Dreams

Another 7-dream week, although all the entries this week were kind of short. Oddly, traps and treasures played a large role in my dream this week, perhaps due to the Monster Hunter: World game that we were playing this week. I was also surprised that Zhuquan showed up in my dream, as someone that was only with us in Secondary 1 in Dunman. He’s only ever appeared in 3 of my dream diary entries since 2016, and the last time he appeared in a dream was apparently back on Sep 22 2022. Then again, a lot of my Dunman friends haven’t shown up since Feb/Mar of this year somehow.

Sep 25 2023

• I was on stage with a friend in a school hall, performing for a group of about 20 classmates and 1 teacher seated at desks, with two people and two CRT monitors per desk. We were both seated as well, and I had a microphone and was doing vocals, while my friend next to me was playing the piano. He had composed all his music into a CD and had brought that CD along with its lyrics book, so even though I had no idea what any of the songs were at first, we managed to more or less wing our way through it. I also talked to our audience of classmates after each song, stalling for time as my friend prepared the next song.
• Our concert started around 1 pm, and we were hoping to be done our concert by 2 pm because one of our classmates had to leave then, so at 1:30 pm after we were done about 3 songs, we said we aimed to do another three and would probably be done by 2 pm. However, either the next song or the one after that was a confusing one, because it was a long song where I was mostly meant to read a poem accompanied by slow piano music, and only at its chorus did I actually have to sing with pitch and melody. That chorus was also modeled after a popular children’s nursery rhyme, just with different lyrics. I wasn’t sure which note of the piano tune he was playing to start my reading at, though.
• Before the concert at some point, I had also visited the staff room in the school, where I had met some Japanese teachers, a former one as well as my current one, and one that I had not had for classes yet. I was on friendly terms with them, and my former teacher said that she remembered how I seemed lost the first time I had come to the staff room last semester to look for her, and ended up finding her in a neighbouring room to this one instead of assumedly waiting at her desk here or something.
• There were also two snippets from somewhere in the dream, one where I was running through a three-storey indoor arena, linked to each other by stairs and slides, and picking up needles for points. There was a score of 15 or 20 points that I was aiming for. The other is where I either met or was working as a keeper or attendant of a building, and all the attendants had complete or near-complete logbooks of stamps from all the rare spawns in the building, which might have acted as a sort of zoo where not all the animals and creatures were present at any given time.

Sep 26 2023

• It was 5 minutes before a test at school, and I asked the teacher, who was a homely, plump lady, if I had time to go to the bathroom and back. She said yes, so off I went. The bathroom was a single toilet bowl set inside an elevator, which was weird, and I was constantly worried that someone else would summon the lift from another floor while I was in it. I couldn’t reach the elevator buttons from the toilet bowl itself but went back and forth between the two a few times to ensure the elevator went nowhere.
• Eventually I finished and went back to class. Everyone had started the test already so I knew I was about ten minutes late, but I had good marks in class and I had thought that the quiz was an hour long, so I expected that I would finish it with lots of time to spare anyway. She gave me the test, however, and said that there were only five minutes left on the test.
• I hurried to my desk and started the test. It was a 6-page quiz about the nearby ocean and things like the creatures in it, plus a couple of nearby ocean towns and holiday resorts, so I jumped back and forth and started filling in the “easier” questions first, although I noticed that I actually didn’t know a good number of the answers, time limit or not. I also specifically remember one of the answers being about Smogmaw, which was a coastal port in Book 3 of Fabled Lands.
• The teacher asked us to come up to the teacher’s desk and hand in the tests once we were done, and a majority of the class did so. She then started playing a video on the computer at her desk so everyone who had gone up to submit the test remained there to watch it. I was still furiously scribbling away, and I noticed that I wasn’t alone — five other people had not completed their tests and were still seated at their desk, furiously writing away.
• I also noticed that my test was getting auto-marked as I went along, and that I would get red pen marks on my previous page informing me of my correct and wrong answers once I flipped the page to the next one, though I thought that was a bit weird because it meant that I couldn’t go back and change my answers even if I realized that they were wrong a bit further into the test. I could still go back and fill out answers that I had left blank, though. The teacher mentioned that eight people in class were stuck at 23.5/50 marks, but I tallied my total up and I had about 26.5/50 already, counting a calculation error that I noticed where I had five marks on a page but only seemed to be credited for four.
• 15 of my marks came from a page where I had to sell cruise trips to external guests though. I had set the prices below market price so that people would buy that cheap cruise trip, but I had to actually honour those trips afterwards. When I finished the class and went back to some sort of control room, there were a few people there that were helping me run my company, two guys (who were twins) and three girls in all. One of the girls said that she had seen the prices of the cruise that I had sold and didn’t like that we were selling them so cheap, but that she’d honour them if I actually meant it, I just needed to speak to the twins first to confirm it. I did so and said that it was part of my last test but that I was okay with the discounted prices as long as we didn’t make a loss on the trip, as it was still priced very slightly above the base cost of the trip.

Sep 27 2023

• I was walking about a couple of small square rooms accessed through what I think was a grocery store. Those rooms were part of a computer game and I had both a birds eye view and a first person view of them and could toggle back and forth between them. After clearing the first room of monsters, there was a passage to the north leading to a second room, but also a couple of corridors to the south that went to two smaller empty rooms and then looped back to the first starting room.
• I installed some locks on the doors of the passages going south, and then pressure plates or lasers or something inside that would automatically close and lock the door once I unlocked it and went in. I used those as my treasure rooms to store artifacts in, and showed Satinel how the locks worked at some point.
• At another point, a pig monster either got into the treasure room somehow, or got into the starting room where I had left some treasure that had not been sorted yet. It made off with a few, and I ran off after it. I beat down the pig until it was docile enough for me to snatch the treasures back from it, and then chased it off the ledge of an upper dungeon passage down into a lower one where it couldn’t climb back up. I retrieved three artifacts from it, one of which was a bunch of metal strips stuck together to form a thin, tall structure that looked like a crown or a piece of metal fence, and two others that I don’t remember. I also retrieved a pile of small, square pink cloths that had been impaled upon a spike on the pig’s back and had took me three attempts to pull them all off.

Sep 28 2023

• Snippet: I was vaguely part of, or watching, a small group of mafia who had adopted and were taking care of a young girl. They had also bought and were moving into a small castle hideout located on a cliffside with a single entrance across a narrow ledge to get to the castle. There was also a dwarf and a small throne inside the castle, as well as closets which were opened and revealed to contain emergency canned food.
• Everyone in the group of mafia had a special ability where they could prepare a few seconds of movement in advance, which would appear as a sort of blurry outline in front of them once they “readied” the movement, and once they actually triggered the skill again, they would teleport to where the few seconds of readied movement had ended. This allowed them to walk around enemies or across uncrossable terrain as long as their ending spot was safe. Also, they could swap gear loadouts, but that would reset any prepared movement, much to the consternation of some of the younger mafia.
• This move preview was used to help move things into the castle, and I saw a minivan drive up and some of the mafia helping to unload things from the van into the castle. Among other things there was a red Playstation 4 console inside the van, turned vertically so it was standing on its side and shoved into a storage slot on a shelf just behind the driver’s head on the front left side of the van.
• The mafia also had to register for some Google Group memberships, which were represented in world by little circular-shaped areas with a single entrance guarded by a plushie or something, which they used their skill to zip past.
• Snippet: At some point earlier in the night there was a dream where I was taking a train with a friend, and she showed me on a tablet how to log in on an app using Steffy‘s credentials by dragging and dropping another app which Steffy had already logged into, onto the target app we were trying to log in on. This seemed insecure.

Sep 29 2023

• My school went on a trip to a nearby farm, where we were shown four small plants or trees located inside four large bell jars, and told that they belonged to our class. Moreover, the four trees lasted for a year before dying when the school year ended, and grew leaves from various different species of plants located in the land all at once. All the leaves that they grew were of Unique rarity (their item name was orange) and could be harvested and then washed and either sold or eaten. However, once per year, there would be one special leaf grown per set of trees that would be magical, and our teacher asked us to tend to the plants through the year and find the leaf as a class.
• For the moment, since the school year started in early Fall and it was already late Fall, she went to four tables set up near the four trees with an armful of leaves of varying sizes, and set them down on the tables, telling us to sort through them and clean them and see if the magical one had already sprouted or not. A couple of us wandered over to help, I think I was helping out Yiwen and Zhuquan on the rightmost table, as well as a couple other people I did not know. The leaves I was handling looked like large lettuce leaves, and I noticed that Zhuquan was removing the little stalk portion connected to each leaf entirely before washing the leaves and placing it aside, I told him in puzzlement that the stalk was edible too and that when I made soup, I just threw the whole thing in.
• I examined the trees too and realized something that we hadn’t been told, which was that although it was difficult to see as the tree was small, as long as I was looking at the tree through the glass side of the bell jar, I could see a name by each leaf that was growing from it that basically corresponded to what type of plant it was — or rather, what “mod” it was from, very similar to the Minecraft mod that shows hover text mentioning which mod an in-game item that was being hovered over by the player’s cursor was from. Apparently our world, too, was populated by various installed mods based around seasons, biomes, and more. However, if the bell jar was opened, then the mod names for each leaf were no longer visible.
• I noticed that there was a tiny bud on the fourth tree that said it was from a Magical something or other mod, and I realized that that was probably the once per year special leaf we were looking for, especially as it was softly sparkling through the bell jar. However, a few minutes later, when I tried to look for it again, it was gone. I then looked at the third tree and saw a similar bud start to sprout there, but within minutes it had also died and disappeared. It seemed that the one special leaf thing didn’t mean that only one bud appeared per year, but that only once per year were all the conditions met for a bud to grow to maturity, so we couldn’t figure out which tree would grow it until it completed.
• While resting, I logged on to the global chat room for the world server that we were on, as this was apparently some sort of game as well. I saw a stream of people chatting with each other, some with chat handle names that looked familiar but were likely just coincidences since this was a brand new school year and thus a brand new server that I had never been on. Someone like that was apparently selling a bunch of orange-coloured gear, including leaves, from his tree because he had no idea what to do with them otherwise (and never made soup to use them), and I offered to buy them from him. He inquired if I meant that I would buy all the items — he had been trying to sell them all as a batch for some time now without luck — but after thinking for awhile I noted that I didn’t know the price of each individual item, though I estimated about 8,000 gold, whereas I only had about 200,000 gold on me so I would either be slightly short or would be basically broke after buying all that, and it was highly unlikely that he had included a magical leaf in there even if he claimed he “didn’t know” how to use or process them. I ghosted him and never replied to his reply.

Sep 30 2023

• Snippet: There was a large desert-like land with traps spread out across it that grew more difficult the further north and east that I went. But I was also using those traps to try to trap someone or something as part of a romance story of some sort that I don’t remember the details of. I was also in a theatre-like building at some point with some friends.

Oct 01 2023

• A female friend and I were guiding another two girls, one who was around 14, which was younger than us by four years or so, and the other one around 8-10 years old. I don’t remember where or why we were guiding them, but it was apparently part of our job, and apparently the second time we had helped these two, as I remember noting that we had helped them once before about a year prior to that.
• This help involved guiding them through several rooms of what seemed like homeless people who had gathered there for shelter, out a concealed door into a larger outdoor world at night, and then past a bunch of traps with glowing sigils that were set up around the land.
• At another point, I was also talking to Ronnie over an Internet voice chat program while adjusting the carpet below my computer desk chair by pulling it closer to the computer desk, and we talked about an outstanding task that had been on my to-do list for some time. Apparently that task needed Nuno’s help to complete though and we had been unable to set up a meeting with him for some time, so it remained on the list.