Well it begins with a game that you would have enjoyed and ends in a sort of nightmare/reality and because everything is mostly rewinding perhaps you are looking back into your past which you may have enjoyed and miss and you don't like where you're sitting right now...just a thought.

Fairly good theory.

Well I can offer my interpretation of the dream, but eh, other peeps will probably give you better ones ;) Least you remembered it. Lots of people don't remember that many details in their dreams.

Heatherlyn, I thought you were the dream expert:P Why hesitate now? Feel free to give your interpretation. And, yes, it is rare for me to remember the details.

Ok, if you want my take on it

phase one: Seems to show you suffering from confusion and anxiety from not seeing some problem or situation clearly. You feel as if you are failing at something you are working on, feeling desperation, depression, insecurity. You feel there are difficulties ahead and you fear the potential outcomes. But you still feel passionate about it-coming from mostly your unconscious and what it is saying to you

Phase two: You want to escape the problems and stress in your life and you feel controlled and manupulated by others, almost as if you have no control over your own life and it's actions. You feel excluded, lonely and sad, and something is bothering you but as of yet you're unsure of what it is (again, the unconscious trying to talk to you). You feel competative or that you have to be competative, you feel as if all you do is follow rules and you're all work with no play. You also feel as if you've made the wrong decision or that you're headed in the wrong direction from where you want to be. You have many perceived faults and shortcomings and you want to sort them out, you need to confront them, and you desire to be seen as more than what you are, but you don't show your true self

Phase three: Again, the desire to escape from life's problems. You have a need for security and protection but it's causing you to isolate yourself from others. You ponder many thoughts and emotions, which will either help you solve your confusion, or only confuse you more depending on where you go with ti.

Phase four: You're reluctant and hesitant to proceed forward in something, perhaps because you feel you're going the wrong way from where you want to you. You feel as if you are unable to express yourself freely, or at least some aspects of yourself have to be hidden away.You feel as if your life, or at least some parts, are unsuitable and undesired. You feel overwhelmed by forced beyond your control and you are under tremendous stress in your waking life. You have much stress, especially at work, and find sleeping as a means to stop that-at least while your asleep as your problems are still there when you wake.

Ok there you go. My interpretation of your dream

HOLY CRAP!!!

Where did all that come from???:P I have NO idea how you came to those conclusions.

Not saying you are wrong...cuz much of that sounds right...but, to get that from this dream about video games, faceless friends/cowards and convicts?:P I have no idea.

Been doing it a long time, remember? I'm not a professional at it, but I wouldn't tell someone I'm not an expert. I've learned what to pick out of dreams (just about everything) and how to interprete them, and which interpretation to go with. Just takes...practice, and a lot of reading/studying it. Remember I have vivid dreams every night, so I get lots of practice..ha!