Dreams

There weren’t many dream diary entries while I was on my trip, I was too busy and/or too tired to have a restful state conducive to remembering dreams, most likely. Nonetheless, there were some, and here they are. And they’re followed by my dreams from this week as well.

Oct 26 2022

• Snippet: I had a dream of running through the rain in a female school uniform, white blouse and dark skirt, toward the void deck of a tall HDB flat where I lived in. I loved the feeling of the rain and my clothing sticking to me, and I wasn’t wearing any bras or singlets underneath.

Nov 06 2022

• Eileen and Huihan were taking part in a race on a racetrack. Huihan won and set a new personal best record because she didn’t give up, and because a mutual guy friend dressed up as a maid and ran in front of both of them to enable both of them to run faster and try to catch him. Eileen also posted a great time, and there was another more official females-only race in a week, so they joked that they needed to figure out how to enlist him for that race as well.

Nov 11 2022

• I dreamt that one of my friends was a secret cowgirl (kind of like Minos from Jashin-chan Dropkick) and her secret got revealed to a bunch of mutual friends by the roadside while waiting for a bus or something. I knew this already, so I hugged her from behind through her loose clothes and said I liked her, as a form of support. Also at one point I was musing that I was finally taking classes with my Dunman High friends again but it wasn’t the exact same classes they were taking, since I had been away for several years now, so I was a little disappointed by that. I was still glad to have the opportunity to study with them in the same school at the same time, however.

Nov 16 2022

• I remember a particular snippet from near the end of my dream where there were two bright red trees right by a shopping street entrance, and I was happy to find them and see their pretty red leaves. The sun was also setting soon and I was trying to find a spot that I could stand where the sun would be in the middle of the two trees from my perspective.
• Earlier in a separate dream there were some school scenes. One involved hearing a rumour from some students that there was someone roaming the halls that should be avoided if possible, he was wielding a towel and flicking it against people that he passed to hurt them. I wasn’t particularly worried about this but never did find or meet this person.
• Another scene had me in guy mode, and I was participating in a swimming class with a bunch of my Dunman friends, headed up by a female teacher. I remember looking across the way at the girls and seeing Huihan, Eileen, Valerie, Jean, and more. At the end of the class, the teacher cornered the girls and told them to remove their shirts before she would let them leave, something about relieving monthly stress and there about ten fewer girls than guys, which was somehow unfair to the guys, even though I noted that the number of males and females was about exactly the same, about 15-17 each. Not wanting to see this scene play out, I left the room via a door next to where the guys were standing and tried to find another teacher to report this errant teacher to.

Nov 17 2022

• I dreamt about a place that used to allow people to visit and see fall foliage turning colours for free or something but now didn’t any longer, and that was plot-significant somehow as I had planned to go there with a friend but now couldn’t.

Nov 27 2022

• My dream had a overarching quest with daily events that progressed the plotline of the quest slowly, amd all of us had a character that was part of that quest and was separate from our daily dream lives, kind of like a virtual MMO. It started with events in a forest to beat back some invading monsters, and got to a point over a few weeks wher we defeated them, found a portal, and went through it.
• On the other side of the portal was a small, medieval village full of innocent little creatures, they were fluffy and round and white and about one foot tall. They all had jobs like mayor, innkeeper, villager, blacksmith, etc. There was no quest objective for that first day that we arrived on the other side of the portal, which implied that what happened next was up to us, and I and others were hoping that we could make friends with the creatures or something, but there were too many players and it was not really possible to stop the dumber players from murdering them.
• In the end, the council of humans made a decree that we were indeed going to wipe out all the remaining little creatures, this even involved someone going to a manor that was owned by a human lord who had turned two of the little creatures into his butlers in order to try to save them. That person killed the two creatures in front of the lord, which angered him and cause him to stab the person in the stomach with a rapier.
• Once all the creatures were dead, new quests begin to spawn that involved the angry denizens of the land on the other side of the portal declaring war and coming to attack us at the portal.
• On a more macro level, I occasionally went out adventuring with a couple friends. I remember going out with Jahandar to explore a path that led to a house-like structure in the hopes that we would still be able to find some of the creatures who had escaped, but the house was deserted. There was some sort of global threat that I was watching out for outside of the window as well as on our quest objective UI, and I kept watch while Jah went around the house to collect or process or something the items and furniture in the house.
• There was a tiny little white table in front of the window that I could interact with, and it would swirl and transform into other things that were about the same size as the table for a few seconds before turning back into a table. Which I did to show Jah once he came over to the window to process the final two items in the room, the table and the chair that was next to it. We then waited for the table to revert its form before Jah processed the two items and we left.
• There were several other snippets that fit into this game world, but I’m not sure of the exact context.
• One was that at some point, Jeremy contacted me because we had a lot of work tickets in the pool and everyone else was going to be busy or off work so I would apparently be the only person working for three of the five days in the upcoming week, on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. I said that that was far too much work for one person to do and he could assign me all the tickets from one day, but that was it. He laughed softly and said he’d give me more details once he returned to his hospital room.
• At another point, I was finishing up a stint at work and a kid belonging to someone at work gave me a really juicy fruit to eat. I ate it and liked it, and found out that the kid was selling three types of fruit outside the side doors of the office building, just outside the kitchen and next to some walking paths. I went out to buy some fruit from her.
• Also, there was a snippet where our entire family went in a minivan to a carpark that I recognized as being very similar to the Mill Woods KFC carpark near our 4012 Edmonton home. Mom was driving, Dad was in the middle seat, I was in the back seat, and Jon was with me too. We were waiting for Kel to return via a school bus, at which point we would pick her up and drive home. The bus eventually arrived but some other Chinese girl whose name was just a single letter, like a B or a H, hopped into the van next to Dad instead as she mistook our van for her family’s one. Dad didn’t realize this right away and was about to embrace her in welcome when I piped up and asked who she was. Dad then realized it and asked her coldly to leave, which she did. Kel then properly alighted from the bus and joined us and we drove off.

Nov 29 2022

• I remember one snippet from my entire dream, which was that I was exploring the tower portion of a large castle at night, and when I reached the very top of the stairs, I was hit by a sudden sense of dread and trepidation telling me that I should go no further. I could see a couple rooms from where I was, and I tried to bring out my phone to take pictures of the place, but because it was dark the phone could not actually take any good pictures of the place. I obeyed my sixth sense and left the area, going down to the very bottom of the castle and leaving it. Outside, I met my sister and parents there and they bought me some sort of stick, which was apparently a tourist souvenir, that I really wanted for $1.25 from a stall owned by a Chinese man that was set up in front of the castle.

Nov 30 2022

• I was on a train and about to alight at the next train station when I noticed that one of the three newspapers that were lying on a table in the train, and which were meant to be provided free of charge for customers to peruse while on board, was folded wrongly. The entire newspaper was made up of smaller sections were supposed to be arranged with the A-section on the outside, the B-section slotted in behind it, and so on, before being folded and put on the table, but for this one, the Sports section that was normally the C-section of the paper was slotted in the very front instead. Worse, inside the folded up C-section was an empty disposable lunchbox from an Australian fast food company that was making the paper slightly greasy.
• As the train rolled to a stop, I decided to do something about this, so I “bought” the offending newspaper for $10 and took it off the train with me, together with the backpack that I was carrying on my back and a lunchbox in a bag that I was carrying in my hand. The newspaper was tangled up with some blue cloth that looked like it was part of a blanket, but was connected to something else in the train as well, so the door couldn’t close even after I stepped out until I threw down my bags and used my free hands to untangle the newspaper from the cloth, as a station attendant sitting on a nearby high chair like a train lifeguard watched me. He didn’t stop or help me or comment on anything though. I then tossed the end of the cloth back into the train and it drove off.
• I took the newspaper and lunchbox and threw it into the nearby bin on the platform. Finally gathering up my bags again, I narrowly dodged a really long pole that a girl was holding. She was doing ballet further on down the platform, and this pole was pretty much as thick as a telephone or power pole and twice as long, but she was somehow balancing that on her shoulder as she danced around. It nearly hit me a couple times so I moved further away.
• Soon the train on the opposite side of the platform arrived, and I knew ours was coming soon as well. I looked across the tracks and saw that there were long, metal canteen sinks there, as well as a stall selling drinks and jellies past that. I went to the sinks to brush my teeth, then hastily rinsed it as I heard my train approaching. My train had to stop for a traffic light of some sort just before the platform though, at the tunnel exit, even though this station was an underground station, so I crossed back over to the main platform and gathered up my things in time before the train actually arrived.

Dec 01 2022

• I was travelling with another girl around in two carts that were joined together like train carriages, she was in the front cart and driving/steering and I was in the back cart chatting to her and gathering stuff that we passed by. This other girl might have been Eileen, as I do remember having conversations with Eileen over some sort of chat UI or loudspeaker at some point, but I’m not sure.
• Dream snippets that we did together involve moving through a field next to some sort of residential area in the pre-dawn light, and watching a pet ferret or raccoon that she owned run around looking for food. When dawn hit, all the residents in the nearby apartment blocks woke up and clapped their hands twice in reverence to the sun, we did the same thing before starting to drive off in our carts. I saw some green lemon-shaped fruits on the ground and told her to drive by it, and scooped four of them off the ground as she did so — she also scooped up a couple extra. I tossed them into the back of her cart for safekeeping.
• Another snippet involved us arriving at the top of an abandoned construction site where a lot of homeless men stayed. In particular, it looked like there was a pathway where we had to walk to the end of a ledge that ended in midair, then drop down from it and jump to a ladder that started underneath that ledge, and then climb up from there onto a different ledge before we could continue on. Obviously our carts couldn’t travel that way, but we could re-summon new vehicles once we were on that top ledge again.
• The homeless men were extremely polite and all waited in line behind us at the dead-end springboard-like ledge, and even helped point out where the next ladder was. My companion checked the map and noted that we needed to get to a building with a certain name on it to continue, and I looked up and saw that building looming large over us back behind the road attached to the ledge we were already on, so I told her it didn’t look like we actually needed to jump off that thing. She was glad and went there to resummon new carts.
• However, we were already down a couple ledges at that point and our stuff was still on the other carts. She was willing to leave them there, but I said that Tigey was in there and so we couldn’t do that, but that I didn’t mind making the jump and that it would probably take about two trips to get everything here. I found out that I did need more trips, as I had to unpack some bags and then wanted to bring along all the bags too, so as not to leave anything behind, but I created an alternate route to the vehicles so I only needed to make that jump once in the end.
• While on that route, I noticed a worm crawling on the ground toward me that looked like it was labelled as some sort of computer virus from two years ago that was supposed to be extinct but somehow had survived here. The worm slithered toward me and I poked it with a weapon and my foot but was otherwise careful to stay away from it as I went up and down to collect my stuff. It got stuck on a ledge and couldn’t follow me vertically. I noted this worm to Jah, who came by, looked at it, and swung a weapon at it to kill it. This made the worm explode into 4,000 different worms that lined both sides of the path we were on and reared their heads up around the two of us, and I hastily entered a Killall console command that wiped all the worms off the map. I was asked why I didn’t use that command earlier and I said that it seemed overkill for just one worm that we could technically have ignored. Thankfully by then all the polite homeless men had left as well so they weren’t affected.
• The conversation I mentioned earlier that I had with Eileen was implied to be held over our Dunman High group’s Whatsapp chat, and was her saying something like she was glad I was there because something to do about giving her support while she was moving as a lot of her clients or a lot of her other friends didn’t seem to be supporting her move when she was so young, which she was doing in an attempt to search for happiness in her career or life. I thought to myself that those people probably wouldn’t like or understand my drive to get my surgery a few years ago either then, and I told her that no one is ever too young to have the right to search for happiness.

Dec 03 2022

• I was staying on the 5th level of an apartment block of a building while in Japan with Kel, renting a lodging there as I always do. This lodging was apparently owned by a Malay or Indian family, and there was one bedroom owned by a young girl that we weren’t allowed to go into, but that I saw into and took a picture of at some point. I was allowed to rent and move around in the rest of the three-room apartment and also meet the family living there, and took a perfect picture of the rest of the family plus Kel around a sofa, the camera frame aligning itself so it was perfectly horizontal just as everyone else drifted into the shot.
• Among other things, that family we lived with must have been from Singapore, as someone from their extended family came over and decked me out in Singapore clothing. Also, they had a lot of animals at their house, one of them was a little bear that the elder brother of the family had tamed and was holding safely, and I was trying to take pictures of Tigey on the bear as Kel held Tigey up against the bear. This took a few tries.
• Later on there was also a scene where a large fish animal make a ripping noise and regurgitated a long, frozen fish from its mouth, which clattered to the ground at the feet of that elder brother. He bent down to pick it up, saying somethig along the lines of he knew this might be a bit too icky for us but if interested we could look at that fish as well and he could tell us all about it.
• I had CDs that I had been buying on the trip strewn around the apartment, they were in two separate piles on opposite sides of the main room, and I took some time to gather them all up. The father asked me if I was leaving already and I said no, but I was afraid the animals would accidentally destroy them so I wanted to keep them safely away.
• There were also voices welcoming us that I could hear at the front of the house, just outside the entrance area, when we were moving in, but I ignored those and assumed that those came from people inside the house itself.
• A bit later on, when I was coming back to the apartment by myself in the middle of the afternoon, I came out of the elevator and started fumbling with my keys. My one free hand held a phone and what looked like a portable CD player, and my finger pressed against a button on the CD player that popped open a compartment and revealed a mini SD card that could be inserted via a USB reader into the CD player. This also made some strange water fall out of the compartment and onto my fingers, and I made a tsking noise and muttered something to the effect of how I hope the water wasn’t poisonous.
• At this point, I heard the voices again, greeting me cheerfully and asking me if I were a guest here. I knew at this point they couldn’t have been from the house itself, but the voices were kind of ethereal and far away and I wasn’t sure where they could have been from. I said yes and asked who they were, they answered saying that they were from the first floor and to stop by sometime if they had time. I misheard them and thought they said fifth floor, and I asked where on the floor they were as I thought there were only three apartments up here and all three doors faced the little lobby that I was in. They laughed and clarified again that they were on the first floor, running a shop that sold watches and general gear. I realized at the point that we were talking using a vibrating pipe in the lobby that stretched all the way down to the ground floor and transmitted nearby noises up and down the pipe.
• I told them that I might visit them later, and then disengaged. I put my stuff down in the apartment, washed my hands, hung around for a while, and then decided to go down and actually visit them because they seemed nice and because the rest of the household I was living with hadn’t returned yet. I went downstairs, where I found the tent selling watches. Using a 3rd person camera viewpoint and spinning the camera around, I was able to look in the tent from the outside and see three sisters and one or two brothers in the shop, all of them about ten years older than I was.
• I went in to say hello and was immediately greeted by a chorus of welcomes and “ah, so cute!”s, and one of the women came over to passionately chat with me as the other two women and one of the men went around the shop like a whirlwind, gathering items to outfit me with. This included a backpack and a dark green cloak, something like a druid stick, a watch, of course, and some provisions. Even with a discount, this came to about 320 gold or so out of the 600-something that I had, and I also had a warning in my equipment that the cloak I already had was already a better fit for me because it was fitted in a Singapore medium size, whereas this was a generic medium size, and I would lose some defence points for equipping this. This cloak did have a hood that would hide my face, though.
• One of the men also stood by waiting to take my old gear from me to burn, saying that this was how they recycled old items, if I wanted to make this purchase. I didn’t like being pressured to accept courtesies like this but I don’t remember if I actually ended up paying for the items.
• I did learn two things about the trip, one was that Kel had won 4th place in a contest to get a ticket to come with me. Even though she had far less points than some of the competitors she had beaten, she had read some of the lore behind the contest and written in a letter with it, and the scoreboard showing her 4th place finish included multiple accolades below her name that proclaimed her the first person to say certain things, which bumped her up in the rankings.
• The second thing was that I was here while working remotely, and even though this wasn’t very long after I had returned home to Canada, and it had been somewhat expensive to come to Japan again, it was now cheaper for me to stay here for some time and work than to fly home yet again to work, especially since I was coming here to study eventually. I decided to tell Ronnie that I’d just stay here and drift around for a bit while working from my laptop. At least until I filled my bag with more CDs.

Dec 04 2022

• There was a dog sled race taking part in my dream, where there were six teams, each consisting of one dog and one sled guided by a single person, racing through terrain that started in a snowy area, went through some city streets, then eventually into an industrial building before ending at a finishing line several floors up inside that building. The Edmonton team in that, led by a kindly man with a beard and a large husky, won by quite a large margin over their competitors.
• I didn’t really care too much about the race, but I saw the start of the race anyway because I was with my family, Dad and Kel and more, and we were at a train station near where it started after returning from a holiday at some rural town from where we had to take a local train back to civilization. Every team struggled to get their dog going, as the dogs would move a little bit and then stop, or move in the wrong direction, or run into a wall, and require re-adjusting every few seconds, but at some point the husky shot through the snow in the correct direction, burrowing a path in the snow and overtaking everyone else.
• The scene then shifted to the middle of the race, and had me seated by the side of a road alone as I waited for something. The husky team stumbled up to near where I was and stopped, and the man got off the sled. I saw him pat down the dog, who seemed to be in some distress, and he picked up a handful of snow from the ground, melted it in his cupped gloved hands, and extended his hands with the water in them to the dog to let him drink from it. He said that the dog had a headache and he was trying to make sure the dog felt better — he wasn’t sure if the dog could make it to the finish line. They were way ahead of all their other competitors though, so they were taking it slow.
• There was a plastic bag, similar to an airplane sickness bag but for the dog, he needed to dispose of, and I told him to just leave it next to me and I would dispose of it for him — there was another discarded plastic bag on the ground that someone else had littered and I could throw the both of them away together. This technically might have counted as outside assistance, but no one was around to watch and dustbins were rather scarce. He thanked me and left the bag with me and I got up and disposed of the two bags as the Edmonton team continued onwards.
• I then went to the final building area, and headed in to the building and up some ramps. There were arrow signs pointing to where the ramp to the next level was, but the course itself was rather tricky, with ramps sometimes located at the very end of each floor that required a sharp 180-degree turn to be made to access it, or multiple ramps leading off in opposite directions with only one of them being the right ramp. Even walking up the course, I took a wrong turn at one point near the top and ended up in some engineering area made up of walkways with pipe railings and a sign that said the area in front of me was a restricted area and entry was prohibited. Two friendly workers, a male and a female, were at separate open-aired desks nearby though, and I got directions from the both of them back down one level and over to the correct ramp up.
• Finally reaching the finish line, I saw that the Edmonton duo had already won, but the man was fretting because the race staff were supposed to bring him a replacement sickness bag for his dog but had not done so. I took a bag lying on a nearby table and gave it to him and said that he could probably just use that. There were other people around and they were congratulating him on his victory but he didn’t seem to care about that, just his dog’s wellbeing.