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That's also unnecessary. I personally became seven midgets, ran around Uboa in a circle and then poked it by accident.
I mostly agree on your point. Apart from two obstacles and the pink eye things that crowd the blue mask room, you don't really need the knife. I don't think use of the knife is taken lightly by Madotsuki because of the scream and the blood. And there are so many theories about characters being dead and the dreams being based on traumatic experiences - it makes being knife happy contradictory. If dream residents, Shitai especially, are related to traumatic experiences, then Madotsuki shouldn't be comfortable with killing things if they will scream and bleed.
To me the knife is morbid and risky. It's a loss of self-control, a struggle for control over others in the environment and has consequences (you can close off possibilities by killing the wrong thing). It's found in the Dark World which acknowledges the nature of the item and to me, the Dark World is a bit 'different' in atmosphere because of the classy pattern used to make the monkeys in the background. I know this is very subjective, but it does make me think of big houses in classic detective novels and the difference in character the culprit might reveal when the sun goes down.
What I'm getting at is that, there isn't much enjoyable about stabbing things or great incentives to do so. But presented with something dangerous in your dreams and you may find yourself acting like a different person. Acting unlike ourselves is something we'll question because, may be that is us? I think, since it's just a dream, Madotsuki lets herself try it but ultimately it doesn't dominate her mind. It's a passing thought of someone distressed.
Forgive any grammar or logic cock ups, I'm trying to waste time in class.