A dream submission about working and life balance.

This intense dream, set during WWII, follows a gunner's descent from wartime enthusiasm to crushing weariness and paranoia. The external war transforms into an internal conflict when a person unexpectedly attacks him on base. The dreamer's violent defense—shooting the attacker in the head, only for the man to survive and return to work—leads to vivid hallucinations of dead, bullet-ridden support staff. The dream culminates in a deep psychological confusion, questioning whether the initial threat was real or a hallucination born of PTSD, leaving the dreamer to grapple with the blurred lines between enemy, victim, and perpetrator.

This is a vivid, high-stakes narrative that reads like a sci-fi thriller. From a psychological and symbolic perspective, my dream seems to explore themes of institutional betrayal, the illusion of choice, and the power of the "truth-seeker" archetype.

Have you ever faced a problem so relentless it seems to evolve just to stay one step ahead of you? This episode dives into one of the not scary, but most uncomfortable dream sequences we've encountered: a chase by an intelligent, perfectly adapted underwater dragon.