Yeeey, story time!
When I was a very young age, my mom took me to some woman with two kids, her son and daughter who were both teenagers.
Noticing that he own Playstation 1 as I do, I asked them to play on it. They agreed, but I remember we watched some movie before that... I think it was "Labyrinth"...
Anyway, they let me play Sheep Raider, a game I wasn't familiar with and I remember struggling on that snow level as I didn't know what to do. I also remember Wile e Coyote kept exploding on one part for whatever reason.
After I gave up playing it, the two replaced the disk with something. Now this is the part I do not remember clearly since from this point everything seemed like a fever dream.
I remember up to 3 headless birds flying on the screen in the theater stage, Heaven behind it. Nobody else was there after which the screen cut black with jumpscare of "someone's" head covered in blood appeared on screen. His face in shock, staring at the screen for around a minute ow two before backing out in slow motion into the void. Flashes and blood appearing all over his body before he disappears in the void.
Now here is the thing. For years I believed this particular part was a fever dream, materialized later into something much graphic and morbid. (When you see it, you'll know what I'm talking about). But after a while I actually witnessed it in reality, which was obviously an ending scene from Final Fantasy 7 despite me having errors and holes in the memory.
I remember Sephiroth face to be far more detailed, his face expression as in the pure terror. His highlights were smaller and even his eyes had different color.
This entire even kinda... marked me in certain way. Maybe it was from shock, I don't know...
"But anime is for kids!"
Freudian psychology is a dubious approach at best, but I can totally understand a) why a small child would develop a dissociative memory, and b) why Seph is such a foundational muse. It was so far back that I literally don't remember it, but when I was young I saw a Medieval series with a fight scene that according to Mom scarred me something horrific to the point in later years when I wanted to watch it again she always steered me off.
I don't know if it's an intentional nod, but last year's #3 was also a TV screen. :o This feels like a Ragu work with the detail; unfortunately I'm now straining to make out the cases. :P