Dreams

Oct 09 2023

• After school in the afternoon one day, I had a multi-part quest that started in the building I was in to escape the building, steal a car waiting outside together with Dad, escape to an airport, and then take over a plane from there or something. The building had been taken over by some armed people, who were mingled in with regular students on the four levels of the building — the bottom level was the lobby, second level were the classrooms, third level waws some sort of scientific research lab, and the fourth level was a library.
• I killed a couple of armed guards but otherwise made it out stealthily enough, where I saw Dad on the phone as he arrived at the building exterior and walked toward the lobby area. Apparently he was on the phone with a deaf kid using teletype to communicate with him and the kid said he wanted to be a kind professor like Dad when he grew up.
• I went over to meet Dad and hurried him through the lobby and out the other side where the car was supposed to be — but it wasn’t there. I noticed, much to my frustration, that I had a quest overlay UI and it said that I was still on Part 1 of the quest — to kill 4/20/652 people. I realized this meant that I had defeated 4 guards, but needed to defeat 20 out of 652. There weren’t even close to 652 guards in the building though, and even though the time was ruined for the day now as it was going to stretch into the evening, I went back in and picked off guards with my own rifle until I hit 17/20/652.
• The last few I took out were in the library, and then when I went back to the elevator, Ronnie also appeared in front of me and wanted to take the elevator to another level. But immediately after pressing the button, he decided against it, so he cancelled the elevator selection button, which caused the entire elevator to bug out and stop working. After I and some tech support person over the phone teased him about that a bit, I just decided to leave for the day and come back the next morning.
• The next morning, we had classes again, though it was a self-study class and our class just had 3 people in it. One of the other girls was writing a Japanese skit for us about living in the countryside, and asked me if she could include a reference to a mosquito coil in it that our teacher had pointed out in the textbook, something about the word for it sounding a lot like another word. I said sure, and noted that it seemed that every Japanese class I took had a skit and my skit always had a homonym pun in it played as a joke for whatever reason anyway.
• For my part, I wrote my dream diary, noting in particular the number of floors in the building and what was on each level. I concluded that the 652 number wasn’t the number of armed guards in the building, but the total number of people in the building. I also reminisced about a previous class where there were 6 people in the room including Eileen, although I believe this was not a real dream from my past.
• After school, I went back up to the library. I had a different plan this time, which was that I had brought along a DNA swab and swabbed the wooden lock on one of the doors to see if the DNA of the last random person to touch that door would count toward the quest. It did! I opened the door and Shelley was in a room there studying by herself, I asked if I could have a sample of her DNA to help with my quest as I didn’t want to kill anyone and she complied, and that plus swabbing another nearby piece of metal got me to 20, and so the next phase of the quest finally triggered.

Oct 10 2023

• I was living with Mom, Dad, and Jon, and the TV was on, showing a soccer match rerun between Galatasaray and some other team. It was near the end of the match and the score was 0-0 but the Galatasaray fans were cheering, apparently because they had won 2-1 in their away leg in the previous week, so the opposing team needed to score twice to avoid elimination due to the away goals rule. I had suspected that this match was a rerun though and Dad proved this right when he changed the TV channel to one that was showing match results and showed that that match had taken place four rounds ago in whatever competition they were playing in.
• There was a conversation about what the most boring sport was, I said it was baseball. Someone brought up soccer as an option and I said that while that could sometimes be true, at least the time kept on ticking even when the ball was dead, unlike baseball where innings just stretched on and on.
• There was a large, grown-up white tiger roaming around the house, it was friendly to us and understood rudimentary English but was too destructive and rough so we needed to get it into a pit. We did this by first digging the actual pit and putting other animals in there too, then making a little voxel platform over the pit, luring the tiger over it, and digging out the blocks so that it fell in.
• I went out at some point to get something at 10pm and came home a little before 12am. Jon was waiting by the door when I got home and was visibly relieved that I had made it back before the clock struck midnight for some reason.
• The next day, on Sunday, we went out as a family to a ramen shop. The tiger wanted to come along, but we said no, but added that if it promised to behave, we’d bring some food back for it. Mom had a list of three promises, which she then extended to seven promises, one for each day of the week, that she tried to extract from the tiger in return for us bringing back the ramen for it, but I told her that the tiger probably did not understand her as the English was too complicated.
• I brought along two coupons for the shop, both that were only usable on Sunday. The one that was expiring soon was a mango ramen coupon for $2.50. The bowl and helping turned out to be very small though compared to everyone else’s regular $10+ meal, so I ended up cashing in the other coupon as well.
• Snippet: Much earlier in a separate dream, I had the ability to project my consciousness from person to person and used this ability to escape in a truck from a multi-level warehouse or building full of armed guards that I had infiltrated. After boarding the truck in my latest body, I tried to wait for my previous body to catch up to me to see if she was friendly or not, but she was aggressive and attacking me so I quickly drove off in the truck instead.

Oct 12 2023

• The dream started with me finishing up a small class in which I was a student. There was a girl whom I wanted to become friends with and she had mentioned among other things that she did not have an email address because her likes and interests were too unstable and changed too much and she could never decide on a name. She brought out a small phone and played a tune as an example of a song that she recently liked, and she asked if anyone in class recognized it. I nodded, although I had to confirm with her much later on what song it actually was, as I knew it was either an insert song by Kana from Oshi no Ko or by Kanon in Kami Nomi zo Shiru Sekai. It turns out it was the former.
• Anyway, for now, the class ended and I invited her to a homework and study session. She asked where I was going to study, and I said I often did it at the canteen. It was 1pm and Dad was picking me up at 4pm, so we had about three hours there, and Huihan often joined us as well. It would actually be busy and noisy in the canteen for the first 20-30 minutes after school ended, but it would rapidly thin out after that.
• We started to make plans to study there but something happened and we ended up going back to my dorm room to study instead. Sandy and Johannes also shared the space there and were supposed to be around, but when they learnt that the girl and I were going there to study, they assumed that I was trying to woo her or something and stayed away despite me calling them at one point to inquire where they were.
• Before studying, I went to a nearby train station and saw a bunch of parents waiting around two carriages of a train that acted as a kindergarten. It had pulled up at the station and I knew that Jon and Kel were onboard as students, and I saw someone that looked like Mom coming to the station to pick them up. I waved to her but she didn’t wave back and I realized that she looked similar but was someone else different. I wasn’t sure if Jon or Kel had someone to pick them up so I wanted to wait around for them, and I witnessed the train door approaching and the crowd of parents surging forward to press against the door while the conductors used machines to extract the children one by one from the train and place them outside. There were kids inside the train still seated at their tables too, which lined the aisles of the narrow train, along the windows on both sides.
• I eventually saw Kel‘s table through the window, and even went in and walked the length of the carriage before stepping out again, but I never did see Jon or Kel so I assumed they made their way home. The train moved off, and at that point I saw that the kindergarten only encapsulated two carriages, and the carriages before and after those carriages were normal passenger carriages. There were also lots of train tracks winding through the station platform, some crossing from one side to the other, and I had to sidestep a little train locomotive with no attached carriages as I headed back.
• I made my way back to the dorm room where the girl was and had a shower, then when I emerged, I found that she had helped me put away my clothes while I was showering. We then started studying, though it was apparently already 3:30 pm by then. I had a small brochure, three pages long and double-sided, that was apparently some sort of History assignment, I unfolded it and one of the pages had a number of questions in bullet points down the side. It was something about Japanese onomatopoeia, and I finished it easily enough.
• Later on, when I returned home, I had to climb a wall to actually reach my apartment where Mom, Dad, Jon, and Kel were. I hesitated and hung around just below the rim of the wall for a bit, listening to my family chatter with each other, until Mom flew over and hovered over the edge to look at me and mentioned that she would transfer me some money for accompanying Jon and Kel earlier on their way back. I said I didn’t even manage to see them in the end and climbed up the rest of the way.

Oct 14 2023

• I was waiting for the leadership transfer of some sort of organization to come to me, this involved the leaving of our old Discord server and the joining of a new one as well. Eventually we created a new server anyway and I invited everyone to it, though I noticed soon after that one of the other admins below me had done some customization to it, for example giving someone called Ame a teal-coloured role in the server. I surmised he must have paid for special privileges or something.
• As part of the organization, there was a wing of people who were becoming mech robot pilots, which included James and three other people who had just taken the test. At one point during the dream, the marks were released, and I look at a board in a room that showed me that everyone had passed- — the score needed to pass was 32 points, and they had all scored between 33 and 42. James had 38 points.
• Mom was in the bathroom and/or taking a shower at one point with Kel helping her out due to her still recovering from her surgery. Later on they left and I had my turn in there too, and I noticed that the bathroom door had a little rectangular vertical flap in it that looked like a mini door so that she could open it and call for help if needed without opening the entire door. The bathroom was also tiled Singapore-style so the entire bathroom could be used as a shower room.
• Mom drew an elephant on a square tablet at one point, then was dissatisfied with it and redrew it so that it looked like the picture of a road winding away in the distance, except that the road was actually the elongated body of an elephant standing on its hind legs. The elephant head was in the clouds toward the top of the picture. I thought it was rather clever.
• Finally, at one point I saw a TV show interviewing Elon Musk and a few people and he was mentioning that there was a secret society that he was part of called the Tail Keepers or something similar to that that saw themselves as gatekeepers of things. he said that one of its most famous members had been a 17 year old goalkeeper playing for some EPL team, possibly Sunderland, that had gone 140 games in a row without letting in a goal, and that eventually he got a talking to by his own secret society for being too zealous/good, at which point he settled into a more steady rhythm of occasionally choosing to let the ball slip through his fingers and roll into the net.

Oct 15 2023

• I was part of an entourage of people heading east along a dirt road that I think was loosely based upon train station routes and train tracks, except we were a caravan convoy train pushing/driving carts along the road, and stations were towns set upon the road instead. Our group split up at one point, with several of us including our largest caravan heading southeast toward a peasant town to sell some grain there, while the rest of us headed east toward another town to start buying things there, as it was the 30th of the month already and there was a special purchase we could make if we reached the next town to the east before the 31st. The group that headed southeast planned to take another northeast road from the peasant town to rendezvous with the rest of the convoy after.
• There was a minor sub-plot about car racing here somehow, as I’m fairly sure the scene occasionally transformed back and forth between dirt roads with carts and modern roads and train tracks with cars and trains. I don’t remember any exact details of this though.
• There was also a troll following us a little way behind us on the dirt road, though it got confused when we split up. It eventually followed us east, but due to the delay from the hesitation and from gathering a dark army or something, it did not attack us until the split caravan had joined back up with the main group in the eastern town.
• The attack, when it came, involved a bunch of ground troops but also some flying ones on an ice disc that we apparently found very difficult to defeat, according to a commentating voice, as they had destroyed our air defences first. We eventually defeated it and then set up some more air defences that looked like a really large test tube rack with 11 or so holes, and a flag set in hole 5, with some spear-shaped objects also placed in holes 1, 3, 9, and 11.
• In the aftermath of the attack, Jeremy pulled me and someone else aside and gave us both a photo each, which he said he had taken during the battle, that showed the identity of the leader that attacked us. It was a passport-sized photo, and although I did not recognize the man in it, I admired the fact that Jeremy was able to take that photo. But he was a bit of a loner, travelling along a little ways away from the group, and for some reason he did not want to share this with the rest of the caravan.
• He didn’t even fully trust us, he said, and the photos he had given us were stored in different folders with different passwords on his computer, even though he didn’t mind both of us looking at the other person’s photo as well. They were taken from slightly different angles. We returned him both photos afterwards.