Sandy, the serial killer
I dreamt about a woman whose employer had been murdered. Her name was Sandy and she was a graphic artist. In the beginning of the dream she had just got her first job. At first she was working for a different man. He had his own business and worked long hours doing difficult work. Sandy appeared to enjoy working with him. He clearly had a crush on Sandy but she kept him at a distance.
At first, Sandy’s mother was a character. Sandy was still living with her. The mother was an invalid and needed Sandy to look after her. The mother was suspicious of Sandy’s relationship with her boss, and kept telling Sandy not to work too hard.
Then Sandy got another job working for the CEO of a corporation. He was shorter and stockier than her previous boss, but he was also the same man. It was as if he had received a promotion into a better job at a big company, but they had also turned him into someone else. He was much more confident, narcissistic in fact. Rather than working really hard like the previous boss had done, he managed to get other people to do his work for him. Sandy began having an affair with him. Then the man was murdered. I never saw how he had been killed, but the dream became involved in figuring out how it had happened and who had killed him. Until now I had seen the dream from Sandy’s perspective. When she was implicated in the murder and the police began investigating her, I was devastated because I believed she was incident.
Then the dream began replaying previous incidents but I saw how things had really happened a little differently. Sandy was in fact a narcissistic person who manipulated people. She had carried on a sexual relationship with her boss for a lot longer than I realized, starting with his first incarnation. There had been a scene at a theatre where Sandy used to walk up some stairs to get from one room where she worked -- designing costumes perhaps -- to another where she would meet her boss for trysts. The replay route revealed a much more convoluted path along which she would create alibis for herself and even murder other people to conceal her actions.
Then there was a sadomasochistic scene in which Sandy had hogtied her boss and decorated his body with stitch work that resembled tattoos. He was in a drugged and ecstatic state, and this was how she had tricked him into letting her bind him. His skin was shining with sweat. It was after this scene that Sandy apparently tortured and stabbed him to death. Again I didn’t witness this.
A narrator began describing various ways Sandy had killed other people along the way. In the last scene, she was caring for an elderly woman who was an archetypical crone with wispy white hair, a large hooked nose, and a dark, hooded garment. The crone figured out what Sandy was doing to people, so Sandy wrapped her legs around the old woman’s neck and strangled her. It wasn’t clear to me whether this old woman was her mother or someone else.