Terrible dream.
I was walking outside on a city street when two blips of light (one yellow, one blue) flew past really fast. They went inside a building. I ran inside followed by some woman. It turns out that these were fairies and we knew them personally (we didn’t know each other, we each knew one of the fairies, but they left when be both turned 15 in some “fairy purge”).
We looked everywhere for them. I walked into one huge room with loads of crap strewn around. There was a sign that joked about how difficult it is trying to explain the old wild west days of the Internet to kids these days. The two of us went into a room like an auditorium. The woman went back and asked some people if they had seen anything (she didn’t call them fairies because no one would believe her, she called them people, and the blue one was an Indian who had dark skin that only looked blue). The people who were working on AV equipment stonewalled her.
I looked up at the scaffolding where four dude bros were working. I saw them stuff the blue fairy into a bag. They saw me, so they dropped a ball like a kickball covered in glitter down to the floor to trick me into thinking that that was what I saw. I knew they were kidnapping the fairies here and everyone in the building was in on the crime.
Since I regularly fight zombies, vampires, and aliens in my dreams I’m usually well armed. I said “I hope you like incendiary bombs,” and threw a bomb like a Molotov cocktail at them (it was two glass containers, one inside the other, each full of a different chemical that explode when mixed). It landed between two of the dude bros and exploded, but they shook their heads and sneered at me. In dreams people have to consent to die, usually. Usually when I shoot someone I have to remind the person that people die when they get shot, and usually they apologize and fall over dead out of courtesy, but these four dude bros were assholes who wouldn’t consent to dying. I climbed the scaffolding and explained to them how bombs work and that they should be on fire and dying right now. They mocked me, saying “Can your bomb kill 100 people?” I said “No, but it can kill a couple people. You should be on fire, this is a medical emergency.” They didn’t listen.
I had to do something else. All the doors were locked. A stern babushka had the key to the door, but I didn’t need it. I knocked two doors down with my shoulder, because American doors are made of cardboard covered in veneer. I told another woman who was working there that I would follow her down the corridor to find out who was in charge of this place. That’s when I woke up.
That really stayed with me. In real life people are powerless to stop crimes because criminals have rights. In some places you’re even forced to flee your own home if someone is shooting at you because you have a “duty to retreat”. Some places make it a felony to defend your own life and the lives of your loved ones. But in dreams all that goes out the window and you can ride a velociraptor with a machine gun in one hand and a grenade launcher in the other and mow down bad guys left and right. But this dream was like real life where the criminals can kidnap people and get away with it, and it left me bummed for hours.