There was a weird mix of being a whimsical, disembodied spirit and being guided by other spirits who may have been taking on a mentoring or parenting role. I, as a faintly glowing ball of mass, floated around a group that was preparing for a field trip by giving members of the group signs, or guiding them to a scenario in which they remember the field trip more easily was what I was doing for a bit. Eventually, the students were gathered at a large, yellow school bus at a very barren, yet mountainous road.

At the mountainous desert landscape overlooking a canyon I somehow took on humanoid form, but still thankfully light enough to ride the wind and not fall to my death. I dove into the canyon- in part to impress the students I'd been guiding, in part to have fun doing consistent spins, flips, and loops in the air.

Once all the students were in the bus, I returned to glowing, fluid ball form and trailed behind. I get the feeling we, or just I, entered a portal or something; the transition of my surroundings was instantaneous.

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I was now a human again. I was not on earth. I was now in the fishtank of a world that had its own minimap and invisible borders.

At least the others around seemed like genuine people with intelligence and not NPCs. There was one feature of the minimap that allowed me to zoom out to display a similar, yet different solar system to the one I would know. I could toggle over to see that status of earth, and it displayed something about being currently uninhabitable.

Anyways, walking around my new artificially cheery enclosure, I noticed quite a crowd at a site-specific theater. The seats were in a semicircle and were elevated higher the further they were from the stage.

I walked from behind the stage up the stairs to the right side from my angle, trying to be as inconspicuous as I could. While talking to a group of others in somewhat similar circumstances, they were talking about how openly oppressive their previous worlds were. I mentioned something about not feeling that too much on Earth.

They turned to look at me with pity. After a pause, some among the group explained that even if they hide it sometimes, beings in power will be using any of us according to their whims.