Dreams

Jan 15 2024

• I was in what I believe was an alien game world, although I do not remember seeing any aliens. I orchestrated and led a large escape attempt from an old man’s house, which was a large hospital-like building. the old man was known to me, and may have been represented by Yi Tiu, but I’m not certain on that. The people that escaped with me included friends from Rosyth, like Nicholas, friends from Dunman like Allen and some of the girls, and anime characters like the eldest brother from Yuzuki-san Chi no Yonkyoudai, as well as other random people.
• The old man didn’t follow us when we escaped the building, but while I wanted to head eastward from the hospital front door, which was on the south end of the building, to get away from it, I was overruled by people who wanted to head along the north road going by the eastern side of the hospital, so we did that instead.
• This led us to stopping at and then climbing a ladder to a 2nd floor window of a building in the city block north and east across the road from the hospital, while the old man watched us from a window on the northern side of the hospital. Apparently he was satisfied with watching us balefully and did not send any troops to recapture us. The building we stopped at was a rebel base and a freedom fighter was waiting at the top of the ladder, at the second floor window, to give us food and weapons as supplies.
• A bunch of us picked up guns from this, which held clips with 24 rounds of ammunition. Some people kept the guns and clips apart, some loaded the clip into the gun and then folded the gun itself in half and clipped it on their belt, which apparently made it so that the gun was only “half loaded on both sides”. At least two people duelled each other for fun too.
• A bit later on, we were on a spaceship escaping the planet, and it was going to be a long trip through space. I had a membership roster board where I could see everyone sorted by age, and there was a separate section at the bottom for children and babies. I noted that our population had dwindled over the past little while even with the new children born and hoped that we would reach our destination soon. There was a sorting error among a couple of the babies that I proceeded to fix, but it caused a bit of a stir because other people thought that I was eliminating or deleting a child when I picked up its token from the board.
• In the same dream later, we arrived at our destination planet and ended up in a house that was very similar to our Edmonton 4012, although we had an extra door out to the garden. Our entire colony, even the spaceship, which was represented by a large wooden plaque, was holed up inside the house, and we had strangers occasionally visit us asking to join our colony. We would usually accept them. Now and then a hostile visitor appeared as well and we would try to chase them away, defending either from the front door or the side door to the garden. One time I hurriedly waved Nicholas and two others into the side door and into safety before I slammed the door shut in the face of the intruder right behind them.
• Snippet: I was in the front left seat of a right-hand-drive black minivan that was owned by Dad, he was in a store and had left it running by the side of the road. Jon was in the car’s back seat as a baby as well, I believe. The car began to drift off and down the road, heading onto the main road and toward a highway in the distance, but I had apparently learnt to drive this specific van in a previous dream and so I told myself to keep calm, undid the seatbelt, climbed into the right seat, and steered the car off the main road and into a side lane before it hit the highway. I then hit the brakes and decided to wait right there until Dad came out of the store, since it was still near enough that he would probably see us in the distance once he noticed that the vehicle was not where he had left it before.
• Snippet: I was playing cards at a saloon bar, there were five wooden stools facing the innkeeper and the 1st, 3rd, and 5th stools were for the three players in the game. I won by 30-something points but apparently Fames held the record with a 50ish points win from several years ago, before the pandemic. I also learnt that after each game, everyone stood up and went to the next game seat on their right, and after two more rounds I was in the rightmost stool at the bar. I mentioned that I had never sat in this seat before because I had usually just played one game and left when I stopped by in the past.
• Snippet: Finally, there was a scene where I was in someone’s home, and she made dinner with veggies and rice for herself, me, and another girl that was slightly hostile to her, but we were all currently in a truce state. The food was served using an interesting Rube Goldberg machine setup that involved at least a dozen different interactions between objects. I believe either I or the other girl might have been a magical girl as well, but I’m not sure which one. I and one of the other two were also “new students” to the school that we all attended, and I had a slight language advantage over the other girl in terms of getting to know the natives, because I either knew Japanese or Chinese.

Jan 17 2024

• There was a building, possibly a cable car building, at the top of a hill with lots of zombies inside. It was a place where I went with two others to level up my skills at, with a separate building nearby to buy new skills or upgrade current ones at. For some reason or other the game itself was missing some skills and upgrades that were still Coming Soon though.
• The other building also had a cafeteria one could order food from, and I saw Mom and Kel there, though Mom was in a different line visible through a window. I stood behind Kel and she said that she liked my shirt, which was a gray shirt with the word Transitions on the front, which one could get from volunteering at UAlberta, though oddly the random girl in front of her in the line was also wearing the same shirt, just of a different colour, which meant that it was from a different year.

Jan 18 2024

• Three friends and I were taking the train somewhere but the first train that stopped by the second level of the station that we were waiting at was only a one carriage train that stopped further down the platform, and we couldn’t reach it in time before it left. A second, much longer one came immediately after though, as we were still trying to reach the first one, so we stopped and took that one instead.
• The second train was very crowded and we were separated from each other, with two of us near each other and the other two were also near each other, but the two pairs separated by about half a carriage. We could all still see each other so we tried a pantomime game that went really poorly — one pair tried to act out something but the other pair completely misinterpreted what was being acted out and replied with a pantomime of their own that made no sense.
• Snippet: There was also a game where I could level up gun skills that I had through a tier system, I think by attacking and killing goats for experience. The skills had multiple upgrade trees/paths but one of them was obviously better than the others because one could upgrade it a lot more times in that tree than the other ones, something like over 10 upgrades compared to 3 or 4 for the other paths.

Jan 19 2024

• Most of the dream that I remember took place inside a high fantasy world with a parchment game map that looked like something out of Skyrim. There were ruins and points of interest all over, and I stayed in a run-down castle near a river in the middle of the map together with a dwarven apprentice NPC. The dwarf mostly stayed at the castle, although once I met him on a path while I was travelling around the realm and he was glowing and moving at a really high speed as he zoomed past me and in the direction I came from.
• The game had weapons that one could level up over a hundred times, and stat boosts similar to other fantasy games, for example at one point I met a enchantress on the side of a road, and she bugged out while trying to embrace me as she was hung up against some decorative post on the side of the road, but once she despawned she left me with a pair of tight jeans that gave 48 less strength than the armoured pants that I was wearing but gave dexterity and other stats in return, though I felt that it was out of place for a fantasy world.
• I remember fighting and defeating a troll who was about 1.5 times my size at one point as well. I was powerful, but there was one drawback, I was slowly decaying from the bottom of my body upwards everytime I swung my weapon, and I needed to find glass shards from a zone the dwarven apprentice told me about that was near my castle to stave this off somehow. I couldn’t find these zones on the map, but I suspected it was one of the ruins to my north or northwest though, alongside the river, since I had not been there yet and thus had not unlocked their names for their map icons. Otherwise, if I decayed all the way until I lost my arms, I would only be a floating, disembodied head and would not be able to attack anything.
• There was also a real life component outside the game to this dream, though these only exist in the form of snippets. I remember playing this game with Allen and possibly other friends, and I remember being in an unfamiliar house, remotely controlling the computer in the kitchen from my room. Mom and Dad were in the living room watching TV, which was off to the left of the kitchen from my vantage point from my room, and I remember hoping that they didn’t go into the kitchen and see the enchantress when I was meeting her, because she was dressed rather skimpily.
• I was also visiting or planning to visit Japan, and there were dream snippets about visiting a school and only partially being able to communicate with people there in broken English and broken Japanese, and how that felt tiring. I also boarded a train at one point.

Jan 21 2024

• While between runs in the game Hades, I was resting up at a hotel overseas with Jon, the two of us tucked in to our separate single-person beds in the room. We were playing AMQ with Heg, who was at a separate hotel in another country, using a technique that I had taught everyone that allowed us to connect to the servers using our laptops and broadcasting the feed to the televisions in the hotel room for higher video quality and audio fidelity.
• One of the songs that played seemed to be Water by the Padres, which I also thought was weird timing because I only just happened to write about it in my blog that week and there were very few Singapore-centric songs like it in the entirety of AMQ. As the song progressed I think I decided that it was a different song after all though.
• After the game, I went off to the hotel kitchen, and ended up chatting with a hologram of Milumbar, who was also on a business trip and also currently in a hotel room in yet another entirely separate country that night. He mentioned how he had managed to get his company to reimburse him for not only the plane trip but also the hotel room and his expenses during the trip. I mentioned that we were playing AMQ and I knew that he would be too polite to ask to join us unless I specifically invited him, so I did so while heading back to the bed and my laptop to teach him how to connect to his television.