Dreamed I was a female concert pianist trying to play a forbidden symphony that would open the gates to the underworld and summon forth the powerful Ravager, a Prince of Demons. I had blindingly fast fingers and an amazing memory, so I was able to pull off the most virtuosic segments of the symphony’s many piano solos with ease. However I kept getting the details wrong, I would forget to offer the proper sacrifices, or they would not be roasted enough, and the Ravager would appear and devour everyone at the ceremony except me. Then he would rewind time and I would try again.
I kept having flashbacks to when I was offered the piece, sitting at my desk with other piano pupils, my master with an evil gleam in his eye when he would speak of the Forbidden Symphony. There was another student who originally got the piece before me. He was a disgusting near-vagrant who kept a bunch of flea-riddled dogs in a pen at the side of the road. He would feed them human eyeballs. However his skill was not equal to mine and he would always fuck up during practice. Eventually I made an impassioned plea for the piece and he handed it over, impressed by the elegance of my words. For some reason I kept thinking the piece was the Hungarian Rhapsody by Franz Liszt.