Tripped out version of Ready Player One

Date: 4/8/2025

PG-13: I mention a male body part, but it isn’t sexual… more like just anatomical. Everyone’s consciousness was in the internet and it’s likely they did not have actual bodies because nobody ever logged out and that’s where they lived. It took place in space but specifically focused on a particular planet and a competition going on there. If you won, you would get… I don’t really know, but it had to have been highly desired even if it was just glory or some money, because it was a hugely popular place for teenagers to go after they were done with school. There was a bright and metallic meeting room where everyone would lobby until the circuit began for a group of people to try out. The competition seemed to have been like a circuit, and the last part of it entailed swimming. It was a disgusting looking custom built room that was like white ceramic showers but they were one right after the other, like rooms that you could dive into. It was basically a pool room with a lot of walls dividing each section. The water was high enough to where a 6 foot person would still not touch the bottom, and made it so you could climb over the wall to get into a diving position for the next section if need be. The first section is narrow, and the following sections get less and less narrow until you are in a square room, then a rectangular room, etc. I think the rectangular room was the last one. The rules in this part is that you have to swim towards a wall, then back, then back to the other wall, all while underwater. You can’t come up for air at all except for the times you go up to the wall to transition to the next section. This is done for what must be like 6 sections in this dingy bathroom room. I know it seems more like a pool room but it looked like a dirty bathroom. This one guy who I’m watching from third person perspective actually wins. He’s already pretty popular amongst the masses and everyone starts to spread the word when he wins over snapchat etc. The winner gets to go into a dark room with their crown 👑 and just be in there as a placeholder I guess until someone else wins. But this competition was taking place on some kind of sentient planet that was not just a player of the game anymore. Their avatar actually became the planet when they won the game and they were stuck there forever. I guess they got tricked by the neighboring planet but he could never tell anyone because winning forfeited his rights to do anything other than sit there and look pretty. So this tragic player is technically who the boy character took the place of when he goes into the dark room (the winner’s room.) He is also the first player to have ever won this “competition”. It’s been many many years though and he was able to hack the system, clearly, because he was now the planet and also had a flying assistant that looked like C-3PO but a female version with robes who flew around the planet, never walked. Idk the lore of how she was there she just was. The planet guy/creature is really old so he considers anyone who wins this “competition” to be really strong and worthy of his purpose: break free from orbit of a different planet nearby him by chipping away at it until it is smaller. He also considers any winners his children and chosen ones. Yea… Lol. So he has this rock cave entrance on his planet and his planet is rock but it’s vaguely in the shape of a human too. And the rock tunnel/cave part is located right where his crotch is, so everyone is like omg he is literally shooting kids from his rock dick as cannon balls to destroy the planet that’s holding the rock planet there, that he is now somehow attached to forever. So in the universe for some reason everyone online thought that the rock dick thing was the funniest crap ever and it became viral and everyone was tuning in to the feed of the war between these 2 planets. The other planet was spherical and was apparently behind the nefarious trapping winners thing. Even though they only had 2 winners in like, a hundred years. The main character guy got blasted into the planet but he was okay and he was still famous. For some reason his title as the chosen one and worthy actually was true and he had powers that could break planets when aided by the planet creature/his “father” now, even though they kinda looked the same age avatar wise (nobody ages on the internet without actual human bodies). Later on I am working out with said character on said planet we were trying to destroy and I was severely freaked out by my body in a mirror because my shoulders were really wide but my ribs were showing so it was strange looking. Like how they say you can’t spot reduce fat, well be thankful that’s true because if humans were able to spot reduce fat… it looks freakish and kind of scary lmao. I woke up then because I had to pee but I immediately checked the mirror 🪞 just in case I was still dreaming 😅 REALLY WEIRD ONE AND I DIDN’T do it justice explaining it. It was kind of crazy. You just had to be there I guess 🫠

AI generated interpretation Thank you for sharing such a vivid and detailed dream narrative. Here is a neutral interpretation of some of the themes and images you described, offering possible symbolic meanings without any clinical or diagnostic assumptions. --- This dream seems to explore the relationship between identity, competition, and transformation within a highly interconnected or digital environment. The setting in space and a planetary scale competition may symbolize feelings about vast possibilities or challenges in life that feel both distant and immense. The idea of consciousness living primarily online and not having physical bodies could reflect thoughts or anxieties about the blending of real-world and virtual experiences — perhaps a meditation on presence, embodiment, or how much of oneself is expressed in digital arenas. The permanent "living there" suggests a tension between freedom and entrapment, or a blurred line between chosen isolation and forced existence. The competition itself, especially the underwater swimming challenge through segmented, increasingly open areas, may represent stages of endurance, adaptation, or transformation. Water in dreams often symbolizes emotions or the subconscious, and the act of needing to swim underwater without surfacing for air could speak to pushing through emotional or psychological challenges without respite, or navigating complex situations with a need for perseverance. The figure who wins and then becomes integrated with the planet — losing freedom but gaining a powerful, almost parental role — might symbolize a transformation from individual agency to a broader sense of responsibility or identity that is intertwined with larger systems or communities. The motifs of birth, creation, and even the unusual anatomical imagery involving the planet could reflect themes of origin, power, and the sometimes uncomfortable merging of human and cosmic or mechanical elements. The viral fascination with the humorous anatomical metaphor within this cosmic battle suggests an interplay between serious struggles and the human tendency to find levity or distraction in unexpected places. This might point to how social narratives and collective attention can shape or trivialize personal or significant experiences. Finally, your reaction to your reflection in the mirror with altered body proportions touches on issues of self-perception and acceptance. Mirrors in dreams often relate to how we see ourselves or our identity, and feelings of fear or discomfort about physical appearance could hint at concerns about vulnerability, change, or how external perceptions resonate internally. --- Overall, this dream seems rich with symbolism about identity, transformation, endurance through challenge, and the balance between autonomy and connection to larger forces. It carries tones of both wonder and strangeness, perhaps inviting reflection on how you navigate complex realities — digital or otherwise — and how you integrate different aspects of self and society. If you find this dream remains on your mind, keeping a journal or simply reflecting on which parts of it resonate most could provide further personal insight over time.