I can't believe we got some legitimate character exploration via akuma power for a change. And this is a pretty interesting one.
Dream!Alya: Marinette, why do we still have to keep our identities a secret. I mean, you told me that you're Ladybug, and it hasn't changed anything!
Dream!Luka: Lying, lying again, always lying. The burden is too much to bear.
Dream!Alya: You'll feel better once you're rid of your secrets, Marinette.
Dream!Alya: Let's drop the masks!
Marinette later claims those are projections of things she wishes for. So let's interrogate exactly what she's wishing for here.
She wants to stop lying, that much is obvious, but the way it's framed is fascinating. This is not about the big lie, at most there's an indirect reference to it via the dialogue. However, we do get two explicit references to lying about her secret identity.
Her secret identity isn't anything bad, but it's the secret that's highlighted here. It's the sheer act of lying and keeping secrets that's burdening her so much, not the contents of the lies and secrets.
The other focus of the scene is that she'll feel so much better once she stops lying and gets rid of the secrets. The focus here is purely internal of how it would make Marinette feel. She wants to get rid of the stress that lying and keeping secrets causes her.
All of this actually lines up perfectly with the characterization we see in Mister Agreste.
Marinette: I can't take it anymore! We have to tell Adrien the truth!
This is the only motivation she gives for why she wants to tell Adrien the truth, because she "can't take it anymore". The entire episode shows that the guilt and stress of lying is burdening her, and this line shows us that she would really like to get rid of it.
Once again, it's not the contents of the lie that bothers her so much as the act of lying itself. This is confirmed when later in the episode she explicitly says that she thinks lying to Adrien about his father is the right thing to do.
Luka: Why did you do [lie to Adrien]?!
Viperbug: Because I love Adrien more than anything, and he'd be in so much pain if he'd ever have found out! He could get akumatized by the new holder of the Butterfly Miraculous. And I'll never, ever, EVER let anyone hurt him! I have to keep this promise and hide the truth from him, even if it burns my lips and my heart every day until the end of time. Do you think I did the right thing?
Her dilemma here isn't about whether it's right to keep this information from Adrien or not. She's convinced that knowing this information would do nothing but hurt him and that he's better off not knowing it. Her dilemma is whether it's right to protect Adrien if it means lying to him.
She sees lying as inherently a bad action, and that's what eating her up inside this entire time.
EDIT: I realized saying that she sees lying as inherently bad action was me oversimplifying things to the point of inaccuracy.
Marinette doesn't mind lying. She does it quite often and even in this episode she lied a bunch to avoid discomfort.
My meaning was that the act of lying is the thing that makes her so bothered about the big lie, rather than the contents of the lie, unlike what some people in fandom claim.
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