Dreams

I had a mix between shorter and longer dreams this week. Of particular interest to me was the 2nd dream on July 20th, as well as the dream on July 21st, since both of those dreams involved revisiting one of many recurring dream places that are a construct of my dream imagination. Parts of my dream world!

And then there’s the Jul 25th dream, which might be the longest dream journal entry I’ve ever written, and yet basically was all about the same topic in three separate dream sessions. I also made a couple dream friends and then lost them to consciousness.

Jul 19 2021

• I was part of a group of people defending an underground laundromat against robots, we did this at least twice, with some time in between the two attempts. The first time I was kind of blindly following the group, but by the second time I knew what to do. The first part had us defend the main room, then half of us ran out, surrounded, and attacked some boss to get a key. I was a healer and ran out the 2nd time to help keep the tank alive (I could locate him in the mass by targetting the boss and using target forwarding to get his target).
• Then we ran back in and down underground, where there were three crypt rooms with one sarcophagus in each, and we had to locate a silver lich crown or something that was sitting on the floor. I had already seen where the crown was, in the middle room on the ground, so I told the rest of the group that as they ran down.
• There were also little crystal crowns on the floor that were some sort of currency and I took one.
• At one point there was also an actual laundry room, where I went in with a basket of clothes and saw two women discussing something related to my dream on the other end of the room while I tried to figure out how the laundry machine in front of me worked. They told me there was a plug I had to plug in, but it was already plugged in since the washing machine was divided into two halves that two separate people could use, and the other half was already in use. A fourth woman came in as I was trying to figure out the machine too, and I asked her if the little metal tub on top of the machine was where I put in the clothes, she said yes.
• At another point, I was taking a bus ride. Looking at a map book to look at the bus route, I saw markers on the map for where Seo was living, as well as Eileen not too far away from him, both a little ways out of town. I drew a little route on the map from the nearby city down toward them, as though planning a visit.
• Steffy also appeared in my dream somewhere around here, with an apology about always being silent and never speaking up in Discord because she lacked some sort of capability to do so.
• There was a scene where for some reason we had a look at the countdown of the Earth to its last few centuries of life, where the last survivor of humanity was wiped out at least 300 years before the end of the Earth, and it was already very hot then with lots of lava bursting forth from the crust and covering the land, even the poles where the last person had fled to.
• Finally, there was a scene at the very end of the dream where I was invited onto a game show being televised live as well as watched by a ring of audience above and back from the stage, that reminded me of the stages from the Show by Rock anime. Anyway it was hosted by a guy and a girl friend that I knew, and the guy mentioned that he had invited me here to display two of my skills. Firstly they had me sing something, then secondly he said he wanted to show the world my duplication powers if I was okay with it, as it was a “normal” world and yet I had this supernatural power.
• I didn’t really want to show it at first as it was an overall source of trouble, because aliens were constantly hunting me down over the power to try to destroy me. But the girl host then chimed in with the exact line, “The aliens already know about you, but we want to fantasize about you too”, referring to how it would give humanity hope against them and how that was important. So I agreed, the camera moved up into the sky to cover more of the stage at once, I clenched my fists at my side and concentrated, and formed a second copy of myself a few feet ahead of me.

Jul 20 2021

Dream 1:

• I was playing some top-down game that involved skills that I could pick and choose from a list to equip, but each one costs points and I had a lower max points total than other people due to the flexibility of being able to choose my own skills.
• Most of the game took place around a T-junction road with really busy traffic, but I could pause the game and inspect the passing vehicles in pause mode to see its stats.
• There was a specific bench I could go to and sit down upon as part of the game for some reason.
• Later on, I ended up on some sort of game show involving the hosts giving me a scenario where an NPC was within melee range of my character, and asking me to pick one of three skills I could research or use in that situation.
• There was something about how I needed to be on 40 shows in order to trigger an Ultimate skill of some kind, and there were plans for me to get my own show to achieve this. It would be called Ao Kagetsu and have something to do with penguins.
• Editor: Ao Kagetsu roughly means Blue Months. At least in the context of this dream. It’s odd and interesting when my dreams, which are still mostly in English, sometimes switch languages.

Dream 2:

• I was in some sort of game city, half living my life with people I knew from Singapore and online mixed in, and half being chased and doing delivery quests of some kind.
• I remember a scene where I was lined up at a food place and being harassed by some boys behind me, with one person using some rolled up piece of paper to poke at my thighs through the back of my skirt. I had with me ingredients for a special sort of burger that I would be giving to the women on the other side of the deli counter once I reached the front of the line because my doctor had said I couldn’t eat regular kinds of meat, and so these ingredients were specially sourced for my sickness. The boys had asked me what was in the bag, and they returned it but started their mild harassment once I told them.
• I was also with two kids that were slightly younger than me, a boy and a girl, that I had met on my delivery activities, and they were lined up in front of me as well and helped protect me from those boys.
• Once I reached the front of the line, I gave the bag that I was carrying, which basically contained an uncooked burger, to the deli woman, who processed it. She tried to put together some side dishes to make a complete meal too, and asked if I wanted orange juice or orange tips for dessert. I mistook orange tips as the entire orange and said an orange would be great, but it turns out that orange tips were basically orange juice as well, you just drank the juice from the tips of the orange instead of from a tetra-pak, and instead of consuming the actual orange.
• Later on, on one of the delivery quests, I was chased around a bit and then hid from my enemies/opponents in a room with another girl I knew who had arrived there first but had fallen asleep on a desk. Once the game was over, I chatted with her a bit.
• Apparently we were located in Japan and I knew of a South Korean festival that was going to take place soon in a shopping mall area that I had visited in another dream a long time ago, and that I wanted to revisit. I invited her along if she wanted to come since it was just nearby.
• I also met the family of the boy and girl that I was in line with earlier, they were a cohort unit of 5, led by a Korean grandma and topped off at the other end by a young, adopted boy from the Dominican Republic. I asked the two kids that I knew about visiting Korea with me as well, they told me to ask Grandma, and so I did.
• I pulled out a brochure for the event in Korean that I couldn’t read but had a picture on it. She could read it though so I showed it to her. I also told her that I had been there before, so I could be everyone’s guide. I knew that there was a really nice and cheap motel next to the place that we could stay at, and then the shopping mall area was two or three levels high and contained nice shops like a posh tea and juice shop with cats roaming around in it. There was lots of shopping that could be done as well.
• The main impediment would be cost, per person it was cheap enough but they would be a family of five. I also invited people on Discord to come, Rinuruc was online and he calculated the cost to be about $300 per person for the family of five I was talking with to go. I remember Trinstar being online too even though it was a weird time of the night back home, but she didn’t say anything. Anyway, the price to visit Korea from Japan was individually cheap, but it would be $1500 for them and they didn’t really have a breadwinner earning the family any cash. Still, the grandma thought about it a bit and then said it was fine, and the kids cheered.
• Editor: Here’s a snippet from Sep 19 2019 referring to the same mall, although it refers to even earlier instances that I don’t think are recorded within the journal. But the peculiar thing is that these are also the only two diary entries in my entire dream journal, stretching from Aug 2016 until today, that mention tetra-paks.
• I visited a Japan-Korea city with some people I knew, our first day was spent in some sort of mall area where we were staying or part-time working or something. It was a two storey mall and each floor was a walkway in the shape of a square that looped back onto itself with shops on the outside of the ring.
• On the second day, I went out to the south, then west, looking for (and finding) a holiday inn + mall + cafe type building that I had been to on my two previous trips to this region (like my previous RL Korea trips, though in-dream I played it off as 1 year ago and 4 years ago).
• I went in to say hi to the proprietor lady on the second floor cafe, and spoke to her in Japanese to show her that I had learnt the language a little, and she helped correct me when I forgot a word.
• I ordered a milk-honey drink that I had really enjoyed my last couple trips here. She remembered it too, and got a plastic tetra-pak for me from a public freezer like the ones you see at supermarkets holding frozen dinners.

Jul 21 2021

• A vast amount of time was spent in a huge shopping mall in the middle of the city that I had both briefly been to and seen on the map in several other dreams before. It was just north of the river that ran through the middle of the city (mirroring Edmonton) and the city had an airport on the north side that had a direct flight to Vancouver. This time almost the entire dream involved walking around this mall though. Most people walked around in pairs, and I saw many other people that I knew, for example Huihan and Eileen, walking with other people. I travelled with Tigey, whom Eileen wanted to inspect at some point.
• I don’t remember many of the events in the mall, although one of the other pairs I remember was a little Russian girl and her little brother. The girl had two hairties that formed cute little pigtails, and could spin the flower on one of them to instantly transform into a costume. Most of the people had a skill that took 1 turn they could use to change their costume in a normal non-magical way though, so that magic of hers wasn’t particularly useful, just pretty. Most of the visitors, especially the people I knew, also had a recall skill that would take them to a certain room/base in the mall.
• I also remembered that for dinner, I wanted to visit a nearby restaurant that I had wanted to visit from previous dreams as well. I was much nearer to it than I was before, so I stepped outside the south exit of the mall to use the GPS on my phone. Outside, although it was night, I saw and wanted to take a picture of a beautiful background of a mountain looming in the distance. I was in a carpark though and there were too many stray trees around blocking the perfect picture.
• There were also several other people in the carpark, a woman in a car waiting to pick her son up, and others just standing around. An ETS bus passed me, with its sign flashing a destination of a deli shop counter inside the mall. I checked the GPS for the shop I wanted to go to and it was quite close by to the northwest, but was still flagged as a 50 minute walk according to Google Maps. I could just recall back to them all afterwards though so I decided to do it.

Jul 22 2021

• There was a group of buildings on a hillside that together formed a school. A road wound around the main building, and I followed Zixiang as we went along the road around the outside of the building from left to right, first going down the road, then up the other side, which involved steep elevation changes and a flight of stairs by the side of the road that we had to walk up. I was worried he wouldn’t have the energy to climb the stairs but he easily hopped up them. He was accepted by the equestrian program in the school and was turning in his eligibility extension application now that the pandemic was nearly over, since he had missed the first year due to staying home like everyone else.
• At another point, I stood on the south entrance of this main building, and merged the building with another building that reached up to one diagonal square southeast of this south entrance on an overhead grid map. The two buildings became one, with the two corners (the south entrance and the square southeast of it that belonged to the other building) joining together on the overhead map. In real life, the main building now had an extra wing with a corridor linking the two buildings. The original school was a Junior High, but by merging the two buildings like this, I got its designation upgraded to a Senior High.
• The south entrance was originally just a side entrance, but now that the buildings were merged it was in the middle of the two, so I moved the main entrance designation from the northwest entrance of the main building to the south one. I despawned some stools that were at the northwest entrance and brought two over to the southern (now central) entrance where there were space for 10 stools in a visitor’s waiting area between the door and a series of booths/kiosks behind a counter. I planned to duplicate the stools until there were 10 of them, but the stools turned out to be a little too short to comfortably use with the height of the counters.
• In the building there was an area which was underneath a busy road that ran above the building, and you could hear cars while walking by that area. There were a bunch of alcoves set into the wall there as well, and each alcove had a bundle of firewood being sold for $50 a pop. The suggested buying amount was at least $200 in one go, and although there was a young man there acting as shop assistant, the real owner was an old man that was outside the building and across the road in a similar shop in another building.
• There was also a swimming pool in the building, and the dream at some point involved swimming practice.
• Snippet: Later on, I was a player on a newly former women’s soccer team that just finished playing its first game. I don’t remember much about it except that our goalkeeper was a short but hardworking, and rather bubbly, Vietnamese girl.

Jul 23 2021

• I vaguely remember a school-like setting with contests of some kind between two teams, together with a carnival-like setting where the gate staff was giving away free potato perogies, they had over 400 on a tray to give out. There was a room where I could sign up for work of some sort, and at some point I met a person who had 400+ diary entries on their blog, although most of them were really short snippets or single pictures, so he was obviously padding his numbers.
• Editor: All I can say about this is that it was definitely influenced by the Taste of Edmonton that I went to on the 22nd.

Jul 24 2021

• Snippet: I was a hotel attendant, except the room I was trying to serve was accessed by a dimensional door located in the middle of a farmer’s field of some sort. The floating door led to room 401 or 404. The problem was that when I came back the next day, looking to enter and clean up the room, the door was nowhere to be found! I also remember having a number of skills I could add and remove, and could create new ones based on the situation by combining older skills in a way that was identical to mastery crafting in Troubleshooter, the game.
• Later on, I had a more complex dream about travelling back and forth between Calgary with friends. The dream started and was mostly based in Calgary, we were sitting around a living room table in the place we were staying in, listening to music, while preparing to travel back to Edmonton for some reason and then back to Calgary again. I left the room with a couple friend and we started walking toward the bus station, noting that the charter buses cost about $1500 to $2000 for a trip to Edmonton, although if we waited until 5pm there was one chartered bus that cost $5000 instead!
• I realized at this point that I should actually pack up my entire travel bag and bring it back with us to Edmonton, because otherwise the return trip to Calgary would be extremely long somehow, so I apologized and dragged my entire group back to the room so that I could pack up my things. I also saw a toy turtle from childhood (that glowed in the dark and was missing one leg) on the floor in the room, I picked that up and put it in my bag as well so I wouldn’t lose it. We still left other possessions of ours here though as we would be back later. I left with my friends at this point, and we travelled to Edmonton and then back to Calgary (the dream kind of skipped over this travel part).
• Once we returned to Calgary, we came back to our room through a series of other rooms where an event was taking place, first a kids’ event where fierce dogs were supposed to be guarding several rooms and were worth xp (and would respawn) if we killed them, but due to other people going through, most of them were already dead, except for one room where the two dogs were super friendly and were happily playing with a little kid. The aghast game attendant looking on apologised and said that the dogs would be replaced soon. The scene then shifted so that all the rooms turned into some sort of Disney-like adventure park, with entertainers and throngs of people walking to and from nowhere in particular. A photo event was activated by a staff member in an adjacent room, this briefly started up some blaring carnival music and drew everyone’s attention from all the rooms.
• We went back to our private room through the adjoining door anyway, and I realized that I had left my water bottle here while packing my bag earlier. Thankfully, it was still here, so I picked it up and packed it away properly this time.
• Someone who was going to join us was complaining mildly about having to drive us back to Edmonton next, he said that he should have proposed three options for the group, a “free” car ride that would be not much faster than walking there, a $15 car ride which would be a natural speed journey of 3-4 hours, and an $80 or so car ride which would convince him to break out his Porsche (it might have been a different fancy car). I said I wouldn’t actually mind paying $15 for my share of the ride.
• Maciek also entered the room at some point, and he was dressed in a very revealing pink and purple superhero outfit with a fancy headpiece, a cloak, and a body suit that left part of his chest exposed, with a safety pin visibly protruding through his exposed left nipple in a way that was meant to be very fashionable. Everyone around me seemed to accept his presence no questions asked, until I asked him about his outfit, at which point everyone around me then seemed to find it weird. He said that his outfit was inspired by a character in a roleplay story that he was writing with an Internet friend, and she had written in this superhero character that he really liked, so he chose to cosplay as that character. He even gave the name of the character and explained its meaning, though I don’t remember what the name was now, except that I think it was a short and normal female name.
• Editor: That formerly-glowing three-legged-turtle is still sitting on my plushie shelf. A relic from childhood.

Jul 25 2021

• Editor: Each dream here was typed out in its entirety after I woke up, before I went back to bed and had the next dream. So even though they’re all about the weird dream life of an exchange student, they’re all actually three entirely separate dream sessions in basically three different schools/campuses.

Dream 1

• The dream’s plot revolved around a school election. I was an acquaintance of someone I admired running for election, this person looked like Kaman, one of the two girls from Singapore who had stayed with our family in 4012 for a year as an exchange student. We actually had different partners near the start of the dream, but she had forced a partner swap through some sort of trickery, and abandoned both her current partner and my current partner at a train station while she got me to board the train with her and take off without our respective partners. Once we were on board the train, she told me that wanted to form a new partnership and wanted me to help her with her campaign because I had helped her save some of her family’s precious art pictures from our other friends, who were apparently unscrupulous art dealers or wanted to profit off of them/her.
• As the train took off, she told me to get some sleep because it was a long journey across different time zones. I noted that it was too early in the day to sleep, but she said that even though it was just noon (3pm at our destination), we would be arriving at 8pm (11pm at our destination) and she needed me to be at top form once we arrived.
• The day and night must have been switched, however, for the train arrived right on schedule at an airport that was also a school, right at the start of the school day. Her goal was to get into the airport and to class, where she was a lecturer for a class that I was taking, while also preparing for a trip back to her home country as well as the results of the student election. She also told me that she’d find time to draw a new painting and that my family could have it. It wouldn’t be an official painting of hers so it wouldn’t be valuable enough to steal.
• As the train was arriving at the station, I noticed both her old partner and my old partner, as well as three other acquaintances of mine from Singapore, running after the train, planning on catching her/us once we alighted from the train. I told all this to her and told her to run along first once the train arrived, and that I would distract them. She did so, and I ended up hiding from them on the other side of the train station. I eventually made a public commotion to raise awareness for my friend’s campaign, and recruited one of the three old friends from Singapore, who recruited the other two that had temporarily joined our old partners to vote for my friend because I convinced them that she had moral fiber or something like that. I also recruited other random students that were arriving at the station to head into the school for classes, and so was bringing with me at least a last minute swing vote of about 20 people into the school.
• The dream turned into a kind of race where we had to run up the path from the station to the school and past the finish line which was our school front gate, in order to cast our vote. The path up was littered with traps from “the enemy”, which were things like badly written flyers with typos on them and odd things scribbled onto paper and taped onto the ground, trying to trick us into invalidating our votes. I noted to myself that that wouldn’t work on anyone except maybe first year international students who had never been through the process before and couldn’t understand English properly or didn’t understand the society/culture and why those things were obviously fake.
• I ran by all those things, past the 180 degree bend in the path, and to the school gate where she was waiting there. I registered my vote with the male teacher at the gate, then ran to her and embraced her and wished her the best of luck. I thought that she’d be doing better and maybe I’d be the tying vote or the vote that let her take the lead, but instead she was actually behind by about 100 votes or so, a tiny margin of students.
• The scene then shifted to her lecture hall that she was teaching before she would be catching the plane and leaving the country. Rick from work was there at the back of the hall, acting as her boss, and she was busy explaining to the class that she was conceding the election because she had an agreement with Rick that even though the election results would continue to trickle in for 3 days or so, she would only be able to count the results up until 2 or 3 hours after class started that day since she was leaving the country afterwards. Thanks to my help her deficit was shrinking, and it had gone from about 100 to slightly less than 50 at the time, but it wasn’t immediately enough, and even though she was projected to possibly win if the race was stretched out to its usual length due to all the people who had not voted, she needed to fly off instead.
• The dream then started to jump around here. First I remember visiting a really large media tent that the school newspaper and school radio ran from, and looking at the rules and regulations pasted on the inner roof of the white tent. By visiting the tent, one could get a run down of news without waiting for the newspaper or radio show the next day, so it was kind of like getting a sneak preview.
• The regulations pasted on the roof of the tent had lists of what “advance information” people were allowed to take out of the tent and talk about outside of the newspaper, and election results were one of the things that were OK. Visitors could also quote things like the name of the school, the name of the newspaper, the nature of their own visit, etc. There was also a long list of things that could not be mentioned outside of the tent, if one visited the tent to find out the hot news and then wanted to talk about the things they heard about before the newspaper was published. This included people’s names, the actual contents of stories that hadn’t been published yet, and other things like that.
• Also specifically banned was a statement representing the media tent saying that something that could not normally be shared could actually be shared this one time. I realized that several people must have tried to pretend that they had been given the OK to break a news embargo on a particular topic in the past, even though nearly all the students knew about the media tent’s regulations.
• Next, the scene shifted so I was back in the lecture hall, but this time a large student council was in session and I was running for one of the empty positions. There were actually two empty positions that I could apply for, and I was running for a general council one but also had mentioned to the president that if no one ran for the class representative for my class then I would be happy to apply for that too. A future conflict of interest question came to mind where I figured I’d be asked during the speech rally why I seemed wishy-washy by wanting to apply for two positions, as though I were just applying for jobs because I just wanted any old one to get my name on the council, instead of focusing on the one actual position that I wanted to run for. I prepared my answer, which was that I actually did want to focus on one, but was willing to sacrifice my wishes if needed as a courtesy to ensure that my class would not be unrepresented in the council, and that I had informed the president of my reasoning when I submitted a notice of interest for the other position too.
• Finally, the scene then shifted again to a hypothetical future scene where I was in what looked like a classroom in Dunman High. I was in Dunman‘s (female) student uniform too, and was seated near the front of the class. I knew the scene wasn’t real, but I saw Kaman walking by the class that was in progress and looking for me after returning from overseas, and I left my seat and ran out of the class (much to the consternation of the teacher and the amusement of fellow students) to give her a big hug.

Dream 2

• This time, I was studying in Japan, and I was with a few other study abroad friends, as well as a Japanese girl that was either good friends with me or assigned to be my buddy/guide. I basically took all my classes with all of them, and most of the dream took place in English.
• Even though we shared most classes, we still had to move between different classrooms, although we had a homeroom and I left most of my textbooks in there in a pile along with other non-school related books between classes. I noticed at least one other student looking at my pile with interest but we didn’t talk.
• At the start of the school day at one point, Dad came into the room where I was sleeping to talk to me, but it was 3am and he hadn’t realized this at first. This woke me up and I was having trouble falling back asleep and so was thinking of cutting classes that day since I was tired (but not overly so) and wanted an excuse to avoid an English Literature test later in that day based on some poem I hadn’t read. I chose not to skip, however.
• I was good friends with my Japanese student guide as I sat beside her in all my classes. I really admired her. At one point, we had meals together, and I helped her to do something with making sushi rolls and chopping them up. There were also other people, perhaps younger kids, that were waiting for us to finish preparing the meal.
• At another point, she absently handed me her pencil after a class, and I blinked in surprise. She also blinked in surprise, then ahh’d, and said that I probably wasn’t familiar with this custom. She said that it was a thing between friends in Japan that at the end of a class, instead of keeping away all their stationary, they’d give a pen or pencil to their friend, and could I guess why.
• I realized that this was an intimate gesture of friendship because you would see the person in the next class as well, so trading pens was a tacit show of trust that they would find their way safely and properly to the next class, together with your pen which you needed in order to successfully finish the class. It was basically saying a combination of “I trust that you will be there for me.” and “I want to see you/sit next to you again.” She said that I was correct! And we headed to our next class.
• The class after that was Japanese literature for her and we traded pens again, but then she stopped and said that this wouldn’t work because I wasn’t actually in my next class. Mine was the English literature class, the one I wanted to skip. I suggested that maybe as an exchange student I might be kind of signed up for both and could pick which literature class I wanted to join, but she shook her head and said that she actually did ask her professor if exchange students were allowed in the Japanese Lit class, but the answer was no. She also showed me her timetable, and said that next year she would be in her final grade, and the Japanese Literature classes were replaced with a seminar that she would need to complete for graduation, and obviously exchange students wouldn’t have to do something like that either (since we were only here for a year at a time).
• Anyway I nodded and we separated, promising to reconvene (and trade pens again) after the literature classes. I was a bit worried about not knowing nor having had the time to Google up the poem, but figured that I would probably do well on the test anyway since classes in Japan were significantly easier than Canada or Singapore, especially the English classes for exchange students.

Dream 3

• Much later on, in an entirely separate dream session, I graduated from school. On my bus ride to the University to pick up the papers, the bus route had changed because a bus stop in the University had closed, so the bus driver had to drop me at a bus stop that was just after my usual bus stop in the University campus. This altered stop was next to the office that I had to visit to pick up my graduation papers though, so I didn’t mind that at all.
• The entire campus in this dream was basically deserted, or at least devoid of students, since school was apparently out. I received my graduation papers from a staff member, and as an exchange student these papers were a bunch of stuff printed on six looseleaf doublesided pages with the University letterhead, and which as a transgendered individual, contained multiple references to both my old and new name and gender.
• The strangest part of the graduation papers was that it also came with a receipt of my last lunch meal that I had ordered from Hoho’s, the Chinese food store in my RL University’s mall, as well as a number of fields that had to do with food, for example listings where they listed my favourite/most eaten food and whether it had an effect on my studies or not.
• I brought the receipt and the certificate down to the Chinese food place to show them and see if they had any idea where the person that filled this in got the information (or the receipt) from. No students were around so the store was closed, but one of the attendants was eating at the table in front of the closed stall, so I went to sit across from her and struck up a conversation with her, asking if it was okay if I asked her some questions. She said sure but the stall was closed so if I was going to order any food, she wouldn’t be able to sell anything to me.
• I told her about my report card and showed her my papers, though I tried to find a section that didn’t include my old name or gender, but did include info about the food, which turned out to be the 5th page of the sheaf of papers. This page basically listed the noodles that I had ordered on the receipt earlier in the same dream, as my “favourite food’, along with a “food effect” that I would have gained from that dish. There was also a vegetables/grains box and a third box of some kind, and both of those were unfilled.
• Two of the other attendants also wandered over curiously and soon all of them were looking with puzzlement at the papers. They said that no one had ever approached them to get this information and this made no sense anyway since whatever you ate wouldn’t affect your studies on a dish-to-dish basis.