I had dream after dream last night, at least three or four of them, and then I woke up briefly, got up, considered breakfast for a while... and then went back to bed and had another weird-ass dream.
Don't remember a lot of it, but there was part where it was some sort of team-based fighting game/third-person shooter.
I remember customizing my loadout, and going with some sort of claws claws as my main weapon, along with what appeared to be a silenced Desert Eagle (ew) and some longer-range weapon that I don't remember.
Towards the end of the dream my friends/teammates and I were fighting another team in the 'Sunday Shitfight' mode.
This "game" was actually deadly, there was no respawning or whatever, and those who died became the 'unspawned', basically a horde of angry ghosts who would pop up after a certain time had passed in this game mode. (kind of like the swarm in Magicite, I guess.)
I was alone facing off against some airborne fairy creature on the other team. Managed to land a few good hits on her (with some sort of sword? I don't think I'd figured out how to use my claws at this point) and knock her to the ground more-or-less incapacitated, just as the unspawned burst into the room we were in through a portal opening in the floor.
I quickly helped her up so we could flee, and she thanked me and said she'd see me at the next of these "Sunday shitfights".
So it seems actually killing the opposition wasn't really something you had/wanted to do in this weird game.
Anyway, what followed was a lot of running away through these weird, organic-looking corridors, passing various people and shouting at them all to run. The level was somewhat maze-like, and it would have been pretty easy to take a wrong turn and get lost and/or trapped in the place.
Right before the escape point from the level I came upon a room off to one side, where there was apparently some high-stakes reward/'bonus stage' thing going on-- basically, earlier on in the dream people had chosen a "wish" or somesuch, something that they really wanted.
In these moments, right before the unspawned were about to kill everyone, they had a brief amount of time to claim/use their reward. It... made more sense when I was dreaming it, I guess. Anyway, an IRL friend of mine was there watching another teammate (who I don't believe I know IRL) claim his wish, which was apparently banjo lessons.
I had no time for that and fled the level. That's all I really remember, I wish I hadn't waited so long before writing it down.
I vaguely recall something about looking more closely at the description of the claws in my loadout later on, and realising/deciding that they were actually strapped to the palms of my hands as climbing claws, not weapons, and that was why I could never seem to defeat enemies with them.