Dreams

Mar 07 2023

• I was playing a 2.5D viewpoint game in a tile grid world that looked like it was built with blocks that were halfway between Minecraft and Lego bricks in origin. There were several of us players on the same map and we were recruiting characters to arrive in an outdoor place with a pavilion-like area in order to defend it against various zombies and other things, and eventually one could also recruit or convert some of the zombies in pairs to help defend the area, although they weren’t officially characters and could not be controlled. The game was similar to co-op, although it didn’t really feel like we were working together, more like we all just happened to have the same temporary goal in a larger context with different end goals.
• We could recruit multiple characters over time to the group, though we could only control one at a time. I’m not sure how recruiting was done but it didn’t involve a minigame or involved the characters actually reaching out to those potential recruits or anything like that, the dream just went to the character’s backstory or introduction and then suddenly they were recruited.
• One of the characters that was recruited was a music-themed character who was in his own dream, when suddenly the black outer wall of his dream world was shattered and “I” reached in from the outside in an omnipotent sort of way to get him. His theme song was apparently “I am… I said” by Neil Diamond, as that song played as background music as he appeared on the field.
• Another one was a computer scientist without a name — his character info wasn’t prepopulated in the game because he wasn’t on a database. Apparently I could leave his name blank though so I did so, and I noticed that his character sheet was totally blank as well. I had to answer Yes to a character generation question that asked if he was male, but that was it.
• The characters were 4 feet high in “reality”, but in the game they were represented by figures that were only 1 foot high. For the scientist character, I lifted up the connected tiles that made up the pavilion floor like I was lifting up a floor rug from the floor, and pulled out a life-sized black Sony Walkman from underneath before putting down the floor/rug again. I then gave him the Sony Walkman, which was as tall as he was, and whose width was about 2 feet long, and length around 3 feet long.
• I realized that the developers of the game probably asked Sony for permission to include the Walkman as an item in the game, and Sony had agreed on the condition that the Walkman be left exactly as it is and not altered in any way. To spite them a little for the silly request, the devs had carried this out to the letter by not even shrinking it to an appropriate size for the dream world. I laughed in my dream at this and seemed to half wake up.
• Yet another character was a hockey player on a team, and like the last character he was missing some information too. Specifically, he had no jersey number on the back of his shirt. The ref guessed that it was supposed to be a 3 though, as it was the first unused number on his team, and it turns out that he was correct. I did see though that the team had a set of triplets on it and they were all wearing the jersey number 4, and I laughed at that again — this time I woke up from my dream from that laugh.

Mar 08 2023

• This dream vaguely took place in two locations, an apartment on the bottom floor of a two-storey building where I lived with Mom, and a school of some kind where we could use magic that slowly accummulated in a book that we carried, once enough magic accummulated for whatever spell I wanted to cast needed to consume.
• Regarding home scenes, at one point, I was bringing someone home to see Mom and the person wanted me to lie to her about something before we entered the door. Also, on the way back from home at another point, we passed by some shops where a 61 year old shopkeeper had recently passed away, and this made other shopkeepers think about their mortality. A news report or someone said that at least he was past the life expectancy of 60 and so was super old anyway, and this made a nearby 51 year old woman shopkeeper bristle.
• Regarding school scenes, I remember Yiwen being there but at some point switching to the other class between years/semesters, whereas most of the people in both classes stayed in the same place. I wondered if she would be lonely. Also there was a library that I went to at some point, and some magic spells or schools that were named after animal types, like a male bull.

Mar 09 2023

• This dream started in the school library of a school I had just rejoined after my transition. Although class was in session, I was playing hooky and was studying by myself in the library instead of going to class because I was only wearing a school blouse and bloomers (PE shorts), and the blouse was a little sheer, as though slightly damp, so my perky nipples were somewhat visible through it.
• At lunch, I decided to go to class anyway, and snuck my way there about 5 minutes after the lunch bell so that I could meet as few people as possible. I saw Eileen outside the classroom and asked her about the homework and study material from that morning so far. She didn’t comment on my clothing or tardiness, and showed me what we needed to study in her textbook. I thanked her, and mentioned that I could have just self-studied the textbook up to where we were supposed to be but wasn’t sure if I would have been missing anything that way.
• I did note that the desks had been arranged into four groups of four, and I asked why. She said it was due to some group work in the period before lunch that I had missed out on. I went over to my seat, which was in the front left cluster of tables, and consisted of at least Zixiang and Yaoxiang, though neither of them were there at the moment. No one else was in class either.
• I sat there awhile and did a bit of homework, then I fiddled with a class laptop that everyone in class had been assigned one of. This laptop was about the size of a desktop keyboard or a handheld Steam Deck, and was all white. Basically a screen in the middle surrounded by buttons. Where the Left Alt key would be on a keyboard was a little light bulb sunk into the material, making the top of the bulb a bit lower than the actual surface of the laptop itself, so that it would not get in the way when the device was closed or stored.
• When I turned on the laptop, this light turned on and shone brightly as well, and the beam of light emanating up from it projected the contents of my laptop screen onto the ceiling above my head. In this way, presentations could be made directly from the laptop for others to see. However, I didn’t need that feature, so I turned off the light using a loose switch below the rim of the device near the light that could be flicked left and right to turn the light off and on respectively. The alcove that housed the light also had a roller flap or cover that could be slid up over it to completely obscure the light bulb within, and I did that. This cover reminded me of a store in a market with metal shutters that could be pulled down over the storefront when it was closed.
• I sat around for a bit but no one else came back. I then recalled that while I had permission to be in school with this outfit from the principal, I really should have just picked up a new skirt anyway, and maybe a second blouse, from the school bookshop. I wanted to do this now, so I left the classroom. Both the library and my classroom were rooms off of a circular corridor that represented the second floor of this school, with the library at about where the hour hand would be at the 9:00 mark and the classroom at about 5:00. This bookshop was located at about 12:00. So I left the classroom and headed in an anticlockwise direction along the circular corridor.
• When I got near the bookshop, I heard the female principal and our class’s form teacher walking by, so I ducked into a toilet that was located at around 1:00 on the circle. This was as I heard the two of them talking about me. The principal said that I was a new student in class, didn’t have my full uniform yet, but was given permission to come to class anyway, and so on. The principal said that it was probably better if they called me Rachel instead of Jessica because the teacher’s name was also already called Jessica and she wanted to lessen any potential confusion.
• Editor: Never mind that if this was based on my Dunman classes, which these dreams usually are, then there should have already been another Rachel present as well…
• The principal thanked the teacher for always helping her with her period cramps, which apparently often happened after 4:15 or 4:30 pm in the afternoon or so. But they started happening right as they were talking, and the female principal doubled over in pain in the corridor with our form teacher comforting her.
• Eventually, I went back to class and steeped a bag of tea in a cup. I had acquired that tea bag from a box of tea bags that was in the class, but I noted that I didn’t need and couldn’t even use half of what was in the box anyway because they were for the morning classes that I had missed.
• Snippet: At some interlude point somewhere in a dream, I was watching, from a very close vantage point, a League of Legends fight over some objective in the jungle. The match was being played by four teams at once, and three players from the team that had a gold lead at that point were roaming the jungle together, when they found a group of four players from the second placed team, Wolves, killing some random monster.
• The trio launched a surprise attack on the Wolves group and tried to unload all their skills on them while they had positional advantage, but the player they were focusing their attacks on was a marauder class character and he flashed/teleported away to break their targetting on him after taking the brunt of the initial attacks. He didn’t go down, however, and in fact still had more than half his health. From there, the Wolves group turned the tables and annihilated the trio that had attacked them, killing two of them while the third one ran away to the east and hid amongst some tall grass as he recalled/teleported home to wait for his comrades.
• The Wolves team didn’t lose a single person, and the colour commentator said that the marauder was indomitable, saying it as though he had gotten an achievement called Indomitable, and the reason he had survived was that he had specialized into a build that gave him nine different temporary shields that would blunt the first nine attacks thrown onto him by 100 damage each, and they had all been up when he was attacked. So the attacking team had chosen their target poorly.

Mar 10 2023

• The last part of my dream involved me waiting for a bus, bus number 20, at a bus interchange platform in a city. The driver of the 20 bus that came did not stop, however, even though he saw me looking at him and waving my hand at the part of the bus interchange island that he was supposed to stop at. Instead, he drove on to the next bus stop, about 30 seconds down the road from the bus interchange, which was a large bus stop and also had many people trying to board that bus.
• He stopped there, and waited for everyone to board, while I was trying to briskly jog my way from the bus interchange to that bus stop with my bags in order to board that bus. But when I was about three bus lengths behind the bus still, everyone finished boarding, and he closed the doors and drove off even though I was again trying to wave at the bus.
• I half panted and complained to myself about the situation in a high-pitched voice, and some obese guy standing off to the side that had watched the entire charade imitated me in a high-pitched voice, almost in a mocking way. Instead of getting angry, I burst out laughing at this and said that that was exactly how I felt at the moment too — the man also laughed at this and nodded and wished me good luck.
• With a long wait for the next bus number 20 anyway, I continued walking down the road toward the next stop, and ended up where the road ended at a T-intersection where I could see a parked double-length bus 9 across the road, and the driver walking back toward the bus from the left. I thought that that bus could perhaps get me near where I wanted to go too, and I crossed the otherwise empty main road to get to the door of the bus, where I met the driver.
• He asked where I was going, I said that I was going to NAIT but the bus 20 had drove past without stopping for me. He said that he didn’t go there, but would give me instructions to get there using another bus. He told me to go back the way I came until I reached the double musical notes, and when I questioned what he meant by that, I found out that he was talking about a road whose name was called ネネ, or at least that would be the road sign that would be demarcating the road. I pulled out my phone on the map and found it not far away, stretching west (in the direction where his #9 bus was facing) from further back along the road I came from, and he pointed to that street on my phone and then traced the curve of the road as it went west then south. There, he said, would be another bus that would take me to the school I was trying to get to. I thanked him and set off.

Mar 12 2023

Dream 1

• As part of some event that had to do with an army camp of some sort, a group of people I was with had an obstacle course to navigate through. It felt like I was more of an observer than a participant, and I apparently chose to accompany Brad on his attempt through it. He was carrying a handheld camera and chose to record the entire obstacle course for posterity, which was fine until we reached a part where he had to cross a river.
• The obstacle course presented him two parallel thin wires stretching across the river — one hovering just above the water for his feet to inch along on, and made out of barbed wire with knots in the wire that he had to step over, and one hovering about five feet above that, which was meant for his hands to grab and hold onto for balance, and to pull himself along with, since both wires were not tied particularly tautly and were swaying and sagging. The barbed wire tightrope even dipped into the river due to that, making it slippery.
• Anyway there was no way he could do that bit and still hold on to a camera, so he put his backpack and the camera down just before the river, and pulled out a roll of masking tape from the former. He took off his helmet and then proceeded to tape the camera to it with several loops of tape, before packing everything up again and putting his helmet back on. He then crossed the river, and recorded his struggles with it, that way.
• We also discovered at one point that the army staff was throwing random events into the obstacle course to keep things interesting. One was that at one point, one of the items in everyone’s backpack, a how-to guide, had its front page remotely torn off and turned into a piece of leather that could be used in one of the challenges. Some people had found an alternate way around the challenge already though, and they were annoyed because now their book was damaged and they had to carry the piece of leather all the way to the end.
• Another was that not everyone faced the same course — at some sections participants had to pick between two cards, and their next challenge would be generated depending on which card they picked. Later on, I was talking with Kynji and Trin and someone else on Discord about their experiences, and I mentioned that Brad had recorded us going through the river tightrope portion and that that was the best or funniest part of the course. Kynji seemed to understand what I meant, whereas Trin and the other person were completely confused as they did not encounter that segment.
• Trin asked if the recording was available on Twitch or Youtube, and I said that Brad was not on those platforms yet but planned to be within a month or so and would likely upload the video at that point. Trin asked to be kept informed as to when he did so so that she could watch that clip.

Dream 2

• In another dream, Trin and a tall guy from work were kidnapped by two people from an opposite faction in a jeep, who put them in the back of the jeep and started driving them back toward the enemy base. There was kind of a game element to it, where my two allies actually had an escape condition and did manage to fulfil it on the way back, and ended up taking the two people hostage themselves, turning the jeep around, and driving it toward our base. But then they lost control again on the way back as the two enemies also fulfilled an escape condition that they had, involving getting their hands on some weapons, so they overthrew Trin and the tall guy and took control back yet again.
• This time, they drove all the way back to the base, and I lost sight of them for some time. However, a girl on my team also saw them being taken, and realized that to help them with their new escape condition, our side needed to time a raid on the enemy base for when they were taken into custody there to cause some chaos. So she went off to arrange that with some friends.
• In the meantime, I went to work, and ended up on a train parked at the underground University LRT station together with Ronnie and a few other people who worked with us. I was describing what happened to Trin and the other person to the group of people I was with, since the tall guy was a teammate as well, and Ronnie said that he could open diplomatic lines and demand their return by threatening an invasion if they were not returned promptly, as it was affecting work.
• I left the train while the rest of them were talking, and went around the side of a wall to where the elevator was. To my surprise, I bumped into the tall guy there — apparently he had either escaped or been freed and had just made his way back here to work too. I told him that Ronnie and several friends were on the train and to hurry to the train to stop it before it took off, which he did, and I then hurried back to the train behind him as well to witness their joyous reunion.
• He then said that Trin should be nearby as well, so I left the train again and went to the elevator. I got onto the spacious elevator with one other person, and the elevator had several different sets of exit doors and buttons — it was a 3-level elevator that could take us to the surface, but it had a separate set of buttons that also led to a special washroom and smoking area, with its own set of doors. Anyway we rode the train up to the surface level, and when the doors opened, I found Trin there too.