The circle

Date: 8/16/2022

I find myself in a church wearing a priests collar. It’s an educational service, but also religious. A friend explains what’s happening. I don’t have notes to follow along. Part of the lesson is a piece wise polynomial describing faith. I’m not sure why it’s so precise. Is there really a significant difference between 172 and 173? I realize that the pre factors ensure piecewise smoothness and the correct ratios when integrated. I realize that everyone else has an English accent. I look at my phone. There is no evidence of lost time where I became a priest. I am drawn to a break room. There is a circle of people. They explain that they’ve been compelled to serve a leader and act in their plays. They cannot escape. This is my fate. Eventually we will be killed but brought back. I try to leave, but get dizzy and turned around when I get too far. My friend from the church looks different, and acts like she doesn’t know me (but still does). I try to attack the leader, but I’m knocked on my back. Later, we are all on a bus. We devise a plan. One woman leaves through a window and sets the grass on fire with dark blue flame. We force the bus through the flame and towards a lake. Our leader is incapacitated and we kill her by drowning in the lake. The rest of us (dozens now) are swimming, but we’re wary to go too far. The leader awakes. We realize that she’s not actually in control, but a thrall like the rest of us. I wake up, but fall asleep for the conclusion. We apologize to the false leader for killing her, but demand she apologizes for how she treated us. In a classroom, we find a man at a desk with his head down. We realize that he’s a vampire and was the real controller. We confront him and he dived through the concrete block wall. He returns immediately, back to his position. This happens again. He’s controlling us but also trapped. I wake up again, and now the dream is over. What I wrote is only a fraction of my dream.