Dreams

Jan 25 2022

• My dream involved an RPG dungeon that took place at work, which somehow tied into two things at the same time — my recently completed gender transition, as well as a volunteering stint that one of the executive assistants at work was looking for people for, for a two week event celebrating the new dungeon.
• The dungeon itself was located one level above the main office floor (3rd floor) that we worked on, and at one point there was a large well-like balcony that I could peer over and see some workmates below having a catered lunch at. One of the rooms in the dungeon involved the ninja turtles — two of them appeared out of one tunnel and headed toward a sewer grate exit on the other end of the room, and a little bit later the other two appeared through another door and also headed toward the same exit. My party engaged the second set of two turtles in combat and they suddenly ran around the room once they got to 15% health, so I instructed my party to hold off on finishing them off. They came to a stop below a large cupboard set in the ceiling, and it flew open and dropped a whole pile of loot on us (there were gems the size of apples and other similar treasure, and a few pieces dropped down the well into the office room below). The turtles then disappeared into thin air after triggering this secret treasure collection.
• There were also washrooms, one male and one female, inside the dungeon that we were on, and I knew that the organizers of the dungeon had set it up so that the first three people to use specific washroom stalls would find unique artifacts in them that no one else would be able to have. I didn’t want them however as they were somewhat useless, and also because I had clairvoyance and was nearby enough that I read the minds of the organizers as they placed the artifacts there, so I felt it was cheating if I just took them anyway.
• The volunteering stint was a flashback to a couple weeks before that dungeon run, and involved welcoming people to the dungeon, and the exec assistant setting them up was mainly looking for people to fill in the next week/first full week, particularly Monday to Thursday, as those were the days that she would not be around. She already had a sign up sheet with at least one person in every day besides Thursday though, plus this was during a January that I also had finals in, so I decided to pass. In this segment of the dream I was in my pre-transition body, so I didn’t exactly want to have anything to do with the office people as well as they were unaware of my upcoming transition in a couple weeks. However, I did find a pile of newsletters and booklets commemmorating my office from back then, with pictures and articles and other things that I decided to take home to scan and upload on my blog.
• One of the people taking part in the catered meal was up next, and he had apparently forgotten all about his volunteering stint at 10:30 or 11:30 until about 5 minutes before the event, so he was looking for someone he could give the rest of his meal to.
• There was also someone who was moving away from the office because his parents had moved to a nearby Japanese city to the northwest for work purposes, and so he had to transfer schools/jobs yet again. We were sorry to see him go but I didn’t know him that well anyway, even though I feel like he was someone from either one of my previous RL schools or jobs.

Jan 26 2022

• I had a dream that was entitled the Great Race, the words were in my mind when I woke up even though I don’t think it was actually used in the dream and it isn’t the best description of what happened.
• It started off with me viewing or controlling Kel from a top-down view, with her starting on the second floor of an apartment and having to escape from zombies. The zombies were also in the apartment, and once she got out of there, there were more outside as well. I met up with her at some point around there, but they were specifically after her, not me.
• We escaped and headed for a specific house in the neighbourhood, owned by a jovial zombie dad (with his own zombie family) who was friendly with us and who possessed a green shield that could shield Kel from the zombies. He used it on her, and they couldn’t attack her while the shield was active.
• Zombie mafia then arrived and tried to negotiate for the friendly zombie to hand my sister over. We were hiding in the house at this point to conceal our presence from them, and I had also gone invisible for extra protection. He went into the house to stall for time, beckoned us over, and then asked for our 4012 house’s address — he was going to say that we had escaped while they were talking outside, and was going to take the mafia to that house and say that we would probably go there to get supplies on our way out so it would be a good place to lay an ambush. I didn’t fully trust him at first but he assured me that we could take supplies from his house instead and escaped. We agreed.
• He set off with most of the mafia zombies in cars while I transformed into an invisible spider and hung out on the wall, watching them leave. There were about 30 of them in all that he took with him. There were still a few lazy zombie girls that were part of the mafia group now lounging around the place, so we knew our actual escape would eventually be reported, but we would at least get a good head start.
• I summoned/commandeered a couple of vehicles for our escape, a bicycle for our supplies as well as a faster and slightly larger bicycle (like a motorcycle without the actual motor part) for the two of us, with me driving and Kel riding pillion behind me. I asked her if she could ride the other bicycle so it would be easier to move along but she said no.
• But that was fine — I could mentally control either bike, or both at once, and steer them along the roads, the only problem was that one was faster than the other, so various parts of the journey involved me trying to keep both vehicles in sync even though one was faster than the other, and I had to constantly swap around what I was controlling for this. At several traffic lights during our journey I even purposely had one vehicle delay a bit while the other one cut in front of it, to make it look like both vehicles were being controlled by different people and interacting with each other’s presence, just in case anyone was watching us closely.
• Anyway, our journey from the house took up the rest of my dream. The house was on the southern side of the city, and we were heading toward the airport on the northwest side, but it was rush hour, and many of the roads had traffic jams, so it took forever to actually get anywhere. There were highways that would let us get there faster, but that was most likely being watched by the mafia, so I wanted to stick to the actual local roads in order to blend in. (plus the zombie mafia was too busy and important to risk getting stuck in gridlock.)
• At one point, we were moving particularly slowly because there were four museums in a city block area and Kel insisted on stopping by them so she could visit them and read the inscriptions on their displays. This cost us a couple days, but I didn’t mind as that would confuse the mafia even more, and we were really safe as long as we were in there and weren’t moving. However, I asked her again if she would be able to ride the bike so we could save time on the rest of the journey, and she said no, she could not.
• The dream ended shortly after that, as we continued on north and passed by some residential streets in the central-north side of the city. There were busy roads running north-to-south to the east and west of us, but I surmised that those were more likely to be watched, and so we stuck to the quieter neighbourhood grid of streets between the two busy thoroughfares as we headed north.

Jan 27 2022

• A large part of the dream had to do with recruitment at work, and how we recruited a few new people for our team. Daniel was one of them, he came to us from another team at work and “skipped” one step on the usual promotion path or something, which irked a few people that he jumped over, but the boss said that they should have applied if they wanted the role.
• Our team at work was actually a sports-related team on a field though. I don’t remember the sport but it feels like baseball, but without the base-running, and with some sort of accountant role that was in charge of pulling out money and handing it out. An exhibition match was played at some point, with my boss ending off saying that he couldn’t wait for the season to end and the next year to start so that we could get our hands on one of the players on the team we were playing against, who had also applied and won a spot on our team.
• I also had a flash forward to a situation in the future when I had resigned and moved on, but was unable to find a new job after doing whatever I needed to do, and meeting my boss again and asking him if there was a temporary role on the team that they wanted to hire me for during the busy period of the year.

Jan 28 2022

• I was lying down in bed on a mattress on the floor, trying to fall asleep in a room that looked exactly the same as my current apartment. In particular, I couldn’t see the front door from where my mattress was because there was a wall in the way, with one passage going around the right side of the wall through the kitchen to the front door, and another passage going around the left side of the wall, past my bedroom and the washroom, to the front door.
• Anyway, while it was modeled after my apartment, I knew that I was on holiday and thus my time zones were a bit off from other people. It was past midnight where I was, but the people downstairs were still awake, and I heard some strange noises coming from downstairs, and then heard someone down there open their front curtains, before turning on a television.
• I listened to the television for a while — a game show was on and there was a host asking questions of the contestants. Even though I could not see the TV show, I could hear enough to be able to follow along with what was happening and even answer some questions.
• I pulled up my phone to look at Discord and saw Jah and Kynji chatting to each other in our main Discord server. I also looked at private messages and saw Seren active in the chat that the two of us shared with Satinel, although it was late at night and Satinel was asleep. Seren showed me a picture of her own room, the lights were off but there was a sort of dark light that allowed me to make out everything in the room anyway, and from the angle of her shot I could see her feet at the foot of the bed, and then the see the TV on the far side of the room, as well as a door.
• I started to type to her that I really wished I had someone come together with me on my trip, as I was scared, but about two words into my sentence, I heard a key being shoved into my front door and the lock turning. I jumped out of bed, going “Hello? Hello? Hello?”, but there was no reply. I started to circle around the right side of the wall, toward the kitchen, but before I could see who was there, the shock woke me up in real life.

Jan 30 2022

• Spring in Japan. The season of fresh starts, sakura flowers, and scams. A mutual male friend introduced me and a girl friend of mine to a thing on campus where we could go into a room and have really cool baths, there was an actual shower bath in the corner but the entire large room itself was fitted with shower heads that rained down nice, soothing jets of rain. We were told that we could use it if we agreed to help out with a collection quest for 6 items, that were all located within the shower area, which apparently spanned more than just the room that we were in. There was a set of two identical items, another set of three identical items, and one single item to collect.
• One of the skills that many people or everyone had in the dream world was a Hide skill, which could be used to turn invisible exactly where you were standing and could be triggered/refreshed every 10 seconds or so, but could not be used when moving. At one point earlier in the story we were Hidden in a series of rooms while exploring a set of rooms and we weren’t sure if guys were hidden in there watching us — I Hid in a doorway of a dark room and crouched down so if anyone with slightly better version of stealth that could let them walk around while hidden there bumped into me, we’d both become visible but I would have the advantage on him because he’d see nothing directly in front of him and would probably miss with his first attack, while I could hit him from down below. At the same time my girl friend searched another room across for me to make sure it was empty. It turned out all the rooms around us in that scenario were empty, but we were definitely still wary about the possibility of hidden people all through this University scene.
• Anyway, we were suspicious about this entire new venture and figured that there’d be guys hiding in the shower area somewhere watching us girls shower, but the jets of water everywhere disproved that — even though it was a large room, every corner was covered by the gentle shower and there was no way that someone could be hiding in the area without being revealed by the water. It was very high-tech and felt great, and the room aesthetically looked quite wonderful and elegant as well.
• So we stripped down and started to enjoy the shower. The entrance door locked behind us, and the guy friend remained outside. There were tiled glass windows that we could look out of, but that were apparently more or less one way mirrors only, from outside it just seemed like a blur. We could see people walking by, and it was all both a bit thrilling and a bit embarrassing, but hey, we were alone.
• While keeping his eyes averted, the mutual friend outside told us using some sort of virtual communication system that not only was this entire room a shower room, but if we went around the corner we would see a slope down to another room that was also part of the shower room system, and that our first item was down in the next room. He told us where it was, and we found the first item, one of the pair of two items, exactly where he said it was. We saw that the entire area looked like a parking garage, with circular rooms that curved around a central staircase like ramp system and double doors that partitioned the rooms into smaller rooms, and they were all part of this glorious bath system.
• We continued exploring the area together while butt naked, since it was just the two of us here and we weren’t concerned about each other seeing us. We continued checking for other hidden people as well but found none, however we did find some doors leading out of and in to the bath areas, and were a bit concerned about this. Going further down, we found the set of three items hidden in separate places around the lower bath area, as well as the single item, but we could not find the last item, the second piece of the pair, for the life of us.
• Eventually, we wandered up to what I thought was the starting room again, but was actually one level below the starting room, half a level below the room with the initial item of the pair. We couldn’t go any further as there was a locked door, but we remembered that there was also an exit door and there was an area outside that was a safe changing room place that we could dry ourselves up in, so we went out through that exit door into another room where we found towels, but not our clothes.
• This was when I realized we were one floor down still, and that that locked door was probably a one way door that we had gone through without realizing at first. The change room itself too was not quite safe, there were a couple doors leading into there and a guy wandered in at some point, then wandered out the other door again on his way to class — he didn’t see us only because we both used Hide to conceal ourselves in a corner.
• Once he was gone, I decided that we’d also need to wrap ourselves up in towels and race out and up the stairs to get back to the ladies’ change room where our clothes were. This room was probably actually the coed shower room, and the shower area we were in was a mixed gender shower room area that just happened to be empty. The reason that there was that locked door leading up from the first couple levels was thus that that was the ladies’ only area and it prevented guys from going up that way. It also prevented us from returning though once we accidentally went through.
• We raced out of the room and around the corridors toward the stairs. It was quite the run, and I told the other girl to follow closely behind me so I could help partially conceal her from other people who sometimes ignored us and sometimes stared at us. I said that I didn’t care because it was no different then walking around the University gym area in swimsuits, which I had done before during our swimming lessons a couple years ago in real life while traversing between the University pools. Or to put it another way, it was no worse than a post-onsen scene in a run-of-the-mill ecchi anime.
• This was a lot longer of a run though, so it was actually a bit embarrassing, compounded by the fact that I kept on gently burping and could not stop it, and had no idea why. The burps were low and rumbly and drawn out, but didn’t really affect our scurrying, nor did they themselves seem to attract any more attention than us scantily-clad girls running through the halls, so I just ignored it. I tailgated behind a couple people that seemed to be moving in the direction of the stairs that we needed to use as well, and we hurried on that way.
• At one point, another girl in a group of people that we passed stopped short upon seeing us, stared at the girl friend I was with, and called out to her with a “Jie?”, or 姐, Chinese for “big sister”. They weren’t actually related, it was a term of endearment between friends, but they apparently knew each other and had a somewhat awkward and brief meet and greet with no explanations before my friend hurried off after me again.
• Eventually we raced up the stairs, round two more corners, and got back to the changing room where our clothes were. We dressed up and could turn off the showers from here either, and my burping stopped once I got dressed again. I realized that the burps actually controlled some sort of floating camera system that had been following me around, specifically a viewing angle setting that would have given anyone connecting to the camera different viewpoints of my cloth-wrapped body, that changed each time I burped, but I had no idea if anyone had actually connected to the camera and used it while it was active. Probably. Whatever. It either deactivated when we arrived back at that room, or at least didn’t matter anymore once we were clothed.
• After dressing up, we went back into the shower room, now with the jets off, to look and see what happened. We actually found the sixth item in the same room as the first one that the guy friend had showed us, he had neglected to mention that there was another item in that room and had implied without actually saying so that all the other items were down below past the next door, which was the one way door leading into the co-op bathing area. It was implied that he knew what he was doing, and that that was the scam part of the entire venture, to get us into a situation where we’d have to run around in revealing outfits for a bit. We collected the sixth item and finished our quests, which released us from actually having to pay for the shower room service and actually allowed us to use the room again in the future for free.
• Nonetheless, we both weren’t too happy about the entire ordeal but figured we came out okay from it in the end. The opening line of this dream segment came to mind though, and was still fresh in my mind when I awoke from the dream shortly after this, so that became the first thing I wrote down.