Dreams

Jan 03 2022

• I was living in a small apartment in a building with my family and a few strangers. Mom was preparing to bring Jon and Kel to school, but I didn’t have school or work that day, so I was sitting around and helping out by sorting $20 bills on the kitchen table according to their serial number.
• There was also a tornado warning at some point that got upgraded to a full-blown alert, but I figured I’d be safe because we were on the 5th floor or so of the 12 or 13 storey building, and the top floors would get blown off first. The tornado never arrived anyway.
• Later on, I lost a bet or fight of some kind to some stranger, and had to go out with him to an Asian restaurant in a short skirt as recompense. The restaurant seats were arranged like train seats, there were just two long seats on either side of the room, running parallel to each other, and facing each other as well so the guests were forced to face each other. And then there were little rectangular tables in front of us.
• Across from me were two groups — on the left was an old woman in gaudy makeup and with a showgirl sitting on her lap, while on the right was a guy that kept on watching me intently, and was obviously trying to get an upskirt peek.
• The person I went with had a gun, and so there was a feeling like I was really being coerced to be there at first, and I don’t know if that feeling was obvious to the two groups across from us or not. However, over time, I started to care less. When the person I was with went to the bathroom, I could have used that as a chance to escape, but instead I uncrossed and recrossed my legs the other way and changed my order from one type of vermicelli dish to another. This combination of events annoyed the man who was watching me, who became visibly agitated.
• Later, after my partner returned, the restaurant was raided by police looking for the two of us anyway, so we had to flee. We learnt that the police had been spying on us through three cameras — the gaudy woman had one, the visibly agitated man had one, and our server had one as well.
• At some point I was lying in bed at home next to someone and playing Anime Music Quiz with them. It wasn’t all music, though I remember Puchimas ED1 playing, but there were scenes in between songs which were just pictures of western actors as well and the game asked us to ID them, but neither of us had a clue who any of them were. Mom wanted us to go to sleep though so we couldn’t be too loud in our playing.
• Snippet: There were also other games I remember playing later on as snippets from other dreams. One was a game where I had a pistol and was hiding behind a pillar near my base and shooting a large robotic turret that was as high as a two-storey building, trying to hit its weak point, a little sensor in the middle of its face, even though it looked like all my bullets were not doing any damage toward it. That game also had a top-down, base-building component where I could build gunships and little flying robots, and the enemy also had patrolling gunships. The other game was some incremental game that both me and my sister agreed was terrible.

Jan 04 2022

• I remember watching a short 3-minute anime that was apparently made by the Dragon Ball director. The show was about some sort of fight club where there was an outdoors boxing ring, and featured one defending champion and two challengers, but all the action actually took place a short distance away from the ring, where the fighters were catapulted or cannonballed to from the boxing ring itself. The show was in chibi form, and the first challenger was an anthropomorphic elephant, complete with a trunk where his nose was, whereas the other two were humans.
• The elephant was catapulted over to the actual fighting arena first, and then the current champion was catapulted in, landed on top of him, and instantly knocked him out. The second challenger was then catapulted in, but completely missed where he was trying to land, fell short and skidded along the ground across a trail of fire, and was also knocked out cold. The elephant then eventually woke up, grabbed the second challenger and dragged him back toward the boxing ring and the catapults/cannons, declaring in a very positive manner that they’d try to overcome the champion again.
• I gave the show an 8 out of 10, and wrote a short review saying that it was cute and enjoyable and had a decent message for its short 3 minute runtime, and I liked its ending song. I saw a lot of other reviews gave it a 4 or 5 because it was nothing like Dragon Ball, and because the translators had mixed up the names of the two humans in a couple places and thus the story made no sense to them. I thought it was a weird thing to judge a show on since that wasn’t the studio’s fault.
• Snippet: I seem to remember watching another anime short as well, that possibly had to do with flowers, but I don’t remember anything about it.
• Snippet: I had a dream segment where I went to meet a retained lawyer in a tall office building, after emailing him about my issues. He took me to some meeting room where a third random person was hanging out, and proceeded to try to sell me on some COEs or something, whatever they stood for, with the third person chiming in on the topic too. I said I wasn’t interested and this was not what I had written him about and did he not bother reading my email properly? I would summarize for him but only when we were alone as it was private. The third person took the hint and left.
• I then (re-)explained that I had a conflict with my housing company as they had recently moved me from my current apartment to a newer and more expensive one, but which was smaller in size because it did not have a storeroom. However, there was a price increase associated with this, and I had no chance to decline it or renegotiate my housing contract, which just rolled over into the new place at the new price. The lawyer asked when my old apartment was constructed, and I said 1985. He said he’d look to see if anything could be done but I didn’t trust him anymore by that point and doubted he woul do anything.
• Snippet: At one point, I also remember Mom and I walking along a row of neighbourhood shops and passing an art gallery that was closing down and was thus having a Going Out of Business sale. We could see wall posters and portraits through the glass windows at the front of the shop, but we didn’t go in as there were plenty of people hanging around the place. This was at the end of a more convoluted dream in which we had visited other places, but I don’t remember the details of that.

Jan 05 2022

• There was a theater skit that two people, A and B, were putting on as long-time partners. Two other people, C and D, were applying to join their small troupe. C was a manipulator while D was an innocent applicant. As part of the play, A would put B in a cage on stage, and C’s manipulative whispers managed to convince A to murder B with a really long, curved knife while on stage, and make it look like part of the stage performance, so that there would be space in the troupe for newcomers.
• A did so, and the moment B died, C cast a body thief spell that absorbed B’s body and they merged together, so that C now sort of looked like B but with different hair colour. That took care of the body, but not the large volume of blood. After the play was over, they also recruited D and told him to help throw off the police detectives who were sniffing arund trying to figure out what had happened.
• The best D could do was to suggest that B was in the bathroom, or using one of B’s leftover coats to make a silhouette of him in the shower. Neither of this convinced the detectives, who demanded to see everyone in the actor’s waiting room, and they moved in for arrests once 3 lies were revealed in the story.
• Snippet: In one dream segment, I was riding a bicycle down a really long road, past several empty junctions, heading for a bus stop to meet up with old Singapore friends (Rachel and others). I remember Mom asking me if I would be alright going off on my own before I set off, and I said yes, the bus stop wasn’t too far away. It was far though, but it was a straight line at least.
• Snippet: In another, I was playing a game of Risk with a couple friends and a couple NPCs. It had elements of Civilization 4 thrown in, so there were empire penalties if you controlled land too far away from your capitol, and movement was hero-based and done using two dice like Monopoly, with doubles getting an extra turn. I was based in Southeast Asia and Australia but was going to try to roll over North America to help my friends break a stalemate, before I thought better of it. I noticed that Africa was made up of 12 countries that were all basically owned by a patchwork of independent AI groups, so I diverted my attention in that direction instead.
• Snippet: In yet another dream segment, I was visiting a city with a large hill in the middle southern part of the city, and some sort of nature attraction up on the hill. I had been up in that direction in previous dreams, although this time I was headed north and east with my parents, toward some housing blocks that I had also been to once prior before. We passed the ascent to the large hill at about 7am, and we saw a couple people headed up that way, to which I commented that they were there really early, considering that the attraction didn’t open until 7 or 8 pm. Dad pointed out that one of them was carrying a bag of books, no doubt to read through while waiting.
• We headed north and east and I mentioned that the Minnesota bus card that I had picked up while on my tour of the USA would work here, but after fishing around in my card wallet for it, I realized that I had already unpacked the card and left it at home since I didn’t think I’d ever be returning to the USA. Both Mom and Dad had bought ticket packs of 4 though, and I had a couple spare tickets myself, so there were enough tickets for all five of us in the family regardless.

Jan 06 2022

• I remember a train ride, and then a car ride, specifically a car ride with my siblings in a woman’s car that took us to the Millwoods shopping center outskirts region. We didn’t actually go to the shopping center, just the outdoor shops around it. Several little snippets happened around here, for example:
• The woman’s car was almost carjacked at some point, by a man that managed to sneak up to the car while we were all in it, slip a folded piece of paper between the rolled up window and the place where the top of the window met the car somehow, and then tried to use a spoon that he had against the slip of paper to pry the window open. He missed by inches, then fessed up and apologized, saying he had no idea how he failed, and left us alone afterwards. Jon said he missed by millimeters, the space he made was almost identical to the width of the spoon. The car had panic shutters like airplane windows that we could have pulled down if he did manage to pry open a window, though.
• There were at least two Chinese restaurants nearby, and the woman who was driving us around, who was Russian, also owned one of the two restaurants. She had also driven some other people I knew to that shop earlier as part of a business outing for them, and although the place wasn’t cheap, it looked somewhat fancy. I asked the woman for directions to the restaurant as a thank you for driving us around and she gave me the link on my phone, but it came across all in Russian. I couldn’t read it but I knew what the buttons were supposed to say so I pressed the appropriate ones and the Google Maps guide to the place appeared.
• The woman also owned a trailer that she disassembled and parked her car inside of, and the trailer itself was otherwise empty besides that. It was very warm and cozy in the evening night, and I commented that it would make a great RPG base — we could put health and mana things here, player beds there, equipment over there, etc.
• The business people who were in the restaurant came over as they were leaving, before I left for the restaurant, and proceeded to try to pick the lock of some capsule that looked like a phone booth, which they needed to do to leave the area. It belonged to that same woman but they had her full permission to do so. I helped them do it in the end, and successfully picked the lock on my second try.
• I also watched myself head toward the restaurant on a floating camera, which was very weird because it looked like I was watching a replay of myself doing so earlier in the dream or something. In the video, it was raining and I crossed a traffic junction where the fire hydrants had burst and were shooting jets of water around, then I walked along a roadside path carrying a pot which I knew was important somehow, then I met a friend (Eisen) from primary school who proceeded to chat to me for a bit and then hug me while I tried to not drop the pot, then the camera panned around to a couple people nearby watching me whom I didn’t remember or notice from the first time I walked through the area.
• I also remember a singing segment at some point, but I don’t remember the context of this, only that I didn’t like my voice when I had to sing something because it was a lower pitch and far less feminine than the person I was singing a duet with.

Jan 07 2022

• I was in class in a Dunman-like school when the lesson bell rang at 12:30 pm, and it was lunch hour! Allen and I left the classroom together to go have lunch, though we first went to look for a washroom. I think I was in boy mode at this point, as we passed a couple male washrooms that I told him I had no idea existed, and then we saw a wall phone that doubled as a urinal, but it felt wrong for me to us those so I didn’t do so in the end. There were also a lot of students passing by the hallways but they paid no attention to us.
• After that issue was resolved, we went off together to a quiet room detached from the main school building. Although it was an indoor room, the floor was grass and soil, and I sat down on some grass against a wall, brought out a small portable TV, and turned it on.
• The show I was watching was hosted by some bombastic host who was peeking out of a hole in a wall that he had claimed to have dug himself, and he was looking at and talking to a camera that was on the other side of a large fish tank between the wall and the camera. He wasn’t particularly interesting, but the show he was hosting was, and soon enough he shut up and started playing the show I wanted to watch.
• This show was a live action sequel to a really chill and relaxing anime from a couple seasons ago where a couple of cute girls that were best friends went camping together. This live action sequel somehow “proved” that the anime girls in the first season were right to go camping, and the first episode was them meeting up and going off to their first camp adventure together.
• The show then interluded back to the host, and after talking a while, he switched the show over to some awards show, featuring some baseball team lining up and receiving a bunch of trophies and stuff from giddy women dressed in sundresses and cocktail dresses, guys in suits, and other socialites, on a baseball field. Either the team or the socialites were involved in some sort of scandal, but this particular event was a recording and was pre-scandal, when the allegations hadn’t been revealed yet. Watching the presentation through a glass window were students from a Toronto high school, all of whom had cameras and were snapping away, as well as Don Cherry.
• It was 1:00 pm at this time and half the lunch period was gone, before the host switched back to himself and talked a bit more before saying that he would switch back to the original camping show again. By that point we were packing up though as we had other things to do before class resumed at 1:30pm.
• Snippet: At some point, I was driving the two of us in a car, but we changed to a new car for some reason where not all the features of the car were unlocked yet, partially because they were slightly dangerous. The new car could still be driven just fine, though.
• Snippet: At another point, I was a young kid, about 6 or 7 years old, living with a grandma figure. The weather report on the radio indicated that there would be a storm coming that evening after school, with the weatherman urging everyone to get home safely. I had things to do after school though, and told my grandma that I was aware of the storm but would probably be a bit late anyway. She was supportive and told me to stay safe, wishing me luck, telling me to come home before my Dad so they didn’t worry and didn’t have to go out searching for me. I thanked her for trusting me.

Jan 08 2022

• Snippet: I only remember small snippets like people somehow entering or invading a Discord server that Neichus and I were in, some sort of large ship or other seaborne vehicle, and playing a simple magical girl incremental game of some kind. I also remember my two younger siblings, and a sense of protecting them, but not the context behind it.

Jan 09 2022

• The gist of a good part of the dream involved five girls, including me, facing off against five or so evil criminals, including Nendou from Saiki Kusuo, who was the main sidekick of the evil mastermind. I don’t remember much about the story (except that we were behind an overturned table or something powering up at some point, and the entire battle involved several rooms/locations including a fishmonger’s shop), but good did prevail in the end, largely thanks to me discovering a power that we girls had where one of the girls, a sporty redhead, could hum and sing/chant a song in Japanese under her breath that would remove all pain from the other four of us, and one of the other girls could translate the Japanese back to English to convey the benefits of the buff back to the fifth girl. We used the power to run around a lot without our legs aching from lactic acid buildup.
• With that power, we sent the evil team packing, though the mastermind managed to gather the five of them in a vehicle with a tank-like roof entrance and was making an escape out of the city across the bridge with them.
• Suddenly, a helicopter piloted by some of his goons appeared overhead, and it dropped a ladder down toward the vehicle. Seeing this, the mastermind climbed out of the vehicle, grabbing on to the ladder and allowing them to pull him up as he abandoned his other confused colleagues to their fate. Three of the four remaining evil members clambered out and looked around confusedly but didn’t see their boss, while Nendou, who was dressed in a leather outfit with guns and knew exactly what happened, waited for the helicopter to drop down the ladder a second time, this time for him. He was also pulled up to safety.
• Now in the plane, one of the goons asked Nendou to take over the piloting of the plane, which he did so. The other goons were afraid because although he had a license, it was known that the way he piloted the plane made it wobble from side to side the entire time, which made nearly everyone else in the plane sick. However, it had a soothing effect on their boss, and acted in much the same way that the magical song did for the good team, and the scene ended with the boss sighing in soothed satisfaction as all the other goons around him tried not to be sick and throw up.