More progress, but with feeling

"DID YOU THINK ME DEFEATED?"

God - I hate writing about dreams. It needs to be perfectly balanced between 'littered with detail/symbolism' for foreshadowing plot development and 'vague enough to read like a dream' to give the impression of an imperfect memory of it. So that's my excuse.

Rule related yet Spoiler-ish related question below:
Also am I allowed innuendos that lead to nowhere in a story without a "sexual" tag? Because they're totally not having sex, but if you don't pick up on one detail it sounds like they might