Note: This took place in a temperate forest (not a rain forest), the nights were very cold, and it was an old forest with a lot of tree cover, that made it chilly even during the day with all the shade. This took place in the future.
First off, let me say that I just read The Hunger Games and I have the sneaking suspicion that this permeated into my dream. I dreamed that I was in a movie theater, but the theater was screening a movie that the government wanted us to see. We were all to sit in on a screening of this movie, that I don't know the name of. The people in the room with me were all part of the place I lived, and we were all m a l n o u r i s h e d because of the government and the state of things in our society was poor at best. Most of the people around me, I believe, were people around my age.
I had a piece of bread with me in the theater, made illegally, with this delicious type of nut that someone had found and given to me to put into a piece of bread. I made it and handed it out sneakily to the people around me, who were very grateful even for a mouthful. The movie was beginning - and now was my chance.
I got up and sneaked out of the theater, avoiding the many government-issued guards stationed around to keep us in line. I somehow make it onto an elevator and out on another floor before I'm spotted, but then all hell breaks loose and there are guards after me left and right. I'm running around like crazy through this maze of rooms, before I finally skid in front of an exit. I think for a moment, that the crystal-clear glass sliding doors seem preposterous, before they slowly slide open and I zip into the night.
The guards stop following me once I'm some 30 feet into the forest, but I keep running until I can't anymore. I have a notion, in the dream, that I am inside a book. This story is already written, and I am just going through the motions. I even get the feeling that I've read this book before and that I know very soon I am going to get lost in the woods - and sure enough, I do.
There is some break in the story here, where I can't remember what happened, but the next thing I know there is a bow and arrows strapped to my back and 3 other people around me and I'm saying, "Keep a look-out for anything we can eat. Berries, nuts, game," and they are nodding in assent. The only thing we have to eat currently, is a bag of the same nuts I had put in my bread, in a leather bag attached to the belt of one of the people to my right.
We forge ahead, deeper into the woods. We are not only lost; we have no place to go.
Suddenly, everything around us changes, the trees melt together and the shapes around us shift until they reform into a different part of the forest. The government has done this. This is their forest and if they have anything to say about it, we are never getting out alive.
End
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