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Note: all names of people I know IRL have been changed.
This dream was quite a "story" in the moment, almost like I was watching a movie or playing through a particularly evocative game, but the exact story behind it isn't quite still together for me. The opening scene had me as a kid in the backseat of the car with my childhood friend Ida. Her mother was driving us past some industrial area full of oil derricks and gas being processed and all kinds of other monstrous production. It seemed that she was there for some business but it wasn't exactly clear what. Me and Ida felt the situation was somewhat inauspicious and ominous. Everything felt bigger than me, like I was a child again.
The next scene was probably inspired by me playing Majora's Mask recently. I was trying to scale some indoor obstacle course by pulling blocks around and jumping between them. It was exactly the same kind of jumping mechanics and feeling of those N64 Zelda games, haha. Anyway, some of these blocks needed to be "unfrozen" in order to move them around. And some of them were invisible and had to be put next to others to "appear," and other stuff like that... I don't exactly remember the details but it felt like solving a puzzle in one of those games.
The next scene I remember jumped ahead... something scary had happened, but I wasn't quite sure what. Now it was as if I was watching a movie. A Japanese sci-fi horror movie of some kind, it seemed. It was all set in some underwater research lab on the seafloor in some top-secret operation. But there was also some primal Atlantean civilization that was trying to avoid their incursions. The scene I remember here is after the company or government or whoever had brokered a deal with the Atlantean people. We saw a representation of them doing one of their ancient customs. It was being represented with some kinds of miniatures. There were a few small people in some huge cavern, looking up at a bunch of sand falling through the cavern and into an underground passage. It was like a waterfall but with sand... like they were under an hourglass perhaps? I think it was supposed to represent something with water. Not that I understand how an ostensibly dry cave with a waterfall can exist at the bottom of the ocean...
But I was now watching the "twist" at the end of this apparently scary story. The camera panned down to the passage where this sand/water went. It showed an underwater museum/research facility which was apparently now commercially connected to the Atlantean village. There was a family walking through the exhibit and I was a third-party observer behind a camera, like I was watching a film. One of the family members was a guy who seemed to be in his 20s or so. He was a single older male and there were also two older parents and two children (grandchildren?). The older male was wearing a red long-sleeve cardigan. He had short dark hair and alert features. He was acting strange and dour, as if he were hypnotized (possessed?). When they entered a certain room, he started saying strange things no one could understand. Then he picked up a spear and stabbed himself directly in the head. Everyone screamed and the camera jerked away, like one of those found-footage horror films.
The last scene of the movie (?) featured two of the owners of the commercial operation closing down the museum/facility and trying to do some coverup. The scene had the two corpos who owned it in a kind of ropeway that had little cars like a ferris wheel, which was apparently the way you entered this weird place from the outside world. A lot of tourists were evacuating. It happens that the two corpos who operated it were seated across from a venerable old Japanese elder who started telling them some wisdom about not to mess with nature or pollute old spirits, the typical message you get in Japanese movies like this. But his speech was kind of funny, because when he was castigating them for all the normal stuff ("you only care about money," "you've lost your connection to the earth," etc.) he extensively catalogued modern net/text slang abbreviations with disgust! ("you only say 'gf' instead of 'girlfriend!'" "you only say 'imo' instead of 'in my opinion!'" "you only say 'stfu' instead of "shut the fuck up!'"). He just kept ranting about these slang terms as if he were the first person to ever notice them. I guess the idea was that we are so rushed that we can't even type out the full phrase anymore? I don't know.
The movie just seemed to keep going, however, even though I thought it was a good enough ending to wrap it up. The next parts I think had one of the corpos die and his spirit possessed some item in a home. (It was a wall statue made of wood... it actually kind of looked like those old black cat wall clocks... Americans who grew up before 2000 might know what I mean, your grandma probably had one.) Anyway, there were a bunch of consumerist people having a party at some high rise and his spirit, encased in this statue, suddenly "woke up" and made the statue move its eyes in anger. And that was another twist... I suppose. I think I got the sense that the movie needed to end now and then willed myself awake.
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