...but it caused some interesting questions
(that would be the rest of the title, but I deemed it too clunky and long, so I put it in the post instead)
So, dream story time that then connects to something else that it made me think of.
I know the story was bigger than I remember. I remember flashes/images of things that took place beforehand, but I'll tell you what I remember (which I'm pretty sure is the important parts anyway).
There were two people fighting against an army. They were asked to surrender (which meant losing their lands/religion/everything they have pretty much). They said no. One man (the main character) rushed out into battle. He narrates over himself doing said thing saying, "No one could defeat me." There was a few shots of him defeating men, a few shots of him defeating gigantic demon creatures (that looked similar to the ones in Infinity War, except twice the size). The way he fought reminded me of minor mistborn spoilers (using a certain metal).
He fought and fought until a group of assassin-looking people came up. They used a gaseous poison. Our great warrior suddenly thought that he was pregnant and that one of the assassins was one of their family members. He knew he had to get to a hospital soon, so they took off. There was a montage of traveling. At each train station/whatever, the person they talked to was a plant. They were one of the bad guys. Of course, our hero doesn't know this (especially since he's currently under a poison of some form that alters his thinking). In one of these shots, it's revealed that our hero was Andrew, my brother. That's not relevant to the plot in any way, but I thought it was super cool and worth sharing.
For some reason, with each of these train station guards/whatever, we played a game of rock/paper/scissors. For the bad guys plan to work, our hero had to win every game. So all the bad guys intentionally lost (I'll get to intentionally losing in rock/paper/scissors in a second). They continue to travel, facing several people in rock/paper/scissors and winning every game until eventually the hero gets home and set up into a trap/holding cell of some form. The hero wakes up and realizes he's been trick. The enemy gloats a little and explains their plan to our hero. The hero pauses and says he understands everything but one detail. How in the world did every single bad guy intentionally lose the game of rock/paper/scissors they played? (Side note: I'm pretty sure it was told why they needed to play rock/paper/scissors, but I've forgotten.)
The bad guy explained that they could look at the hand and by the slight movement of their fingers, they could tell. If no fingers moved for a split second when throwing, the hero was throwing out rock. If two fingers moved slightly, it was scissors. If all, it was paper. They just had to wait a tiny bit longer than our hero before throwing in order to read what he was going to throw. (aka, they basically waited to see what he threw, and then threw the losing thing. But due to their increased senses/whatever, they only need the very few brief moments at the very beginning of the throw to see which fingers were going to go out.) (I hope that made sense.)
That's where my dream ends, sadly. I never learned how our hero/the good guys ended up coming out on top, if they did at all (which I'm sure they were). Sorry to have you read that long thing just to have the story not really have an ending.
But this all brought me to this one thought I had. Which now that I've thought about is void. So that's sad. I'll tell you the thought anyway. The original thought: My subconscious came up with that idea on how to intentionally lose each game of rock/paper/scissors (of course, you could use it to win every game as well). If asked, before having that dream, how to do so, would that have been my response?
That was the thought, pretty much. But then I thought about it more and realized I totally have in the past (as I'm sure many other people have) theorized about how you could read the person's fingers and then use that information against them, supposing you have an incredible eye and reaction time.
Although the idea still makes me curious. Our subconscious, during dreams, does come up with ideas. Before said dream, while were awake/conscious, how well could we come up with those same ideas? How original/creative is our subconscious?
I think it's interesting.
(I didn't reread this post, so I apologize for any weird errors or anything)