I COLLECT DREAMS.

So it was yet another weird "I know this is a movie I'm watching and yet I'm a character in it" dream, and this time it was "The Dark Knight: Rising". Is that the name of the newst Batman movie? I don't even know. Might be a title I made up by squashing Metal Gear in there. Also note that part way through the title changed to "Batman: Betty and Veronica" for details I will get into later.

Now, disclaimer, I haven't yet seen the newer Batman movies (I...I don't know how I haven't seen them; I tend to somehow skip really famous things somehow and it's just super weird and idk OTL), and I've only seen a few Batman cartoons and one or two older Batman movies, so bear in mind that everything that happened in this dream was based on my extremely limited knowledge of Batman.

First thing that happened was a sort of narration thing; y'know, like the start of a movie. We meet Batman (who was played by Hugh Jackman instead of Christian Bale...? I don't even know why) and his butler, then the Veronica character who showed up for five minutes and disappeared for the rest of the dream, and then finally the Betty character, whose perspective I saw the dream from, mostly. I can't remember if her name was actually Betty or if she was just a sweet blonde girl-next-door type with a huge crush on Bruce Wayne. Basically, she looked kinda like Vicki Vale (er, the Kim Basinger version, so blonde) and was Bruce Wayne's secretary. He ended up blowing her off, she was super sad about it, Alfred tried to be comforting and then later on lectured Brucey about leading on the ladies (Bruce had banged Betty the night before; Alfred was not happy), to which he was all "BUT MAN I GOTTA KILL THE JOKER"

So Betty (we're just gonna call her Betty) had pretended to be all okay about it but secretly went downstairs and was crying her eyes out. Alfred went to go make her feel better, when suddenly (I was looking through her eyes at this point) she leans over all sad like, and this weird, yellowish liquid falls from a sore on her forehead. Like... it's this tiny little thing, and a surprising amount of liquid comes out. She freaks out a little, and Alfred is like "YOU'VE BEEN INFECTED BY THE JOKER'S SPORE WE GOTTA GET YOU TO THE DOCTOR", and they head to the doctor's office.

For some reason, this super expensive doctor is on the top level of a mall, but he's the best in his trade. Betty and Alfred are checking in, Betty wonders how she's gonna pay for this, Alfred is like "IT'S OKAY BRUCE WILL PAY DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT". They also lie and say Betty is there for a tooth ache and not this spore infection, as for some reason people infected by the spore are executed.

Randomly I'm suddenly myself and replacing Betty. I then notice on the sign in sheet that I've been here before, because I see my mother's handwriting, and for some reason I figure I need to lie about my address, name, phone number, all that to keep myself safe; Alfred says this is a smart idea. I swap back with Betty. (also, I say "swap places with" not because I'm suddenly seeing things through Betty's eyes, but because I literally show up in the dream -- suddenly I'm myself, and Betty doesn't exist.)

As she finishes filling out this sheet, more of the liquid seeps out, and suddenly the Joker and his goons show up to kill them. Now, here's where it starts to get weird(er), and makes me wonder if I was half-lucid dreaming or something: I turned back time a little, and made it so Betty and Alfred didn't get caught by the Joker. Instead, they get on the elevator and go to the actual doctor's office, rather than just the check in area (it was on a different floor -- what a poorly designed office! D:). However, for some reason, they can't find it anywhere.

Betty turns into me. Alfred and I decide we're hungry, so we decide to skip going to the doctor's and get some fries. I end up getting chili-cheese ones and they are delicious. I turn back into Betty.

At this point, they realize they have to make a run for it (and the spore infection is never mentioned again and has mysteriously disappeared), so they head out to the parking lot where Batman shows up to rescue them. They get in the Batmobile and drive away RIDICULOUSLY FAST (part of this dream: both Batman and Alfred were ridiculous fucking drivers and drove incredibly badly, but no one was ever afraid for their lives and they never caused any car crashes).

Now, some more stuff happened, and I'm fairly certain I swapped places with Betty a few more times (one swapping ended up with a side plot that had me wandering around a college campus visiting my friends, helping an acquaintance fix her broken camera, teach two characters from this comic how to have sex and end up being roommates with the chick, who I was hoping would want to make out, and also time skipping around here to help these four girls who used to be friends make up (this presented the time skipping ability as visiting different levels like in a video game...?) and one of them was Betty), but somehow Alfred ended up being kidnapped by the Joker (who had showed up a few times, mostly exploding things), Betty found out who Batman really was, and ended up hugging Bruce Wayne out on a deck while he was crying his eyes out (by this point he was being played by Christian Bale again...somehow), and became his official love interest girlfriend. HOWEVER~ suddenly the Joker appeared from behind a door on the balconey and... did something?? I can't remember what it was: he either kidnapped Betty, kidnapped Batman, or did nothing and Batman ran after him. EITHER WAY, more shit happened and somehow Betty had to save the day, sacrificing herself in the process, as the building they were in (a skyscraper/apartment complex of sorts) ended up exploding.

Now, I didn't like this ending, so I turned time back again to try and prevent her from dying. This ending ended up having her hanging off the side of the building, but she wasn't able to hold on, and fell to her death. So I turned back time again, and tried to get her on a different side of the building where the explosion wouldn't hit her. However, a second bomb I hadn't noticed went off on that side, burning her alive. I turned time back yet again and had her hold out as long as she could before the explosion hit, also taking the time to make sure Batman knew she was there and had to rescue her, but he wasn't able to save her either. I ended up giving up on Betty, feeling sad I couldn't save her, but realizing there was nothing I could do. I ended up catching an old-fashioned plane outta there with a red-headed pilot lady, writing the story of what happened down in a diary, and giving it to a little girl on an airship my plane passed by, telling her to show everyone the diary "when the time was right".

A few more things happened after that, but nothing related to the rest of the dream. Although, Alfred and Batman's terrible driving and my time skipping abilities came up again when the dream shifted over to a dream about a group of kids at a music camp who kept getting in trouble for something they didn't do (thanks to one of the other campers who was a non-anthropomorphic desk lamp), and I had to get a ride home from the camp. My mother picked me up in the Batmobile, we went to an outdoor Tim Horton's drive through and I got orange soda, and then we drove home. I was thinking about how slow my mother was driving and wished she'd speed up a little.

There was also a part afterwards where some of the cast members from Pebble and the Penguin were staying at a hotel, except it was a sitcom…? Like Hubey and Marina were married, Rocko had an unnamed wife, Drake had an unnamed wife that was a total jerk, and they all had kids and were all in-laws. Rocko and Drake hated each other, and Drake had some sort of famous line from the movie that was referenced but changed to include the word “fuck” when insulting Rocko. After he said it, a laugh track played, and I realized it was an SNL sketch.