With the death of the VIP Yume thread I'll have to start writing my reports here. Last night was a more involved one. Similar to a previous dream this week, there was some kind of vaguely apocalyptic undertone going on, mostly communicated through little bits of worldbuilding.

I forget a few segments, but here are some of the vignettes that stuck with me, in vaguely the order in which they appeared. In one scene I was driving somewhere with a friend who in my dream was also some kind of crime or business partner. We all got one of those government alerts on our phones that said that multiple locations had been targeted by foreign powers for a nuclear attack. The dream had placed us somewhere in the midwest, I think Chicago or some other large city, and I remember my friend suggesting that we'd probably be alright.

This all melded/transformed into another scene. My shitty ex was out in a forest clearing with several other people. Suddenly the view cut to Goemon from Lupin III meditating in the grass somewhere else in the field. He proceeded to shoot my ex straight through her chest with a large bow and arrow. In the commotion that ensued some dark figure ran off and started ninja jumping/flying through the trees--Goemon pursued. This sort of changed into me controlling Goemon as if it was a video game--I could feel "my" hands using a mouse and keyboard while the scene continued. There was some kind of duel in an underground building that I had to "replay" once or twice because I kept losing, but eventually Goemon--who by this point was just me again--could proceed.

Back with my partner in crime from earlier, we found ourselves in what looked to be some kind of underground brothel. The girls didn't look good--there seemed to be some weird kind of setup where guys could do whatever they wanted, and they were being rough. I sat for a moment and witnessed some crackhead come up and start sexually assaulting the guy sitting next to me. I protested it, and he backed away and out of the room while grinning ominously.

Back on the surface and back in some kind of field, I felt a presence. I forget if there were flower petals or something in with it, but I remember a very visible and deeply-felt wind blowing around and in front of me. I forget if I first asked what it wanted, but I remember a young woman's voice saying "You have to create a new body for me." I woke up shortly after that.

I feel like I have to sit on this one for a second. I've started reading Jung recently and I'm really curious to pick apart what's going on here symbolically for myself--I have a couple ideas but I'll ponder it more before coming to any conclusions. Overall an 8/10 dream, it might have even been a 9 if I remembered more of it. Personal highlight was definitely collapsing my ex's chest with an arrow.