Dreamt

I was in a thick forest, not a tropical rainforest but not quite the temperate pine forest type either. I guess it was more like a sub-tropical evergreen forest. The canopy was thick and most of the sunlight was blocked. There was no other vegetation on the forest floor, which was mostly exposed soil, covered sparingly by mossy patches, and thoroughly by bodies. Human corpses.

There was no blood, and the cause of their death were unknown. I was there with a bunch other other people wearing blue uniform, and the bodies all wore green uniform. Some of the bodies were donned with berets. Most of the bodies had no faces, they either rotted away unrecognizably or I never looked. Some of the bodies were obviously children, and some were just body parts, torsos and such.

Somehow I knew that there was some kind of war memorial (it "felt" like a Hiroshima atomic memorial) no more than 50 yards away. And the reason that I and the rest of the blue uniformed men were there was to collect the bodies in a pile and raise a tomb for a new war memorial. We dug no holes, and just sort of dragged the bloodless bodies onto each other in a pile. I felt distinctly the weight of bodies as I dragged them, how some bodies of children and incomplete torsos were lighter than others. I also remember how the legs of the bodies dragged on the ground made my chore more strenuous than necessary. Once in a while I slacked off and dragged just the bodies of children and torsos, because these were easier to drag, and easier to fling onto the pile. There was no sense of revulsion, or remorse, or sadness, just plain annoyance for doing such stupid chore.

The next thing I knew/remember, I was sitting and watching my coworks dragging bodies while doing dumbbell bicep curls. I struggled to finish the set, and woke myself up as I forcibly exhaled.