I found myself in a very small town. The stores were just one small strip mall. I was looking for something to eat, so I walked along the stores & peered into each of them. I came to a donut shop & saw to people standing against the back facing out. They had their backs to donut displays. They were trapped behind a wooden security gate that would move every time they tried to move in attempts to escape. It was an older woman & a man. I stood in the door trying to think how to help them. I was suddenly afraid to let the door close, or I might somehow be trapped inside. I found out that the stores were all going out of business because people were scared to go in. And people were scared because the stores had developed minds of their own (hey it's just a dream) & were angry that no one was going in them any more. I guess everthing was computer generated. I finally said quite loudly that it was no wonder the stores were all going out of business. No one would want to visit them because they got trapped inside. Nothing happened. I motioned for the two people to quickly try to ease around the security gate. They did & escaped. We went outside & waited to see if something would happen to us. Nothing did. Next we went into a movie theater lobby for our coats. Once again we each held the door open for each other while the others searched for our coats. The coats had been jammed into some kind of shelving, in an attempt to hide them. At first I couldn't find mine. After some searching, I finally found it hidden under others. I reapeated loudly what I'd said at the donut shop about no one wanting to enter the stores due to fear.

As we left the theater, we discovered there was a town meeting being held to figure out what to do about the computers controlling the stores. I was going to leave, as I was not even a resident of the town. But I stuck around & listened to the townspeople talking outside the stores.

Then, I'm pretty sure I woke up at that point.