When I reached the second floor, I saw the food courts and a couple of other stores. And again all the people were just doing whatever they were programmed to do.

I screamed, "IS THERE ANYONE HERE THAT ISN'T A ROBOT?"
After I screamed, I figured robot was probably the wrong word choice, they weren't zombies, and if you looked close enough they weren't human either. I walked into one of the food places, they didn't have any food out so I couldn't really tell you what they sold. I looked at the menu, but when I tried to read it the words just blurred like someone had put glasses on me for someone with really bad vision. I walked up to the counter and I asked the guy at the front counter, "Umm Do you sell water? I'm so thirsty."
He looked at me and shook his head and said, "Your human money doesn't work here. Can you please leave."
"Excuse me, Did you just say human-" I tried to ask, but he cut me off, "Please leave. Please leave."
It looked like he was about to have a panic attack. I just slowly backed away and turned and headed for the exit as quick as I could. I thought I was about to have a panic attack myself. I walked faster through the people, and it felt like I was walking in circles.
That's when I saw him. He was a few people in front of me and that's when I knew he wasn't a robot-zombie, cause when he looked at me with those eyes I instantly knew to go to him. I ran up to him and I almost began crying and he said, "Morganna, Don't cry. Just Don't. You're in your dream." I took a step back and just looked at him, I felt like I was pretty out of it, so I wasn't sure if I had heard him correctly. He grabbed my shoulders and looked at me with severe intensity and said again, "Morganna. I'm serious. You're in your dream."