I'd also like to show tentative interest! July's a bit of a busy month for me, but this sounds like a lot of fun so I'd like to poke my head in here, too.

Shintaro's at a weird standing point with his dreams. He's got two years of bad escapist tendencies under his belt during which he, while shutting himself up in his house, would cling to dreams of the time before his best friend/not!girlfriend died. For the most part he felt it was a positive thing because there he got to meet her, but recently it's been causing him a lot of stress because he's making friends (so seeing the dreams makes him stress out that he's forgetting her!!) and also because said dead best friend is also in this game! So seeing her and having the dream is a reminder of his failures to prevent her death.

SO it's kind of a nightmare to him? But it's also something he clings to because he's afraid of changing. They're definitely causing him a lot of stress though and I'd like him to confront it sometime... if Riku would be up to dealing with that!