The format of this dream was a play. The subject of the play was war. The war was conducted by each character taking turns writing down steps of a mathematical proof as lines in the play. Each character was on a team fighting the other team. I and others were characters, and we were on one team, and Anne and Kiyo were characters on another team. It was quite a suspenseful play, and my active role really kept me on my toes. Sadly, I don't remember much of the war's mechanics. I do remember that there was a certain strategy that people were using, and that some people were fighting for peace. Also, I don't think it was clear what the intent of each line was (to make peace or to continue the war?) but there was an explicit thing that had to be done to win peace, e.g. completing the proof, and perhaps you could win the war by showing the proof's claim is false (both were possible). I don't remember if I was fighting for peace or war, but I made a pretty cool mathematical discovery and used it to my team's advantage. I was excited to use it, for it was a chance for me to show off my skills in math.
What inspired this dream? I've been reading plays lately. The last one I read was of the Greek Dicaeopolis, who fought (verbally) against his own people to get peace for himself in a war against Sparta. The last thing I did before I went to sleep was write a few proofs by induction on my computer science homework, and I was proud of myself for how well I was doing on the homework. Can't explain why Anne and Kiyo were my enemies (or was I making peace with them?) other than saying they're not in my suite.
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