"The Locker Monster"

     I'm looking at a wall of  lockers  with  buttons  to  open
each   door.  I   press  one.  Slowly,   with   a   grinding   of
machinery,  out  comes  a  complex,  robot—like  machine.
It  can't  be  stopped  even  if  you  want   it  to.  Anchored
inside   the   locker,   it   now   expands   relentlessly   and
draws  me  in.  I  am  hypnotized,  fascinated   and  scared.
It is over my head.  I can  barely touch  it  with  my  hands.
Yet there is  something  I'm expected to do  along  with  it.
This   happens   more   than   once.   A   man  answers  my
question. There was a  mistake  I  was  making  that  kept
activating   these   contrivances. "I  DIDN'T  KNOW!"  I
cry. "I  never  meant   to  evoke  them.  I  only  wanted  to
open  the doors." The  man  shows  me  what  I  had  been
pressing and  shows me  another  way  to  open  the  doors
that does not trigger the mechanisms.
     In  dream  language   this  dream  might  read:  I  have
myself   looking   at   a  wall  of   lockers   part   of   me.
I  have  buttons  part  of  me  to  open  each  door  part
of  me.  I  have  myself   press  one  button  part  of  me.
Slowly,  with   a  grinding   of   machinery  part  of  me,
I   have  a  complex,  robot—like  part of  me  come  out
of  me—outcomes  part  of  me.   I  have  myself  unable
to  stop  this  robot  part  of  me  even  if  a  part  of  me
wants  to.  (Or,   I   have  this  robot  part   of   me  be  a
part  of  me  that  is  unable  to  stop  even  if  I  have  a
part  of  me  that  wants  to   stop   the  machine   in  me
from  coming  out  in  me.)   I  have  the   machine   part
of  me  anchored  in  me inside  the  locker  part of  me.
I  have  the  machine  part  of  me  now  expand   in  me
relentlessly.  I   have  the  robot  part  of  me  draw  me
in.   I   have  myself  experience   the  hypnotized   part
of   me,   the  fascinated   part  of  me  and   the  scared
part  of  me.  I  have  myself  barely  able  to  touch  the
robot—like machine parts of  me  with  my hands  part
of  me (out  of  touch  parts  of me).  Yet  I  have  myself
expect myself  to  do  some part  of me along  with  this
machine part of me.  I  have myself  repeat this button-
pressing / machine-emerging / fascinated-hypnotized-
scared  part  of  me  more  than  once  in  me.  (Then  a
change  occurs:  I  have  questioned  this  routine  part
of me.)  I  have a  man part of me answer  my  question
part  of  me.   I   have  myself  understand  that  I  have

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