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The Elephant in the Room: A Dream of Escape   The dream started innocently enough. I was in a classroom, not unlike the one I attended as a child. But this classroom was filled with a strange, unsettling tension. In the center, a young boy named Oliver sat huddled with a group of adults, his eyes wide with a mixture of fear and fascination. The adults were frantically frying something, the aroma of sizzling fat filling the air. "The smell will attract them."   I looked around, searching for the source of their fear. Then I saw them – a man huddled outside the classroom doors, his eyes gleaming with hunger. He was not alone. They were desperate, their faces gaunt and their bodies thin. They were the "hungry people," the adults had called them.   As the adults finished frying. They killed the parents and steal their food, their faces twisted with a primal hunger, and then proceeded to fry his parents body instead. Oliver, still alive, watched in horror as