Dreams

Sep 20 2021

• In one part of my dream, I had a gun-shaped device that could suck in things and then, once it had a prototype item sucked in, could create infinitely many copies of the item. I could also see what items were inside the gun by looking down the barrel of the gun and “opening” it up into a bag of sorts.
• As far as I was concerned, the original copy of things in it were there for safekeeping instead of lost forever, and the first time I re-summoned the item, it would summon an item with the same soul as the copy that got sucked in, so I had no qualms sucking in Tigey and a few other stuffed animals for starters. I also went around to several locations to scavenge things, and sucked in items like a sports duffel bag, some clothes, some electronics, and building materials.
• In another part of a dream, I was in a shopping centre, and I passed by a shop on my left where a Chinese male, smartly-dressed in a business suit, marched up and declared that he had 1 million dollars in a suitcase he was going to bring and could he buy something with it there. The attendant told him yes, but that he shouldn’t announce it to the world if he really had 1 million dollars because he would be making himself a target. He shrugged and marched off.
• I pretended to not notice him and continued down the shopping centre’s main aisle. Near the end of the corridor, on the right, was a McDonalds, and I passed by it at first before deciding to eat there, so I turned around and went back to it. I noticed the Chinese guy walking by with a suitcase but I ignored him again.
• The McDonalds store was staffed by a friend from work, who was also working as a part-timer here. I ordered two things, then hesitated a bit for my third item. I told him I always ordered food in sets of three but couldn’t decide what the third item should be. He suggested some sort of oily vegetable dish, then said that he always ate it with his camera off if he was on a Facetime call because it could get messy. He then got me my order and we chatted a bit.
• In a third part of my dream, there was a forest guide leading a group of tourists or civilians through a forest. He had made a no-death guarantee and was getting some flak from one of the remaining surviving members because half the group had actually perished to wild animals and other things that were soemwhat out of his control.
• However, as the member was giving him grief, he heard a growl nearby and crouched down, holding up his hand to silence everyone. this saved everyone’s life as they were able to avoid aggroing the lion. A random person out for a stroll along the forest path walked by and waved at the group, and was going to call out to them too, but he was also hushed by the guide before being beckoned over, in order to keep him safe as well.

Sep 22 2021

Dream 1

• I needed to come up with three different names for a number of somethings, which I think were groups of people or adventuring groups or something along those lines. This led into having different groups play each other in a game of what I believed in-dream to be ice hockey, except it took place on a wide-open field and was likely actually soccer. People’s personalities shone through in those games and I used that as part of my data on them.
• For example, I noted that one forward was having a really good day, and another one was having a bad day but kept on refusing to pass to the first one because he wanted all the glory to himself. Instead, he made himself look silly by constantly missing the net.
• As part of one of the soccer games, the contested ball got chased into a corner of the field. Also in this corner was a woman who had a number of coloured sheep that had wandered away from her, and she was desperately trying to regain control of them. The ball hit one of the light blue sheep that had wandered onto the field, and everyone was really amused by this somehow.
• Snippet: At some point I was looking a globe map of the world that was divided into hexagons or octagons, smiliar to a soccer ball. I remember looking at Europe in particular and noting how the entirety of the United Kingdom happened to fit nicely within one of those shapes.

Dream 2

• I was living in a post-apocalyptic world but we were quite comfortable off, I had my entire family intact and we claimed/lived in a second floor apartment near a University and a tightly-packed urban area to the north, and a rural area with a temple to the south. We didn’t have a ton of things, but the shelter was safe, we had food, and even electricity, and Dad could watch all the TV he wanted.
• While the world was post-apocalyptic, and there were many people without a home, there were also many people with homes and even the University was full of recruiting tables/booths where student groups were recruiting other students, and lots of students socially hanging out in the public areas. Yet at the same time, there were lots of empty houses and apartments nearby to scavenge.
• I met one of my old history teachers in the University and mentioned to her that I could no longer find the history department in the school, as well as specific Students Union group that used to be in a large room just north of the northernmost recruiting booths. But I had recently visited it, and showed her a paper schedule that I had picked up, showing that that room was now just a social gathering spot for students and there were 20+ people there lounging around when I visited.
• She told me that I was just looking at the daytime schedule, and that there was a different schedule past 7:30 pm at night, until 7:30 am the morning after. She proved this by showing me that the schedule I had brought her had a second page/back page to it too. Apparently the gathering spot turned into the Students Union booth that I was looking for in the evenings, before reverting to a social space the morning after. She also said that her history department had been given a new office down on the first floor, and she took me along to show me where it was.
• A bit later on, I crossed the University with Kel to do some scavenging of a nearby house just past it. It seemed deserted, so we entered through the main door and wandered up the stairs, ending up in a girls’ bedroom with two beds, several plushies, and a bookshelf that stretched from wall to wall and had a lot of issues of National Geographic, Dungeons and Dragons manuals and supplements, and many other magazines and books. It was too much to bring back at once, but I started with the plushies, putting them into a bag. I found a bolster the size of my little finger that was obviously meant for a plushie, so I planned to bring that back for Tigey as well. We also took a few miscellaneous books in our bags and then left the room.
• On the way out, however, I suddenly heard some noises and sensed some intense danger. I pulled Kel to the right side of the upstairs area and told her to hide in a bathroom while I pulled out a gun. I saw a homeless person with a crazed look in his eye and a gun in his hand at the landing at the top of the stairs, and I managed to shoot him as he raised his gun to shoot me as well.
• With the danger past, I hurried downstairs with Kel and saw that the living room, which had been empty when we passed it on the way up, now had the television turned on and set to show a camera that was upstairs in the bedroom. He had also deployed a laptop on the coffee table in the living room that was helping out in the surveillance, and I closed the laptop and took it with me as we both hurried out of the house and back home.
• Later on, I decided I wanted to retrieve all the other books from the bedroom and take it home with me so that I could start a bookshelf in my room in the house. My parents asked me what I was up to but I didn’t think they’d approve, so I didn’t tell them. I also didn’t bring Kel along because it was too dangerous. Instead, I emptied my inventory and brought a trolley cart along with me, this time clambering along the connected roofs of the University and back to the second floor window of the house that led into the bedroom in question, under the cover of darkness during the night.
• I wasn’t sure if there were people downstairs — I knew the guy I shot would eventually respawn and I knew he probably had a friend or two that made the downstairs area far too dangerous, but we had disabled the camera by taking the laptop and so if I were quiet I knew I should be able to complete my heist. The dream went weird here with several potential possibilities, but they were all successful, the only issue was how to get all the books out at once, as the cart couldn’t jump gaps or go over fencing if it was loaded down with books, and I only had so much inventory space. I think I eventually made two trips and got all the books out, and there were slightly over five hundred of them in total. And at one point there were lights on downstairs, but no one thought to come upstairs to check on the room.
• At another point in the dream, I went south to scavenge and again ran into some unspecified danger there, though I don’t remember the detail. It ended up with me plopping myself down on top of a hay bale in relief and tiredness, my formal and cute one-piece dress a little stained from combat and traversal. The goddess of the world, like the goddess in Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy who favoured beautiful people and looked down upon those that she deemed to be imperfect or ugly, was looking for me and happened to appear next to me as I flopped down on the hay, and she gave me a disapproving look that I would do something like that. I shrugged at her, we were in the middle of the apocalypse after all and I had just fought my way here through some enemies.
• She indicated that she didn’t like what she was about to do, but that she was sent here by someone to deliver a gift, and she summoned something that looked a large army pickup truck next to her, which was filled with packages as well as stacks of fuel from 7 Days to Die. She said it was for me from the future, and she then promptly disappeared.
• The post-apocalyptic world we were in didn’t have fully-functioning vehicles, so this was quite the gift. I loaded up my loot into the truck and drove it home. Our garage already had two cars in it, though one was really beat up and barely ran, and the other didn’t have an engine and was just being used for parts, I think. I bumped one of them a little to push it out of the way so that I could fit my truck in the garage, as Dad came running out to look at the truck.

Sep 24 2021

• I vaguely remember an adventuring party made out of me and my parents and a couple other girls in the party. At one point we were exploring a house and Dad was outside when two zombies and a skeleton with a lot of health aggroed on him, he came indoors with them and we shot many, many bullets from handguns into them before they finally collapsed.
• There were other adventures too, and it culminated at some point with the people in my group being Satinel, Nak, and Trin as well and us deciding that this game that we were trying out was mildly fun but could have been a lot better, and that we should move on to the next game instead. Just as we decided this and were logging off, Jah logged in as he had just awoken from a nap. Thankfully he had also already played with us a little earlier (I think he was actually at the house scene above, too) so he didn’t mind missing everything else in between.

Sep 25 2021

Dream 1

• Melanie called me in to task on a work ticket where the client had complained about my reply to her while trying to solve my issue, saying that my reply to her was abrupt and rude, or something like that. The thing was, Ronnie had written my reply for me for that ticket and asked me to send it to her on his behalf under my name, so the fault was entirely his, although I did physically send the reply as I did think it was fine, just missing my own usual finesse.
• I wasn’t about to betray him to Melanie though, so I took all the criticism from her anyway, and then caught up with Ronnie later on by the cubicles of some combined washrooms and told him I had gotten chided because of him. I laughed it off though as I wasn’t too worried.
• Later on, it was Shelley‘s birthday and Ronnie, her, and a few other people from her family went for lunch at a famous Chinese restaurant of some sort. I needed to talk to Ronnie about something after that, so he quietly asked me to kind of tag along and wait until they had finished their lunch.
• I got to the restaurant after they had already ordered their food, and they were sitting down at a side table and had began eating by the time I finished looking over their menu, which had a bunch of different foods, including some sort of chicken rice packet, as well as several different types of odd drinks, like milk tea energy drink, and longan juice in a soft drink can. I was deciding between just buying a drink so I would be ready to leave when they did, and buying a full meal and taking it with me so I could eat it in the car while trailing Ronnie, and later on tonight for dinner as well.
• I realized after several moments that I was blocking a line of people that had gotten here before me and were already queued up, and each one of them had a golden spoon which somehow signified their number in line. I took a golden spoon myself and moved to the back of the line, about 6-8 people or so deep.
• About halfway through the line, I was jostled when the line was moving up, collided against the person behind me, and dropped my spoon. I had to try to retrieve it, but around this point I somehow fell asleep or lost consciousness in my dream itself. The next thing I know, I was awake and my spoon was gone, as was Ronnie and Shelley‘s group.
• I also had a plastic bag hanging from my hands, and a nearby person seated at one of the tables noted that while I was out cold, the queue had gotten to my turn, and the crabby old lady manning the line had figured out what I had probably wanted to order, had her staff cook it, and then had given it to me without my input, before moving on to the next person.

Dream 2

• I was one of three instructors teaching some sort of course in a museum-like setting, but located in an outdoor field. The overarching course involved three smaller sub-topics, and each of us taught one of the topics in three different “lanes” on the field. I was the left instructor, a guy I didn’t know was the middle one, and a girl I didn’t know was the right instructor.
• The student audience split themselves into groups, and we had to teach our students our sub-topic to a minimum efficacy of 50 points out of 100, at which point the students were considered masters in the topic and could switch topics for the next round to get their other 50 points to complete the course.
• Everyone thought that 50 points per topic would be difficult to get, but we knew it was not, as the points were cumulative within a topic, and basically filled up like a checklist as the student learnt the topic — there was no way for them to “lose” points.
• For some reason though, the middle instructor was unable to finish teaching his topic, and had to abandon his course halfway, possibly due to some subplot involving him trying to betray us all. It was a little moot though since the other remaining instructor and I could still teach the course to a total of 100 points, even for the students he had abandoned, it just took a little more time to do so. We took turns occupying the center lane and teaching our own specific topic there in the next two rounds and got all the students to 100 points.

Sep 26 2021

• Mom was driving a triple, possibly even quadruple- level school bus that contained an entire school on it. Each level of the bus was dedicated to a different school year. Most of the school’s students were missing, though it might just have been a case that they were off that day.
• Each level of the bus was narrow but there was a sign of newness and explorations of the rooms on the bus itself. The exits from each room leading to the adjacent rooms were sealed off with what looked like giant surgical stitches sewing shut giant pieces of cloth over the exits, and many rooms had 4 or 5 exits. The main focus of the dream involved creating 5 or 6 person teams and exploring each level.
• The most memorable event happened on a group that I was leading on the 3rd floor or so. Each room had a struggle timer that reflected some sort of force of entropy that resisted exploration, and we took turns pushing against it to try to make our way to, and past, it to get to the exits. Our group did indeed get to the exits, but only had about ten seconds left before we’d fail the level.
• Nonetheless, I tried to push forth, taking my eyes off my team and turning to the exit, before breaking open part of the stitching and dragging part of my team through the hole to unlock a new exploration point, while trusting that some of my other teammates would be able to do the same, and thus that we would be able to complete the level that way.
• This indeed happened, in no small part because we got a small time bonus each time we dragged a certain part of the group through the exit. Whatever this actually was was kind of abstract, but I think our group was represented by a large, tangled ball of human bodies that was made out of cloth or cotton and all jumbled together, and different members of the group were pulling on the ball in their own way to try to get it, or parts of it, over the victory line.
• As a result of pulling with all our might, we kept triggering small 2-3 second time bonuses as the ball slowly began to budge against the exits, and although it felt like we had done all we could and were going to get a normal pass, I made one last pull that might have disloged something in the ball, and ended up with several members of my team as well as part of the ball stumbling and falling into the next room that I was trying to enter.
• This had an effect of turning our score multiplier from 1x to 2x, 3x, 5x, and then 10x, and a section of the entrance glowed in orange light as it announced that we had been successful in either setting a high score or actually completing the game altogether. We went back downstairs to the front lobby area near the driver’s seat, and met Mom there, as well as several first and second year students. They did announcements and a round of congratulations and then asked if we wanted to continue playing the game. There was a vague sense that we were auditioning for something as well, though I don’t remember what or how it ties in.
• At one point, Mom had a sign explaining the game propped up on a plexiglass stand above her head, so that it could be seen from the second level of the bus, but the sign had fallen over due to our antics from the third floor creating a hole in the stand, so she had to reach up and adjust the sign to make it visible again.
• At another point, I saw a map of the world that Mom was driving through, and there were hubs marked with large city icons on them and connected with dotted lines that represented roads. There were two towns connected vertically to each other on the northern side of the map, in a snowy terrain that reminded me of Canada, and the two towns reminded me of Edmonton and Calgary even though they had their own fantasy names of some kind. We were from the northern town and had been travelling south in Mom‘s bus — we were outside the snowy area by the time I looked at the map, and the southern part of the map had cities arranged in two rows and many different dotted lines, horizontal and diagonal, connecting the other cities.

Dream 2

• This dream consisted of Guild Wars 2 style castles, in a game where I was some sort of old returning player and largely unaligned with anyone else, though I had friends I hung out with in game. There were two faction colours, red and blue, and like any game of the sort, the two sides made giant blobs of players and took turns trading keeps, attacking and taking over a keep for the rewards and then not bothering defending it against the enemy blob.
• The people I had joined up with were happy to see me as they needed to deliver an item into one of the keeps that was currently owned by the enemy faction. This was a castle that I had built myself in the early stages of the game when this are was still undeveloped and largely empty grassland — there were buildings and an entire town around this castle by now — and so I had a trick for it that virtually no one in the game knew about.
• The small group of four or five of us prepared to siege the keep, but the large friendly blob of our faction came along and lined up outside the keep, also obviously meaning to take it, so we decided to follow them instead. To gain entry to the keep, two sets of double doors/gates made of solid iron had to be knocked down, and the friendly blob deployed battering rams on the left door of the outer gate and began knocking it down.
• I saw one of the players trying to pick the lock on the right outer gate, and I tapped him on the shoulder and asked him to back off, as I pulled a set of keys out of my pocket. It was just as I suspected — since I was the original builder of the keep, I had the original key for the doors still and I casually unlocked and opened the right door of the gate at about the same time that the battering ram knocked down the left gate.
• This stunned the players who were watching and noticed what happened, and even more so once I unlocked and opened the second gate as well, before the battering ram even deployed. Being a blob, most of the players didn’t notice it though and still knocked down the left door of the inner gate anyway, even though the right door was already wide open, but a good number of players did and came in through the right gate with a WTF look on their face. One player asked what the heck just happened and I explained it to them.
• The rest of the siege proceeded without incident and it was over in an instant, although I then had a scene where I imagined setting up a much more difficult anti-zerging castle, with a ramp leading up to the boss and logs that tried to push players off.
• There were other snippets that happened in this game world too, for example our base was located in a glass dome that looked like a greenhouse of some sort, and at one point I was putting on a uniform that was a trenchcoat that looked like something out of the British army, except it was a light pastel green in colour. There were other questlines too, at least one that I’m fairly sure involved my boss and maybe other people from work, but I do not remember any specific details about them.