He was there with a small party of people he didn't know, but in the dream was supposed to know.
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A common dream experience that most people reading this would instantly recognize. A strange concept that we only ever feel in dreams. "I know this person but I don't actually know this person." Being the way the brain works in the dream state, the possibilities of what this means to Merle, in this specific context and dream, are probably endless. Are they all some representation of part of himself, things he recognizes but not necessarily as another person? Are they people he's yet to meet but will sometime in the future, perhaps the dream state transcending time and space? (I want to believe (as in Mulder's poster and not in that I actually believe it) that when I dream of my cat Judas, gone for five years now, I am actually interacting with Judas in a dream he had while he was alive.) Or is it just as simple as it sounds: the brain created some stand-in characters to fill the space and story and Merle was supposed to know them. In the dream, he would have acted as if he did, full to the brim with camaraderie, but upon waking, he would quizzically recall how he didn't actually recognize any of them.
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