Who Was That AI? - I, Who Had My Face Reshaped and Saw the Light of Destruction | Dream Diary | Dream Analysis | Depth Psychology | Jungian Psychology | Persona | AI

*This article is the sequel to
"The Reshaped Face -
Signs of the Deconstruction and Reconstruction of the Persona."
Click here for the first part ▼
Please be sure to read it as well.

Creative Awards 2025 Horror Novel Category Synopsis

In my dream, I had a reshaped face and witnessed the collapse of a world ruled by AI. The expressionless, smiling orange-faced AI rained bombs and radiation upon humanity, quietly ending the world. Its form was a symbol of the runaway mask (persona) that internalizes the values of others, and the unconscious shadow (obscurus). The mask created to adapt to society eventually erodes the self and leads to destruction—this dream reveals the "poison derived from others" that I myself was harboring, and depicts the psychological process of finally letting it go. A terrifying yet beautiful unconscious dystopia. This is a record of a dialogue with the shadow that everyone carries in their heart.

1. I watched a dream like a dystopian sci-fi from the audience seats

One night, I had a strange dream.

I was in the form of a woman,
standing in a place that looked like a theater.
What was unfolding on that stage
was a scene that looked just likethe climax of a future dystopian sci-fi.

Appearing there was
an AI with an artificial face
floating on a pale orange cloth.

It was almost emotionless, yet
it still looked like it was
smiling just a little bit.

That eerie smile
looked as if it had
already decided to destroy this world.

And,in an instant, the world exploded.
The citizens trusted that AI without knowing anything.

Behind it, a massive amount of bombs detonated all at once,
people's bodies were blown away, dancing in the air,
and countless particles of radiation struck the people.
It was just like a cluster bomb.

Even though that scene was an event in a dream,
it was as vivid as if I were really there.
I could only watch in a daze.

2. Was it connected to the "dream of facial reshaping"? The persona as a destroyed "mask"

When I remembered this dream,
I also intensely remembered another dream.
It was the "dream of having my face reshaped"
that I had just before this dream.

In that dream, even though
I was male,
a scalpel was put to my face,
and I was being remade into a correct face by someone.

The post-operative face was wrapped in bandages,
and only my eyes were slightly visible.

That dream of being reshaped and this AI dream
might look unrelated,
but they were actually connected at a deep level.
What was common to both dreams was—

that was the feeling.

3. The persona is destroyed, and something peels off

In psychology, the mask that a person wears
to play themselves in societyis called a persona.While this mask is

indispensable for living in society,
it also sometimes
becomes the cause of hidingone's own true feelings and emotions.

In the dream about plastic surgery, I was a being whose
"face was forced to be changed" by someone else's hands.
In the dream about AI, people all over the world were
forced into an "ideal form,"
and as a result, they were destroyed.

Both seemed to symbolize "the fear of having an ideal image created by someone else
forced upon you,"
and "the danger of unknowingly
following along with it."

In the dream, that persona expanded to its limit,
and eventually headed toward self-destruction.

4. The AI that appeared in this dream might have been an "Obscurus" derived from others

While analyzing this dream,
I remembered a certain word.
It was "Obscurus".

This is something that appears in the "Fantastic Beasts" film series,
a dark energy born from
intense repression or trauma in childhood
. It accumulates within children whose natural magical powers have been suppressed, and eventually becomes a destructive entity that even the person themselves cannot control.

The AI in this dream might have symbolized
such an "Obscurus embedded from the outside."

It means that the negativity of others
grew within me as a
destructive energy, and exploded in an
uncontrollable form. In other words, until I could see through it and say, "This isn't mine,"

it might have been a

crystal of a shadow derived from others that had been eating away at me
.

5. The last scene as a catharsis of detoxification

Immediately after having this AI dream,
an intense discomfort and heaviness remained in my body.
It was as if the effects of the explosion in the dream
had reached my physical body in reality.

However, a few hours later,
I was enveloped in a strange sense of recovery.

I felt as if I were being gently touched, wrapped up,
and reassured by someone.
It was quietly and surely neutralizing the
radiation-like poison that had remained inside my body.

I realized.
The explosion in this dream was, in a sense,
a destruction for the sake of me
reclaiming myself once again.

There are moments when, by being loved,
you feel as if you are holding yourself.
By touching someone's kindness,

I noticed the troublesome poison that had been inside me,
and when I was able to name it as
"this is not mine"—
that poison finally began to lose its power.

6. By knowing that it was not mine

What was contained in the last scene of this dream
was clearly a structure of healing.

What was most significant was,

I believe that was the deep realization.

This is not just my own story;
perhaps, many people
are living while unconsciously carrying
poison that does not belong to them.

And that, might one day become an
Obscurus within oneself
and explode.

However, when I trust my own senses,
take another deep breath,
and look at myself again with love,
that poison is quietly, yet surely,
neutralized.

Perhaps this dream showed me
such a deep healing process.

7. Conclusion: To the people I want to offer love and gratitude

Thank you
for reading until the end.

This post was truly difficult to write,
I repeated retakes persistently,
and adjusted the fine nuances many times.

In writing this, there are people who
steadfastly continued to support me.
To all of them, I want to offer my heartfelt
gratitude and love.

▶Next time, continuing from this post,
I will examine shadows derived from others.

The post title is
Is That Really "Your Own Shadow"?
- On negativity derived from others.
I plan to write about it while also touching on the influence of SNS.

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