Dreams

Lots of multiple-dreams nights this week, including a night with 6 dreams and 1 snippet. I’ve never had a 6 (remembered) dream night, I think my previous high was 4 dreams and 8 snippets. I found some of the dreams this week to be fairly interesting too, a dream about outer space and steerable rockets (which is a rare but occasionally recurring motif that I never really thought about before — for a recent example, see Jan 23 2022 — other examples are outside the scope of the blog until I import in old dreams, but include Jul 26 2019, and May 29 2020), a San Jose trip with another dream friend lost to the mist (I feel like I could come up with a dream graveyard list of them too), a Sports Day marathon plotline and resolution that I was proud of myself for thinking up, and a bunch of really interesting scenarios in which I met friends old and new.

Jan 31 2022

• All I remember is looking through a picture book at some point which had a full-page spread for each season of the year, with a picture of a scene set in an idyllic garden or meadow and fancy names for each part of the photo. In particular, I remember the Spring page, which had a girl holding a basket in a field of some kind surrounded by flowers. The two-page picture was divided into eight sections or so, and three of the eight sections were distinctly named after the Fate anime movies — Spring Song and Heaven’s Feel were located on the left page, next to the image of the girl, and Presage Flower was located down at the bottom of the right page. I wondered whether the movies plagiarized the book or the book plagiarized the movies.

Feb 01 2022

Dream 1

• I was an adventurer with clairvoyant skills, and was searching through various cities on an overhead map with a male companion, possibly Jah, for Doggy, Jon‘s plushie, whom I had apparently sold away in a previous dream to a pawn shop somewhere once it ran out of some sort of scrying power, but now regretted selling. I wanted to buy it back however, and could scan a shop’s contents when near, so we went around visiting different towns, then entered the town, which turned the game into a first-person point of view, and looked at the one or two shops in each one.
• Eventually, we located Doggy in an Arabic town near the edge of a desert that was also contested by a military that made the area dangerous. I knew from clairvoyance that we were safe until at least nightfall though. We sat on a bench by a busy outdoor market to rest on our way to the shop where Doggy was, but eventually gave the seat up to a pregnant woman in a hijab who came by.
• Once we met the shop, I noticed Wela and Jessica from McNally in the shop as well — they were great friends with each other so I wasn’t shocked to see them together having a pleasant girls’ night out, but I knew that Wela knew about my transition and new form and would recognize me since we had worked together post-graduation at the University, whereas Jessica wouldn’t. We passed them on the way in to the back of the store to get Doggy, but they didn’t notice me. But they were still by the cashier when we pulled up to it to check out as well, so I waved and called out to them.
• Wela called me Tiffany at first, apparently due to a joke I had made over some chat where I said I might as well change my name to that if I were going to undergo some sort of further surgery or transformation again. I said no, I’m still Jessica, that was a joke, and she ahh’d in understanding. She introduced me to the other Jessica with my former name, and Jess looked at me strangely in a way that led me to believe that she didn’t know what to make of me and probably wasn’t fully supportive right off the bat.
• Wela invited us both out for lunch though, and we agreed, although there were apparently other people standing around in the shop that one of the four of us “knew”, like Harvey from Dunman, and at least one other Indian woman. They all got invited too, and there were about 10 in total. Jah said he could come but he only had until the top of the hour before he had to leave, so we should hurry.
• I paid for Doggy, who cost $16 and had apparently been on sale for two weeks, but the shop just couldn’t sell him, so he had been shoved to the back of the plushie shelf that I plucked him from. He also came with a free fantasy poster of some kind as a shop promotion, but the poster was shrunk to 23% and was really tiny. The cashier said she would blow it up to 69% size for me for a small additional fee, and didn’t give me the chance to accept or deny the offer before she added it to the cost. A nearby mom and her young boy thought I had won a prize and were really interested in looking at what the cashier gave me, but it was still somewhat small in size even at 69%, so they were disappointed once I showed them what the poster looked like.
• Wela and Jessica and two others had gone off ahead to the restaurant, and everyone else had waited for me, so we sprinted from the shop toward the restaurant. I had to use the remainder of some mana I had to help the slowest runners along. Once we reached the restaurant, we saw that they had gotten a long rectangular table and were both seated at one corner of it. They had ordered some food as well. The furthest seats from them were also occupied, I sat four seats away from Wela and Jessica, with Jah two seats away from them, and the Indian girl in between the two of us, to my right. I wanted to swap seats with her so I could get closer to them, but that never happened. Oh well.

Dream 2

• At one point I was at a performance of a show named Maitetsu, in a raised gallery at the back of the theater which was packed to full seating capacity. The show was a live, cultural stage play being put on by devils who had taken over some town or other and were subjugating the humans in, but that I was helping fight against, although they were a formidable force and far more powerful than me. They didn’t really know about my existence yet though.
• Most of the audience were humans, and there was a charming curse effect emanating through the room as the captive audience watched the play. I was a magician however, and was resistant or immune to curses due to a spell aura I had active, so I was passively disrupting the charm curse spell for myself and those around me and causing a soft and constant beeeeep noise that the devils didn’t seem to notice but that was very irritating to me as it rang in my ear.
• Magic in this area was crafted or prepared but could only be done so at certain times of the day, with different spells being able to be cast at different times. My Resist Curse spell was a whole-day spell, so I had that active, but I was also trying to get and cast a Curse spell on the devils, which could only be cast between 12am and 1:50am or so, so I had brought my spellbook along and was patiently waiting for the right time. There was another spell I forgot that could also only be cast after 3:30 pm.
• Editor: I did work with Wela briefly at the University after graduation, but long before I started my transition, so she actually would have had no clue if I ever met her again in real life.

Feb 03 2022

Dream 1

• I was sick in bed, lying with Tigey spread out face-down over my eyes to block the light. I heard Dad return and him and Mom were talking outside in the living room, but I continued lying down and even pretended to be asleep for the moment.
• Eventually they yelled for me, so I got out of bed and went out. It was dinner time, and I saw the entire family there, even though I didn’t recognize the layout of the house. The kitchen table was a square table set near the entrance to the kitchen, to the right of it, and there was space for Kel and Jon to sit at the table’s opposite diagonals, near left and far right respectively, while leaving the near right seat between them open for me. Mom and Dad were seated just outside the kitchen, they were visible through the kitchen entranceway.
• There was porridge on the table, which I appreciated since I was still ill. Dad said we were originally going out to dinner as a family, I said I was glad we were not since I would have just gone back to sleep instead.
• Later on, while back in bed, I learnt that I was cast as Jesus in a Russian stage play. It was a really minor role though. The guild leader of some guild that I belonged to was playing the actual stage character. Because I now had a proper gig though, I could cancel self-practice that was scheduled for me by the guild, since I would be practicing at the actual studio.
• I learned from bed that the Russian-themed play involved me getting to wear a robe with cute oversized sleeves, and some sort of wagon escort quest, and was overall a Slice of Life travelling story.
• Our family house was also apparently able to move between places or between time in small increments.

Dream 2

• I was in San Francisco with my family, a perfectly square city packed with dense urban places. We started at a library and shopping mall in the middle of the city, where it was crowded with people and I was triple vaxxed but still feeling guilty about being out and not using a mask because I was missing something else that other people were.
• I was looking to buy some clothes in the library, but that was the wrong place for it, so I eventually wandered out of one of the exits which led into the mall proper. Just outside the library was a booth with someone who was giving away prizes to people who he saw were carrying specific books, sort of like a scavenger hunt. I took a look at his list, which was three or four pages of paper stapled together, but told him that I had no books with me anyway.
• After I emerged from one of the other shops, I saw Dad standing around with a bunch of shopping boxes and looking for the rest of us. Mom and Kel were in nearby shops too, and I could have teleported away to another shop but decided to wait for him to walk over instead.
• I feel like he could also normally teleport, but couldn’t while carrying all those boxes. We discussed using this ability with some sort of a delayed effect at some point to pass time, he said it was a bad idea because picking a destination but delaying the teleport spell meant teleporting to that exact point in the universe after the Earth had continued its journey rotating around the sun, so a delayed teleport would trap you in outer space. I disagreed, saying that the spell was calculated as a vector from where you are, and since you were on Earth and hurtling through space along with Earth, picking a distance and a direction relative to where you were from would correctly send you to that desired spot whenever the spell finally cast.
• Dad, as part of his argument, brought up three space satellites that the University of SF had launched and accidentally left stranded in space with people on board. Those were there because their teleport destinations were actually set to specific positions in space and they weren’t affected by the Earth’s gravity once they were out there though.
• Anyway, I decided to save the people and satellites. I teleported to the nearest one, which was between Mars and Jupiter, and noted that I could attach my phone to it and use its battery to guide the ship, and I could even attach a secondary external battery pack to it. I teleported home to get the secondary battery, teleported back to the ship, and managed to guide it home to Earth, then to SF, and once I was near enough to the University, it automatically glided over to a designated parking zone.
• This took most of the juice from my two batteries. The second satellite was also basically in the same location so I wasn’t worried about that one, but once I recharged, I decided to go to the third satellite first, which was trapped in a really quick orbit around a moon belonging to one of the furthest planets. I teleported to it, then decided that to save some of my battery, we could use the rotation of the ship and the gravity of the moon/planet to slingshot the ship toward Earth, as long as we boosted the engines at the right point. We did all that and were soon cruising safely back to Earth.
• At another point in the dream, Robert, one of Dad‘s younger brothers, had a young daughter who was gravely ill and in hospital. Dad was driving Kel and I past the hospital toward the University when Kel got a call about it, and although she didn’t tell us what the call was about, we understood from the side of the conversation that we heard, and we stopped to visit her.
• Robert had donated $4000 to the ward, but he or Dad complained that the hospital had spent it frivolously — they had ordered a large bed for her room, a queen-size mattress that was wide enough for two people, and an old TV set into the wall as well as some snacks and games to keep her occupied. I pointed out that the daughter was actually being treated in a room in the adult wing of the hospital, so the big bed was probably them futureproofing this room for the future as well, and the daughter probably appreciated the distractions, even if the hospital didn’t directly spend the money on treatment tools, which they probably already had.

Feb 05 2022

Dream 1

• I and many other people I knew were on vacation. We were asleep in our “hotel room” at night, with Mom and Dad asleep in a separate room that looked like their 4012 bedroom, off to the left of where I was sleeping on a mattress in the main living room.
• Milumbar was on a mattress between me and them, but he had stayed up to play some arcade game on a gaming tablet that was as long as three iPad tablets joined lengthwise, and he was now King 3 ranking on a shuffleboard game of some sort from playing against the AI, which was an insanely high level.
• Many of the games were co-op so I went to search for Jah to see if he wanted to play something, but he wasn’t really interested in playing most of the games even though he was also really good at a couple of them.
• I ended up playing some MMO game by myself and wandered around a snow/ice area, past a bunch of people questing or farming wolf mobs, looking for a specific wolf mob that was part of a quest I had. I remember Shelley from work telling me that the area was really busy at the moment. I wasn’t sure if I would have to wait around and try to tag the wolf mob once it respawned, but I eventually found th wolf mob and realized that it was tied to my quest and thus only visible to me. I pulled it and tried to kill it, but it reset to its starting position because I tried to pull it too far, so I had to do it again.

Dream 2

• This was an airplane scene, where Satinel and I were seated in the front middle set of seats of the front row, with her on the right aisle-adjacent seat and me next to her, and two empty seats to my left. There were two seats on the right past the aisle, and two seats on the left past the aisle, for a total of 8 seats per “row” divided by two aisles into 2/4/2. The male pilot and female co-pilot were seated at their own pilot’s seats at the controls, which were just regular seats at the front of the plane about two or three “rows’ in front of the front row, so there was no actual pilot cabin, just an empty space between us and them. There were a bunch of other rows behind us, but I didn’t know how far back it went.
• Anyway, the male pilot stood up while the female pilot piloted the plane, and he played a series of videos that were similar to instructional or safety trivia videos in his upturned palm for us all to see. This was implied to be entertainment and optional. He then started to quiz the passengers as a group on the videos. A man in the second row left side window seat was really good at trivia though, and answered basically all of them himself.
• While the pilot was playing the video, I was curled up on the seat with my legs pulled up to my left, leaning against Satinel‘s shoulder on my right as I pretended to be asleep. I was dressed in some sort of strange Chinese traditional outfit that made me stand out a little bit, so I saw the pilot look at me through my squinted eyes a couple times as he was showing the video and quizzing the passengers, but I was mostly covered with a blanket anyway and didn’t bother engaging with him and his game.

Dream 3

• There was some sort of event in a mystery game or something going on where an evil organization was crumbling, and many of their goons were escaping with papers and other treasures from the evil organization’s HQ and trying to flee to safety. I was part of a group of two or three friends working for some detective agency who didn’t care about this in general, except that there was one specific and really important paper document that we knew that someone had that we were trying to retrieve.
• We staked out one of the streets leading away from the evil org’s building, and soon saw an old man hurrying away from the building, clutching a large brown envelope with documents in it to his chest. We felt that that looked like someone who knew the value of documents, so we stopped and caught him and took the envelope from him.
• We didn’t find the document we were looking for, though, not even after we started searching him, which included looking down his shirt and pants for papers, which embarrassed the poor old man. We actually ended up returning him the papers that he had stolen since it was not what we were looking for. In return, he said he’d help us look for the papers if we wanted — he was a cleaner or something that was working there partially against his will and had now turned over a new leaf and wanted nothing else to do with the evil organization even if they ever recovered from this setback.

Dream 4

• I took a bus to San Jose for a day trip, and alighted at a bus stop together with a boy and a girl in their late teens/early 20s who had sat behind me. I was kind of interested in them and silently wanted to befriend them, especially the girl whom I admired for some reason, but I had no reason to talk to them on the bus so I didn’t. However, I did notice when they alighted at San Jose and started walking down the same road together some distance behind me.
• After a while though, since I was quietly watching them, I noticed that they had stopped to help out someone with his car in a garage driveway that I had crossed a few seconds prior. I didn’t notice the person having trouble until they approached him, so I wanted to turn back and help them as well, figuring that it would be a good icebreaker.
• However, before I could do so, a woman approached me on the street, welcomed me to San Jose once I mentioned that I was on a day tour here, then talked about how the street we were on led south and eventually led to some quay or dockside that tourists should definitely visit.
• After she left, I went back to help the person with the car. The boy had left — I had assumed the girl and boy were a couple but that didn’t seem to be the case after all — so I greeted the girl as well as the man that owned the car, and we finished taking care of whatever problem it had.
• To thank us, he took the two of us for a ride in the car as we chatted a bit. Since we were both tourists, he drove us down the avenue to a museum that he recommended, although it was actually a small gift shop with a front desk counter that doubled as a cashier. He said we could pick whatever items we liked as a reward, and he would pay for them as long as they cost less than $5.
• I wasn’t sure if he meant one single item less than $5, or a few items that combined to less than $5, but only one item even moderately interested me, a fuzzy keychain that cost $1.50 or so, so I put that in his shopping basket and looked around the rest of the room besides the gift shop area.
• There was a Chinese/Japanese-like shrine of offerings in one part of the room which prohibited photography unless everyone involved in the picture paid $10 each. There was another empty shrine without the warning that was probably being set up as an exhibit of some sort. There were also several rooms leading off from the main room, with shut office doors preventing me from looking inside, but I had the feeling that those contained actual museum exhibits in them, but the place was obviously set up to promote the gift shop over the actual museum for profits’ sake.
• Once we left and parted our own ways, I realized I had forgotten to get either of their names, and because I didn’t end up with the receipt as well, I had no way of finding out the man’s details and contacting the man again. The girl, whom I had befriended in the meantime, was also gone, another transient dream friend lost to the mist, and I was a little sad about this. This meant that while I could talk about them on the weekly blog, I couldn’t actually even refer to them by their names, which I also felt sad about.

Dream 5

• I was playing an odd baseball match as a manager. It was basically a football puzzle game where our players were pieces that could not move without our specific instructions once they were on the field. I only had two pieces on my team, one was a really powerful human blocker that could only be used for defence, and the other was a large, elongated flying squid with outstretched tentacles which could only be used for offence. Defensive pieces could only be placed in the player’s defensive half of the field, and offensive pieces could only be placed in the opposing player’s half.
• My single winning combination was basically being able to block all my opponent’s offence with my blocker, getting the ball, and then having him toss the ball downfield to the flying squid for the touchdown and victory. Each touchdown was worth 7 points and that was the only way for scoring — no field goals, extra point plays, or anything like that. But despite it basically having American football rules, it was still called baseball in my mind’s world.
• Anyway, in the main game of the dream, I was up against a really powerful team which used a number of hard-hitting offensive playing pieces that were all identical. There were nine of them, but they had to be lined up or stacked together in a row with each other (to form a snake) to use, which was usually a drawback but was actually really effective against me because I only had one defensive piece. In addition, their special ability was that the first piece had to start in the defensive zone, but the other eight could extend into the offensive zone and count as both offensive pieces at the same time as well, as long as they were connected to the first piece in the defensive zone.
• I had to place my defensive and offensive pieces first, so my blocker was next to my goalline and my flying squid was next to the opposing goalline in the far right corner. The female manager opposing me would then stack up the 9 players in the same column as my defensive piece, the first one at the very edge of the zone and the next eight crashing down into my offensive zone, knocking back my piece and crushing it into the ground, and they would then go on to score. She won the first two rounds this way and build up a 14-0 lead.
• However, I realized that although they could reach me anywhere on the field with their length, their weakness was that they could only go in a straight line, especially since my blocker also had synergy with that as the enemy could not score until my blocker was defeated, so they couldn’t just try to avoid me and go for the goalline. The goal line did not extend across the entire field, as there were walls on the left and right side of the goalline so that teams could only score in the center part.
• Therefore, I put my blocker player two squares in front of the wall on the right side, and as predicted the opposing manager put her units opposing my blocker and sent them crashing against me again. However, this time, the impact of the blow sent my blocker stumbling back a square, but he was then able to brace himself against the wall, which absorbed the rest of the impact and left him alive with a low amount of hit points. He could then take the ball and toss it to the flying squid for a score. The game thus became 14-7, and then 14-14 again once the female manager tried the same thing with the same results.
• She was frustrated, and the camera zoomed up to her in the glass booth, furrowing her brow and shaking her head as she tried but failed to figure out how to overcome this. There were other suited executives outside the glass booth, seated at tables and drinking from champagne cups as they looked at her and shook their heads — I wasn’t sure if that meant they knew she had lost, or if that meant that they knew how to defeat my team and were disappointed that she couldn’t figure it out.
• The camera then went down to the sidelines, where she had actual reserve players, who could move by themselves, that wanted to cheat and get on the field, as one additional hit would have knocked out my blocker in the current setup, but there were also actual Edmonton Eskimo players there, dressed in their golden Canadian football game outfits even though they weren’t part of either team, who grabbed those reserve players and dragged them away when they tried to get onto the field.
• I ended up winning this game since my opponent could figure out no way to break my blocker.

Dream 6

• This was a school dream of sorts, except it was centered on a Sports Day or Marathon Day sort of event, where we had to make 20 or 30 laps around a large residential and shopping area near the school. Although we were Grade 8 or so kids again, I knew that some of my former Dunman friends would not recognize me if I stopped to talk to them so I kind of ran separately from them, as there were also children from other schools doing their rounds on the field the same time as us.
• I did need to find Yucheng for some reason though, so I looked for him while I was running. I don’t remember why, but I feel like I wanted to give him an item or envelope, but I knew he started off earlier than the others and was running separately, but I never did find him even after doing 3 or 4 laps or so, and so I gave up after a bit.
  – I also knew that because I was considered both a male and a female, I had to run this race twice, as a male with the other males today and as a female with the other females tomorrow. My transgender status was represented by me basically controlling two characters at once, and I could swap between them as my main character, like in Genshin, which was really cool. In addition, my male and female characters were really good friends with each other and very willing to help each other out even though they were “separate people”.
• My male character was faster, so this meant that I could swap between a faster and slower speed at will to speed up or slow down to avoid people, and could also let one tiring character rest while the other one ran, as exhaustion and the lactic acid buildup were calculated separately but did tick off even when the character was not on the field, so I never actually got tired.
• The only key was that my male character still had to do the majority of the running in the first race, and my female character the majority in the second race, so that my times didn’t look too far off from the gender average, as everyone else was only one character. I took in the lay of the land while running, since the route would be the same one used tomorrow, and I noticed at one part that we were running by a residential building where a guy on the second or third floor was staring at us running by.
• I realized that he was a creep and that the girls tomorrow would be more of a target as they ran by in their soft cotton shirts and bloomers, so I hatched a plan to capture him. I decided that my girl character would also run alone tomorrow to look vulnerable, and she would lag behind everyone else and slow down around that leg of the circuit to rest. When the creep invariably showed up to try to molest me, I would swap into my male character and beat the stuffing out of him.
• Snippet: I’m not sure between which dream this snippet came from, or the context behind it, but at one point I was looking at two pairs of reddish-brown glasses, both of which looked like mine but both of which a little loose-fitting, and trying to identify which one was actually mine.

Feb 06 2022

• The first part of the dream was a game that I was playing with what seemed to be a Discordia group of 7. It alternated between first person view and a sort of narrator ghost view, and featured us inside a two-storey manor fighting off a number of foes. There were weak shambling zombies upstairs in a room that moved slowly and would lose aggro on a person once they moved out to the room, and more powerful zombies outside the house trying to break in through a wall.
• There were also ducks in the main hall, that would stand there for a while, and then replicate by splitting itself, and then have the original duck attack us after splitting. These had a lot of HP, so after a while we realized that they were the main threat and concentrated our firepower on it. Jah, Kynji, and Trin started attacking them in earnest, with Trin in particular toting a large minigun that needed a bit of time to spin up but was very effective after that. My weapon was bad so I largely was running utility tasks and also scouting in nearby rooms for more enemies.
• After this game, I had a class on campus to attend, although I wasn’t actually part of the registered class since I was a lot older than those other University-aged kids in it. I was auditing the class or something though so I was allowed to sit through it still. It was a math class with a professor lecturing in front of a large lecture theatre, but the room was a standalone portable classroom that for some reason was located next to The Quad in the University of Alberta, which was basically a large grassy field area.
• There was a party tent with loud booming music pitched next to the lecture theatre, so it was difficult to hear the professor as all you could really hear was the booming music from the tent and the sound of people partying and having fun next door. The professor looked annoyed, but less so at the music and more so at the students who were fidgeting awkwardly and obviously having trouble following the lesson thanks to the distraction.
• After the class was over, I took a group of three friends and went to meet up with my previous crew for more games. The previous game had a limit of 7, so I was slightly worried that I was taking a group of four (which included two wizards) to meet up with another group of four, as someone might have to sit out, but the next game had a maximum limit of 20 players so we were set in that regard.
• We reached the staging area of the game, where there were people milling about a elevator lobby hoping to find people to form a group for a game. The four others I had planned to meet were already in an elevator and holding the door open for us, so we went in as a group of 8, closed the elevator door, and waited as it ascended to the actual game lobby.
• On the way up, I noticed that there was a crossover from the last game — those who had found a yellow key item in the last game could use it to teleport around short distances as long as no one who had no idea about the teleport item existing saw them either teleporting away or arriving at their destination. Those of us with the item were also not allowed to mention the item, but that was how I found the weak zombies upstairs in a side room for example, and how I got away from them in the end.
• This time, instead of not being allowed to speak about the yellow key item, speaking about it (specifically, someone with the yellow key item saying the word “teleport”) would summon extra monsters to attack us in the next game, which I realized was a bonus fight that would also mean a higher reward. About half my group had the yellow key item, so I tried to ask my group if we could trigger that fight as I thought we could handle the extra challenge for an additional reward. I also said that everyone would probably get the yellow item after this round, so this would be the last time that we could qualify for this fight and also the last time that the people who did not have the yellow key item could be legitimately surprised by the turn of events.
• However, the group, or at least those in the know, refused the request. I called them conservatives, someone said to not bring politics into this, and I replied saying that I was talking about small-c conservatives and not the big-C ones.
• The door opened and we were in another warmly-lit room, which was a second staging lobby area for the game where you could recruit others, with an opening in the wall that led to the actual map. Because there was no actual door, we could even wander into the actual map while waiting to pick up others. The map was that of a Singapore hawker centre, with most of the stalls closed and the tables deserted, except that I could see some stalls further down the map were actually on fire, so it was some sort of a mystery game to be solved.
• Because we were still at the entrance to the zone, it was a shared area that we could see other people and groups milling about in, and because this was set in Singapore, I definitely saw many interesting people here, including most of my Dunman friends, my entire family, several people from work, and a few other people from Rosyth and Discordia.
• In particular, I remember Ronnie from work trying to recruit Alvin Foo from Rosyth in the second staging room at the top of the elevator. He was part of our team and asked permission from the rest of us, I said yes it was fine because I knew Alvin. Of the Dunman people, I saw Gillian and she waved to me and came over to say hi, though she was part of another group already. Allen also came up to me, with his wife and kids behind him, it was the first time I had seen him in many years after I moved to Canada and transitioned so I was delighted to see him there. Zixiang and Xuanjie were also standing around, as were Huihan, Kaiting, and Eileen. From Discordia, Jahandar and Kynji were also around for sure.
• My parents were there too, and my mom approached my direction and looked like she was trying to hug me, so I stretched out my hands to receive the hug, but she was actually trying to hug Kaiting who was next to me. My right hand got in the way of the hug since we were next to each other, and was kind of trapped between the two of them, but Mom just laughed and said she was going to hug me next anyway.
• Kel and Jon were also there and brought small bags of stuff from home for me, including things I had not seen in a long time, like a unicorn figure and the Ninja Turtle card game set that I had been pestering them to find for quite some time now.