Dreams

I didn’t have that many dreams this week, but they were kind of exhausting. There was one that left me a bit sad on the 7th, then a murderish one on the 9th that left me a bit exhausted, and then a horrific set of scenes on the 10th that left me even more exhausted and feeling weird (like a mix between feeling down and guilty, and a dulled sensation) for that day. Viewer discretion is advised?

Apr 06 2022

• I was designing a zone in an MMO-like game, except there weren’t many players in the game, just me and a few friends. I was designing a map puzzle that was shaped like a dragon, where you’d enter at its “tail” and work your way to its head, where you’d find a clue or key that led you to a treasure panel hidden at the tail area, at the very front of the zone, which you could then collect on your way out of the zone. It was also to be Dark Souls inspired in some regard, though I’m not sure how.
• That dream segment was somehow mixed in with work somehow so my work team was having a team meeting outside the game too, where people pulled questions from a box and answered them in front of the rest of the team. I refused to go to the meeting because Trin had plugged in a USB into the computer that I was using for work and was using to design the zone as well, among other things. That USB contained some spyware or adware that would display advertisements to raise more money for the company, but I hated it and managed to remove it after some time. Not going to that meeting was somehow important to ensure that the adware stayed off my computer for as long as possible.
• Snippet: At one point, there was a story or magazine or something that contained Part 1 of a tale between two spiders that were best friends, and another thing containing Part 2 of the story. I looked through the Part 2 one, and saw that they were living in Minnesota around an ice rink, and that one of the spiders had become beautiful after taking a dip in a pond, since the water neatly flattened her bristly parts against her body.

Apr 07 2022

• I dreamt that I had an impromptu friends-gathering place in my Edmonton 205 apartment. Everyone from my Dunman High class came, the Service Desk from work was invited and one person from there came, Mom and Jon came, and LittleStranger from an online Discord server came, too. I even took two pictures of him.
• Brandon had put in the Service Desk group chat at work that there was an after-work party happening at my place, but he referred to me as Shiara. He said he had received the invitation from a friend and said that a mutual friend who had stopped by the SD to regale the team with 12 stories at some point in the past, would be there too, so they’d at least know me and him even if they didn’t know anyone else.
• From the Dunman side, I remember at least Paulene, Huihan, Eileen, and Paul showing up, though I knew that everyone from the WhatsApp chat was basically there, so nearly 30 people in all. They explored my apartment and found a room in a closet I never knew about, that led to a room with pink carpet and an exercise machine and secondary toilet in it. Kind of like the hidden bathroom in the closet that we had in our Yishun 723 home.
• We hung out for some time before everyone left together. As they were leaving, I heard Paul talking to my Mom about some groceries she was carrying and how one of them said she needed to come back up and leave it at my place as a gift. I opened the door when I heard them mention my name and Mom and Jon came back up the stairs and into my apartment. She took out a bowl and placed a couple rice noodle rolls (chee cheong fun) with soya sauce into it, cut into six pieces, and then started eating a couple and invited me to eat the rest as well. We hung out that way for a few minutes more before she left again.
• I was appreciative for this not for the free food, but because I was already severely missing my friends even though they had only just left, as I knew it would be a long time before I would see them again. Mom coming back up helped calm me down. Still, as she left, I wished that I could welcome all of them home at the end of every working day.

Apr 09 2022

Dream 1

• There was a swimming pool complex owned by a bland Nice Guy anime protagonist and his mom. They had a secret plan to lure people in by dumping a cast-iron pot of colourful coins into the pool as sunken treasure, and enticing people into “noticing” that treasure, quietly renting time at the pool to not alert others of the treasure, and then they would drown and/or kill the guest while he/she tried to retrieve the treasure and take his or her possessions for themselves, and the guest would be an easy kill because they’d have made the effort to keep their find hidden out of greed, and so wouldn’t be able to call for help from anyone.
• That day though, I was coming to that pool with two female friends whom I apparently knew from an in-dream school, and I was the one who noticed the treasure from the outside of the pool, which was kind of like a seal tank at the zoo, it had places in the wall where you could look into the pool’s depths through a plastic or glass barrier. I didn’t actually need the treasure/money though, whereas my two friends did, so I told them about it and guided them to retrieve the treasure. I realized I had also seen the mom and boy dragging the pot over a platform hanging above the pool earlier, and figured that they had put it in as an extra surprise challenge/gift as a marketing ploy, rather than a plot to murder someone.
• This foiled their plans and they stood to lose a lot of money. They tried killing one of the girls anyway and she almost drowned because a suspiciously jutting out platform appeared above her head as she was surfacing, but as I was outside the pool, I saw this and was able to guide her to swim forward and then up, and she broke the surface successfully. I watched the rest of the sunken treasure rescue efforts closely and the mom and boy were unable to do anything. I also found a secondary sunken treasure pile and the two girls retrieved (and kept) that, too.
• The next part is unclear but the mom/boy had a plan B, which was to hire an assassin to kill us. I also had other friends who came along to join us at some point. I’m not sure if the assassin part was foiled just like that, or fell through in another way, or blended together with the next part of the dream.
• The next part of the dream involved me near the front counter where a part-timer girl was selling pool tickets. A belligerent man came along and was trying to sign up for some promotion event mentioned on a poster on the wall that expired in May 2020, despite it being nearly May 2022. He pretended he couldn’t understand the brochure which said May 2020, just because it had another unrelated line in the poster that said May 2022 and so that must have meant that the event hadn’t fully concluded yet, and he insisted he should be allowed to join in. The girl apologized and refused and he gave her a verbal tirade and stormed off.
• I saw this, and threw a tub of water at him over a large glass pillar in the middle of the lobby we were all in, in revenge for his actions on the girl. The lobby had several different doorways leading to different personal rooms with pools. I knew at this point that he was “evil” as well, but I couldn’t prove it, but this gave me the chance as he stormed into his side room to change, and then stormed into our side room, where I and a few friends were. He was in a seething rage, saw and targetted me, and came my way, and I realized that Tigey was beside me and was suddenly afraid that Tigey would bare the brunt of his rage. I smirked, pressing myself against the back of the wall, and said to him that everything I owned was in a backpack that I was wearing on my back and there was no way he would be able to do anything, feigning innocence about Tigey. This worked, thankfully.
• The entire event at this point had game-like RPG stats. But this was a “game” structured like a MOBA, where we picked a class and slowly levelled up in it but our levels and everything were reset at the end of each “map” or “day” or whatever. I was a rogue that day, and I was level 4, as were my friends, as well as the evil man attacking me. I used some obscure mechanic to split myself into two or something, and essentially sacrificed my levels, resetting myself back to level 1, and my mirror image saved one of my other friends and got itself killed by the man to “prove” or reveal his evil identity to everyone else, and also so that my friends would also realize I was in trouble and come to my aid.
• The fight proceeded as they joined the fray on my side. I was effectively useless since I was lower in level than everyone else now, especially since Rogues were largely useless in a battle until level 6, which everyone else reached long before me. I did get some of my avoidance abilities back as I slowly levelled too though, and I used those to stay out of trouble while flitting in and out of the area as a distraction. The actual fight was a blur, and involved a lot of insider knowledge of some sort, possibly including things like meta knowledge of the area, the use of the mom/boy’s trap, a mechanic where we could pause and plan our next move, and possibly even a save/load game process. At any rate, he was difficult to beat, but my friends won out over him due to sheer numbers in the end, and he drowned in the pool.
• I was asked by a clueless bystander after the fight why I would pick such a useless class if I didn’t intend to beeline it right to level 6. He had watched the fight from the outside but had been clueless about the sacrifice I had made, since no one had noticed the man being on a rampage before he rather noisily murdered my mirror image. Instead, he assumed that I had also levelled at the same rate at everyone else but had spent my skill points on some other passive or side skills or something. I just rolled my eyes at him and left with my friends.
• Lastly, I went with said friends to a cafe on the second floor of an airport lounge, where we sat at a table and had some breakfast. We saw a TV news report that police had investigated the incident at the pool, found the body and the murder mechanism, and had questioned the owners over it. The mom feigned innocence, pushing the blame to the boy, who had the special skill of splitting into several copies of himself, which only served to further implicate him to the cops as the murderer, since that would allow him to be in several places at once. They captured all his copies, and his dad, who was clueless as to the actual plot but had arrived in time to be interviewed, was really disappointed in what he had done. We looked out the lounge window at the airport and saw a couple helicopters taking off with a large cage attached between them, inside of which were all the copies of the stupid bland male anime romcom protagonist staring out through the bars as they were being transferred to a faraway prison.
• I also met a friend who had seen the news and who asked if I had heard what went on in the pool. I said that I had not only heard of it, I had instigated the whole thing by finding the treasure in the first place, and then unmasking the evil man, and I could fill him in on the actual story and what the news missed if he wanted, since it was just an hour and a half ago and I wanted to put it on my blog eventually.

Dream 2

• This dream took place in a post-apocalyptic world, where a class of about 15-20 people that I was in at night barricaded ourselves in our classroom as night turned into dawn. This was because in this post-apoc world, the temperatures were really hot during the day, and closing the windows and windows and blinds would help prevent the heat from coming in. There were blinds and a window next to the door behind the teacher’s desk, and I asked permission to close them, and she agreed. Before I did so, I stared at the slowly rising sun, which was a pale circle in the smoggy sky.
• There were also some people not allowed in due to some change or mutation or something they had, and at one point I went out with one of them that was a friend, dropped down a hole in the ground, and ended up at some underground tunnel near the classroom to see where people like them took shelter instead. I sat down on the broken ground with my friend, with our backs against the wall, as we chatted.
• At another point, I remember thinking that Eileen and Allen were trapped outside, but upon looking around the classroom I saw them sitting together a table. I proposed setting up a big whiteboard near the door where we could do attendance, though.
• At a third point, I talked to Lukasz from work, and told him about a scholarship revolving around a programming- or computer-related anime which you could apply for to sponsor travel to Japan or something on a work experience exchange, even in this post-apoc world. He said he liked that anime and would look into it, and later told me that he had applied successfully.

Apr 10 2022

• I dreamt that one of the members of a 9-person girl idol group suddenly died in a supermarket, in the middle of shooting a video of some kind, and they were unable to resurrect her so her best friend, as well as a guy friend that was nearby, took her body as well as her half-finished recording and preserved them in a private laboratory washroom so they could try to figure out how to resurrect her in the future. But it was to no avail, and it was particularly sad because five years after her death, when her death anniversary rolled around, people were singing her character theme song but most of the words had either become forgotten or had been toned down and replaced with lesser words due to memory and the passage of time.. things like a part of the song where her name was sung was being hummed instead because people were starting to forget it, and “I will always remember you” turning into “I will sometimes remember you” and so on in the lyrics. It was gut-wrenching and I had to turn away from the male friend as he sat on a bench and cried so I wouldn’t see him and start weeping too even though I was already teared out from earlier on in the scene.
• Then there was a second scene, earlier on, where there was a swimming pool in another laboratory room with random monsters in it that would spawn and despawn over a set amount of time, which was part of an experiment that was going on, and we were told to avoid the pool because currently an orca shark was in it. But a good friend of mine had a pet cat or something that jumped into the pool, so she jumped in as well, trying to grab and rescue it and get out quickly. She failed and got destroyed by the shark, her limbs torn off etc. I ran over to a control panel in a room to the south to resurrect her, though I remember that it had a moderate chance of succeeding, a moderate chance of a partial succeed (zombie which had happened the last time we tried to use it), and a 15% chance or so of failure, possibly with the caster’s death too, but I did it anyway and I think it worked but I’m not sure how it ended.
• And then in between, there was a part where either the scenes melded together into one or there was a variant of the second scene as a third separate scene entirely, but a male friend who was not really allowed in the lab but was passing by as a friend of mine, approached either a person at the resurrection control panel in the last scene (but in a different variant of the scene so she wasn’t “me”), or the idol in the supermarket in the first scene, and lunged at them with a knife, stabbed them to death in the stomach, before walking away. I argued with the person afterwards on why he had betrayed our friendship and done that, and I was very upset at that, but he was uncaring as he had some sort of reason for the murder.
• Snippet: At some point earlier on, during happier times, I remember we were having a pool/hot springs party in another room in the laboratory area. The makeup of the laboratory staff was all female, and I and a friend were in it, naked and uncaring, when a cleaning staff member wandered in at some point as he wanted to partake in it as well. He even identified himself with his staff ID card when challenged. Another colleague came in and yelled at him and chased him out in the room however. Eventually more of our colleagues joined and we had a pretty good time.
• Snippet: At another point, there were train or weird vehicle races on roller-coaster like tracks that ran through some sort of void, it was probably for an experiment but I don’t remember much detail on it, just a particular scene near the end with me and someone else racing on separate tracks.
• Editor: This was particularly haunting because I remember all the victims/perps too, the first scene’s idol was an animated character from the 22/7 Japanese idol group, the shark victim in the second scene was Satinel, and the intruder in the third scene was Melbourne from work. This was a distressing and exhausting dream and I had no idea why so many gruesome and sad death scenes all happened at once.