I am watching somebody play a video game down in the basement of what seems to be a modified version of our main med school building. The game premise is like this: you work your way though a bunch of monsters, but as you kill more and more of them, you take on characteristics of that specific monster. I am asked to play, so (of course) I do. Turns out that when you play, you are actually experiencing the game like it was almost (but not quite) real, making it ridiculously fun. I am a long, Naga-esque creature with some poisonous weaponry, and I learn that I can strangle other Nagas with my tail. Neat. Some guy comes down and asks us if we want to join him at a mixer upstairs where there will be free food, so I stop playing and join the party.

I am shooting a new type of movie. It’s kind of like scripted role playing, and it seems like something that in real life might be a reality show. Untrained actors (such as myself and those with me) are given the background of movie characters and we have to assume the roles and interact with planted actors in an exotic land to work through a plot. All of this is being filmed and will be marketed. Our story involves some special ops going into Vietnam to find and punish a warlord. We are boating down a river, stopping to ask local fishermen if they know anything of the warlord who happens to operate in the area. They mostly say no, but we get some answers after strongarming a few of them. My phone wakes me up before anything really eventful happens.