Dreams

With the exception of my May 09 one, my dreams this week were kind of weak and short snippets at most. A combination of not sleeping well on Monday night (May 09’s dream is Sunday night/Monday morning’s), and being too excited later on in the week!

May 09 2022

Dream 1

• I and a few other students were headed for a train platform through an underground train station. I got there slightly ahead of everyone else, and an attendant that was seated on one of the central round seats on the platform while eating lunch waved at me and told me/us to not use that platform, and to instead head back the way I came, into a stairwell that I had passed, and up onto the street level — there was an outdoor platform a short way along the street and that outdoor platform would allow us to skip a couple stations so it was always worth it to try. We did so, turning around and heading out that way. On the way there, I saw another student I vaguely knew, a tall guy, headed for the same underground train platform, I waved at him and told him that he’d just be sent away like us. I beckoned him to follow, but am not sure if he ever did.
• After reaching the surface with the 2-3 other friends I was with, they were a little bit ahead of me and so tried to bolt down the street for a train that we could see leaving the platform. A number of little kids dressed in the Japanese kindergarten powder blue uniform were cheering them on but they didn’t make it. I caught up to them at the platform, and we sat down on the ground to wait for the next train.
• There were quite a few people at the train station, roughly divided into four groups. The largest group consisted of the 20-30 kindergarten kids in their uniforms, and a couple of chaperones. They were seated on the ground next to the platform edge, between a set of plastic or plexiglass dividers that kept them separated from the actual edge as well as from us, but would allow them boarding priority when the next train arrived. I said to my friends that they were super cute and that I was going to melt.
• Besides our group, there were two other smaller groups as well. In front of us, were a group of three Black rappers who were friends with each other, one of them with a name that was something like “Lil ???”, where the ??? was a 7 letter word, whereas the other two were unknown. To the left of us were three Japanese girls in school uniforms, who were also friends with each other.
• A spring shower suddenly came, which wasn’t a problem for most of the boys but was very much a problem for the three girls and I, since all four of us were in school uniforms (though mine was a different one). Our blouses were all white and so would very quickly become see-through — I could already see the outlines of their bras through the back of their blouses even when dry, and I knew mine was about as revealing as well. Though there was a bit of a sexy element to this, I was still trying to avoid it, and huddled up a little against the back of the guy friend in front of me to try to shield myself from the rain. To no avail though, as it started to pour.
• However, while the rain was strong and I could feel it falling onto me even though it was just a dream, it only lasted all about 30 seconds before dissipating. I was wet, but not exactly soaked through for the most part, and I shook my blouse a bit to prevent it from sticking to my skin. The three Japanese girls apparently had a scarf portion built in to the uniform too, which consisted of a piece of cloth that went over the collar and shoulder area and stretched down to the bands on the ends of their short sleeves — the bands themselves actually turned out to be the end parts of the scarf wrapped around the bottom of the sleeves, and not actually part of the blouse, as I found out when they unwrapped their scarves and took them off to dry.
• The next day, we read in a newspaper that the three rappers had each secured a 1 million dollar contract with their agency on the day that we had met them, thanks to their hiring of a star manager to do the negotiations for them. Prior to this, they were really frustrated with the agency and the negotiations and lack of a proper contract, but had not publicly complained about it because they were in the middle of an anniversary celebration tour of some kind.

Dream 2

• This dream involved some evil overseers that had control over a land and the humans on it. The overseeres divided the humans into various groups, one of which I was in charge of, and they then instructed the leaders to sacrifice a few people and murder them within their group and offer up proof of the victims’ demise to the overseers in order to sow dissent within the group and make the leaders dependent on the overseers, hoping to eventually build loyalty that way. The groups would also each have a territory to plunder and mine for resources to send to the overlords.
• There were some complicit humans and leaders who started to do this. And in fact, this was probably necessary to some degree so that the overseers would overlook the groups that hadn’t submitted proof yet. However, I had no intention of doing this, doubly so after learning that a yearly sacrifice quota of about 50 people would have to be maintained as well, in order to cull the population.
• I ended up leading a resistance, and trying to get in touch with another resistance group that I knew was hiding in underground tunnels in a town, with the main door to the tunnels accessible through a diamond-shaped concrete island in the middle of a shopping street that was meant for flowers or trees. The door also required a close-range wireless download of some software onto a device, that had to be wirelessly transmitted out using P2P technology by someone who was already inside the secret hideout when the person who wanted to enter approached, as well as a password once the software was downloaded.
• I didn’t end up ever going into the hideout, though I hung around it for a bit to get the software. While I was there though, another guy was standing down in the short tunnel outside the main hideout door waiting for entry, and he was so tall that his head caused the ground above him to bulge slightly, causing a little girl to tug at her mother’s sleeve and point out that there was someone trapped under the surface. The mother said no at first, then saw it, then realized what was happening and mentioned that the hideout entrance must be down there, and I made myself scarce before authorities arrived.
• Either way, our two separate groups did end up eventually defeating the overlords together, though I believe that the dream skimmed over exactly how this part was done. I remember some logistical back and forth to avoid the evil overlords, and at some point having a group of us hurtle down a mud slide on the side of a hill that led to the edge of a lake next to a safe wilderness cabin. At another point, I had my entire group of civilians on an airship or spaceship and was ready to take off with them to ensure their safety.
• There was also an incident on that spaceship where we were almost ready to overthrow the evil overseers, but one of my underlings, a boisterous Malay guy, refused to follow because he had been somewhat brainwashed by them into believing that their way was the best way. He argued with me until I gave him a short, inspirational speech, and watched his eyes widen and light up as he broke free of the conditioning. He then turned around and fully agreed with me, and raised up his fists for several celebratory fistbumps.
• Another incident that took place during the rebellion was that a leader of a neighbouring group proposed to me, asking for my hand in marriage. I refused, saying that I was eventually going to log off anyway and if he wanted I would just give him my land then. But I didn’t mean that, as in reality I was already secretly married to an important (and a really nice) leader or something who lived across the realm. The neighbour eventually ended up marrying a woman who raised dragons, which was useful for him as well because his land had a lot of shiny, crystalline ore on top of mountain peaks, and even after the rebellion was over and we had won, I saw them flying around together on their dragons to the top of their peaks to do some mining.
• Finally, as an epilogue, after we had defeated the evil overseers, I saw a scene where a financial auditor knew about the presence of the secret hideout but didn’t mind them there because she assumed that they were paying their taxes. They weren’t, though, and she hadn’t realized that. In the scene, the financial auditor was arranging smaller rectangles inside a larger one on the ground with a black-haired girl who was the leader of another of the groups, and she mentioned all this to her. The girl was aware that they did not pay taxes, but did not reveal this to the auditor, instead stammering out something like a nervous “S-Sure!”.

May 12 2022

• Snippet: I was at home with someone else and out the balcony door I could see (and very clearly hear, even though the door was closed) a pack of circling ravens. They were integral to the plot somehow and quite deadly, they could and did sometimes divebomb us one after the other if we left our balcony door open or ventured outside. There was also a lightning storm at some point that sent them squwaking and panicking.
• Snippet: In another segment, Dad was bringing me to school on his motorcycle. I was very young and riding pillion in front of him. He almost rode into someone at one point who was standing with a broom in the middle of the road and who had his back to the oncoming traffic, but I managed to stop him in time. He took a wrong turn trying to explore and find a shortcut, and ended up at a dead end road on some hotel grounds, and had to back out of that area, passing a very confused hotel attendant both times who was trying to figure out why he was headed in there. He then took me by the normal road, which was a road I recognized, it was the crosswalk intersection with the secondary school (that I was not a student of) from Mar 01 2022‘s dream, except it was a regular T-intersection this time. My school was a bit beyond the school at the intersection, somewhere along the eastern/right hand side road from there.
• Snippet: A bit later on in the same dream there was a woman pushing a shopping cart around to various dumpsters, collecting plastic bags with milk cartons and drink bottles in there for a bit extra recycling cash. She was a bit prideful and only took existing bags that were pre-filled with the cartons however, refusing to stoop low enough to take the single cartons and packets lying around, which she left for a man that came along behind her instead.

May 13 2022

• Snippet: I was in our Edmonton 4012 house at one point with my siblings, my parents, and some guy sitting in a music production room that felt like a boss figure to me. Jon had just returned with groceries or something so I was helping him move them in, because we had heard about some sort of danger outside, and after moving all of it in from the attached garage, Jon and I peeked back out through the house door that led into the garage, and saw the garage door and far wall in tatters, and a large, black wolf watching me while three house cats stood nearby, watching the wolf. I was wondering how to rescue the cats without aggravating the wolf when the scene suddenly shifted and the wolf disappeared. Suddenly the wolf was inside the house behind us, in the music producer’s room, and we cried out in warning, except the wolf had shapeshifted into a bipedal fox and was playing a turntable like a DJ. The music producer was really impressed and inked out a contract on the spot, hiring the creature as my/our DJ person. Also, at some point during this latter scene, a neighbour woman came by and scooped up the three cats and brought them home to safety.

May 15 2022

• I was walking with Jahandar around a building, showing him around the place and exploring it myself, as we trudged through both public areas as well as private areas that we probably weren’t supposed to be in. The main level of the building was a museum, I remember at one point walking along a set of curtains that divided the public area from the private area, in such a way that the people lounging in the public area could definitely see us if they looked, but no one complained about us. By walking this path though, we both earned a buff pill that we could use to trigger our choice of buff. For example, one of the buffs, which Jah used as insurance in case we got caught, was a form of weak invisibility that toggled on for 3 seconds randomly.
• Later we explored the basement as well, and I recognized the basement from another dream in the past. It was a straight service corridor with rooms off to the sides that I told Jah I had been in before — they were computer rooms and the University’s Computer Club or something used them. The passage ended at a T-junction, and we explored both directions from there as well. Assuming that the corridors were arranged in the shape of an upright T whose horizontal line was pointing east and west, each of the two short corridors that ended in an amphitheater to the east/south and west/south respectively, as well as a northern entrance to a shop with curved walls that joined up to the entrance on the end of the other passage. The corridors and the shop together thus visually formed a sort of umbrella or tree symbol ☂.
• Anyway, an Indian or Malay girl approached us as Jah and I walked down there, and told us about the new leader of the Computer Club and how he was bullying her because she was tall. She followed us around and tried to stick to us for protection, even though we weren’t sure from what — we never saw him or anyone else while we were walking around. We did find her a little annoying, so in the end we lost her when I showed Jah where the shop was (which surprised and excited Jah, he had no idea there was a shop down here) and we entered that together, ignoring the girl who gradually began to lag behind.