Dreams

Feb 21 2022

• I remember a couple who had just broken up while on vacation trying to get back to their hotel room without their friends, who were also there with them, figure out what happened right away. They had to take a really crowded elevator back so the guy helped push the girl and a bunch of other people into the lift so that the door could shut, while using that as an excuse to wait for the next elevator himself so that he ddin’t have to be in the same one as her.
• At another point, I and a group of friends were trying to solve a word puzzle, a 7 letter word starting with P and ending with -ER that describes a person who slept really well. It was set up similar to Wordle, where people could make guesses as to the word, but they would only tell you if the correct letter was in the correct place. The other people with me guessed some silly words that were definitely wrong to discover the letters we had, but I told them not to waste the last two guesses so I could have some time to think of the answer.

Feb 22 2022

• I remember taking a trip with someone and planning to hike all the way up to the Arctic from Edmonton. I knew it was going to be chillier than it was down here, but not terribly so, but I was looking forward to it and there was a sense of exoticness and possibly mild danger around the trip as we were probably going to pass through Russia at some point. Anyway we walked some ways up and ended up befriending a girl we met and spending the night in her house. I thought already we were really far north but was surprised to hear her mention, when we chatted the next morning, that she had moved down to near Edmonton in order to be close to the a certain market here that was basically really close to my home. I checked the map and indeed we had only moved a very short distance from our starting point, relative to how much of the journey we had left. I also noticed I had a couple Dunman friends living nearby, one to the southeast and one to the northwest, as per my map, which had notable landmarks marked on it.
• I remember at another point taking the bus with some Dunman friends on the way to school, I remember in particular talking about some English analysis homework with Yiwen as we waited in line to board the bus, and then sitting next to Harvey in the front left seat of the bus for the second day in a row.
• Lastly, I remember at one point playing an NHL computer game, where I basically simulated the entire season since my Edmonton team always got into the playoffs, then I would simulate the post-season in small chunks, adding extra practice and rest days here and there to try to boost my team’s stats for the playoff rounds. I never wanted to actually play the matches though so I would inevitably lose in one of the rounds, but then I’d just quickly fast forward again to the next post-season after that. I also remember Detroit had an off-team that wasn’t the Red Wings, because the commentator at one point referred to the “other” team, the Red Wings, and mentioned something about how the four main Detroit sports teams had won all four major sporting championships at some point and how that inspired something about this current one.

Feb 23 2022

• I dreamt that Nak, Satinel, and I were a group wandering around a three-level building that was a school and a shopping mall rolled into one. In particular I remember Satinel stopping us outside a science lab where a teacher was seated at a desk reading something, and four students were at tables doing chemistry experiments. She indicated that she wanted to attack it, and we barged in, threatening the teacher with our weapons, who looked unamused and told us to shoot her. We each picked a different target to start and shot them all, which had the effect of not killing them but instead turning their allegiance so they were part of our team now. We then told them that they could now research in peace, and they thanked us. We also went around the room to see if any of them was a hidden shopkeeper or had some other unique interaction, which was the reason Satinel wanted to attack them in the first place, but they didn’t.
• We also went up to the third level of the building and walked around in preparation for a birthday dinner celebration we had at 8pm. It was 7:30 pm so we took our time passing by various shops and a fancy staircase that led down. We ended up at some public toilets with a long queue outside, which actually only had 4 people lined up, and Nak said that the toilets were very efficient and the queue of 4 would be down to 0 in less than a minute. He was right.
• At another point in the dream, I was hanging out with Neichus and Seren and we were celebrating Christmas or New Years by playing a special game of AMQ after watching an anime movie of some sort together. The two of them had already watched the movie before and thus already had its song on their lists.
• At yet another point, I was in my current apartment and looking out the balcony door toward the building on the other side of a grass yard. My family was living in a ground floor unit in that building, and I saw Mom outside cleaning their unit’s balcony door with a rag even though it was close to midnight. She paused and crossed the yard to my building to use a tap located on our ground floor to rinse the rag she was using, before heading back to continue cleaning.
• Finally, there was a scene as part of a larger, forgotten dream where I entered a shop to pick up a wok and some other things and saw Justin and a couple other people from Mcnally working there, as another place they were working at or something had shut down recently and they needed to make some money. I hailed them and said I visited this shop often when I neeed to buy something as it was on the way home from school for me. I almost picked up a mechanical pencil as well but I couldn’t find one that I liked. The only one I saw had a sliding flap at the very bottom where the metal nib of the pencil usually was, I could slide it to the left to “close” the hole and hide the sharp nib, or slide it to the right to open the hole and allow the very tip of the metal nib to jut out, it was some sort of safety feature to prevent it from being able to stab others, but it also meant it was very awkward to write with.
• While in the shop area, I also ran into some friends as part of another subplot where we were talking about some Dungeons and Dragons style characters we all had in some game and how the new staff of the shop were less interested in us having fun and more interested in running a boring streamlined game, they were reluctant to let our characters take powerful skills that had been allowed in the past, and the new GM started off the new groups at levels 1 and 2 compared to the established characters in order to curb power creep, but that meant that we couldn’t play together since I and some friends were of a higher level. The level 1 group consisted of three girls from Aikatsu! and only Ichigo from the show, playing the red girl, had her character decided upon. The other two, who were not show characters, hadn’t finalized their character yet but eventually performed an impromptu concert song and then decided on their names. I don’t remember the blue girl’s name but the green girl’s name was Cube. There was a sketched picture of the three of them on the wall and she added a hat on top of her green character to show that her character was now complete.
• On the way home from that I passed by an intersection near my Yishun 799 home where tons of students were lined up, queueing to get in to a place to do their exams. Time dilation was in full effect there as there were queues numbered by not only class but by year as well, and I saw two different versions of my younger brother there, one where he was holding hands with a girlfriend and one earlier one where he was by himself. I greeted the latter one and we walked home together.

Feb 24 2022

• I remember a snippet where I was playing an AMQ ranked round as a plot interlude while waiting for a guy friend in some outdoor area, and I accidentally came in second because I got off to a strong start and it was only a 20-song round instead of 100. I got about 16 or 17 songs right. The winner was impressed because he had not really seen me around before even though I was a high level since I mostly play private games, so we got to chatting a little before my friend came and I left. I don’t actually remember anything about the main plot.

Feb 26 2022

• I had a party of 4 that was escaping from pursuers of some sort, with loot, through a forested area toward a city. One of my group members was dragging along a pallet behind him that was leaving marks in the grass, even though it was very light, and a couple members of the party could cast various spells as well. We had no trouble keeping a bit ahead of our pursuers, and a good portion of the dream was managing this, but I wanted to permanently lose our pursuers before we hit town, so I had our mage cast a spell that would duplicate our tracks, the pallet and our footprints, in two different cardinal directions, east and west, from a certain starting spot, while I cast invisibility on all of us. We continued on southwards, and the two false sets of tracks also started to lengthen as we did so. Looking back, I noticed that the enemy had taken the bait, and gone after the western set of false tracks.
• Once we hit the city, there were quarantine procedures that we had to follow, and although a party member complained about that as well, I said I didn’t mind since we were allowed to do it safely in town and I trusted Singapore’s government to do the right thing. We spent our time watching a card game between two people, they were playing on two adjacent sides of a square glass booth with counters, but there was no one in the booth itself (which was probably meant for a dealer/referee, so I stepped into the booth and showed my party members how to play the card game.
• The game was played using a standard 52-card deck, and apparently went something like this: The two players either flipped over a card or picked one from their hand, and they both offered it to the judge (or revealed it in the middle of the table) at the same time. The one with the higher card would win a certain number of tokens from the one with the lower card, based on whether the lower card was odd or even. If it was odd, 1 token was sent over, if it was even, a number of tokens equal to the face value of the card was sent over.
• Snippet: Also, I remember at some earlier point in the dream being on a train and trying to find a writing partner for some homework project that was supposed to be done during our vacation between the end of the current school year and the start of the next one. People were being paired up as time progressed, and I talked to a couple girls who were potential candidates but wasn’t able to find one and mused going at it alone myself. The reason for the incompatibility was that I already had less homework than my peers since much of it didn’t apply to me, since I didn’t qualify for some of the English homework, and was also not allowed to take second-year Physics and Chemistry classes due to missing a year when I went abroad in the past. I told Zixiang this after he inquired, and he was really surprised by all the restrictions I had.
• Snippet: There was also a section where everyone at work was gathering for a photo picture after our last morning standup before some extended vacation, but I was remotely accessing the machine and did not have my camera on to boot so I wasn’t part of the picture. I would still be getting a copy of the photo so that was good enough for me.
• Snippet: At another point, I was a small girl learning magic spells, though my spells were utility based — at some point I had an arm wrestling match with an adult male larger than me and had nothing I could do to be able to win that. However, a little bit after that I had to jump down from a platform to explore a new zone below me and I had plenty of spells to help with getting down there safely and then recalling back afterwards once I was done.

Feb 27 2022

• As part of the end of a school-related plot, I had the power to roll back time and was trying to use it to save the life of a Captain Kallena who was going to be murdered by a boy who used to be my friend but had succumbed to the temptation of demon-worshipping. I started on the other end of the school, and could hear the hourly news blare out over the loudspeakers. On one of the rounds where I did not intervene, and just listened, it first said that Captain Kallena was no longer a target of the demons, then a few seconds later I heard a gunshot ring out across the school, and the news said that Captain Kallena was now murdered.
• In several other rounds, I actually went over to where she was but was unable to defeat the demon and save her, and also save my friend at the same time, one or the other always died, so I kept on rewinded time again.
• Eventually, I found a solution, which was to get to Kallena before the boy did, and teleport her away back to our room, we were all friends and so Kallena and I shared a room while demon boy had a room next door. It was late in the evening by that point and there were others around, so I instructed Kallena to go to sleep and I did as well. Apparently demon boy searched a bit longer but then went to bed too as he didn’t want to reveal his identity to the rest of the school as yet, since his demon powers had not peaked yet.
• The next morning played out from the point of view of the demon boy. It was bright sunshine when he woke up, and I had implanted the idea in his head that it was Sunday and we were out on the grass field in front of our dorm playing soccer and were thus easy targets. He got out of bed, and he and a floating blue demon friend ran out the room and down the stairs in a CGI cutscene — only to run into the entire student body and the principal and teachers, who were holding morning assembly just outside the dorm.
• The point of view then changed to a bird’s-eye view, and I saw the principal chastised him for being late, and then, eyeing the blue demonic familiar, asked demon boy straight up if he was a demon. Students did not have the power to lie in front of the principal, so after being asked a second time, he meekly answered yes, and was immediately strapped to a table and had exorcism performed onto him to remove the demonic entity from him.
• Snippet: There were many other school scenes in the dream, one of them being an early one where I saw the front page photo of a Dunman High yearbook from about 7 years after I had left the school, as part of a quiz (possibly as a prize being given away, but it was also part of a question) that some teacher was holding, where he had obfuscated the name of the school by changing the name to Raffles, another Singapore school, but I recognized the layout of the front of my old school, as well as the school logo still visible in the picture.
• Snippet: In another snippet, I was climbing some stairs together with a teacher from a second-year University class and some of his students, and hearing them speak about how class two weeks ago was online because of bad weather, and how class last week was slated to be online because of bad weather but was changed to in-person at the last minute because the bad weather never showed up, and some students were late or never arrived due to the late change. This week it was also in-person but everyone apparently did show up. I was wearing really loose shoes that kept on threatening to fall off, and I was hopping up the stairs on one leg, taking it two or four steps at the time, as I listened to them chat.