Whispers of an Unquiet Mind

I don't remember much of the Phantom one, just that it was set in the modern day and the opera house was REALLY confusing, it was more like a theatre, and there were all these crazy basement rooms and people running around doing stuff, and doors that were very clearly labeled things like 'secret door: do not open' and stuff.  So the two main characters (two girls, not sure who they were--one of them was Christine, but then wasn't, but then was again) wandered around, ran into the phantom, who was dressed rather oddly and was running around at random in this very crowded building and had a crapload of stuff in this attic-place where he was living.  And then the whole place tipped sideways for some reason and everyone was falling over, and I was having a fourth-wall-breaking discussion with someone (Tika, I think) about the motives of the characters.  Because one of the women (maybe Christine?  Not sure) was running around helping the phantom.  Although they weren't really doing anything dangerous, just running around at random.  It was really weird.

The Death Note dream, I remember more of, so it's slightly more coherent.  It's just as bizarre, though.  It was totally AU, for one thing, so beware--possible spoilers ahead!  For a certain character's death.  Anyway.  So, in this dream, Light had some kind of weird split personality, so he wasn't actually Kira, Kira was like...living in his head.  But they got rid of him and the Death Note was gone and stuff.  But L and co. didn't believe this (apparently they beat Kira right after beating the third Kira, end of Yotsuba arc, so L didn't die.  Or something.), so they had Light work with them.  Not sure why they did that instead of just executing him, since they all thought he was Kira, but they did.  But the weird part is that for some reason, it was decided that the most useful work the two most intelligent people in all of wherever they were could be doing was working at a supermarket.  As cashiers.  Yes.  Cashiers.  Apparently they had to improve the economy by doing this, because when they worked at whatever register, they used their crazy-intelligence to generate vast amounts of revenue increase.  No idea how that would work, though, since cashiers do not really influence the revenue of the store, or at least not in the insane way that Light and L did in the dream.  And L was a complete asshole, because no matter what Light said, he completely tore him down.  And made continual references to how he was an evil serial killer and all.

And they had really dopey uniforms, these craptastic orange-and-gray-ish uniforms.  It was bizarre.  Also, they apparently traveled around to various stores doing this cashier thing, and this caused the stores to permanently generate more revenue.  Again, not sure how the hell that would work, since in the dream they did zero useful work.  They weren't even very good cashiers, because Light apparently had OCD and lined up coins obsessively.  Not sure where all the coins were coming from, but it really interfered with their cashiering.  But for some reason no one minded.  Also, why were both of them needed to work at one checkout station?  It's not really a two-person job, and they got in each other's way a lot.

And it gets even weirder.  No, really.  Instead of Sayu, Light had my older brother as a sibling.  For no apparent reason.  I wasn't there at all, as far as I know, but my brother was.  L asked Light some snide question about his brother, and Light went completely out-of-character and cheerily informed L that his brother was also a convincted criminal.  I think some kind of thief, or something.  But apparently no one cared, because he was just wandering around shopping and no one was arresting him.  Then again, Light was just wandering around being a cashier, so apparently in this AU, law enforcement sucks.

So then they got into a weird bitchfight about it, because L was still being an asshole.  Which is kind of in-character, I guess.  But no one cared, again.  And then, even more bizarrely, they don't require Light to actually come with them or anything.  They just let him wander off on his own.  Even though they are absolutely certain that he was Kira and killed a crapload of people.  Yes, they were all idiots.

So Light has a bicycle.  For no apparent reason.  But first he wandered around talking to all the other cashier-ish people.  Who were doing really random things, one of them had opened a fast-food restaurant in the supermarket.  It was...really out-of-place.  Also, they claimed to serve Buddhist food, I think, which doesn't make much sense.  So, Light attempted to get food, but all the food sucked, so then he didn't.  So then he rides off on his bicycle.

But, predictably, since no one is actually watching what he does, he just rides off in a random direction.  At really fast speeds, apparently, because somehow L and Watari magically have a tracking device or something on him and just watch on their computer thingy as Light zooms off.  Then, with a really delayed reaction, they decide that they should probably go stop him before he kills anybody.  Seriously, poor planning skills.

So Light is still riding this bicycle--on a highway.  At the speed of the cars.  Seriously, he was going ridiculously fast.  I mean that bicycle must have had rocket propulsion or something, it was ridiculous.  But he was kind of going around in circles and not really getting anywhere.  Eventually, though, he got to this forest and ditched the bike, and wandered off into the forest.

Then there was some plot confusion (my dreams have a tendency to break their own fourth walls...-_-;;;), as Light was first found...like...passed out or something, but then there was a retcon or something and he wasn't.  So these police-ish-type people search the forest, but don't find him, so they just leave.  Seriously, they're just like 'oh, we can't find him' and leave.  Worst. Law enforcement. Ever.

But Light had jumped into the ocean for some reason (the forest bordered an ocean.  In the middle of the highway.  No, I don't know where the crap they were).  And met these whales.  And swam to the artic ocean with them.  But the ocean was apparently only about the size of an average swimming pool, because it didn't take very long at all.  So then he went back the other way, with some dolphins or porpoises or something.  But apparently it was dangerous because there were sharks.  Notice that the lack of food, water, shelter, sleep, etc. was not a problem.  The sharks were.  And he was swimming in the artic ocean, there were iceburgs and stuff.  He should have died from exposure.  But apparently he's magic or something, because he didn't.

So then--and it gets even more bizarre--the porpoises (they were definitely called porpoises, although they looked kind of like dolphins at first and then like seals.  But Light was probably insane anyway, so he didn't notice, apparently) tell Light that he has to find this mysterious person who will give him the power to transform into a porpoise.  Yes.  He has to transform into a porpoise.  Even though he's clearly capable of swimming to the artic ocean and back without any porpoise-tranformations necessary.  But the porpoises are very adamant, so Light goes off to search for this person.

So then the POV kind of changes, and Light is apparently NOT in the artic ocean, it's just winter and he's swimming in some craptastic pond or little lake or something.  He follows this porpoise towards the shore, but it turns out to be a cat, not a porpoise.  I think Light may have been hallucinating or something, because he clearly thinks it's a porpoise at this point, but it's clearly a cat the whole time.  Anyway, there's this crappy convenience store or something on the bank, and this guy with an unkempt beard comes out looking for his cat and finds this crazy guy swimming around in the freezing cold lake.

So Light thinks initially that this is the porpoise guy, but then he clearly is just a normal person, so Light attempts to flee.  But apparently it doesn't work, because there's a retcon again, and the guy just finds Light washed up on the shore.  So he brings Light back to L and co.  Not sure how he knew to do that, as he doesn't seem to check who Light is or even be alarmed or anything, he just up and sends him to L.  For some reason.

So then Light wakes up and is completely batshit insane and thinks L is the porpoise guy.  And asks him to give him the transforming power.  So L and co. (there were a lot of random extras standing around, no idea why) think Light is lying to trick them.  Although, really, what kind of cover story is that?  But Light continues to insist that these porpoises told him to do this, so they decide he's hallucinating from exposure or something.

So they try to interrogate him (while he's still babbling on about the porpoises.  seriously, it was bizarre), but he just keeps saying the same thing, and they decide he's not faking, he's honestly insane.  And then I started dreaming something else, so I never got to see the ending.

The weird thing is this, though--was Light crazy or not?  Because, on the one hand, he definitely thought the cat was a porpoise, and at that point he thinks he's crazy, too.  But then he goes back to thinking the porpoises are talking to him.  That seems pretty crazy.  But on the other hand, he DID swim to the artic ocean with the whales.  That can't be normal.  Or was he just hallucinating that?  The POV wasn't always clear, so it's hard to say.  But magical powers related to ocean animals definitely appear several times, which would imply that Light's not crazy.  Then again, Light could have been hallucinating all of it.  I mean the artic ocean had a glass wall, and stuff.  Pretty weird.  But still...he DID survive jumping in the ocean.  And he didn't leave the ocean for like months, as far as I could tell.  So, clearly something weird is going on there.

So, in conclusion, Light and L worked as supermarket cashiers, until Light decided to jump in the ocean for some reason, and apparently met magical porpoises.  Or he just went completely insane while in the ocean and THOUGHT he met magical porpoises.  Either way, he was definitely in the ocean.  And L was an idiot for letting him ride off on a rocket-powered bike without any supervision.

Yeah.  My subconscious is kinda strange.  ^_^;;;;