Dreams

Satinel pointed out to me that I rode an elevator to the 30th floor twice this week on consecutive nights, Oct 01 and Oct 02. That’s so weird. I also climbed up the outside of a building to around the 30th floor on Sep 29. What’s the meaning of this?

Sep 27 2022

• I was on a school bus headed for school, it passed by various residential areas but didn’t really stop anywhere, as it was on a return leg of a school trip to some location or other. Everyone had a quiz to do, with prizes to be given out to the top winners, but I only worked on a couple questions before forgetting about it. Flipping through the quiz, there was a section asking questions about a short anime, so I decided to watch that with Satinel. It was a show that took place at a swimming pool, and was a tie-in side story to the fourth season of a six-season show that Nak had picked for our daily group watch in the past but that we had left off after the third season. I knew of the tie-in but Satinel didn’t, and she was surprised when she saw some famiiar characters in the show. We also saw Brittney Griner being interviewed poolside in the show.
• The school bus eventually reached the school and we all got off, handing in our quizzes to the teacher at the front of the bus. I almost left mine on the bus seat but managed to reach back and grab it as the line of students shuffled off the bus. I hung out with Zixiang a bit here, as we approached two picnic tables right around where we got off. One of them was fully occupied with four girls (Kaiting being one of them), the other one had one side of the picnic table occupied by two girls, so Zixiang sat down on the other side and began eating from a sachet of chicken rice.
• I waited patiently for him for a few minutes while fidding with my backpack because as I understood it we were supposed to actually go to a place further in the school to eat, but he didn’t seem to want to move. When I finally asked him about it, he said this was a better place to sit, and he pointed out that the two girls opposite us had already actually moved off somewhere else so this could be our bench now and others coming by before recess ended could easily find and join us.
• I nodded assent and went off to get lunch. Wandering deeper into the school, the surrounding area morphed into a campus that felt like a fictitious high school that somehow felt like it was partially modelled after McNally. There was an indoor main building where teachers and students were welcoming students from junior high schools that were checking out our high school. It had become evening, but there were a good number of students walking around and in pairs, wearing other school uniforms besides our own, as I walked past that building and headed for the gym. A thought flashed into my mind that this was the one time of year that students could visit other schools and see what student life was like there.
• I passed by another building where a second year student was trying to appeal his case to some senior students there — apparently he had taken a weird combination of classes but was either somehow missing, or had failed, some requirements to get promoted to third year, so he was going to get left behind. He claims he had no idea why this was the case and regretted it but others pointed out after looking at his transcript that this error could only have been achieved if he had performed some actions in a specific deliberate order to trigger this bug and that he was at fault.
• I finally arrived at the gym, and saw the lights on and the sounds of a basketball team playing hoops inside to a few scattered students wandering in and out. I realized that I was not going to find food here, and thought of some food stores near another University instead. I had about four stall choices that I wanted to check out, with the one I wanted the most being another chicken rice stall, but it was the furthest one from the University. It was in a Chinatown area near a train station though, so I closed my eyes and teleported there instead of to the University, planning to walk the reverse route back to the Uni from there.
• Snippet: At one point somewhere in the story, there was a chess game. The better player was playing white, but had a severe handicap given to her, which was that her queen was set in front of her other pieces around the halfway point of the board, while all her other 15 pieces were immobile and locked in place, scattered behind the queen in random spots and unable to be moved. The other player, playing the black pieces, had 16 regular pieces but had to go kill off the other 15 white pieces as well as figure out a way to trap the queen. The white queen could move two short-ranged moves for every one step that black took, though.
• Snippet: At another point, I was watching a young man on a variety show who bought a couple of live chickens from a store and brought them into the studio, before proceeding to do a couple magical tricks with the chickens, a cloak, and a weird cloth hat, to extract a large number of eggs from them. Some of them dropped on the floor or table in his antics as he mimed playing around and then cooking with them, but he eventually did make a dish from the eggs and news spread on social media sites that he had solved some sort of food shortage issue by managing to coax and use many eggs from the chickens that he bought from the market.
• Editor: The train station I was targetting was one located in the area that I was in most recently on Sep 17 2022, although the University itself wasn’t a place that I visited in that dream. Both the high school and University were also similar to ones from previous dreams though, with the building that the student advisors were in being the Students Union area from my Sep 22 2021 dream and also a place involved with exams (or getting results back from exams) in other previous dreams. The line about the one time of year that students could visit other schools was also from a random webpage that I had viewed the previous night.

Sep 29 2022

• Snippet: I remember Dad bringing me to a house where a family member/friend, I think it was either Ah Ma or Auntie 795, lived together with someone else. We were there to pick up some food to bring home, and ended up partitioning a bunch of noodles out from a dish onto the trunk of a car so that we could divide up the food to bring home. I expressed concern that the trunk of the car was a dirty place and unsuitable to put food on, but everyone else seemed fine with this.
• Snippet: At another point, I was thinking of reformatting a new-fangled Windows laptop to put Windows 95 on it so that I could install some old games on it or something. There was a backup feature so I backed up everything on the new machine first, and I had a reinstall disk for the new version of Windows anyway in case we needed to revert, but I was still worried that I had missed something or that I wouldn’t be able to find some device driver or something. There was a second machine nearby and I basically proceeded to copy all the desktop icons from the laptop to it so that I would have some sort of idea of what the preinstalled software and stuff was. Among other things there was a wallet program that displayed how many gems (rubies, and other things) we had collected as part of our regular use of the laptop.
• Snippet: There was also a scene that took place on an urban game map of some sort and involved a couple of tall buildings that I climb up and glide down from. Those buildings overlooked a canteen or concrete park or some similar place in the middle where people hung out. There were achievements to be gained by climbing up 30 levels on the outside of the buildings to the north or south side of that gathering spot and then gliding down over the canteen/park to the other building. There was also a tool that allowed me to hunt for monsters on the map by typing in their name into a filter, which would then highlight all the monsters with matching names or keywords in the area.

Sep 30 2022

• I was at a travel agency desk planning out a trip or something with a woman seated there, and was looking at East Asia on a world map. Taiwan’s borders were a nice tilted heart made out of dotted lines on the map, with the bottom point of the heart facing west. The dotted lines showed airplane routes that went around it but not to it. I initially plotted a route that would take me to Singapore so that I could drop off an item, before detouring north to what assumedly was Japan, but I realized this was a bad idea because I didn’t have full clearance to reenter Singapore yet. Instead, I booked a direct flight to Japan or wherever my target was instead, that went straight west over the Pacific Ocean.
• I also took a look at Russia and that part of the world looked like a Civilization map, with a friend owning a city on the very southern edge of Russia, around where Mongolia is. He then had the chance to trade some other city to Russia in exchange for one of its fully upgraded cities, even though it would reduce both cities to their minimum upgrade levels. He traded it for one of the most powerful cities near the middle of Russia, and I questioned why he didn’t instead trade it for a weaker one on the border so that he could set up trade routes between the two cities more easily.
• Either way, that dream transitioned to me getting ready for school, in a room that looked like it was fashioned after my Edmonton 4012 bedroom. Kel and Jon were there too and a number of stuffed animals had dropped down to the ground beneath the head frame part of the bed, so I lifted it up to pull them out. Doggy‘s head was attached to his body by a thread so I had to be particularly carerul with him. I then had to quickly throw on my clothes, though I was still ahead of Kel in preparedness so I wasn’t in too much of a hurry. But then I couldn’t find my Dunman PE Uniform, so I was worried that I would get in trouble after all, and considered my other options, which were to wear an non-school T-shirt, or to wear my regular Dunman blouse and take the class in the regular non-PE uniform. Neither seemed ideal but the latter option seemed better. I also saw my Rosyth PE shirt in a closet there, although it looked very much like the Dunman PE shirt I knew, just with a different school badge/emblem on the chest pocket.
• I eventually realized that I had put the PE shirt that I was looking for on a hook downstairs next to the towels for some reason though, so I went downstairs and grabbed that instead. It had somehow “upgraded” because of the location it was in, I forget how, but that was the reason I had left it there to begin with.
• The scene shifted to a boy getting ready for school, and I was watching a caretaker of a large lighthouse-like building teach him how to maintain that building. There was a big wheel on the bottom floor of the building that would raise and lower a brightly-glowing “sun”. When raised, the sun would be off and would cool down, and when lowered, it would start humming softly and producing light and heat. It took a while for it to heat up, but the man’s responsibility, which was now passed on to him, was to turn the wheel and raise up/turn off the sun every day when the sun’s temperature reached 5 degrees from maximum, or it would be too late as it would be too hot to use the wheel, and the implication was that the entire building or world would be destroyed. Once it had cooled off completely, he could then turn the wheel the other way and lower/turn on the sun again. The time it took for the sun to fully heat up or cool down was long enough that he could go to school and return in time for it though, so the man told him to lower the sun every day just before heading to school and tend to it once he got back. There were apparently 4 suns like that in the land and they only needed 2 or 3 on at once.

Oct 01 2022

• I was at a school canteen ordering lunch, which was a small plate of rice with some sort of gravy on it. The stall I was at had a piece of cloth draped over the glass counter to partially obscure the food in the trays for some reason, but I was able to get my food anyway, and then picked up a metal spoon for myself. The lady manning the stall asked me to wash a couple other spoons that were there as well, and I did so, using a sink set into the middle of the canteen stall and facing outwards.
• I brought my plate over to the canteen itself, and saw that there were six long tables lined with a bench along each long edge of the tables. People were scattered across the tables somewhat evenly, but all the tables were set into anonymous mode, so I couldn’t actually see who was on what table until I settled down. There was a certain group of guys that I wanted to eat with, but I couldn’t find them, so I settled down at a random table and nodded to the people next to me.
• I eventually saw that they were across the room at a seventh table set against the far wall. I watched them as they chatted, and as another group of boys next to them made so much noise that one of my friends, who was acquaintances with that other group of boys, first gave them a warning, and then got up and left the room, only to return with a guitar as he sat down again. The implication here was that if they didn’t quieten down he would play the guitar to drown them out as well.
• After lunch, I headed off to an elevator to leave the area. The elevator went up to 30 levels and I could “dig” upwards to create more levels, each level representing one page for my blog. However I realized that the building also had a preset height and something bad might happen if I dug past the height of the building. I figured I should stop linking the individual pages for each group of ads that I was uploading to the blog to avoid this, and only link the first one in each series directly to the table of contents, linking subsequent ones off of that first one so that they were all “on the same floor”.
• I took the lift down to the bottom and left the University, heading home. Home was a quaint little ground floor HDB apartment that opened up into a large grass field that was shaped like 1/6 of a round pizza. The apartment block itself was curved around the grass field right around where the crust of the pizza slice would be. I stood on the edge of the grass field next to my house’s front door, imagining that I was planing baseball there and enjoying the wind and sun. Although the weather was bright as I approached home, I saw really dark clouds on the horizon rolling in, and as I stood there it eventually started to drizzle.
• I went into the house at this point, which looked like the front area and back kitchen of my Edmonton 4012 house. Mom was seated at the kitchen table, and there was a laptop open at the end of the table that looked like Jon‘s as well. He was still at school though, and I announced that I was home, and barely in time since it had started drizzling. Mom welcomed me back as I went to sit down at the kitchen chair with the laptop.
• Snippet: I’m not sure where this came into play but at one point there were two or three large holes in the ground, as well as an enormous boulder, about twelve feet in diameter, that I could mentally lift up and drop from one hole into another, as though I were playing a computer game of some kind.

Oct 02 2022

Dream 1

• The dream first started with me looking at two young men as they wandered around a city or something, they were best of friends and I think they were performing petty crimes as well. I don’t remember much else about this part of the dream, except that at one point I could see five oval portraits, each portrait containing two young men walking around the city. The two of them were the first portrait out of these five, and out of the five portraits, the first two were glowing faintly, signifying that the two men in those two portraits were on some sort of recreational drug.
• After a while, the dream transitioned to show another two young men, except this time it was from 80 years in the past and it was shown from the point of view of a random car mechanic who lived in a small town who was now being interviewed by current day media and sharing his story of what happened. These two men were kidnappers and murderers who had terrorized a number of small towns in an area, and it was heavily implied that they were somehow related (fathers, grandfathers or uncles) of the two young men performing petty crimes in the current timeline.
• According to the media, the car mechanic had been the one responsible for catching the two murderers 80 years ago. He was living in one of the towns in the area which had not yet been targetted, and had also happened to be following the case very closely as he was an avid mystery-solver. While working one day in his shop, he suddenly noticed and recognized their car going by his shop along the main road.
• He hopped into a car to follow them, but they pulled over two buildings over from his, in front of a kindergarten. So he pulled his car over into an alleyway carpark next to the kindergarten as well, and then crossed the road away from the kindergarten, pretending to be an innocent bystander while watching them.
• He watched them loiter around the kindergarten exit and realized that they were waiting for a child to come out to kidnap them. Hiding behind a pillar across the road, he called the cops and explained the situation in a low voice.
• He then watched the scene play out — the two of them indeed eventually grabbed a kid that came out and started dragging her toward a car, saying something about a ransom, but one of them immediately got shot by something and fell over. The other man looked toward him in horror, then up along the side of the road past him and toward the direction of the alleyway and mechanic shop. There was a police vehicle there, it looked like a stripped down car with a long tank gun that fired heavy bullets. That had struck his friend who was now lying on the pavement and dying.
• Several policemen jumped on the other kidnapper as he was still in shock, pulling the child away and putting the kidnapper in cuffs. The dying man smiled wryly up at his friend and said not to resist — he didn’t want his friend to die in vain as well, and he wished him well in the rest of his life. He then expired.
• It transitioned back to the media interview 80 years in the future, where the mechanic, now an old man, was asked if he had picked that town to move to on purpose by calculating which towns in the region had not been hit yet and moving to one of them to await the two friends. The mechanic said that he did not, and that it was just pure happenstance. I wondered if the two friends in the modern world were going to hear of that interview and take revenge against the mechanic. I figured he didn’t care by this point since he was really old, and they might not as well since it happened so long ago, and that it was indeed more important to chronicle this bit of history.

Dream 2

• This dream consists of a few snippets that I recall being connected somehow, starting with me trying to go up to my apartment in the 11th level or so an HDB flat, but accidentally taking the elevator up to the 30th floor, and then wondering why the building went up that high. I used the stairs to rapidly descend toward my apartment, although I don’t remember actually entering my apartment once I reached it.
• Later on, I met Ronnie and some other person who was implied to be from my workplace and chatted with them briefly. I had a backpack with me and was warned or given some advice about something, but I don’t remember what it was, possibly something to do with incompatibility.
• I then met another friend whom I was going to explore a new city or neighbourhood with. The friend took my backpack with me as we sat on a bench, and opened a pocket on the side of the bag that was zippered up and tied together with a red rubberband and a six-sided white die that prevented the rubberband from slipping through the zipper. When he removed this rubberband and die and cracked open the zipper, a bunch of Japanese yen coins fell out of it onto the floor in front of a mother and her startled toddler girl who were walking by.
• My friend tried to fit the coins back in to the slot it had fallen out of but somehow was unable to do so. He gathered the coins on the ground into a small pile and asked the toddler if she wanted some of the coins. I chimed in and admonished him for trying to give away my travel money, and took the backpack from him.
• By laying the coins in flat layers in the pocket, I managed to fit not only all the coins, but also the six-sided die into the backpack pocket, and even had plenty of room left over. My friend and the mother were impressed at that. I then used the rubberband and threaded it through the zipper and a strap on the bag and then looped it back through the rubberband loop to hold it in place. The mother pointed out that the rubberband was really frayed and liable to snap in two on one side, and after taking a closer look at it I agreed, so I took the half that was not frayed and looped that around itself again to hold it more securely in place.
• My friend asked the woman if she had any recommendations on a place to eat, and the mother said that she’d show us the way to a nearby Mexican restaurant that she recommended if we wanted.