Dreams

May 02 2022

• Snippet: I remember watching an animated short about a ghostly old woman that was hanging around a building that represented McNally in my dreams. In the short, the woman could be seen walking around in the background as a tall man talked to some girls in the foreground about the woman, before the climax of the short had her walk by them as he tried to point her out to the girls. They were unable to see the her, however, since she was a ghost, and the only reason that he could see her was that her ghost had given him a physical diary (or he had found it) at some point. This diary belonged to her when she was still alive. She walked right past them carrying a plate of food she had made and went right through a wall. The version of the short we were watching, however, was a bit spoiled as the uploader of the animated short had tried to be too smart, and highlighted the ghostly woman walking about in the background of the clip with an arrow that followed her around the screen from the very start.

May 03 2022

• Mom and Kel went out shopping, and came back with about seven bags and boxes and stuff for my fridge which I helped them bring into the house and put them on the floor next to the fridge. Some of them had expiry timers due to how long they had been out of the fridge/freezer environment, so I quickly got to work on unpacking them. There was food for the fridge, but also things like stickers, magnets, bookmarks, etc. One card had a Tigey friendship band-coloured cord running down its left side and then wrapped around and tied behind it, and it had Kel‘s name, a colon, and then a Teehee message at the end. Another was a long and thin bookmark that Kel didn’t want and didn’t want me to have either, but I slotted it in with the other paraphernalia anyway.
• Later on, in the same dream world, I went out with a guy friend, I don’t remember exactly who he was but he was someone I know and was round and plump in the dream. We triggered and got an automatic award by waiting for a traffic light before crossing a narrow road that most other people were just crossing since there were never any cars. It was then around 3:10 or so, and we had to wait until 4:00 or 4:30 for something (classes, or some transportation) to start, so I asked him if he wanted to go eat something. He said sure, but he had just finished eating something not too long ago for lunch, and would not be willing to pay for overpriced caesar salad again.
• I gave him two options, either a restaurant or a food court, but they were in opposite directions so we had to pick one before we headed out for it. Eventually we picked the food court, because my apartment was also on the way, and I told him that he could dump off his school backpack there, and if we had time afterwards we could go back there to hang out before 4:00/4:30. I didn’t think we would though because it was quite a walk, though he hoped that it wasn’t too far. I began to lead the way, and beckoned him to follow me as we passed through the school building and ended out at a side door that he had no idea existed. I had because I had explored the place somewhat thoroughly. He commented that that door was so unfamiliar to him that he was confused at the environment outside the moment he stepped out the door.
• Near the very end of my dream, before I woke up, I was watching an 11 minute 52 second superhero film or video clip which ended with him being romantically involved with a female villain, and the clip ended with the woman flashing a sinister grin at the camera that the hero could not see as they embraced, obviously setting up for some sort of sequel or a “read the source material to find out what happened next!” followup.

May 04 2022

• This dream took place in a world where photographs were disallowed, officially speaking. There were two government spies that met up in a dark museum at night, crouched behind a doorway on some mission as they watched a security guard patrol around. They started to talk about old times, and the second, taller spy mentioned an opposing government’s female spy that was in the area on some unrelated mission and said that the first spy should reach out to her phone number (which the second spy had, for some reason) and send her a photograph of himself since he was romantically interested in her.
• The first spy didn’t have a photograph of himself, of course, but the second spy said that he had saved some things from when the first spy had first enlisted in the organization and had to have a photo of himself taken for the records. That photo was supposed to be destroyed after, but the second spy had saved a physical copy somehow, as well as a doll figurine of the first spy, which the floating scene camera conspicuously looked at but which was never mentioned in the rest of the dream.
• The first spy was taken aback by the photograph, which the second spy gave him. The second spy told the first spy that the government’s photo derection scanners only worked outdoors and on the ground, and he then leapt up onto the roof to clear out any guards there. Taking the hint, the first spy followed suit, and began to work his way home going from rooftop to rooftop via a form of close-range teleportation.
• He wasn’t very skilled at this teleportation though, and the scene camera zoomed in on a couple examples of this — on one roof, he left a brick out of place after he teleported away from his perch on the roof, though it didn’t clatter down onto the ground. On another roof, he barely missed bumping into the homeowner who had for some reason come up onto the roof and was climbing a ladder to an indoor toilet that looked like a water tank on the roof. After the spy was gone, the scene camera showed the homeowner nervously laughing a little and cheerfully saying that his home security system had detected something on the roof but that it must have been a bird, since the coast was obviously clear now.
• Anyway, the first spy got home safely, and entered his home through a second floor window. His second floor was made out of four narrow glass corridors connected to each other perpendicularly to form a perfect square, along with a couple rooms jutting out of the corridors. One of the rooms, which the spy now headed to, was an evidence development room, and he was headed there to use a swab on the photo to make a spare copy of it. The scene camera swooped around the house from the outside before entering the house through another window in an adjacent room.
• Snippet: I had a dream about a male character who had three female friends as part of his (anime romcom-style) harem. All three of them were golfers, as well as robots/androids, and had different coloured hairstyles. The guy was currently smitten with the blonde, but was close to all three of them and they all banded together to help him when needed and then squabbled with each other when things were safe.
• Snippet: I also had a dream involving seeing news reports of ice hockey teams that were entering the playoffs, except they were still somehow playing multiple games against different teams in one day. There were many new teams, but some old familiar ones as well, and the older existing teams (like the Edmonton Oilers) were blowing out the new teams in their games, with absurd scores like 22-0. I did notice that 4 scores involving one of the newer cities were not showing up at all, and surmised that the games had probably been postponed due to bad weather.
• Snippet: I was playing a card game with Jon and Kel, which involved cards from a poker deck that also sometimes had specific powers attached to them. The objective was to get rid of all your cards first, and they could be played in singles, pairs, etc, but it was harder to get rid of them the lesser cards that you had, so it basically played like Uno. There was a card that allowed you to choose a number and an opponent, and they had to discard all copies of that card if they had one of that number, which would give the person who played the card some sort of reward. When I drew that card near the end of the game, I picked Jon and picked the number 3, which caused him to groan as that got rid of a power card of his. He then drew the same card, used it on me, and called Ace — but I had two cards left in my hand, and they were both Aces, so I got rid of both and won that way. Everyone laughed in surprise — we had never seen a game end like this before.
• Snippet: Then there was an MMO, where I was fighting a mounted knight that was giving me trouble as his attacks were powerful and I was on foot. I lured him into a narrow valley with low-resolution grass hills on the side, and he couldn’t manouver there at all so he was stuck and couldn’t attack me. I couldn’t really reach him either, but I could reach his horse. The game was like Ultima Underworld in that depending on which part of the screen you clicked on, you would do a different attack type — the top third was an overhead swing, the middle third was a slice, and the bottom third was a thrust, so I thrusted until the barded horse fell over and the knight tumbled off. He then started to attack me but immediately despawned. Once he did so, three barbarians approached me from three different directions, two in front of me and one behind from the other valley entrance. There was no way to escape behind me as he was nearer, so I charged forward into the enemy land on the other side of the valley, aggroing about 20 enemies as I ran further in, looking for somewhere to hide. At that point, I saw a notification in our guild chat that Thrandor was logging in, and I also saw a sign that someone was logging in (but still loading) in a house near where I was in. I ran into that house, figuring it was probably Thrandor, and saw a book on the table that allowed me to teleport to his home realm, an extradimensional space within the book. This book loaded in first before the player since it was coded like an NPC pet, a separate entity from his inventory. By jumping into the book’s world before Thrandor loaded in, I was able to reset the mobs chasing me since there were no players there momentarily.
• Snippet: There was also a double-decker park bench in one of the dreams where the upper level was reserved for me and my romantic partner, whereas other characters could only sit on the lower bench.

May 06 2022

• I don’t fully remember the context but part of my dream was set up like a classroom in a dark fantasy world, where we were in a sort of outdoor hub with desks and a blackboard at the front of the room. There was a class portion that took place in the front of the room with Dunman classmates — I remember Allen, for one, though not what role he played, but there were also unknown strangers mixed in, I remember sitting next to some girl I didn’t know near the front of the class, but with other classmates I did know nearby.
• Later on, there was a math class and at this point I was in a different seat (and possibly even classroom as the camera angle was different), near the front left side of the room and right next to the chalkboard this time. The teacher was trying to teach the class about functions, particularly about the f(x) notation, and I reached out to the blackboard in front of me and picked up a piece of chalk from the tray. The teacher told me to feel free to try explaining it since he knew that I was good at math and knew my stuff.
• I wrote down that 2 + 2 = 4, drew a circle around the left side (2 + 2), and an arrow that pointed to it that said “f” (for function). I wrote that f = 2 + 2 on a line just below that, and then f = 4 on a line below that, and then started to explain that just calling the function “f” was all great if it was a fixed formula like 2 + 2, but if you had an unknown value in there, and called it x for simplicity’s sake, then you would change the notation to f(x) = x + 2 or something just to differentiate it from other formulae, and be able to say f(x) = x + 2 = 4.
• The class seemed confused though and seemed to drift off around there to other scenes, with a feeling that even that was still a bit too advanced for where my classmates were.
• For those other scenes, there was an adventuring aspect to our classes as well, we could basically head in four cardinal directions from our classroom, in solo and small groups, and there were things to explore and gather and different mini-dungeons to delve into. If we died, we respawned at the main classroom, or possibly the start of the mini dungeon we were in. I remember one particular dungeon to the west that led to a series of white passages that looped back onto itself and formed an octagon, with shops or upgrade stations along each wall, and some sort of exit that led to a boss fight. One of my friends commented to another person he was with that he used to come here to upgrade and had no idea that you could actually do your upgrades back at the classroom. That particular dungeon also had a button at the front door that you could press to help rescue a friend’s gravestone if it were stuck in the boss demon’s room, in return for some realm currency, as there was no leaving it besides dying and dropping your gear, or defeating the demon, once you entered.

May 07 2022

• I was in a foreign city and walking alongside a group of two or three other Chinese girls for some time along city streets, headed for some shopping mall destination in the distance. I didn’t know them and didn’t talk to them, we were just incidental walking buddies. Eventually, I split away from them near an overhead bridge that led to a large covered building, planning to cut diagonally across it to get to my destination faster. I secretly still hoped I’d see the group of girls there though.
• I passed a busy coffee shop inside the building, and heard to my utter surprise, someone calling out to a boy hanging in there with his name — Zixiang. I had fallen out of touch with him because he was no longer in our old class’s shared Whatsapp group, so I hadn’t been able to tell him that I had returned to the country for studies, and I knew that he now looked different due to how many years had passed, so I didn’t think I’d be able to find him.
• He was helping out with this coffee shop though, and was shocked when I went up to him to introduce myself. He did look different but was still basically the same height/age as what I remembered him as. Two old ladies that were seated at a table chit-chatting with each other dismissed him, telling him to have the rest of the day off to go hang out with me, and I bowed to them in greeting, they obviously owned the shop and I had the feeling that at least one of them was his grandma.
• We left together, and he brought me and another friend across a couple streets and toward his secret hideout. This turned out to be a warehouse, and he took us to a plate blocking a small square hole in a wall, removed the plate, and invited us to crawl into a short tunnel to get in. I didn’t want to however, and asked if there was another way in. We could see large, double barn doors on the far side of the “room” through the tunnel, and he said that we could try using the barn doors but he was never able to get it open (and that this was a new location he had only recently rented) as it was locked from the other end.
• We walked around to the front of the row of buildings and found what seemed to be the barn doors, they looked pristine and majestic but also somewhat fake. The other guy with us asked who had rented it out, Zixiang said someone at the coffee shop did, and we returned to the coffee shop at the other guy’s insistance. You could see the gleaming double barn doors down the hill and across the street from the coffee shop, but due to some trick the other guy had played, he managed to prove from that viewing angle that those double doors didn’t actually belong to the warehouse, and that it was a minor scam of sorts, to make the supposed hideout that he was renting out look more glamourous and thus expensive. The actual double doors were a couple buildings to the left of those gleaming doors, shrouded in shadows and easy to miss. We went back and entered that way.
• Inside the hideout, we sat down on the floor and looked around. There was lots of junk lying around, and a television set that seemed to work still, so Zixiang wanted to try to hook that up. They asked me to find and plug in a VCR or DVD player or something, and I fumbled with a box for some time before realizing that all it contained were three controllers. I pointed at something else that was plugged in and Zixiang noted that that was a router, not a VCR/DVD player, but I was actually gesturing at one of the output ports for it and that it was made for the VCR/DVD player, and I wanted to see what kind of wire fit into it as that would allow me to trace down the player faster. Using that strategy I eventually found and plugged in the machine.
• We then either briefly played some games or watched some sports, I forget which. I had vague feelings here that I wasn’t doing very well because I had been away from the country for too long and was still trying to acquaint myself with all the changes, and that I preferred to be going to that shopping mall than stuck in this hole, but decided that I would do so tomorrow instead as meeting up with Zixiang and his friend was a much rarer event to be treasured.

May 08 2022

• I dreamt about five evil witches whose goals were to flip five levers owned by the human realm. The five witches had some overpowered statistics, like an enhanced luck stat that allowed them to reroll a Luck roll if they failed the first time, and they could also sense the direction that the levers were from them. In addition, there was some ways that they could be resurrected, so they were a pain to deal with because even if they were defeated, one of the other witches could resurrect them. They also had individual unique powers on top of that. However, I believe that they disappeared once their lever was pulled.
• I was followed across a school campus by one of them at one point because they either needed something that I knew the location of and was going to try to retrieve, or they needed to know the entrance to an underground bunker where the levers were kept. I pretended to be unaware and walked across streets and through buildings to keep them busy.
• At some point, we ended up in a room that looked like a courtroom for a sort of final showdown, with several of the levers already pulled but several of the witches already dead as well. The five levers were on five chairs lined up in a row, and I and several of the human heroes were sitting on the chairs and guarding them as the witches tried to get us to make mistakes so they could get to the levers. There were also human civilians in attendance in the room, watching on like spectators from the sides.
• I broke one of the levers in an attempt to stop it from being flipped, which the other heroes turned aghast about because that also controlled traffic lights on the surface or something, and a camera feed was shown to display the pandemonium that it was about to create at a busy crosswalk. However, I was the newest hero and had Earth powers that were still more or less untapped and unexplored, and I fixed this by using my powers to create a large button where the lever was, replacing the mechanism that allowed the traffic lights to work again, even if it meant giving up that lever/button to the owning witch in the end.
• The witches used trickery to get us to expose the levers so they could pull them, the third last lever was pulled when one of the witches commented that my shoulder bag strap had caught against the lever and was about to pull it after I leaned over to help thwart some attempt on another lever. When I dropped my guard to check, she darted in to actually pull that lever (before getting vaporized by us or it).
• We eventually won when there was one witch left, and she sacrificed herself to pull the second last lever, suffering a mortal blow from us in the process. Lying on the floor, she then announced something like how she had 20 seconds of immortality left before she would fade away and she also had the power to peek 20 seconds into the future and see if the witches had succeeded in pulling the last lever or not — she paused a moment then cried out in joy because she said they had. Two of us were guarding this last lever very closely, practically guarding it with our hands, and I sensed the other person tensing up to the point that they might made a mistake and accidentally press down on it if they were pressured or something. I told him to keep calm, as we only had a few seconds left to victory and she was probably making a last gambit for it. I was right and she wailed as she withered away to nothingness.
• Snippet: In an earlier dream, I don’t remember the context but I do remember a dungeon located in a desert, with a sandstone door that was nearly the same pale beige colour as everything else set into the side of a rectangular wall of sand being the entrance to said dungeon.