Dreams

Oct 16 2023

• Snippet: I remember a specific snippet where I and someone else were examining a scene of a large formal dinner that apparently Dad, Mom, Jon, and I had attended many years ago, when I was around 8 years old. I no longer remembered many details from that scene, but we needed some sort of information about what happened that day, and I was surprised to see during the playback of the scene that I had apparently mixed up that memory with another one as a couple of familiar things happened that I had thought actually happened in that other event.
• Snippet: Also later on there was a snippet to do with a girl meeting another girl and eating tofu, as a cameraman and another girl that was his assistant filmed her while hidden in the canopy of a nearby tree. The two of them were known to the girl but she did not know that they were filming her, and the man tsked when the two girls down below started speaking and told her assistant that they’d have to do some editing in post-production.
• Editor: I had just started playing The Expression Amrilato earlier that night, and in one of the starting scenes, the main girl had looked around to see if there was a hidden camera in the trees around her. That scene definitely inspired this snippet.

Oct 17 2023

• I only remember a very specific snippet where someone I was with had a giant white cube of meat, about 3 feet across by 2 feet wide by 2 feet tall, which was apparently an incubated form of life that would eventually become a sheep. It was being formed from the outside, and she wanted to make some money by either duplicating the sheep or farming it for extra body parts, and the way she was going to do this was to carve out a large portion of the cube that represented the stomach of the sheep, setting that aside, and letting the giant white cube regenerate that part of the sheep again.
• She did so, although the cube she extracted was so large and so imprecise that the remainder of the giant white cube was in two separate pieces, the larger piece being what was going to be the front part of the body, and the smaller piece the backside and tail. Nonetheless, she said that that was probably fine, but that she needed to find a box to put them in so that she could take them to a specialist to soak the sheep cube in a broth of liquid nutrients.
• She started hunting with some desperation through her house for a large enough box to put them in. I pulled out a Giant Game Board Book, an oversized book of games that we owned back in Singapore, at some point,and suggested maybe we could cut that up and form a box out of those pieces if needed, and she seemed to like that idea, but in the end she found a regular cardboard box to put the sheep in.
• We then brought the box and went to visit a shopkeeper, a guy standing by the side of a road who tried to sell us some other things as well, but that’s where my memory of the dream ended.

Oct 18 2023

• We were at the end of a long work project, and the project itself was represented by or stored on an underwater research ship shaped like a large white sphere floating a little bit above the ocean bed. I drove an underwater submarine there late at night to bring another colleague there, upon his request, as we were both a bit jaded with the project and had no love lost for the executives and he wanted to rob the research ship of miscellaneous, non-project-related loot on his way out the company door.
• This had been done by various people over the course of the project and was just considered part of the operational cost. One used to be able to get $1,000,000 from robbing the research ship, but these days there was a lot less loot on it. This colleague had a girlfriend that he was going back to, and I had a premonition that something bad might happen to him if he wasn’t careful, so I asked him to double check his gear before he left the submarine to swim to the ship. Indeed, there was a broken strap on one side of his vest that would have come loose, and we adjusted it before he set off for the ship. There was no one actually on board the ship, and he robbed about $4,000 of miscellany from it before leaving.
• The next day, I arrived at our workplace cafeteria in the early morning and heard some workmates chattering about an announcement that had been made by the executives in the form of a minute-long TV commercial at midnight last night about the end of the project. It detailed a list of perks that we were going to get as thanks for our hard work on the project.
• One of the bullet points had a quip about people who would be “getting lost” while diving near the project ship and end up on the ship whose items would also suddenly “get lost” too, obviously a reference to the thefts that had been happening over the course of the project. However, it also referenced other people diving near the ship and discovering an aquatic snake-like creature that could be ridden underwater like a steed, and how the company had acquired a bunch of those snakes as a result and was able to give everyone one of those snakes each.
• Another bullet point said that anyone who had lost their original email address due to offboarding would be able to get it back after the project ended, as they were loosening their offboarding policy for people who had left the company and returned, which had apparently affected many people who were temporary or sessional contractors and kept on being hired and let go during the long project duration.
• I had been planning to leave to Japan but had cancelled that at the last moment, but my account had already been offboarded a couple of weeks before I was scheduled to leave, and this had played out in an earlier scene where someone wanted me to slightly abuse my powers to reset the password on several treasure chests that he had with him so that he could open them without going through the proper protocol to reset all their passwords, and I had said no and used the fact that my account had already been offboarded and I had probably already lost those powers anyway as an out.
• Anyway, when my leaving was cancelled, they had given me back my powers on my second account instead of restoring my original account, which had a username that I liked better. I thought about talking to Ronnie to get my old email back since I did work on the project and was no longer intent on leaving.
• Snippet: There was a classroom scene and I was in there at my desk working on something many hours after class had ended, late into the evening. There was a guy at a desk in front of me who was doing the same thing. A relative of the teacher eventually came in to pick up some things a couple times and told us to go home, at which point I agreed and started tro pack up my bag. I also discovered that the guy in front of me had a secret twin when the twin came into the classroom from another class to chat with him and wait for him.
• Snippet: I was at a doctor’s office, there were 2-3 of us in there speaking to a doctor who didn’t really want to speak to us and only wanted to speak to some sort of Mistress or supervisor character who we all (including the doctor) shared a common subordinate relationship with, but one of us was the only one who had seen the Mistress the last time she transformed or something, and was the only one who could give detail on that.
• Snippet: I was playing something like the Connect 4 game where you slip red and yellow counters down into slots at the top of a frame that was standing upright, and the counters would come to a rest at the bottom-most open slot in that column, above all the other counters that were already placed in that tile. Except, instead of red and yellow tiles and trying to get 4 of them in a row, these were Scrabble tiles with letters and points on them, and the object of the game was to draw up to 7 tiles from the pile and play as many tiles as I wanted at a time in a straight line in the vertical frame in order to form a word and score points. I was playing with Jon and Kel, drew a blank to start when we were each drawing a random tile to see who would start first (I won due to that), had trouble drawing exactly 7 tiles since it was a dream (and because the tiles were folded pieces of paper of different sizes) and ended up drawing 15 or so tiles and putting the rest back, and started with a 5 letter word, I believe it was “whack”, and earned something like 81 points for it.

Oct 19 2023

• Jonathan, from Dunman, and I were waiting at a bus stop full of students, it looked very much like a Singapore bus interchange queue where there were queues for three or four different buses side by side and the queues formed snaked lines that doubled back upon themselves every dozen or so people to form a box pattern. We had joined the queue to get on a particular bus, but I noticed that the queues didn’t seem to add up, and when I went to check a poster at the back of the queue, I found that this was the wrong queue, it was a queue for a group of sport athletes or something that we were not part of. I located the correct queue after that and found that that queue was actually very short, only about 10 people or so, and the end of the queue had just been obscured by the other two or three queues that wrapped around it. We joined the correct queue and helped move some tables around to make the end of the queue easier to find.
• While waiting, we noticed that everyone else in the short queue belonged to a particular club, including a rich and refined-looking boy who was obviously their president and being interviewed by a reporter or commentator. We listened to that commentator tell the story of the club via the interview, about how the club had just succeeded in a war that spanned 25 generations or so and caused probably about 40,000 deaths or injuries, but which was all worth it because they had managed to overthrow the yoke of oppression on the school that had been placed by a family or club of crimson cats that had now been eradicated by them.
• The cats were magical, and would in particular seek out certain students to oppress them and hurt them. They had some sort of weakness to do with not being touched though, I believe, and it was something like they needed regular students to touch them now and then in order to recharge. They then needed to touch the students that they wanted to oppress in order to hurt them. The first president of the club, who was one of the people being oppressed, had a scene with a crimson cat in a crowded school canteen where he succeeded in depriving the cat of recharging (or whatever reason it needed the touch of a regular student) by pointing to a delinquent who was arriving and starting a flash mob of students who ran to him, touched him, and then fled away from the canteen.
• The crimson cat was very angry but ran into hiding, and this started a war over many generations of students to defeat the crimson cats, the role of the president in particular was to find the current cat and keep tabs on it. I didn’t hear what happened exactly for this iteration of the club but apparently they were being treated as reluctant heroes now that they had defeated the last crimson cat and ended its lineage.
• Jonathan and I were the only non-club members in that line, but especially since we were helping them move the tables to indicate the end of the line too, it seemed that some of the other queued students thought that we were part of the club too and watched us with a bit of awe. They didn’t say anything though so neither did we, and our bus (or possibly plane) came eventually and we boarded behind the club members and left.
• Later on, there was a scene after I arrived home where I turned on the television to watch a variety show that I liked. There were back-to-back 30-minute episodes, and each one was made up of smaller show segments about 5-7 minutes long each. I caught the first episode, from :00 to :30 of the hour, partway through and watched it to the end. The second one, from :30 to :00, then started, and while watching the starting part of that I noticed that there was a new game show segment that I had never seen before.
• This game show started with a student from the same school as I on one side of the room, and the game show host using a computer to place down little unmoving slimes around the room. The student’s objective was to get to the other side of the room to a glowing end region, while avoiding the slimes, and within an alloted amount of time. They also had to recite a long Chinese sentence that was apparently from our school song at the same time.
• The student who was running this gauntlet in this episode’s segment was apparently Matt, and the first round involved small slimes and a 30 second timer as warmup, and he did it with no problem at all. The host then increased the difficulty of the second round by adding more slimes and lowering the timer to 15 seconds, and Matt had no issue with this either. Ditto for the third round, which had its timer lowered to 10 seconds.
• I felt that the timer could not be lowered any further as the Chinese sentence, which seemed to change from round to round but was always from our school song or mission statement, took almost 10 seconds itself to be recited. Instead, for the fourth and final round, I watched the game show host increase the size of the slimes, so instead of being about 1 foot tall and wide on all sides, it was about 3 feet tall and wide on all sides. It looked rather pixellated at this size though, since the program just took the model and multiplied all its dimensions by 3, and the game show host was puzzled for a moment as he said that he was sure the programmers and back room staff had said that it would look fine.
• Anyway the slime nearest the host was wearing a pink short skirt for some reason, but it was slightly crumpled, and the host adjusted the slime’s skirt as he explained that the additional restriction for victory was not only that the contestant had to reach the other side within 10 seconds while avoiding the slimes and reciting the Chinese sentence, but they had to leave the starting zone “in a smart manner”.
• The slimes themselves never moved, so they formed the walls of what seemed to be a tiny maze, and I noticed that they were arranged so that there was a clear path that the contestant could take to get to the other side. There was also a pillar located near the start zone, and while the game show host was explaining the rules and patting down the slime’s skirt, he did not notice that Matt had slinked off down the other side of the pillar already and had soon made his way to the end zone before the game show host had even finished explaining.
• The game show host then pressed a button that started the 10 second countdown, and was shocked when the timer immediately ended due to Matt being detected in the end zone already. He acknowledged that that was clever and that Matt had won the game.
• Mom and Jon had come home around when the segment started, and they stood behind the sofa that I was seated on to watch this game show segment as well, and I told them that this must be a new segment because I had never seen it on previous episodes of the variety show, and that if it did play in the first episode today then I had missed it because I had tuned in late.

Oct 21 2023

• A friend in a Discord server asked for a CD to be ripped because he wanted a copy of it, I told him that I was already scanning another CD with a black booklet that would take a while to clean, and had a queue of about five or so CDs that I wanted to do next, but that I’d bump their request up in my queue. Someone else in the server described a problem he had where an invisible window seemed to be stuck on his desktop, I suggested one of the apps in the Microsoft Powertools set of programs that might help him, as it highlighted all open windows and said which process was using or causing them, and that description sounded very similar to his problem.
• But I had taken a while to give him the answer, and after I replied, a know-it-all person in the server mentioned that the person I was replying to had already gone to bed, and then proceeded to drown out my answer by answering someone else who had chatted about something and included a bunch of verbs in his chat, by haemorrhaging a long list of other related verbs. “Who asked?” I said accusingly, basically rudely asking him who had asked for his opinion. He said he was just making chatter with the other guy. I said that I was referring to his reply to my chat, and he said oh.
• I went to bed myself, and when I woke up, I found that Mom, Dad, and Jon had stopped by a food place near an airport, and then come to my Edmonton 205 house and dropped off some food in a plastic bag, as well as an empty, Christmas-themed pizza box on my computer desk. I brought the box to the garbage drop-off place in the kitchen near my front door.
• Not sure if in the same dream or not, but later on I was heading downstairs from my Edmonton 205 house and was at the bottom of the internal stairs in my apartment block. I was walking with someone, and chatting to them about the synergy between a couple skills that we both had. I demonstrated (on her) that I could use two skill buttons to drain 15% of her health and 7% of her stats, and then hit a skill reset button with a long cooldown, and then press those two buttons to drain another 15% health and 7% of stats, before actually ending my turn and giving her a turn to act. I said that occasionally she would run into that combination when fighting other players.
• Snippet: I was playing a Sim-like game with a friend, and in particular there was a main road crossing a river on a bridge, and I built a small path leading perpendicularly away from it along the river’s edge, across a bunch of grassy land set on some rolling hills. I commented to my friend that this area might eventually become a golf course.
• Snippet: There was a detective who had special blood, and he was crying out in horror because he had just been bitten by two vampire girls who then fled, but the vampire bite had doomed him and he was writhing on the ground. Two godly figures came across him as he was dying, and they reincarnated him into a large, brownish seafaring ship to save him.
• Editor: The Microsoft Powertools set of programs here refers to Microsoft Powertoys, except I always remember the name wrongly in real life anyway, so why not in dreams too?

Oct 22 2023

• I was in Vancouver because for some reason I was planning for a trip around Asia in about 3 or 4 months, and going to Vancouver now would apparently cut off the need for me to go to Vancouver once that trip rolled around, as though I could just load my progress and start from Vancouver once the time for my full trip came around. I came and danced in my school uniform at the side of a lake, which was apparently my main goal there. I had no schedule to adhere to either, so I could stay there for as long as I wanted, but I did want to get home that same day that I arrived so I went to the airport.
• However, somehow I managed to get past the initial screening without actually having printed off my plane ticket yet due to some staff confusion, and because I wasn’t sure which plane I wanted to take back home, as there were a couple options. Eventually I opted for one that I saw was going to land 4 minutes before another situated on the next gate. I talked to the attendants at the counter, and even handed them my passport, before finally realizing that I had not printed my tickets yet.
• I asked them if they could print it for me, and they said no — I would have to go out all the way past screening security again to the main airline counters, print it there, and then come in again. It would take quite a while, and one of the clerks suggested I spend more time in Vancouver and take a bus out to where one of her colleagues was staying to see some snow while I was here in BC. She couldn’t remember the name of the town though and was annoyed at herself for that. They also mentioned that they even got requests occasionally from the airport securityy staff asking them to print out someone or other’s tickets for them, but they couldn’t.
• They then started to attend to other customers but I realized that they had forgotten to hand me back my passport so I asked for it. They handed it back — it looked just like my regular blue passport, but it also had a slip of paper stapled to it, and I knew that that was my Japanese visa from my cancelled trip to Japan. As I walked away, the girl that had suggested I visit another town commented to another clerk that she appreciated how I not only didn’t cry or get angry, but even apologized to them for the hassle.
• For my part, I was going to head to the other airplane’s counter to see if they could print my tickets instead, but I wandered by a 7-11 store counter that was located in between the two airplane counters, and heard a familiar voice call out my name. I turned around, and saw Miyu at the counter as a cashier! She asked if I was here in Canada for a Pronunciation Competition, and rattled off some impressive English sentences. Apparently she had come here for that contest as an international entrant, as part of her English immersion studies, and her English was pretty great now. For whatever reason she was now also working part-time at that airport 7-11 store.
• I said no, that I was just on a trip, and that I had forgotten her name — she said it was Yaru. We chatted a bit more, then arranged to meet for dinner after she was done her work, which would give me plenty of time to get tickets and such and aim for a midnight flight home instead.
• Snippet: One snippet from an earlier dream involved me washing dishes at a sink, in a house where I was living with Mom and Jon. I found one of Mom‘s earrings by the side of the sink in a small puddle of water, and the other matching earring next to the soap and sponge bowl, so I retrieved both and put them together.
• Snippet: Another snippet from that same house involved us seeing Santa Claus go by the window, and then the next morning finding a bunch of board games on our kitchen table. Some of them were labelled to be for me, and some for Jon, and some of them were labelled Neutral or something similar, which implied that they were for the family at large without specifically being for either of us.
• Snippet: I was on a bus at one point, and that bus had an experiment where they had removed some of the seats just behind the rear center door, and replaced them with plastic chairs facing each other instead. This was supposed to give people more room, but all it led to were people taking one of the pairs of chairs and slumping over, stretching out their legs to impede people from sitting in the plastic chair opposite theirs. I tried sitting in one of them anyway even though there was a person across for me, but it was too cramped and my knees kept bumping into his knees, and the rough texture of the blue jeans he was wearing, so I got up and moved to a regular seat across from the rear door instead.
• Snippet: At another point, I was at a train station, and needed to cross the tracks to buy a ticket from the machine on the other side. Although the train track actually ended at the point where the crossing was, that crossing was still supervised by two officers and I had to pause, look down the tracks to the direction the train would come from, and then look back at the officer for permission to cross. He waved me across and I did so. On the way back, my train was arriving, and I wasn’t sure if I would be able to cross back in time to reach it, but he waved me up some stairs and I found that there was a little overhead bridge that also allowed me to cross those tracks and get onto a second level pathway where a good number of people were hanging out. For good reason, since that pathway snaked across the station and had stairs leading down to all the platforms.