• Trapped in Toy Story-esque alternate dimension? (This is hard to explain... I'll try to capture the gist of it. It felt like kind of an Isekai situation? The start is a bit murky because at first, I think it was a store, then maybe some type of storage factory. And then it veered into Toy Story territory, where it was like a magical cupboard with a whole tiny, living world inside. It's split into different parts, which I'll detail below).
Store, then storage factory? (Well, there were aisles like in a store and people browsing shelves. The things in the store were weird, though. I don't really recall what they were outside of that. I think I might have been trying to avoid someone, but I'm not sure. And then it's like a storage place with some kind of event going on? I think me and a bunch of people are filming like a music video? And I get all dressed up in bold, colorful clothes, which were supposed to be imitating some celebrity. I don't know who, but I think I noted that I didn't actually like them. Don't fully understand what was happening; I think I'm having fun, but also maybe trying to get the camera's attention and feeling a bit self-conscious about it).
The apology & first escape (At this point, it's now the magical cupboard. I think I'm there with some family, and it's like an annual tradition that we'd stopped for several years until my mom talked us into doing it again, I guess. My dad frustratedly says that he hadn't wanted to, then I start apologizing because I'd had a feeling it would be a stressful experience for him but didn't speak up about it. I realize then, and admit to him, that I was focused more on myself and what I could get out of the experience. Something about it had changed enough to make it more pleasant for me but not for him. I'm not sure at what point the dream changes this situation to be something dangerous, but it eventually does. We, although I'm not sure who "we" is anymore, it's more ambiguous now, realize there's a possibility of getting stuck there. I'm suddenly very confused why we decided to do this. We do something clever to get out. I don't remember what, but it's at this point that fairies from the Tinkerbell series start getting involved and stick around for the rest of the dream. Don't know why, lol).
The return & second escape (So, for some reason, we're back in the magical cupboard. Even in the dream, I'm confused how it happened. I know it was by choice, but I'm baffled how I could have forgotten that there are terrible risks. I ask the person I'm with why the heck they didn't remind me and try to stop me from returning. Now we have to figure out a new trick to escape. There are other people/beings in the cupboard, who don't fully know about the outside world. Most are oblivious yet benevolent, but there is also someone/something(?) malevolent that tries to force you to stay? Now, at this point, I think I'm a fairy and I'm stuck with some other evil fairy creature, almost literally stuck, like we're parasitical? Somehow, I trick her by acting like I believe we're sharing thoughts. I guess I know she'll be forced to play along, or she'd have to admit she has less power over me than I "believe" she does. Yeah, I really don't understand any of that, but it worked). 4. The pseudo-return? + juggling cat + fairies? (Now I'm back AGAIN but also... not really? Like I'm there but somehow, the consequences don't really apply. Feels like I'm on thin ice, though. I'm talking with one of the... native... cupboard people...? And he's asking questions about my previous experience there, and I start to realize that I'd done things that could still get me in trouble with them, so I have to lie about not having done those things. I've lost track of how things went down after this, but here's what it includes... To escape, I have to convince people that a cat is juggling. And there are some Tinkerbell fairies there, but they're like... different? Had sort of the same vibe as variants from the show "Loki," like in the sense that something went wrong in their timeline/universe, and because of that, they ended up here. I think they're sorta healing from it/freed from some type of corruption, though? So. That's nice, good for them).
• Flooding bathroom (I guess I'm trying to take a bath or something, but somehow, the water is completely overflowing and filling other sections of the bathroom. Other faucets are getting turned on, and I don't know how. I'm struggling to fix it all before someone comes and sees. It sort of reminded me of a bathroom at my grandma's house IRL).
• Riding on a flying stick & astrophobia (This is pretty self-explanatory, I think. It's strangely not the first time I've dreamt of a fear of going into outer space, though. Another time, I dreamt me and my parents, some family, or both were in a hot air balloon, which I was vehemently against and upset about because none of us even knew how to operate one, but no one else was worried. We ended up getting way too high, and I blacked out for a moment before we dropped back to earth).
Oof, I didn't expect that to get so long.