This was a weird dream. It started out with me and my family getting picked up by a semi-truck I think. It was my parents and siblings. I remember us being dropped off outside this group of houses. It was overcast. We were on the front lawn. I think there was either grass or trees on either side, so no neighbors, like it was out in the country. There were lots of things on the lawn like toys and furniture and stuff. I didn't pay close attention to see what they actually were. I think there may have been some people lying on the ground. We kind of spread out and explored different areas. I went to the right-most house along with 1 or 2 of my siblings.

Inside the lights were off and it was dark. I looked around and the place looked abandoned. The front and back doors were open and dirt had blown in from outside. I think some people might have been lying on the floor or furniture there as well. I found some stairs and went up. It was darker up there. My sibling(s) followed me, looking around. I found a light switch and was about to turn it on. At this point it was like I was watching a movie where I knew something horrific was going to be revealed when I turned the light on, but me as the character didn't know. I turned the light on and sure enough, it revealed many people lying all over the floor. They were just like the others we had seen. They were all dead and their skin was white. Paper white. I think all their blood had been drained out. They were also rubbery like they lacked bones or the bones were soft.

For some reason I needed to tidy up the bodies before my parents come up there, so I started putting them in one of the several elevators up there. One guy didn't fit and his arm was sticking out. I kept trying to put it in but it kept falling out. Then I went out of the room to the balcony overlooking the living room downstairs. Some cats and dogs came out of rooms and came to me, just wandering around me, like they were friendly but not really focusing on me. Just hanging around. I took out my cell phone to see if there was any signal. There was only one small bar and I couldn't get a signal. There was also no internet. I sat down on the floor near the balcony railing and tried to get a signal. Suddenly all the bars filled up and I got dramatically excited and told the animals near me, "Hey look, there's a cell signal!" But then it went back down to no signal.

Then I was in a car on the highway going quickly and driving beside a semi-truck. It was night time. I think it was the same as the one at the beginning because it had the same rounded trim around the door. I was trying to climb out my car window and get to the semi-truck. I did successfully and rode in the truck into a city. I was wondering if the city would be like the group of houses with all the mysteriously dead people. The driver said that everything seemed dead and I noticed there were no people or cars about and none of the lights were on. I had a bad feeling. Then he turned down another street and this one had cars driving and lights on. The "dead" area was just on the quiet outskirts. The driver asked me if I finished my article. I wondered what he was talking. Was I writing an article? Was it about the mystery of the dead people? Then I woke up.

The only things relating to waking life I can think of are that the feel of being there and the animals remind me of the episode of "Evolution" I watched before going to sleep. It is a post-apocalyptic area and there were dogs attacking the main characters. Also, the scene with me climbing from my car into the truck was very similar to the scene in the original movie "Footloose" I watched recently where the main girl climbs from a car into a pickup truck while driving and they almost hit a semi.