Dreams

This week, I had a couple of dreams about Satinel, a couple about granting email accounts to our University alumni again after doing so much OT the past few weeks, my first dream about ABT after watching a lot of that around the same time that I was doing all that overtime, and a princess dream! I love princess dreams!

Both Apr 25 and Apr 26 will likely get Highlight Awards when I get around to listing 2023 dreams in my Dream Diary. That project progressed a little this week but is still stuck back in the middle of 2017. My dream diary is so long.

Apr 24 2023

• Snippet: I was playing some sort of obstacle racing course game with Kynji, Frotswa, and other people in Discord, with a short course that I was trying to clear in as quick a time as possible. It involved grabbing an item from a bookstore, then jumping across some obstacles and a series of thin white ledges that looked like a series of large books lined up parallel to each other on the ground, and then climbing up onto a ledge to stop the timer. I did this a few times but could not ever beat 21 seconds, although that was very fast as is, except for one time where I didn’t grab the item from the bookstore and ended up with an 18 second timer. I restarted until I had a time that was just barely over 21 seconds though. I then tried to give the item that I had grabbed on that run, which I hadn’t paid for but which was a card game of some sort for couples, to Kynji and Frotswa, but they didn’t want it.
• Snippet: I was in a swimming pool with some friends at one point, there were about 20 of us in the pool and it was very relaxing. I remember swimming around and chatting to people in the pool but not much else.
• Snippet: At one point I was offered one of my pencils by a character in the dream. The pencil was a pink one with ten removable pencil lead segments that I think I had picked up on my Singapore trip in real life. It didn’t come with a cap, but I remembered that the cap was at home on my computer desk anyway so I was very happy to accept the pencil anyway.

Apr 25 2023

• I was travelling around the dream world with a number of friends and acquaintances that kept changing in number, as we played different games and took part in different activities.
• Early on, one game that we were playing was that we were split into two teams of 10-14 each, and were competing against the other team in a series of rooms in a school to see who could find hidden white packets of powder in each room. The rooms included places like a food lab and a science lab. In each room, we were further divided into temporary groups of 2 within our teams to work on different side tasks like cooking, and these temporary groups were randomly assigned. Satinel was in my team and I wanted to be grouped with her for all of the rooms but could only be grouped with her for one of them.
• In one of the rooms, I found four of the five packs by myself hidden as ingredient packets inside four container bags that vaguely reminded me of instant noodle packets but were something else. I expected the fifth one inside a similar bag but it was not there. After some investigation, the teacher said that it turned out that when other students were bringing bowls to the room to help him set up for the event, one of the girls, who looked very much like Shuyi from Peiying, had dropped the packet on the ground and not noticed, and another student had picked it up and delivered it to the school’s Lost and Found room. Therefore that fifth packet was never in our room to be found to begin with.
• Later on, there were turn-based battles, where my screen display of the enemy side consisted of a front row of two large oval spots, and a back row of three smaller circular spots, each spot of which an enemy monster could stand on. I fought smaller ice sprites that stood on the back row and a large water elemental at some point which stood on the front row. Yet, even though it was bigger, I could not really hit the water elemental well because I could not choose where to aim the fireball spells I was lobbing, and the fireball would target what spot the water elemental was in, as it was the nearest creature, and automatically fire toward that.
• However, the water elemental also kept moving from the left front spot to the right front spot and back every turn right after I fired the fireball, so the fireball kept missing and going past it. There was always an ice sprite behind it though and the fireball would always crash into and murder the ice sprite, who left a puddle of water when it died. Soon there were water puddles on all five squares.
• Later on, there was an overworld we were exploring and caves that we were looking in for treasure. At the very end, just before the game timer expired, we were in an area where there was a large traversable path around a big mountain that was out of bounds, but one person found a cave leading partway up the mountain on the northwest side of the path. Four of us arrived and found that the cave was very easy to climb, and we bounded up to the top to loot a treasure chest there.
• Lastly, there was a part where I was walking with a group of people, easily at least 20. We started at a traffic light by the 4-way junction between Yishun 723 and Yishun 799, that I could normally see from the balcony of Yishun 723, and we crossed that road when the pedestrian light turned green. I was also a game admin playing the game as a player, and at this point I was chatting with Zixiang, and telling him about an earlier iteration of this game and that we admins had granted an early adopter of the game, I believe it was Harvey, a request or boon where he wanted to disadvantage another player who was an acquaintance of his.
• We turned onto a narrow shopping street as we continued talking, and I said I didn’t want to tell Zixiang what we did as we learnt that what we did was unfair and so we no longer provided such boons to players and just played the game as normal players ourselves. He tried to pry out details for me but I refused to say. In actuality, I knew that upon request from Harvey, we had removed the other person’s ability to send random chats to non-friends, and also had neglected to become friends with him so that he couldn’t send a message to the admins to rectify this “bug”. In the end he apparently had a rather lonely game session, which was not what we wanted for players.
• At this point, I noticed that it was just the two of us left on the shopping street itself as we reached the end of the road and prepared to turn out onto another street. Looking back, everyone else had went into a candy shop that was selling tons of candy for cheap, and I apparently recognized this shop from a dream a few days earlier. Most of the people had bought or were buying candy. We went in to join them as several of them left the shop, commenting about now needing a drink, as the proprietress cheerfully told them that there was a soda shop next door. They were definitely working in cahoots, with one of them selling cheap sweets and the other one selling sugary drinks to quench the thirst from the sweets.
• Besides candy, the shop sold a few plushies in a box right next to the cashier, and I saw one of the other students buy a bear and walk off with it. Dad was also there, and he purchased a set of DVDs that was on display on the cashier counter. Ronnie was also nearby and was discussing with Dad and pricing out how much a newly remodeled living room, with a long sofa and a TV and stereo setup, would cost him.
• For my part, I saw another small display box with a couple of CDs in slip cases in it, and a front and back cover for the CD lying separate from the slip cases. There was a sign on it that warned that the CDs may not come with the front and back covers if they were out of stock of those, but the cashier said that they had recently received extra printings of those covers, so I decided to buy a copy of the CD and its front and back covers. It cost $5.50, and the cashier said that the CD belonged to a local male singer. I said that I enjoyed collecting random CDs on my vacations and would listen to them (and rip and upload them as part of archiving something random and local, I thought to myself) when I got home.
• She thanked me for my purchase and rang up the purchase on her cash register, which then appeared on a digital panel attached to the cash register and facing me, as well as a corded extension with a little digital panel on the end of that as well. I said I was going to pay via visa, but instead of tapping my phone on the corded extension panel or the panel on the cash register, I accidentally took the corded extension panel and tapped that on the cash register panel without thinking, which caused an error and an infinite loop. I tried to tap my phone to pay properly with it but the register wouldn’t accept it, and the cashier said that she’d need to reset it and reenter the transaction before I could pay it again. She did so and I apologetically completed the purchase this time.

Apr 26 2023

Dream 1

• I dreamt that the ABT infinite anime Twitch stream released two new characters, both of which were rich girls, taking the character cast to 7. They also released a new scene called “Stories with <name>”, where name was one of the two new characters. It was a news report style segment where they brought up old scenes from the show and discussed them with each other. There were also a few other new segments, like a minigame where the viewer was a cowboy on horseback and had to shoot down bandits in the distance as they chased the cowboy, with everyone riding from right to left from the perspective of the viewer.
• I went in to watch the show after receiving a ping from the Discord server’s admin, although I no longer considered myself a member of the community so I felt like I wasn’t supposed to be there. I saw the mods clearing up emoji spam messages from other people that had been pinged in the Twitch chat when I arrived. However, the room was also a physical room, so I quietly sat down on a plastic chair near the back of the room.
• After watching for a bit, we had the opportunity to split up into groups and go adventuring if we wanted to in yet another new segment. I didn’t plan to go, but a regular player I knew was on my left and a mod that I was apparently on good terms with was on my right, and they both had undone one of my shoelaces in silent, playful greeting at some point as we had been watching. I only discovered this at that point though. They smiled and invited me to join them without asking me questions about where I had been, and I accepted.
• This minigame was D&D based and we had to defeat groups of monsters and level and gear up as we went along. They already had a little bit of gear from previous runs but I hadn’t. The first group of monsters were easy though and dropped 3 weapons, a shield, and a piece of armour. I picked up a cleric mace from there, as that was my chosen class.
• I told them that I had dreamt about ABT last night in my dreams within the same world as well, and in that dream within a dream I had gotten my hands on a downloadable version of ABT that lacked a roof scene but had a new scene situated in the stairwell just inside the door leading out to the roof, and the top half of the door had included a glass pane through which I could see the blueness of the sky beyond it. It was a very brightly-lit stairwell and all the characters had gathered there for a group portrait shot at some point. My downloadable version also had a minigame very similar to the cowboy and bandits one, but it involved zombies instead. We couldn’t kill the zombie but would shoot it repeatedly to slow and stun it as we ran.

Dream 2

• The world was full of oppressive fog or smoke that had closed in over the city within the past few hours or so. I was in a building visiting Gregeor, who had gone to work in a business suit and was trapped there with a number of other people in suits. We knew that the fog was clearing out soon and one of the other men said that he really wanted to get home as soon as possible as he was worried about his family, and wondered if it was worth trying to drive in this fog. We managed to convince him not to.
• The fog was supernatural in some way but it was also known that I either had some sort of effect that could suppress it myself over time, or that I could use to calm the people around me, which was why I had been travelling around myself. Later on though, I ended up in bed in a dorm room, and the scene continued as I woke up from some illness or malady. It was time for school, and everyone else had left, so I grabbed my bag and hurried out and down the stairs. I then realized that I had left some things upstairs, so I hurried back up to my room, and grabbed three things — my water bottle, a plastic file that I put in my bag, and a larger multipurpose file. I then ran down again.
• I then was sitting on a bench down in the courtyard on the ground floor and packing my things when a set of double doors opened nearby and a younger boy came out of what was a throne room with a king seated on a throne and facing some people offscreen. The boy, who was obviously the crown prince, sat on the lip at the threshold of the door and put on his shoes as a hunchbacked old man I recognized came into view behind him.
• I quickly ducked out of sight, but I had left my grey multipurpose file on the floor next to the bench, and he seemed to recognize this as he came over to pick it up. I was hiding under the bench at this point so I darted out and grabbed his wrist as he bent down to try to take my file.
• We sneered at each other and he asked what I was doing. He then said that I should stop playing at being princess, as thanks to me, his plans had- he then stopped short of fully admitting that the fog was something that he had conjured up as the evil court magician, but I knew that and he knew that I knew that as well. However, I was the rightful heir to the throne, not the prince whom he was supporting. I left him be and continued on my way to school with my bag and file.

Apr 27 2023

• There were dreams set in a voxel world that was somewhere between Minecraft and 7 Days to Die. Satinel and I and a few other players who were friends of mine were based in an abandoned town, and the two of us in particular made one of the houses our base. At one point Satinel was trapped in the house next door because she had too much loot and couldn’t leave the neighbouring house, which she was looting, and although I was busy, I saw her asking another guild member for help, but he was busy taking a shower or something, so I dug a passage from our house to the one she was in so that she could just use that to drag the loot home. I also remember breaking down some flimsy locked doors to even find where she was in that neighbouring house.
• That house apparently also had another underground zone beneath it with a cliff and a portal that led to a special zone where we could fight a Darkness Dragon. We did eventually make a group of 4 to go fight it. There were about five different mob qualities that the Darkness Dragon could spawn as, ranging from normal to super or something, and we got one of the super dragons but defeated it quite handily. A couple NPCs on hand mentioned that not long before we arrived, another adventuring group had come by and it was an even stronger dragon that wasn’t a Darkness Dragon at all but was an upgraded version with a different name that was similar to Dusk Dragon, but it had flown off somewhere or despawned, probably due to the zone reset.
• Other things that happened in the zone world involved finding an NPC and doing emotes at it to unlock minor rewards, but the exact NPC or emote one needed to find would change over time. I tried using a cat emote at the target NPC, which was itself a cat-like creature, at one point, but that particular reward had already passed and I had no idea what the new emotes were. There were several other adventure scenes to do with the part of the dream where that house was our base, as well.
• We also had a rocket with a number of inventory slots that we could launch, and at one point I launched it toward the sun and stopped just at the very edge of what was safe for the rocket could handle without burning up. The reason I had done this was that Satinel had pointed out that there was a chest orbiting the sun at that distance. Leaving the rocket to float in the orbit around the sun, I launched a smaller guided capsule ship toward the chest, but then found that the wider the distance between the rocket and the capsule, the hotter the rocket got as well, so if I got too far away it would still just burst into flames. So I went back to the rocket and instead guided it until it bumped against the chest.
• I then opened both inventories and started transferring things over. It was a tight fit, but I managed to use up every single square of the inventory grid on the rocket to completely loot the chest. There were many flat dirt blocks that fit a 4 by 4 square but that could stack on each other, which helped save a lot of room, and several ingots in mineral form that took up little 1 by 3 or 1 by 4 rectangles that I could fit around it, some of which I also stacked upwards on top of each other. I then successfully navigated the rocket back home.
• Within this world, there was also a train scene where I was waiting for the train at a platform which I had been to several times before. I don’t remember much else about the context surrounding this.
• Snippet: Outside of this world, there was a scene with 4 faces lined up in a row as though it were a camera shot of a hockey team bench. The furthest head shifted slightly as its eyes moved to look at the second head. The second head shifted slightly too as its eyes now stared towards the third head. And similarly, the third head turned to look at the fourth one. The fourth one turned to look at the camera and started laughing out loud to himself.
• Snippet: I also had dreams about giving out email addresses to the alumni of our school again, but I forget details of it.

Apr 28 2023

• Snippet: I remember, near the end of my dreams, having a segment where I was restoring and extending email accounts for people.
• Snippet: This somehow tied in to a segment earlier in my dreams too where I was using some sort of time-limited account and trying to figure out the secret of a floating ghost and how to defeat it, or something like that.

Apr 29 2023

• There was a classroom scene where I was taking part in a rating class called Raetlong. The classroom had corridors on the north and south side of it and windows through which people could watch the class within if they wanted. I was waiting outside the class for the previous class to finish and in particular, while I normally had 6 tables in the classroom to myself, I was waiting for a guy in the previous class who was also using those 6 tables to finish what he was doing and leave the room so that I could take my seat.
• The rating class involved short pieces of code that turned into a little floating oval toggle that could be toggled “on and off”, with the off position of the toggle being represented by one > and the on position of the toggle being represented by three >>>. Flipping it on also then summoned a creature into the center of the room that we could then practice rating. The code portion of the class was often outsourced to a different class to do for us. Our rating involved a panel that popped up on a floating virtual interface and many of the functions on the panel had shortcut keys on the keyboard, like n and r, that would trigger them.
• Snippet: A number of other little unrelated snippets follow. One included a policewoman named Sara that was sent to investigate voting irregularities at some point.
• Snippet: Another dream I’ve completely forgotten about except that it took place over the span of 62 or 68 years or something, and that that stood out to me in the dream as being abnormal even for a dream.
• Snippet: Another scene had me at work and had someone asking if we could not offboard his account now that he had left, he had sent in three tickets, the last one asking if he was safe or not. There was another ticket from his department about the offboarding also requesting the same. But this was the day after his last day at our workplace, and policy was that he needed to lose his account and email address once he left, so I ignored all the illegal requests and offboarded his account anyway.
• Snippet: A last scene involved a map of a country with many little quests on it that I had just unlocked. I stayed in a little house somewhere on the west side of the country, and there was a big castle on the east side with several entrances and exits. At the urging of someone who wanted me to see the following cool mechanic, I got to the castle by driving a car whose bottom half had magically transformed into a boat and was constantly summoning water under itself so there was always an extremely localized area of water beneath the boatcar as it zoomed around. There, I spoke to the king, and then went out to the servants’ wing on the north side to pick up a side quest as I had seen an exclamation mark symbol there when I had checked the game map, signifying that there was a quest that could be started over there.

Apr 30 2023

• I remember pushing a little Jon in a stroller along a Japanese street towards our home, and stopping off at a supermarket to see if I could buy lunch for us since we were already outdoors. It was only 10:30 am so I thought it was likely a little early, but Jon said it was probably fine, and I saw one of the roadside stalls outside the supermarket itself selling a bowl of green beans that I knew was part of the noodle dish from the stall that I wanted to buy lunch from too, so I agreed.
• That noodle stall was on the basement level inside the department store, so I turned the stroller around and pushed it toward the nearby door. As I passed the stall, the stallkeeper conversationally remarked about a bit of news that everyone was talking about — there was a pit nearby and someone had dropped a large Singapore stone into it, and had I heard about it or knew who did it? It was a rhetorical question, and I hesitated and then answered with a Wakaranai as the stallkeeper and his friend also nodded and went Wakaranai neee~! But I actually did have a sense of who did it, I had “seen” a dark figure of some sort use magic to lift up the stone and drop it into the pit overnight, I just had no idea who their identity was and how to express all that in Japanese anyway.
• Entering the supermarket door, a worker standing there told me that while I technically could enter that way, that was the cashier door and I’d have to go down a narrow corridor that led to the front and join a queue there for the elevator heading down to the basement, so it was probably better since I had the stroller that I went out again and around the corner to the supermarket’s other entrance.
• Snippet: Earlier, there was a whole lengthy plotline involving a school that I was attending and a couple diffrent timeline versions of it. I was trying to do something or get somewhere with friends, but I’ve forgotten the details.
• Editor: Wakaranai is Japanese for “I don’t know” or “I have no idea”.