Dreams

Mar 22 2022

• I had to run a multi-day marathon along a twisting and turning route through a bunch of outdoor stone corridors, where some legs of the marathon had optional tasks to complete or alternate routes for completion as well. On the first day, even though I was a bad runner, I sprinted early on and got all the way to 2nd or so, then jogged the rest of the way and ended up in 12th spot out of several hundred. One optional task on the first day was to grab some a grocery item from a large basket as we passed it — we’d have to either bring the item to the end of the race or consume it along the way for energy. I grabbed a corn stick and a small drink so that it would be easy to run, but I saw other things in it, like large 1 litre cartons of milk or juice, that would have been harder to carry. Another optional task had me answer a call from someone on a cellphone to troubleshoot their computer problem while I was running.
• I eventually reached an outdoor room with a dozen or so small, raised stone circles set into the ground, which apparently was a boss fight that may or may not have been optional, and which needed multiple people to summon and then defeat. I waited around a short while and Zixiang showed up, so I summoned the boss with him, and several other people came in while we were fighting it to help us defeat it. We then moved on toward the finish line, which was at the foot of a narrow stone staircase that led up to some extra area that I didn’t care for.
• On the second day, the initial part of the route was the same, but about halfway through the race there was a boat path that I could take instead, as I now owned a small fishing boat. I recruited a crew, which included two brothers that might have been twins, and who would pilot the boat, and an anime-ish warrior named Adel who was fashioned after Lent from Atelier Ryza, who had a big sword and would be my defence. I became friendly with a naval guild who was waiting around the area with about 10 boats or so, ranging from fishing boats to larger galleys, and they told me that there was a big naval war yesterday where they had been attacked by another naval guild who didn’t like them, in the final optional area.
• I decided to join them and sail toward the destination with them as they were a friendly bunch, and there were a couple people in their ranks that I knew and liked. In the chaos of all the crew members running around, Adel got left behind, as I had informed my crew of my plans and told them they were free to follow me or choose to follow someone else. He just stood around in one spot because his AI was broken, and he only woke up to complain about it once we had already left. I told him to take the land route instead, and that we’d pick him up near the optional boss fight from yesterday, which was about halfway along the sea route. He did so and rejoined us there once I docked at a village just past that encounter and came back to get him so he didn’t have to fight the boss.
• The guild I was with was worried about being Player Killed by the other navy guild on the way to the final area as well, but everything turned out fine. We docked at the end of the sea route, which was about 90% of the way through the race, and we drove cars the other 10% of the way toward the finish line. The road was a rickety road surrounded by high cliffs that went from a 3-lane road, to a 2-lane road, and then eventually a 1-lane road, and it was filled with a headache fog that blurred my vision and made it difficult for me to drive. James, who was with me in the car and apparently part of my group as well, mentioned that the reason I was feeling this way was that the University only had a partial subscription on the car to the tune of $3.50 per licence per month, and that we could upgrade to a $5 per licence per month plan, which would cause the cars to drive themselves and remove this issue. He said that I would probably find success if I made my case to our department’s executives, and I said that I would the next time I had to use the car for company business, which this wasn’t.
• Once we reached the finish line, I looked up at the stone stairs leading to the optional area, and told the guild that I would bring my crew and go up first, since I was not actually in their guild, and I could then report back to let them know if the other guild was lying in wait. They said ok. I saw a few people standing around hoping for groups to join, and upon noticing Nak in particular, I recruited him so that our group became a party of 6. I lugged a cardboard box that my possessions were in out of the car, up the stairs, and into a wide, circular rooftop arena thing, where I received a notification that this was a World Zone where Open PVP was enabled. I was nervous about this because I didn’t want to lose my box of items, and there were a lot of people seated on various stone benches in the sun, no one was really hostile to each other and everyone was just sitting and chatting in a rather carnival-like mood.
• I dragged my box and party over to an unoccupied bench, and told the rest of the guild that it seemed safe, so they came up as well to gather at another nearby bench. Looking around, I also saw that the area featured hourly entertainment, and this hour had some thin, summoned cartoony figures fighting each other by some benches as various people stood around to watch, cheer, and bet on them.

Mar 24 2022

• I was on a double decker bus on a long overnight journey somewhere across Canada, except in my dream Canada was an entity that also spread across Northern China, Mongolia, and Southern Russia, and had land all the way as far west as Eastern Europe. There was a trivia question at some point about how many map squares Canada occupied on the grid map I was looking at, and the answer was 40.
• Anyway, on the bus, I sat on the front leftmost double seat, just behind the driver’s seat, and I closed my eyes and tried to doze off for a bit. Various people came on and off and various events occurred, one of them being that the bus stopped by a gas station so that someone could get a coffee from the attached convenience store. The bus driver said that they probably only sold 5L drinks, but the person came back and said they sold 6L ones, so several other people also got off to buy drinks from the store, and the bus driver gave an older man a $10 bill so that he could buy the driver a large 6L cup of coffee too.
• Much earlier in the dream, I remember a snippet involving a drama between two people who lived in rooms across a narrow hallway from each other, and liked each other, but refused to have sex with each other, which would have sealed some sort of deal. It was first the woman who refused, so the man went home to take a shower, and I and another woman eventually convinced the woman and went to talk to the man but the man refused this time. Later on we found out it was partially due to our presence and some sort of misinterpreted rule which the two of them thought meant that they couldn’t have a relationship with each other while we were present (or not present) or something like that.

Mar 25 2022

• I arrived at a train station where there was an outdoor square, and then four escalators leading down into the ground set just outside the square in the four cardinal directions. The escalators on the northern, western, and southern ones led to the same train station, while the eastern one led to a different train station, and was guarded by a number of transit policemen. I needed to use that eastern train station, so I walked by them, prompting one of them to ask me for my ID, which I showed them. The train was arriving just as I descended the escalator, so I hurried down it and got onto the train.
• I followed a girl that I recognized onto the train, and sat down on her left. I noticed that there were three other versions of her on the train as well, two seated across from me and one more standing. All four versions had a recognizable shoulder-length hairstyle and nearly identical facial features, and I recognized that they were copies of each other, although I then realized that the one I had just followed onto the train had scrunched up facial features that made her look like a broken doll from a horror movie. Still, I felt pity for her more than anything, and attempted to engage her in pleasantries, but she didn’t reply. Another mutual friend came along and sat to my left, before also leaning over and saying hi to the two of us. The girl on my right looked up blankly at her and one of the other copies of her said that she was an earlier version of the original person and was probably lacking a significant amount of memories that would allow her to recognize at least me, if not the both of us.

Mar 27 2022

• I was one girl in a friends group of about 12 or so, and it felt like a mix between an idol group and the Akebi-chan anime, and everyone had different skills so we got called upon in various combinations of groups of 4 to go out and visit places or fight bosses with exorbitant amounts of hit points. I remember at one stage having a whole lot of armour to craft and noting that I had enough material to craft and wear about 9% of the armour. At another stage I was sitting at a canteen table with a couple of them, being interviewed by someone, and a couple more finished whatever they were doing and joined us. We greeted them happily.