Dreams

Hey, another 7-day dream streak week!

Aug 26 2024

• There were a whole bunch of people in a field being divided into pairs for some school activity involving coming up with games to play or reviewing games or something. I was part of this group too, but I was a bit late to the pairing, so my partner was one of the last 5 or so people left looking confused and unable to find their partner from the little slip of paper they were given after everyone else had wandered off in pairs. She was a lanky girl who looked relieved once I identified myself.
• We went into the school building and sat down at a round table outside the canteen, where we chatted about our strategy and talked about a couple of example games that we knew. She then went in to the canteen to buy some food for us.
• While she was gone, another guy and girl who were also doing the same project sat down at a table across from ours. Although they were at a different table, it was basically bumping up against our table and I could hear them speak. The girl was apparently missing a chair so I gave them one of my extra stools as I had three of them on my side of my table.

Aug 27 2024

• Snippet: I remember having the ability to lay down hearts or bubbles on a simplistic top-down view of a forest inside of a computer game, and I did so to lure someone who was attracted to it to the left side of the forest map where she would be safe. There were also scenes of some kind outside of the game itself, where I was talking to some people in a room that looked like part of a museum where I was playing the game in and explaining what I was doing.

Aug 28 2024

• I had a dream where I was walking around a narrow, multi-levelled mall that was shaped really weirdly, like branches on a tree. There weren’t many shops at all but Kel and I were going around trying to unravel two separate mysteries, the first one of which to do with music that had been boosted and edited in some way, and I don’t remember what the second one was but it involved the status of some shopkeepers.
• Someone brought up Michael Jackson as a possible violator of the first music plotline, but it was quickly pointed out that he passed away long before the style of edited music that we were cracking down on was even invented or made possible, so he and his music could not possibly have been edited by him.
• For the second mystery, whatever it was, we interviewed a bunch of shopkeepers about it, while inviting some of them to make videos about their products too. Desdanovas was manning one of those stores and made a video about his product, which was some sort of security software. Another shopkeeper was asked about the former owner of the store, who had passed away a long time ago. He spoke some sort of cryptic codephase that he apparently had been instructed to say by the previous owner when someone came to inquire about him though, but no one knew what that codephrase meant anymore. We guessed that it was likely some sort of phrase for a long-forgotten lover.
• Later, Kel and I were seated at a bench and she had to change her clothes, so we put up a barrier of paper napkins, like a Japanese folding screen, so that she would have some semblance of privacy while doing so.
• Snippet: Much earlier on, I had a different dream where my entire family was floating and swimming around inside a large bubble. This bubble was attached to a frog-like creature who was dragging the bubble somewhere as a form of mass transportation. To enter the bubble, I had to stand directly behind the frog-like creature, which looked like a female humanoid, and “walk” into her, with my face against the back of her head, at which point I would meld into her skin, and then into the bubble that way.

Aug 29 2024

• I remember being with other people and each of us having a small, rectangular plot of land represented by a top-down tilemap in a game that we could decorate however we like. The map was about maybe 20 tiles across and 10 tiles down and was made out of green tiles that represented grass. One of the items we could put on the map was a friendly red slime which was known as something similar to “offenbunnies” or “offalbunnies”, though I feel like it was a compound word made up of a 5-letter and a 6-letter half. There was also a concept where these plots of land were new or something and thus either the build limit was twice as high as they usually were, or twice as many of something was available, as a limited time promotion.

Aug 30 2024

• I wanted to get rid of a goody-too-shoes pristine image that I had as class president of my school class, so I could feel more relatable to my friends. There were several things I did in the dream story that contributed to this, the first being that I recorded a tape of some odd music that I sung, and then played some of at one point in the classroom without admitting to being the singer, to plant a seed of doubt in my friends’ minds. Kel helped with this too, coming up to me and rifling through my bag to borrow another tape or CD and “accidentally” showing the existance of the tape to some friends in the classroom who was looking on.
• Another thing I did was that everyone had to come up with some answers for an oral interview or something this morning, and I had gotten a hold of all the answers written down on a large sheet of paper and spent last night writing down comments on many of my classmates’ answers. They were helpful, but much blunter and ruder than people usually expected from me and my class president image. However, people including Yaoxiang and Zixiang apparently liked this side of me and were also shocked that I had reviewed 19 of the 43 comments in one evening alone.
• Lastly, there was a 3 vs 3 team match that was played on a soccer field in heavy fog, that involved running to a totem on the middle of the sidelines and kicking it down, and then running to the enemy goal and kicking down a totem that was there as well. Our team was expected to lose this game, but we won because I had distracted the leader of the other team, who was Tes. Apparently in the dream he was a bit of a control freak but I had flirted with him to get close to him prior to the game, and then while in his apartment I had written down some blunt comments on things that he had wanted answered, and this had upset him after I had left and before the match. While in the apartment, I had also met his current girlfriend as he was in the shower. We were both changing at that time and looked at each other while only in our underclothes, though it didn’t feel awkward at all, and I was trying to figure out which order to put on two singlets that I had.

Aug 31 2024

• I was making my way through a game world where combat was represented by taking turns to play cards, similar to Slay the Spire and other roguelike deckbuilders. I remember one monster having a “7-star” health bar, and something about multiple rounds in a fight with stacking unlock threshold for things that I could acquire. There was also another level where I was in an underwater level fighting shark enemies.
• Not all the encounters involved cards however. There was a scene where I was sitting down on the ground and taking cover behind a toilet bowl in a toilet while holding a pegleg as bullets whizzed by me. Another scene had me taking cover behind a gravestone, with the word “Block” being spammed over and over in a vertical marquee scrolling fashion above the gravestone as someone was trying to attack me but kept hitting the gravestone instead.
• Another scene I remember was trying to locate an NPC with another player, and I finally found him by buying a $4.75 book from a room, which opened up a backroom door leading to a slanted corridor that led past a beach area to the second level of a row of seaside houses. The person we were looking for was in one of those second level units and I met him there.

Sep 01 2024

• I was living overseas on a study exchange and staying in an apartment block with other overseas students. I left my lights on at night in the apartment partly as a safety feature, and partly because I was lazy, but I saw a couple other students hanging out in the corridor area outside by some benches, and reasoned that the apartment was going to be relatively safe, and leaving my lights on might actually lead to people peeking in to my large front windows as they walked by. I reasoned that that was also probably fine though since my bed was not visible from the window.
• While “inside” my apartment, there was also a scene where I was in the forest with some others and we had defeated a number of orcs or something and needed to do something with their corpses. But we couldn’t do so until daytime, so we settled down with pillows under a tree to sleep until the morning. I propped my pillow up against something so that I could lean back on it while sitting on the ground, planning to fall asleep that way. It was or had been raining, however, so there were puddles on some parts of the ground that the tree canopy didn’t cover, and I tried to avoid them while lying down.