Will add a pic as soon as I have access to anything besides this iPad.
Since Urotsuki's dreams have such inconstancy, no universal theme, and don't seem to be related to each other, it's hard to form a theory about her. But I have one.
Urotsuki played Yume Nikki, and wanted to have lucid dreams like her. However, since she was a middle-to-upper class person with no traumatic experiences, she didn't have very interesting dreams.
So she used a program on her computer to absorb the brain waves of other dreamers and emit them into Urotsuki's dreams. One who was afraid of spiders, one who feared clowns, another with a bad experience with a teacher... They all were absorbed and the dreams now contained Urotsuki instead of the original dreamers. The computer has too much influence on the dreams to be unrelated. The ^v^ game has some trance-inducing qualities, too.
It's worth noting that a majority of the dreams are bad dreams. There are also some which may not have a overtly nightmarish setting but are just bad for some reason. (For example, the Shinto shrine. And Geometry World, which is TOO WEIRD.) I'm sure you've actually had a dream like that once. The few that aren't, like Mushroom World (I always loved that place because of this) will eventually lead to a real nightmare if you explore enough. (Grimdark Mushroom World is still pretty happy, ironically, but some of the other places aren't so friendly.) There's also Japan Town, which is a bit creepy to get to, and, while it isn't particularly scary on its own, everywhere you can go from there is, which adds a new dimension to the place. Swamp World is nice, but it gets odd. And let's not forget the Fairytale Window... Anyway, Urotsuki's computer mostly captures bad dreams. Like a reverse dreamcatcher! Urotsuki seems to find it important that there at least be a few nice dreams, for all the better the shock when she gets to a creepy part.
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