A while back, after having another dream of walking home from school and getting lost, I actually berated my brain for the lack of originality.
So last night, my brain responded with this dream:
I was part of a group trying to stop villains, and while time travel was attempted, all that did was ensure the bad guys joined together - bootstrap paradox style.
Then, in the present, I confronted one of the bad guys (a bad woman, in fact), and after she said something about getting angry, so I told her be angry at me. I like angry people. So, she started throwing energy at me, but I just absorbed it, while telling some civilians she had taken hostage to run.
I then told her she no longer had enough energy to deal with the others, and she shoved me, and I landed on my rear.
I felt her energy boiling me from the inside, and she said once I died, she would recover her energy and go after the others.
But I told that was going to take too long, as pain and I were old friends.
Then I woke up.
Bizarre dream, but at least it wasn't getting lost walking home from school again!