Dreams

Dec 11 2023

Dream 1

• This dream had a combination of two distinct games, one an outer encompassing game that featured turn-based combat and the second a minigame within the first game that featured short bursts of wave-based real-time gameplay.
• I don’t actually remember any combat within the first game, but I had a weapon that could change between a bunch of other legendary weapons, including one form where it could launch missiles and tracers at my opponents. I also had a shield which was visually represented by a UI with 6 rows, with two buttons in each row. Each button would turn off the other button in its corresponding row. The shield became boosted and more powerful when all 6 rows either had their left buttons or their right buttons activated at the same time. This was called stacking 6 shields vertically.
• The second game was launched from within a market that I could visit within the first game. This market was in a large indoor domed hall, and I was in a part of the bottom level specially dedicated to a wet fish market. Hanging a couple dozen metres in the air above the fish market were four glass-walled classrooms belonging to a small school that overlooked the bustling floor below.
• The game was launched via creating a tiny monster character in a fish tank full of water at one of the stalls. I had been playing the overarching game with Jah, Heg, Phow, and Hobbs, but the first two had become busy and were unable to play the minigame with us at that moment, so the three of us remaining started the game. I believe the game itself was nonetheless solo though, and had the feel of a festival or carnival game to it.
• When I started the game, the map shifted so I had an overhead view of the market. The market was set up as a rectangular-shaped building, with a path going all the way around the outside perimeter of the stalls, and two more paths cutting across the length of the market floor. Kind of like the Japanese/Chinese character 目, except the two middle lines were parallel with the longer side, not the shorter one.
• In addition, when the game launched, the first thing that happened was that a general evacuation order was given, which caused all the store vendors and visitors in the game representation of the market to head for the elevators. The classrooms were also given an order to evacuate, first the three classrooms with actual students — 1A, 1B, and 2A, and then the other classroom, 2B, which apparently acted as a cafeteria for the students. There was a single woman in the 2B classroom who was their cafeteria lady, and she was grateful that she was not forgotten in the evacuation order.
• There were two elevators located in the level, and the object of the game was to guide my monster into one of the elevators and evacuate safely. My monster was a small white furry blob and was invisible. However, it was considered “evil”, and the wave-based gameplay involved “good” enemy guards spawning and patrolling and shooting randomly down the aisles, so I had to constantly dodge and hide from them despite being invisible, as I tried to reach either of the elevators. I largely did this by using the perimeter, as the “good” guards tended to guard the central rows since the two elevators both opened up into them. There were many other little monsters trying to escape at the same time as well, though I wasn’t sure if those were players or NPCs.
• I also had to carry around a white stake with me, and everytime I picked up the stake and then threw it down again, it formed a white, circular aura on the ground that helped me in some way as long as I remained in it, and that the guards apparently could not notice. I eventually made a break for an elevator, and threw down my stake inside of it, but then was not able to make it in myself due to a guard’s presence, so I watched as the elevator closed its doors (with a few other monsters in front of it) and took off toward the upper level.
• Without the stake’s protection, I turned from a white furry blob into a red one, and I thought the game was over. However, it did not end, and I shortly thereafter managed to make it into the other elevator by being more daring since I figured I had nothing else to lose anymore. The elevator door closed and I travelled upwards in the elevator with three other little red imps, making it to safety, although the doors opened up by some sort of surface bunker and there was no sign of the other elevator or my white stake.
• But it counted as a victory nonetheless, and the game ended. We wanted to play again, and Jah returned at this point and asked if the game offered mid-game saves in case he had to pause, and I said that it most likely didn’t, individual games weren’t long enough to justify that feature and it involved real-time wave spawns and possibly other players as well so it would be hard to save. I said that the all-encompassing outer game we were playing, being turn-based, likely did have a save feature though.
• Tigey had an appearance in the outer game as well at one point, as some sort of 5th player, possibly as a demonstration of how to play the wave-based minigame and get to extraction point.
• In addition, music video splash screens appeared now and then while I was playing the minigame, with text credits popping up at the bottom of the “screen” announcing the song that was being played, the artist of the song, and the album that it was from. I never heard any actual music though, but the first song I remember was “Humor” by “I Am A Music Video”, from the self-titled album “I Am A Music Video”. The second and third song credits I saw later on were both by “Xiaoto” (or possibly “Siauto”), the second song was called “Devoted” and the third was called “Automatic Paintbrush”.

Dream 2

• In a second, separate dream later on, I was living in a HDB apartment building that itself was built upwards from a large open area built atop another larger apartment building, or possibly a bunch of other ones. So the lower buildings went up about 14 floors or so, and on the 15th floor was a large, open park area that merged into the side of a hill so part of it was sloped and part of it was level. On top of that hill was the apartment block that I was living in, which was a separate 10 or so storey building that started counting from floor 1 again.
• It was about noon on that day but Kel had decided to skip school, and she was hanging out with some of her friends on a couch in the park. I was on my way to work, since it didn’t really matter what time I started work, but I felt like skipping that day too. My parents were at home, and I had just helped Mom figure out how to use some technological gadget on the kitchen cabinet before I left, while Dad had recently ordered a device to attach to the TV that would enhance the shows that he watched, except that there were two versions of that expensive device — one that would enhance live TV and one that would enhance TV that was recorded onto VCRs.
• He had ordered the VCR version, but we had successfully argued with him that that made no sense — he tended not to watch all the shows that he taped on VCR, and we could get DVDs or Blurays of some of those shows anyway if it came to that, but he would use the live TV version every day. He relented and started the process of returning the VCR version of the device in exchange for the live TV one instead.
• I left for work after that, coming down from the second building and ending up in the park area on the roof of the first building. There was a large Chinese New Year festival going on there, and in between the trees that lined the park were a bunch of stalls and other festival things. I tried to find a good place to take a picture from but was unable to due to all the trees.

Dream 3

• I don’t really know if this was a separate dream or if it was a snippet attached to the last one, but I had a dream or memory of recovering from some surgery and being stuck in a hospital in 2013 with Athera and Rainbaw and a few other friends that I was playing games with back then, and that we had a DnD game going with the Critical Role gaming crew in a meeting room in the hospital on a daily basis — Matt Mercer was there, as was Marisha Ray, Laura Bailey, Sam Riegel, and probably the others too.
• The Critical Role crew were recording their games for some sort of radio show at the time, as they had not started their Twitch stream yet, and they had come to play with us as some sort of ongoing charity event, which turned into an actual campaign that took place over a timeline of several real life weeks. It was part of Season 19 of their current ongoing campaign as well, so the main characters had their ongoing, overarching plots and we were playing minor characters that accompanied them for their season. I played a character that was either named Jennelle or Ellyssa.
• We had a good relationship with them and continued the game for a little while even after I left the hospital and returned home. In the present day, I was shocked that I had forgotten all about this event until today and certain that this event happened since my memory of it was so strong, and I was trying to look for logs on my computer for it to prove it, either from IRC or some other chat program. But I was not sure what keywords to look for to find these precious gaming logs any longer. It was so real and vivid that I woke up feeling very confused.

Dec 12 2023

• Snippet: All I remember is having a sniper rifle and being able to use it to tag three things on an overhead map to the south of me somehow, that helped prove to others that they separately existed at the same time and that they weren’t the same thing. This was important for some larger reason that I no longer recall.

Dec 13 2023

Dream 1

• I remember being on the run and hiding inside a motel room, because I had deleted some data from a work client’s account while in another hotel room and had been fired from it and had the authorities pursuing me for that. When I saw the officers closing in on me in this current motel room, from my window several floors up, I had subsequently shot a couple of them with a sniper gun too, compounding my troubles.
• I remember thinking that I had “no ties left to this world”, and I meant that in the sense that nothing was tying me down to a location so I planned to flee again, but they had figured out my identity due to a credit card swaipe that I had done to buy a drink at my old hotel a couple of weeks ago or something, so even my (pre-transition) name and face were infamous now.
• I packed my duffel bag and got ready to move again, folding and putting my jacket at the bottom of it and then piling in a few simple essentials after that. There were many ways out of the motel, for example escaping through the vents, and I was considering what route to take when Dad contacted me and said I could escape the cops but that that it was now time to return to his family ninja school and melt away from society there.
• Snippet: There was some sort of dream memory about having two separate cakes, one of them with some sort of castle log hidden in it or something. Also something about the uniqueness of snowflakes and an ability to freeze time that I don’t remember the context to.

Dream 2

• Mom was away from the house in some sort of hospital setting again, and Kel and Dad were already with her so she was away from the home as well even though it was only 7 am in the morning as I woke up. I packed up my bags to get ready for school, then took in the mail with six pieces of junk mail overall, then put it on the kitchen table and added a sticky note on the top one, requesting that whoever saw it did not dispose of it until I had time to scan it tonight.
• As I was about to leave the house, Dad came back and exclaimed that I was up early. I said that I wanted to do my part by taking the bus to school myself so that he could stay with Mom and Kel, but he said that since he was here and I was already ready, he would give me a drive anyway since it was on the way. I agreed and took the offer.
• On the way down to the apartment lobby, we met someone else who lived on a lower level and drove a bus for a living. He said that rain was coming but that the “bad rain” only generally reached the bottom 7 levels of the apartment block. We said that our apartment was 3 or 4 levels above that. We looked at a map that showed that each floor of the apartment building had a different and unique apartment type, like the person below us actually took up the two floors below us, with all their living floor in a wide area two floors below us and their bedroom being a singular room one floor below us, so their house was shaped like a pear. I wondered if they ever found us noisy while in their bedroom, but they had never complained.
• Apparently our apartment were two-storey maisonettes, similar to our Yishun 723 homes, and we had one of the better unit types in the building, though the person (two storeys) above us had even nicer homes. Most of the people below the neighbour below us had just single storey apartment flats though.

Dec 15 2023

• Snippet: There was a person who was able to respawn after being killed/defeated, and I was trying to prove it to someone or a group of people without actually killing the person in question or even really letting them know about it. I don’t remember the context or how I went about doing it, but I remember being complimented for my techniques and for not putting all my eggs in one basket.

Dec 17 2023

• I was part of a number of students staying at a school overnight. The school building itself was divided into dorms and classrooms and lecture halls and most of the people were inside of the dorms. I had a group of friends, 6 including me, who wanted to play a DnD game overnight, so we went out to look for a room as well. We ended up picking a classroom and moving some tables and chairs around so we sat around a large circular table in the middle of the room, though I worried that we were making too much noise dragging the furniture along the ground and disturbing the people below. It was apparently an empty classroom below us though so we were fine.
• Of the six students, one of the girls decided not to sit with us in the classroom, and she went off to join some of her friends in another lecture hall instead, lounging in a lying-down position on the stage there. We could still talk with her though, even though she was physically separated from us. The others sat down at the table, with the only two guys in the group on either side of me, and the other two (three including a representation of the girl in the other room) girls opposite from me.
• We decided to play a group game of Scissors, Paper, Stone to decide who was going to pick their character class first. The guy to my left put out Stone, as did I, and everyone else including the missing girl put out Scissors, so the others were eliminated right off the bat. I then faced off with that guy one on one, and I put out Scissors, whereas he used both hands, one putting out Paper and one putting out Stone. I said that that was illegal, and everyone else agreed and made him do it again. This time he put out Paper and I put out Scissors, barely managing to stop myself from contracting my fingers into a Stone, so I won. He was unhappy about this.
• Even though I got to pick first, I still wanted to be mindful of what everyone else was going to pick as I knew that most of them already had ideas. The guy I had beaten, for example, wanted to be a mage of some kind. One of the others across the table wanted to be a Bard, which wasn’t even a class that was available but was apparently a Prestige Class that a Rogue could eventually turn into. But the list of classes that I could see didn’t include a list of what Prestige Classes they could turn into, so it was very unhelpful.
• The rest of the dream was me basically being wishy-washy about considering the different classes. I went back and forth from Mage to Rogue to Sorcerer to Paladin to Cleric but came up with reasons for each one why they didn’t feel right. In the meantime everyone else seemed happy to wait and the girls were chatting gaily with each other, though I apologized now and then that I was taking that long. I wanted to pass and let others pick first but they were not having any of that to begin with, though I think eventually I asked again and said that we should at least do them concurrently and they relented.