Totally Nuts

Imagine if you will, a huge warehouse with row after row of shelves, each shelf fully stocked with sequentially-dated items.  Some items are several decades old, while others were shelved just moments ago.  The warehouse is a beehive of activity, with hundreds of workers zipping around in little carts, stocking the shelves and gathering items as directed.  Ever seen a picture or video of an Amazon warehouse?  Think 1000 times larger than that!

Imagine further, that this facility has 2 shifts, a day shift and a night shift.  The day shift is full service, half the workers diligently stocking the 'today' shelves with new materials, the other half retrieving items as needed.  The day shift manager is truly a gem.  Intelligent, decisive, efficient and amazingly quick, he runs the show like the finest maestro directs an orchestra.

The night shift, which is the focus of this post, is not full service; 99% of the night work is retrieval only.  The night manager compares favorably to the day manager in every way but one: he's totally nuts!  Certifiable!  When this guy's running the show, the workers are directed to retrieve shelved items from anywhere and everywhere, no rhyme nor reason whatsoever.  The retrieved items are dumped in random piles on the warehouse floor.

Got it figured out?  1st clue: the warehouse has no physical presence; it's electronic in nature.  2nd clue: each row of shelves has it's own label, including these: people, places, events, sounds, smells.  Now you have it, yes?  The warehouse is your mind, the shelved items are your memories.  The night manager, Mr Totally Nuts, has one hell of a good time, taking those randomly piled items and molding them into bizarre scenarios - your dreams.  Often, just for the heck of it, Mr Nuts throws in extra items that weren't  in the warehouse, people you've never met or places you've never been, for example.  Needless to say, these extras have absolutely nothing to do with anything else in the pile.  They just make a strange brew even stranger.

The next time Mr Nuts concocts one of his strange brews I'm gonna share it with you - if I can grab it before it's discarded as most brews are.  It should prove to be entertaining.