>>/6226/
> Celestia is the only one in that story with a limelight on her; the only one who can be 'taken' by said limelight.
I see. So, they mistake the concept of Luna getting corrupted with a term whose definition is only applied for an individual who is in front of the public. Indeed, Celestia would be the only legitimate character to hold that public image at that time (Luna would fit later in the show for that term but not in that video)

 >>/6227/
> Also you guys are latching on too much to the detail of my example being sinister.
it was mostly because of this sentence:
> but a full fledged conspiracy made obvious by ... that fact the viewer knows how wrong it is
so perhaps the circumstances were unfortunate to be interpreted in the way that you intended. The postcard analogy raises less subtle messages and illustrates better what you were aiming at back then...

> The drama, perhaps, of the dream would be the phone call when said cousin's car broke down while en route to the main character's house and we (I) already know about the job loss but the person taking the phone call does not.
> Dreams in which the point seems to be examining how two different points of view respond to the same datum are not uncommon
this feels like a telepathic episode or a 

> I got run over by a semi in a head-on collision on a state-highway and only got one dream out of that.
 >>/6230/
> Door got ripped off, turned inside out, tossed aside. I woke up with the car on top of me, a little confused about why the sprinkler system was allowed to drizzle raindrops onto my face.
> Turns out it was drizzling raindrops still. Also that illumination wasn't a fluorescent bulb.
definitely not a desirable experience whose risks could have ended up in a more dramatic manner(fortunately you were born again after that moment). That sounds horrible.

 >>/6229/
> the world was going to be permanently altered by a man with some type of rocket ship and there was nothing anyone could do to stop it. It, despite being a dream, felt a hopeless that I have never felt in the waking world
a feeling of hopelessness boosted by doom. I could make an attempt to correlate it with your low standards towards other people in the past so all those disappointments were exposed simultaneously...but I am not sure if that correlation from IRL would work to justify that feeling from yours during that dream.