The White Flag AA meeting — "One of Ennet House’s live-in Staffers’…"
One of Ennet House’s live-in Staffers’ rotating P.M. jobs is to be awake and on-call in the front office all night for Dream Duty—people in early recovery from Substances often get hit with real horror-show dreams, or else traumatically seductive Substance-dreams, and sometimes trite but important epiphanic dreams, and the Staffer on Dream Duty is required to be up doing paperwork or sit-ups or staring out the broad bay window in the front office downstairs, ready to make coffee and listen to the residents’ dreams and offer the odd practical upbeat Boston-AA-type insight into possible implications for the dreamer’s progress in recovery—but Gately had no need to clomp downstairs for a Staffer’s feedback on this one, since it was so powerfully, tritely obvious.
Context
Dream Duty defined — the book's fullest statement of dream-policy, dropped as an aside inside Gately's own dream-report. The definition even supplies the theme's taxonomy: horror-show dreams, traumatically seductive Substance-dreams, and trite-but-important epiphanic dreams (the glass-basement dream being the third kind, self-diagnosed). The formal charter behind 066's freakshow catalogue, and the institution Gately was staffing when that scene opened.