dream

I believe in recurring dream motifs, because I have at least one.

Mine is an RPG store, always set into a mall or other larger area.  It has bookshelves aplenty - it mostly sells roleplaying game books, and not so much other products like puzzles or miniatures.  The books are sometimes connected to established rule sets or publishers I know of, but most often the bulk of their inventory is fictional.

I was rounded up at night and put on board a bus. Jet Li was driving.

We traveled for a long time.  We weren't confined as such but all of us on board had no chance to escape.

We arrived at this massive cavernous complex dug into the mountains of Colorado.  The bus arrived at a modern underground facility.  A parking lot and handling facilities were there.  We were unloaded and directed to private quarters inside.  It was the nicest prison I'd ever seen.

I dreamed that most of the American continent had been wholly transformed.  It followed the MMO mechanics of Warcraft in the dream, but did not share its geography.

There was an enormous stone construction that was a sort of building or temple, very narrow and acting as a dividing wall in the western part of the country.  On the north end, things were fairly desolate.  A sort of rock quarry with sloped walls.

Summary: a ghostly possession phenomenon accompanies an entire spacefaring species.

A man is working at a desk in a grassy field, near the edge of a forest.  There is a fence nearby stretching to the visible extent of the field - a long ways away, other things might be happening, but here he is isolated.  He's slowly packing his belongings back into a set of containers.  He's visited by the administrator of a school to which he's associated, and they have a short conversation.