Dreams

I really enjoyed a dream that I had this week, on July the 2nd, with a time travel dream that involved me travelling back and forth several times and basically ended up with reincarnation. Though I was a bit sad that I could not remember the exact name I saw on the sheet. On the flip side, I’m surprised I could sleep well and remember anything at all in the midst of the heat wave earlier in the week.

Also, how awesome is the name of that Scroll of Burnplanet that Satinel found in my June 28th dream? Talk about a prophetic dream, with the heat wave that came along the next day.

Jun 28 2021

• I was introducing a virtual reality game to a cousin, Terry, and we were playing it together. We were doing so while sitting in a bathtub in a small washroom located just off the main kitchen of our family’s house, because that bathtub doubled as my save game bin somehow, and so I told him he could just use that, as it had a facility to let us play together while keeping our save games separate. I lent him a console, which was a spare pair of VR goggles, and we both sat down and began plugging in.
• After he plugged in, I noticed that the tap was dripping and wetting his shirt, even though that had no effect in the VR world. I paused my game while leaving him plugged in, and switched off the tap tightly, moving him a bit out of the way to do so.
• In game, we were busy visiting houses and destroying monsters in there to collect experience and loot. I found an optional house with deadly, high-level enemies, and I toggled into preview/god mode to fly around and check out the house because I knew the game often had a lot of large, annoying gargoyles on the roof of these sorts of houses, together with purple void slugs that dropped some sort of crafting item. We didn’t need them yet though as he was low level, so I flew around on the roof and oneshot them all while in preview mode, so that we could go into the actual house to level up there.
• At one point, we were basically playing a tower defense board and we had a limited number of different types of pieces that we could arrange on a 6 by 10 grid or so to defend against waves of things trying to reach the right side of the screen. We had sniper pieces and policeman pieces and a few other types, and the enemies entered the map in five rows from the left side of the screen. I was slow placing them down though, and ended up stacking all the policemen pieces on the second column since the enemies came too quickly.
• At another point, Dad came along and asked why we were playing in the bathtub. Winston told Terry to come out to the living room, and he bought him a copy of the VR game to play on the couch instead, even though I said that that wasn’t necessary and everyone could just save money if they used mine. Winston said there was no need for that, and I got angry at him and the “religious right” for butting in to our game.
• Winston apparently had a console of his own too, so they ended up playing on a server of their own, apparently administered by someone they knew, and Satinel and I went to join them to check out their server. She found and killed a rare wasp nest, which dropped a number of rare items, like four plastic petrified wasp toys, fresh venom in an ice pop tube, ashes, and a few other things. These would normally be valuable, but here there was loot from a previous nest, that someone had killed on a previous respawn cycle, that was scattered on the floor beneath the nest, which showed that this server’s players didn’t consider them valuable.
• Satinel checked the item stats and found out that it was useless on this server due to custom crafting recipes that the owner had put in, and the item that one would normally cast with that, the really powerful Scroll of Burnplanet, was actually just crafted from four other scrolls on this server and was trivial to make.
• Editor: There’s a bit of Bloons in there with the tower defence bit and limited number of units of each type you could place down, as I had played a bit of Odyssey mode the night before which was basically the same thing. Winston is actually Terry’s father’s brother in real life, and Terry isn’t a cousin, he’s a grandnephew. Due to age differences between my mom and her elder sister in the maternal side of my family, Winston was actually one of my two maternal cousins, and the rich one in the family, but their children, my nephews, are actually the ones around the same age as us (Terry is slightly older than me), not them. The ice pops are these Singapore snacks — frozen juice things you suck on the end of to get the liquid out.

Jun 29 2021

• There was a game show pitting teams of 3 celebrities against each other in some sort of trivia quiz. My sisterhad just returned from a long hiatus away from the showbiz business, so she had applied to the show, and had to go through the auditions which had 8 teams of 3 or 4 competing against each other.
• Justin (from high school) was also there and was one of the successful applicants, he was asked what other teams he thought made it but didn’t have a good answer for it. He was also asked what lessons he learnt from it, and he said that it was important that teammates cheered each other on, for example when one person was on the spot and got a question correct, their teammates should be clapping for them.

Jun 30 2021

• Snippet: One dream featured a game with “super” dream pieces that I could place to guard a lane running vertically down the middle of the board/screen. It was a very expensive piece, and it had multiple upgrade paths, so I bought one and upgraded it down its most expensive path. I knew it wasn’t enough to guard the street from anything that might appear however, as the piece couldn’t see stealth/invisible, so I needed at least one more piece.
• Snippet: I was trying to decide on watching some sort of anime, but I was hesitant to start because the anime I was thinking of had a really long original series and then a reboot that I was thinking about, and I felt that I would want to or have to watch the original series before watching the reboot.
• Snippet: I was watching ice hockey with some other people, and someone suggested splitting the best player into 6 so that each one could do a certain task, possibly in the name of having 100% uptime. We said that that was not possible.
• Editor: The first snippet is definitely a reference to the super monkey in Bloons TD 6.

Jul 01 2021

• I was explaining a discovery about two of the girls from my neighbouring Secondary 1-2 class that I had made, to someone or other in my dream. I had discovered that the two girls, which I believe were Antonia and Arlena, were actually related, and practically sisters. As proof, I brought up the address list of everyone in both classes that I had made, and pointed out how their addresses were really close by each other — they lived in the same apartment block, just on different floors, which was already an amazing coincidence in itself. In addition, when someone in one of their families was getting married recently, the both of them took time off of school to help prepare for it, and I showed the others a side view version of their apartment block that somehow showed both of their apartment doors open (they were about 8 floors apart) and people bustling in and out of both apartments.
• Editor: None of this is actually true, but I was so earnest about it in the dream that I was a bit confused when I woke up, and I wondered if I had just forgotten about it until now. I actually do own, and will scan, those address lists at some point — I made and maintained a list of everyone and their data in both classes.

Jul 02 2021

• I could time travel between two versions of a school, but I was a student of neither version even though I was a student there at that school in general.
• To start off with, I was in the current version of the school but was unable to enter “my” class, which likely had some secondary school friends in it, because all the tables were filled and the teacher was already delivering her lesson. Furthermore, the corner of the blackboard at the front of the class had the date and today’s class rep (which rotated daily) written there, and I knew that I couldn’t pretend to join as long as that existed because I would be found out eventually.
• I then travelled to the old version of the school. In this version, a photobook that I knew about from the new version of the school was being compiled by a girl who was a student rep. It contained a photo of nearly everyone in school, as well as some clubs. I didn’t slip a photo of myself in the book, however I did give the girl a couple photos that I had found from two small photo albums tucked away in a disused building that had been given to me by some friends I had met there, and who had shown me around the school and chatted with me when I had first arrived. I then asked if she wanted to see the rest of the albums, she said sure, and I then took her and a couple people from her team to the building.
• The disused building was shaped like a short U, with the door being at the bottom middle point of the U, the two end points being square rooms, and the rest of the U being a narrow corridor. I took her to the right room and showed her the albums, and she was surprised to see photos that she was unaware of, and apparently this were photos of people that had played truant and skipped classes, and their clubs. She took a couple to add but said that the albumbook was full and she couldn’t add most of them in, so let’s just pretend we didn’t see them. I was happy with the couple friends that I had managed to get her to add, though.
• I travelled back to the new version of the school, and that same old U building was now used by people from the Infrastructure Apps team at work, with James, Lucasz, etc having taken it over from the school. The right end room was used for computer servers, and there were lots of cords leading out from the right corridor, into the U, and curving out toward the left room. There was an alcove along the right passage which had a computer, monitor, and a chair with manuals on it set into the alcove, that was connected to the main server as well, and James said that that was there to satisfy Melanie, from the ITSM team, as she was in charge of either the audit or something similar to the photobook from the old version of the school.
• I travelled back to the old version of the school. Here in the U-building, I met Dad, and he took me to the left end room of the U. He had just finished turning this into a personal den, complete with an armchair, a TV, eight amplifiers, and other old TV/music technology stacked up behind the armchair. I looked up at the ceiling and noticed that it was kind of rickety, with a “new” ceiling attached below the old roof so that it looked nice and bright and new, but yet it didn’t reach all the way to the walls at the edges of the room, instead leaving a small gap between the new ceiling and the wall most of the way across.
• I asked if this would be fine and pointed out that the old ceiling probably could not fully protect against rain, and since the new ceiling didn’t reach all the way to the wall, the first time it rained, his amplifiers would probably become wet. He said that that was fine and he was willing to risk it. I walked outside with him, and told him that I would time travel 40 years forward to the new version of the place and ask him what happened with it. He said okay, and for some reason we both began to laugh.
• I travelled back to the newer timeline on that exact same spot and saw Dad waiting for me there. I asked him what had happened with the room and he said that I had been right, and the first time it rained, most of the amplifiers had been ruined. However, TV and technology had advanced so far that those things had quickly become obsolete anyway, so no big loss.
• I travelled back to the older timeline, and for some reason the story then transformed into a scene where I was running or riding a vehicle along a road, as though in a marathon, even though there was an actual marathon being run ahead of me. There were hundreds of doctors in doctor outfits running behind hundreds of nurses in nurse outfits who themselves were running toward some goal. I understood that they were not real, and it was some sort of game where I had to get ahead of them to a point and also not get followed though, so this became a target practice situation where I (or my vehicle) had some sort of a gatling gun and I had to mow everyone down, first the horde of doctors, and then the nurses, as I overtook them. I had to slow down at one point to make sure that I had actually eliminated everyone else as there were stragglers that I missed. Then I turned a few street corners and got to my destination alone.
• After that, the scene transitioned back to the newer timeline one last time, and I was now a female Japanese student in class on the first day of middle or high school, seated by the window on the leftmost column of the room, 2nd from the back. I had the feeling that my actions in the previous race had rewarded me with this scene, and a general feeling that I had just reincarnated. The teacher was calling out names and I could see the roster and a Japanese name on it that I knew was mine too, and I remember being impressed that the teacher knew how to read many of the kanji names. When mine was read out as part of attendance/introduction, the girl in front of me turned to me and greeted me by name in a friendly manner.

Jul 03 2021

• I got angry at Ronnie in my dream. In an effort to impress his new boss, he gave up our offices and made us shift desks a couple times a day without really telling us about it. He also sacrificed our lunch break and forbade us doing anything fun like games during that lunch break because it showed that we had too much free time.
• My office spot went to a cheerful lady who was really understanding of my confusion as I hadn’t been told about her taking over my spot, until I called up Ronnie. I threatened to quit and said that this was yet another reason I would be leaving at the end of the year, but he didn’t budge. He said it was only several times a week, as the lady was a temp and had nowhere else to sit, but the rest of the team had already adapted to it and were sitting in an office on the other side of the floor we were on, therefore I should adapt to it as well. And that I could use a random desk and chair located in the hall outside that office.
• The office doors were also locked during lunch and he said we could call up his boss and request they be unlocked if we had a work proposal we wanted to do in them, but not if we were just playing games. Still, Johannes, Sandy, and Matt were making plans to present a work proposal to do during lunch, and then play some D&D once they actually got access to the roon. I pointed out to Johann that that was unnecessary, as both him and I actually had office keys as well anyway and could just quietly unlock the doors ourselves.
• Jeremy had left for lunch after checking in on me and my work, but not before accidentally dropping his sandwich on the table right in front of me and nearly walking off without noticing. I called out to him and he returned and picked up the sandwich and thanked me.
• I ended up turning on a tiny, hidden television located on the floor beneath a very short and wide cupboard, and watched that over lunch break with a couple other people, even though that wasn’t technically allowed under the new regime either. I didn’t care and neither did most of the other people on the floor.
• Someone who had the same authority level as Ronnie, and could have reported us, stopped by toward the end of lunch and noticed what we were doing. He also didn’t seem to care, and instead started moving the tables and chairs next to the television around a little to clear them out of the way and prepare for the post-lunch period. He was careful not to block the TV though, instead stacking the furniture next to it.
• At another point, I was coming in to work but decided not to actually go in to work as the trains were really crowded and I still disliked what Ronnie was doing. Instead, I got off at an earlier stop, Hong Kong station, and texted mom to tell her not to worry as I’d be careful of the political situation there and run at the first sign of the Communist Party of China cracking down on the citizens.
• I overheard some schoolgirls talking about how they had friends that had walked from nearby Shanghai all the way to Tokyo during either lunch break or before school in the morning, and I followed them up an escalator to get to the surface, and then followed them toward a hawker centre. They were looking for some Thai cuisine and the hawker centre had food and drink stalls aplenty, although most of them were currently closed.
• Later on, I went on a tour to collect items for a scavenger hunt game. Some of the items involved straight up visiting and collecting, some involved puzzles. The ones that involve puzzles had an end item called a “remnant of witch’s soul”, which were two to three white circular spots forming the shape of a triangle, and the white spots would begin to float toward your hand when you reached out toward it.
• I was doing this part with Kel and Jon, and the one I am most impressed of was a remnant that could only be seen in the reflection of a pickup (owned by an indigenous shaman and with shamanic items and markings all over it) against the car parked next to it. Kel found the white dots but had no idea how to actually pick it up, as reaching out toward the mirror image in the adjacent vehicle did nothing, and looking directly at the shaman’s car did nothing as well. I figured out however that keeping my eyes locked on the mirror image and using that as a guide to reach out for the spot on the actual shaman’s car where the remnants were caused a tiny door in the shaman’s car to open and allowed us to retrieve the remnant that way.
• Snippet: I was participating in an art exhibition with a bunch of weird people who looked like they’d belong in a western cartoon, with flashy clothing and angular faces. Focus shifted back and forth between those people as another group of people “interviewed” them in ways to try to draw out some sort of superpower or response from them.
• Snippet: Mom was standing at the head of my bed, holding a paper dragon that looked like a kite and was attached to the wall with a string. The dragon’s head contained a little cup that acted as a seat. She wanted to put a plushie inside, so we tried putting Tigey inside, but the cup had no actual bottom and so Tigey just fell right through to the floor. She instead took up Tizilla, because his arms could keep him wedged in the bottomless seat just fine, and she started to take off his clothes rather roughly, but I yelled at her to be careful as that caused part of his jacket to start crumbling, and she was displeased at the little bits of fake leather all over her clothing. Anyway, once the clothing was removed, she put Tizilla into the cup and the dragon kite “came to life”, even though it was still clearly made of paper. It started to glow like a lantern and float up toward the ceiling with Tizilla riding in it like a hot air balloon. There was a second dragon kite nearby as well, and after a bit I managed to figure out how to activate it without needing a plushie to ride in it.
• Snippet: I was in a class of 6 people or so, 3 male and 3 female, and one of the other girls was the class monitor and was trying to root out people going to a nearby carnival or magic show after class. The other students would put their possessions on the table in front of the class, and upon her instructions I would rotate and zoom in the dream camera and focus on any objects she found suspicious. We found an envelope inside a package belonging to the third girl, for example, because the camera could detect something sticking out of the box inside the package wrapping. That envelope was sealed with a purple and black wax seal that was the face of the flamboyant owner of the event, and indeed contained a ticket inside of it.
• Snippet: I was running through and in and out of a forest surrounded by plains and a river at night, looking for something or other. I would run into random animals and things in the forest, for example I saw a pair of gleaming eyes at one point and burst through the trees to find a tiny lynx kitten staring at me. There was no danger though as nothing was actually reacting to me and my search. At another point, I burst into a clearing and found a mad scientist of some sort hunched over some nefarious project.
• Editor: Satinel said that the last bit sounded like I was running around in a MUD zone, and she’s right.

Jul 04 2021

• A group of friends/family and I, 5 in total, were robbing the base of a criminal gang on the western end of a city. This was part of a computer game and I could toggle the map and camera between first person mode and top-down mode.
• The base was large, and the inside of the base was designed out of white cubes that made the whole structure look sterilized. We entered at the top level of the base, and it had basements that extended down about 3 or 4 levels. The entire structure was nearly empty, with no furniture or anything, but there were occasional chests randomly located around the base, and we hurriedly looted the place as best as we can.
• The gang members were out and had not left any guards, but we knew they would be back soon, so at some point someone in the group called out that that was enough, and we started to head out of the base. Someone commented that the loot was really weird, like there were a lot of dubious trinkets that probably wouldn’t sell for much.
• Looking over the edge of the walkway I was on, I saw an untouched chest two or three levels down on the bottom floor, so even though it was time to leave, I decided to jump down to try to get that chest. I first clambered down over the edge of my current floor, using my hands to hold on to the ledge as I dangled over the side to reduce the falling distance as much as I can, before letting go and plummeting the rest of the way. I landed fine, even if I was a little unnerved at myself at the move. The chest contained a gem, and I grabbed loot from yet another nearby chest on the way back up and out as well.
• Once out, we had 4 cars with us and loaded them with our loot. 3 of the 5 members jumped into one of the cars and drove it toward our destination on the east side of the city, whereas Mom hopped into another and started to drive that off. But that left me with two cars, and I tried to yell at one of the people in the first car to no avail.
• Mom did hear me though, and asked if I could take turns and drive both cars to a train station not far from here so we could at least park it safely there first. I agreed, and drove the fancier car eastward toward the station first.
• Once at the station, I saw a couple other friends, one was in a queue to buy tickets while the other was seated on some stairs next to him. I drove the car into a little side avenue and then gave control of the car to the one buying tickets, asking him to look after the car from me. He agreed, so I left and started running back to the other car left behind at the base.
• I was in top-down map mode at this point and accidentally unpacked or triggered a plane, and then inadvertantly got into it and flew it westward, overshooting the flashing location marker a little bit. This still saved me a lot of time on the journey, however. Approaching the car, I noticed that two members of the gang had also returned and had just broken into the car, but it was still nearby and within range of a vehicle summoning skill I had. I used it to summon the car next to me, gangsters and all, and opened the door to punch them before tossing them out of the car unceremoniously. Before they could react, I then jumped into the car and drove that one off too.
• Snippet: At another point in the city, I was waiting with a girl for the temperature of the zone to drop, at which point some cubes would change colour and we would also be able to claim some item or vehicle. The girl I was with watched with amazement as the cubes started to change colour, and seemed very happy to be able to see that. An npc then floated in and told us to be careful because this colour change meant that the temperature of the city had dropped to at least 7 degrees below its normal range.