"Seriously brain, what the hell?" A Thread For Weird Dreams and Nightmares

Warning for mild body horror.

So it was a pretty standard dream opening, I was with a bunch of friends playing Uno outside on the patio of some house. It was a really nice day, in broad daylight and the scenery was pretty calm, I think we were nearby a small meadow or river of some sorts. But then things went weird. Suddenly we were inside the house of the patio, and watching a news report about Red Eye. Apparently Red Eye was some zombie-esque kind of condition where the infected would have a red-with-white-and-black-spots right eye, and it was really gross and kind of unreal... but the kicker was that they still acted like normal humans. Like the Red Eyed could still talk and everything and act normal but they'd still want your flesh so they'd try to coax you into walking towards them.

My friends and I are pretty scared, right? We decide to take some "weapons" from around the house and start running towards the nearby river to escape from the impending threat. Sure enough, some Red Eyed start to chase us as we head towards the river.

For me, this is when the dream introduces the most disturbing part aspect: saving. At will, you could save your place in the world. If you felt like you were going to die, you could save, and then die, and you'd immediately respawn at your save point. But there's a catch. If you accidentally save right as you're about to die, you're going to die, respawn immediately, and then die again. For example one of my friends ran into this Red Eye. He saved, and then got torn apart by the zombie. He respawned, and then got torn apart by the zombie. This happened ad infitum, and there was no way for him to stop it... he was left to keep dying over and over forever.

Anyway, through evading zombies and saving strategically to avoid saveglubbin' (I died a few times on the way) we reached my house. Like my real life house. Why we went in there I don't know. We decided to hide out on the second floor and hide ourselves under the floor (???) to avoid detection. Underneath the floor, I point out that the Red Eyed could just bury us with dirt so that we die a slow, painful asphyxiated death. We all came to an agreement that if that ever happened, we would just kill ourselves to avoid such a death. I could physically feel my heart pounding as we waited for the Red Eyed to come and get us... but... they never came. I woke up.