Dreams

A random 7/7 dreams week, even if a couple of them were just snippets, and nothing that I would rate particularly high.

Sep 18 2023

• Only snippets today, one where I was walking with Dad along the side of a long road toward some destination, one where I had a “graphics card upgrade” and was checking my settings in game to see if I could see things better now (apparently the answer was yes), and one where I joined my Dunman High friends for some sort of school outing to a place.

Sep 19 2023

• I had a dream where a Russian woman and child in a car pulled up to a 2 storey house-warehouse that I and someone else were staying at. She could not speak English, but we communicated using Google Translate on our phones, and it turns out she was looking for a ballet place nearby. But we said that it was likely closed at this time of night, and invited her and her child to stay overnight with us and then continue on to her destination in the morning. She was grateful for this offer.
• Another dream involved a large classroom that was actually two classrooms with a divider wall between them, but the wall was open today. The class was usually half full, and I was one of the regular students in the class, but the topic today was an interesting one in general so there were many other guest students who were not actually part of the course but who came in as well, both to our morning class and apparently the alternate one later that evening as well. One of my friends commented that the person sitting to his left and right were different people than usual because most of the usual students had their regular seats taken by other random people and so had to take other seats. There were also several guest students that had to stand due to a lack of seats.
• Snippet: There were two other snippets that I remember that lacked context, one involving Toodles walking along a passage in a building that Jon and I could see with a cutaway camera, as in the building had back walls but no front walls from our point of view. We saw the little plushie turtle walk from right to left along the corridor, enter a room on the left side, and then crouch down behind a low wall as though taking cover from something.
• Snippet: The other snippet involved a family dinner with 15+ relatives, although I didn’t really recognize anyone I knew there. I think they were people from my Dad‘s side of the family and that my grandparents, Ah Ma and Ah Kong, were likely there though. The people were split between two dinner tables, one upstairs and one downstairs, and I went upstairs to say hello to the people there.

Sep 20 2023

• Snippet: It was Sports Day in school, and our class was going to win likely the school trophy for best performing class once everyone had participated. There was just myself and two of my friends left to go, and one of them was a super tall guy. I finished my race first and tried to warn the others over phone text that a couple of the remaining participants from lower grade classes were sore losers. But I couldn’t really reach them. In his race, the tall guy won fair and square, but one of the participants I tried to warn him about tried to nullify the race or influence the tall guy to reflexively stop and help (and lose the race) by diving to the ground and pretending he fell down near the end, after it became apparent that he couldn’t beat the tall guy fair and square. But thankfully he was too late and the tall guy didn’t see him before he crossed the finish line.
• Snippet: In a separate dream later, there was something about sitting down in class in front of a guy that I liked, but the girl in the desk adjacent to me also liked him and was jealous of my seating position, so she sat down in my seat instead and refused to move, even when I sat down on her lap since that was “my seat”. I got frustrated at her after a bit and moved elsewhere.
• Snippet: There was also something about filling up an item with some sort of nozzle that had two buttons, one that would steadily fill the item up and one that would steadily empty it, but the effects were reversed so the button that was supposed to empty it was actually the button that would fill it up.
• Snippet: And there was also a scene in my Edmonton 4012 main living room which was filled with delivery boxes from my school as I was helping them with some sort of sorting job.

Sep 21 2023

• The dream started for me on a morning before school. I left my house and walked through a Singapore neighbourhood similar to Yishun or Tampines, taking a 15 minute walk to a bus terminal that involved passing by many little kids on their way to their kindergarten in a group of 40 or 50 or so, as well as walking by the outside of a park. I pulled out my DJI camera and recorded part of the walk, then stopped for some reason.
• Once I reached the terminal, I took bus #9 toward school. I had an ordinary, even perhaps slightly disappointing, day at school, but then after class I was in a film club of some sort and we were helping out with shooting an alternative ending to some movie film whose title had four words in it, two words, then a colon, then another two words as a subtitle.
• The movie had not been well-received critically, with an Internet review site (which I decided in my dream was Rotten Tomatoes, but whose UI was entirely made up since I don’t know what the UI of that site looks like) rating the original version of the show a 4.8 (out of 10) with 3 visible reviews that included comments about how disappointing the show was, and the remake a 2.0 or something with comments about how the preview pictures of the show on the website were wrong becauswe the bot was pointing to the old version of the show, and how one of the preview pictures was just a close-up of a woman’s eyelash, and they called that the “billion dollar eyelashes” in a reference to the two films’ combined budgets.
• Our job was to redo the ending, and there was a couple adults who had roughly rewrote the script, while about seven of us kids were going to act it out. There were adults standing by off camera with costumes, round floodlights, scripts, and such.
• The original final scene started with a woman playing a commanding officer who was addressing a group of cadets standing at attention in an open area next to a building, and the scene had gotten criticized for unrealistic acting and poor performance by the woman pretending to be a guy and questions about why they didn’t just hire a real guy here. In our remake, a couple of characters who were also in the later scene came out here and told her to just be herself, so she actually declared that she was going to stop pretending that she was who she wasn’t, and that she was a woman and that her name was Diva, and then she continued in her original script without trying to change her voice instead, which came out a lot more realistic.
• The scene then shifted indoors for the other half of the original final scene, which was a conversation between two adults that faded to black and disappointed the audience. The two adults here were gone, replaced with another kid and me. We still had the two shirts worn by the two original adults, and were going to wear them as a referential nod to the original scene and original remake scene, but I instead grabbed both shirts and put them on one over the other, red shirt over white, and asked the other kid to grab a different shirt instead. It was better that way somehow, I decided.
• We filmed the scene, and then I asked if we could include a reference to another part of the film’s source franchise that had not been animated yet, which involved a caterpillar character. The director said that we had no budget or camera for it, but then suddenly a cameraman who had worked on the original films and had a powerful handheld video camera on his shoulder turned up at the door to the room, and the director agreed that it was a good idea at that point. If nothing else, the AI in his camera would be able to help with any CGI needed to fill in animations as well, plus that part of the franchise was fairly beloved by fans, and we would be helping lay groundwork and reference for a potential future film sequel in the future by defining what the character looked like now.
• They dragged up a costume that looked like a lion dance or dragon dance costume from somewhere, with five parts of the caterpillar’s body joined up together that five people could go under/inside and move around. Kel and four other kids, all of them wearing red shirts, got inside the costume and acted out the scene, before throwing themselves off a low bridge into a shallow river below and lying prone there in the water as five red-shirted humans with their hands outstretched. They had instructions to lie flat underwater and stay there for a few seconds until the guest cameraman filmed their scene, which he did, before they all got up and came back to shore.
• That became the final ending scene and concluded the shooting. There was an audience watching and we got to mingle next to them for a bit as we all took the same bus home, though none of us kids actually talked to them, even though there was a general mood that we were the “stars of the show”. I went up to Kel, who still had wet hair, and pointed out to her that behind me was a man who had seen the original shows but really enjoyed our version of the show and the caterpillar reference at the end as he was openly weeping. Kel said that unlike the last time we had a job like this, she was glad that she had stayed overtime today to have been able to experience this one.
• Some of the other kids had pulled out their pencils and pens to sign or write on some memorial form or other, and I also learnt around here that I had dropped my pink mechanical pencil somewhere, likely on the way to school. I reviewed my day from memory and from the partial video that I had taken but was unable to identify where I had dropped it. I resolved to walk the same way to the bus terminal tomorrow morning that I had taken this morning, and hoped to find it that way. The bus reached my stop, and I picked up my umbrella from a two-person bus seat a little further back in the bus that I had propped it against. There was a woman in the inner window seat who looked quizzically at me as I retrieved the umbrella, but due to my umbrella, no one had sat down at that aisle seat even though the bus was standing room only. I then stepped off the bus.
• Later on, I checked the review site online again but no new reviews had been posted yet. Some of the older reviews seemed excited about the remake but they were dated from February and June earlier in the year.

Sep 22 2023

• I remember climbing up to the top of a bell tower to trigger a quest objective or special marker on the map, and up on that narrow ledge, which was also the tallest point in the city by far and was lit by a bright moon above, I happened to meet Satinel there as well. We greeted and chatted to each other, she asked how I was going to get down, and I said I was probably going to use a glider and see the entire city on the way down. She was going to climb down the way she came.
• Elsewhere in the dream, Dad got a smart watch and wanted to buy an app with decorative watch backgrounds from an online app store for it. I helped him browse through the app store, which consisted of a list of shops listed vertically and each shop with a horizontal row of products they were selling, each one with a single rectangular screenshot preview. The background app he wanted had a 10-letter name, made out of two five letter English words, and then had a “2” appended on the end of the name. I found the app in a store and realized two things, one that it was a store that I had bought something else from earlier on in the same dream, and secondly that the app with the screenshot that Dad saw and wanted was an actual, full-fledged game and not an app that just provided backgrounds.
• Dad also talked about food restaurants in the city, citing one he frequented in general that was owned by a Chinese woman, and how their owners came in and changed the menu slightly once every two weeks. This was apparently why he thought it was better to alternate between food places for variety and then swing back to the original store every week or two instead, so one wouldn’t get tired of the same old food even if one were forced to buy food instead of cook.
• Also there was something about having and firing a rocket launcher, but I don’t remember the context.

Sep 23 2023

• I was with 3 other people traveling in a car, we were by a small town adjacent to Edmonton. I was in the back right seat of the car, and it was a right wheel drive car, with Sandy seated in the front left seat, and two other boys I didn’t know seated in the front right and back left seats. We had just driven off the main highway and onto a sandy path that was apparently called Route 98.
• Suddenly, the car came to a halt and would not start up again for some reason. We thought that it was maybe because we had gone off route. It was not like the area was abandoned, however, there were still buildings and houses around. Sandy had school to attend the next day, so he panicked and got out of the car, saw a large garbage container about to be wheeled away by a man into a truck, and then ran over and hid inside of it, with the idea that the company was likely headed back to Edmonton and he would hitch a ride back into town that way.
• He thus ran off before we could stop him, and a truck drove away with the dumpster that he was hiding in. After a while, we discovered that the car would start again, apparently something about the maximum weight possible in the car somehow changing due to the terrain and now that there were only three people in the car, we were below the weight limit again. We tried to drive after the truck, with me saying that if we could find him, I would volunteer to stay behind and let him have my spot instead since I was in no hurry to get back to Edmonton. However, we couldn’t find the truck.
• I had the bright idea that his phone had GPS on it, so we could track him that way too. I flipped open Google Maps and we drove to where the GPS marker for his phone was, ending up at a picnic spot in Edmonton’s river valley area, apparently near McNally High School, where we found that he had abandoned his phone on the ground there for some reason when the truck had stopped to take in another dumpster. We had no idea if he had escaped the truck at that point or was still riding around somewhere.
• Snippet: Earlier on in a dream, there was an indie concert gathering featuring a number of performing bands. They were separated by gender, and there were no mixed groups, so there was a separate list of guy bands and girl bands, and because the venue couldn’t attract any big names, apparently they had trouble drawing many guy bands to perform here, only about 8-10 of them in total, although the girl bands were far more enthusiastic and there were well over 20 entries still.

Sep 24 2023

• Snippet: While I was in the vicinity of a hospital, possibly while waiting for a bus, there were clumps of things that were represented by lights located in the area around the hospital, that could supposedly only be triggered on and off in groups of three, and that I could see using a skill that allowed me to detect things through walls. However, I noticed that some of them were triggerable in groups of two instead of three, so someone, possibly Mom, asked me to go find more of them.