This dream took up serious amounts of time during my sleep. Buckle up, readers!
It all started being in this huge castle that feels like it can fit a library, a shopping district, a house, and possibly many other things. I was joined by other people as well, but I didn't know who they were. I assume they were a part of my group (think of it like Dragon Quest) and we split up to wander around the place.
At some point, things turned horrible in an instant. Out of nowhere, the castle got dim and there were multiple creatures that appeared throughout the castle with varying appearances and attacks. They even had a leader named Tatiano (these names in my dreams are so weird, man). The goal of his is to bring people into his world and trap them for all eternity. To make matters worse, he can easily hypnotize people by giving them direct eye contact. People were panicking and screaming, not knowing what to do next all while a horrible storm came over. Unfortunately, some fell victim to Tatiano's hypnosis and got sent to his world through a portal. I got very scared due to a sudden change in events and I had no idea where my party members were. However, I pressed on and tried to find a solution by facing some of them head-on. I managed to defeat some but not all of them. My fear slowly crept up to me again and I started running away to find a place to hide.
After I got myself together, I went up a few floors to find myself in Zelda's bedroom? Yes, that's weird but that didn't matter in this case. I looked through her bookshelf to see if there was anything about the events that are happening in my dream. To my surprise, Tatiano walked into the room and I hid under the blankets. Despite not fully covering myself and that it was obvious I was trying to hide, he did not see me and proceeded to go somewhere else. Looking back at it, I realized that his weakness is a lack of observation. With that out of the way, I went back to skimming through books and found an answer to finish off Tatiano for good. What you had to do was place certain tiles in specific spots in front of the portal while facing your back to it. Failure to do so will result in instant hypnosis and slowly walk into the portal.
Upon discovering the answer, I went to the center area of the castle where the portal is. Somehow, I met all of my party members again who I assume managed to defeat the rest of the creatures lingering around the castle. After I explained on what to do to defeat Tatiano, we all started to place tiles down. Unfortunately, one of my party members looked at the portal and started to slowly walk into it. On top of that, Tatiano was at the other side of the portal trying to hypnotize the rest of us. My other party member tried to pull them away without looking but to no success. It only got worse as the rest of my party members got hypnotized just trying to save each other. It was only up to me to finish the job but if I were to complete it, I would lose my party members forever. I took the courage into uncharted territory to roll myself into the portal backwards to avoid making eye contact with Tatiano. The portal closed and trapped all of the victims with him including myself.
I woke up around this point within the dream (if that makes any sense at all) looking out the window and said to myself "Wait, shouldn't it be a happy ending? It shouldn't be raining then!" Obviously not you silly. I actually woke up for a brief minute and then went back to sleep. Thankfully, the dream kept on going.
Within the dream, I woke up in Tatiano's world. I was completely fine and not hypnotized at all. There were many other people that were hypnotized walking around aimlessly with no regard for my presence. I also noticed that my party members were still hypnotized and acted as if they were in paradise. From what I see, this is far from it. I approached a couple of them and somehow snapping them out. Despite getting them back to their normal selves, they had no memory of me and thought I was a random person. To only rub it in, I felt that Tatiano saw me that I wasn't hypnotized and started coming after me slowly (keep in mind that I had to avoid direct eye contact to not get hypnotized). I made a mad dash away from him and ran somewhere else.
After running for a few minutes, I ran into another person who wasn't hypnotized as well. They said that they were trying to find a way out and finally found an answer. Apparently, there are mini windmills placed all over the place in this one building. What we had to do was simply spin all of them by hand and would somehow destroy Tatiano's world and bring all of the victims back to the real world. We went in the building and split up to spin all of the mini windmills sooner. The building was fairly empty besides the furniture in it. I managed to get some mini windmills down but Tatiano somehow managed to find me a few floors in. I somehow cheated by making brief eye contact at him and not getting hypnotized at all. Miraculously, the person that was with me a few minutes ago was also there and pulled out a huge stockpot to shield me as I was running away. I was successful but the dream ended there unfortunately.
I'd like to think that I was successful in the end after taking advantage of Tatiano's lack of observation trying to spot me. Moreover, this sounds like a good idea to write in a story!