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I just had a weird ass dream. It was like a blend of older society and tech with smartphones, like a crusty old patriarch in the family and 60s level norms and attitudes in the home of the main family, but people had some advanced technology as well. There would be a kid, his brother, a dog named Consequences and the dad, and occasionally a mother but not always. The kid had a crush on someone which didnt always succeed, but sometimes it made a bit of headway. And this situation would loop multiple times, with a 60s household playing 2003 Tim McGraw records on vinyl and an Olympic event being held in Orange, NSW in 2022.

Near the end of the dream, there was a dog named Consequences that was just a tail and a head. The family patriarch had cut the dogs tail off and it had grown a mind of its own according to the lore of that particular loop, but it was more like all of its legs had gone - though there was a chance that it was regrowing body parts, since later on when that loop crossed with another loop (there were two of the same dog) it was a head with legs, tail and a body, but with shaved fur. Or maybe that was another loop, idk.

I fought in a fighting ring for the Olympics and became royalty of the sea because I won. In another, I was a ghost haunting one of the loops. Other times I was trying to impress a girl in school, who had similar features to someone I know in real life. And the person I played during these loops would always grow up into this bitter, awful patriarch and I would jump into the body of the youngest family member, who was literally the same character as before, who would go on to become the next crusty old patriarch as I jumped back into that other character. Aside from a handful of differences like the dog and whether the patriarch was a widower or single or if he had a wife, things like that were the same. My character would grow old and shitty, I would go back to playing a character who lived under his rule, and that character - as genuinely optimistic and happy as he could be - would proceed to grow up and turn bitter like his father before him. Rinse and repeat.

On the final loop before my alarm woke me up, the dream got kind of cinematic and went for an existential horror sort of thing. Thats when it showed me the Tim McGraw records from 2003, combined with the smartphones and stuff. The feeling I got was that the loop was trapping me in a cycle, and the constant changing of characters as the ones I played became this hardass old crustmaster could have been a metaphor for the cycle of abuse. Think Donkey Kong, with Cranky Kong being the original DK who fought Mario in the arcade days, except that happens like what felt like 8+ times in a single dream.
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