Dreams

Feb 28 2022

• I remember playing an RPG where the main character, possibly being controlled by Dad, was really weak and being chased by bandits in a Skyrim-like world, and in particular there was one at the foot of some cliffs near a tavern that aggroed on the main character and would not deaggro no matter how far away the character ran. There was a guard corpse with a good weapon near where the person was, so the person controlling the character dragged the bandit far away before being shot and killed by the bandit, and when he respawned, he quickly made a beeline for the corpse as well. The bandit was still returning to his normal position at the time, and did automatically re-aggro on the character but was suitably far away that it wasn’t a problem.
• There was also a weather counter UI in the top right of the screen that showed that a Firestorm was arriving soon. The arrival counter started at around 3% when the character first aggroed the bandit, and was 34% by the time he died, respawned, and came back to loot the guard corpse. The player rushed off toward the nearby tavern, as being indoors would keep him safe, but instead of going right in, he paused and went past the tavern to a coal pit on its left, heading inside long enough to grab a piece of coal just in case a torch was needed, before turning around and heading back to the tavern. I noted that this was dangerous because the bandit was still aggroed and coming for him, and the firestorm itself would have produced light anyway, but it proceeded without incident.
• Once the character entered the tavern, I saw two beastmasters snarling at each other in front of a stone ring just inside the door, each one with a pack of slavering dogs by his side and snarling at the other side as well. Inside the ring were two dogs, one belonging to each of them, and those two were fighting and biting each other as people around the tavern cheered and made bets. The bartender wandered by the two of them holding several beer mugs in his hand.
• As the character zoned in, I noted that we should move out of the way of this mess and upstairs to the room, as there was a balcony where we could watch for the firestorm and the bandit. I wondered what would happen when the bandit finally came in, and got a scene that showed the bandit zoning in and the two beastmasters and their dogs immediately attacking and murdering the bandit.
• Snippet: Earlier in the dream, there was a school scene where I was in a lecture theater and saw Allen and his family nearby. I waved to him and then eventually texted him a hello saying that it was nice to finally be able to meet him again. The lecture seminar was being hosted by some veteran AMQ players and was a case study about the decline of the game which had been going on for some time.
• Snippet: In another part of the dream, I was outside a public female washroom with a guy and a tall, orange-haired rich lady whose family actually owned the washroom. I smiled and mentioned that I should call her ojou-sama, but she didn’t reply to that. Anyway she was friendly and we chatted a bit as she stepped just inside to wash her hands and hand out some toilet paper to a girl that had done her business and wanted to leave the washroom. I also wanted to go in and use it, but the other girl said that the stalls were mostly occupied and it was difficult to find a proper toilet seat. I found one just inside the door anyway, but it was in a set of five at the side of the room and was out in the open, and was part of an area where moms were changing the diapers of their kids, so that definitely wasn’t one I actually wanted to use. However, the toilet had wheels as well, so I scooted around the bathroom while seated on the wheeled toilet in order to scout out the area while also reserving that toilet just in case I couldn’t find a free stall. The actual stalls were located near the back of the really long washroom, and were indeed all occupied — the washroom was oddly crowded with people doing their own thing or waiting around on long benches in the middle of the room for the stalls to free up — so I wheeled back toward the entrance where the other wheeled toilets were.

Mar 01 2022

• I was crossing the road behind a bunch of students at a really weird 4-way intersection, at which the four roads met at an angle that resembled a pi symbol, with two exits from the intersection forming a straight line (east and west) and the other two forming “legs” that came in to the main horizontal street at an angle (southeast and southwest) rather than the usual cardinal cross. Crossing the road also involved a traffic light that challenged us to find a 7 letter word that contained some specific letters we were given before the countdown ended, for the students from my school, rather than having the crosswalk number count down from 7 to 0.
• I was crossing from one of the bottom legs of the pi symbol toward the sidewalk on the long side of the symbol, but I was stuck behind some students from another school, so the crosswalk countdown hit 0 and time ran out. But when that happened, the next crossing signal to our right turned green, so I simply shifted a few steps to my right to get in line with that crossing signal, and finished crossing the road.
• Those other students were from a local secondary school or something that was right in front of the 4-way intersection, and I could hear morning assembly music blaring from the school’s loudspakers as I passed it, as well as see a different puzzle that they were given by a floating sign in the school. They were given a 6 or 7 letter word and had to find as many smaller words using the letters in that word as possible.
• As I passed the school, I could also look up and see into one of the classroom on the second level of the building, and I saw a metal cupboard and the silhouette of a male teacher in a classroom. I could hear him lecturing to his students as well, and a sudden wave of nostalgia hit me, as though I had seen a scene like this before way back in Singapore but had not thought of it for many years. I continued east along the road toward my own school, though.
• Snippet: I was trying out various sports at a University-type school to see which one I would like to join at some point, I remember in particular trying out the 50 or 100 metre dash.
• Snippet: At another point, I was looking through a hockey book from about 10 years ago with a friend that contained season predictions, and laughing with them at how bad some of the predictions were. I don’t remember most of them in particular, though I remember a page predicting that Eric Lindros would do very well in an upcoming season (which he didn’t, due to injuries), and another page predicting that a young rookie, who was the brother of another existing player and who was drafted very highly, was a bad pick because he was too small to play in the league and would be bullied around (he ended up topping the league that year with 49 goals). There was also something about a season with a strike and lockout and only half the games played that season.
• Snippet: I also dreamt that my mod partner in the /r/tipofmytongue Discord was suddenly going to quit, and as I wasn’t far behind and had been trying to find a replacement and leave for some time as well, but had been stymied due to the main admin person not coming on much, that potentially spelled disaster for the server. However, perhaps due to this, the admin person actually came online and we finally had a good talk about replacements.

Mar 02 2022

• I remember playing a new MMO with my main group of Discord friends, this involved our characters exploring a new continent in a world and completing quests and other things, as per a normal MMO. In particular, once a bunch of us reached max level, I noted that Seo had actually left us to raid with a group of other former Hobbitual players from Lotro who had come over for the raiding content, although he was relegated to playing a healer and I knew most of the spots were taken by their core group of players so I wasn’t sure if he was even actually getting any raiding opportunities there. I decided to reach out to him to see if he were interested in coming back to our guild and leading raids here like he had used to in Lotro instead.

Mar 03 2022

• Snippet: I was in a minivan with Govinda and someone else in a part of a city with a zombie apocalypse going on. He was driving the van, and he taught me how to close the door properly so that he had one less thing to watch over. I apparently had to close the door as much as possible, which still left it ajar, and then pull the door handle latch upwards, which pulled the door tightly shut, like a vacuum.
• Snippet: Another snippet involved a side view of an aquarium that I was visiting with one other person, however I no longer remember any details about the person or the trip.

Mar 04 2022

• I dreamt that I was playing a game of Heroes 3, and I inherited an undeveloped castle with a lot of troop dwellings but no defence, from around the middle of the map. I had two heroes, whom I sent out to get ore and other mines and to explore the surrounding lands. One of my heroes had the bulk of my armies, while the other had a few stragglers and was mostly there to suicide.
• Pink player was to the south, by the edge of the map, and I stole an ore and crystal mine from him with my weaker hero before his hero came out to annihilate him. I just recruited him from my castle again the next day though.
• My main hero went south and east to pick up stat buildings, as there were several strewn around the map, exploring toward a coast to make sure that there was nothing hidden there.
• My other hero went west after revival and found a subterranean gate leading underground. He stepped in to reveal the map and saw a pile of enemies down there, with various enemy towns to the west, east, and especially to the south, where there were four towns adjacent to each other forming the shape of a waxing crescent moon. He quickly fled back upwards.
• A couple enemy heroes did come up to tangle with my main castle after that but my other hero was close enough to the base to fend off the attacks. At one point a single hero with an 800 health genie came up and destroyed another 800 health genie that I had in one of my armies, but I didn’t mind because that genie was just a recruitment bonus and didn’t really fit with the rest of my troops. At another point, my castle itself was under siege but I had a stack of dragons or behemoths or something that annihilated his griffins, which were the attacker’s most powerful threat.
• One of the new mechanics in the game was that other hero units could move a little while a battle was taking place, and my secondary hero came in to that fight with 8 champions on horseback to pincer the griffins from behind after the griffins had broken down the castle walls.
• Another new mechanic was that the obelisk map pieces could be put toward uncovering the map of the actual world treasure like in the regular game, or could be spent in order to immediately get a minor treasure for the hero that found the obelisk. I used the latter a couple of times since this was a hyge map and the underground looked like it was going to be impossible to leisurely explore.
• A third new mechanic was that there was a Threat rating bar at the bottom left of my screen, which was a green bar that represented the chances of my castle being attacked the next day based on proximity of enemy heroes and the number of troops that they had versus what I had. It was basically protection against accidentally losing my castle from being sniped by a maximum range hero hiding underground or something, and there was one instance where it triggered and asked if I was sure I was going to take an action that left my castle undefended, as I didn’t notice an enemy hero standing nearby. I said no and it let me cancel my planned move.
• I spent my turns building infrastructure, going from fort to citadel, then the money producing buildings, though I built something else that didn’t exist in the actual game on the second turn instead, which confused one of my heroes.

Mar 06 2022

• I remember a dream where we were basically an opposing resistance group and were trying to rescue or retrieve someone or something from enemy territory. I think that it was a multi-pronged attempt, so we had a group actually fighting the enemy, while another group, including me, tried to infiltrate a carnival or festival going on in the opposing country to gather more info. We were sort of discovered though, but the enemy couldn’t outright target us in front of everyone, so they made us waste time joining some contests instead.
• We were made to sign up for some contest and had to do various things — I had to answer a quiz on some AKB0048 members and then ten trivia questions from random topics (I only got 2 out of 10 on the latter part since I was basically randomly guessing), while another teammate had to install water pipes and then dig a trough to bring water from a tap to a rice field, which he did terribly and the carnival announcer made fun of him for. The person had built the trough like a road, 3 tiles wide and really bumpy all over, so it wouldn’t carry water very well, and the announcer had some assistants unfurl an alternate ramp which used the same amount of material, but was just one tile wide, and which used the extra materials to give the trough a slope that allowed the water to flow much better.
• Later, I remember at some point also having a spaceship fight against the enemy, we routed them with no casualties but one big ship that we were trying to capture managed to warp away, with the pilot screaming that she’d never let the specific person chasing her have the ship. We were still happy with the outcome though, and made plans to try to infiltrate them again. I requested that this time we avoided the day of the week that the carnival was taking place on so that we would not have a chance to get ensnared in that again.