Dreams

And another 7-day dream week! Nothing particularly long and memorable though.

Sep 02 2024

• I was going through a tall building, where each floor is a grid based floor map. Floor 17-21 or so in particular had monster enemies, I had been here before and was here with two other friends so I had prepared spells accordingly, and also led the way and we went to Floor 16 by elevator, then had to hang on the rim of a hole in the ground and fall down gently into Floor 17 below us, which had some small spiders waiting for us. We had to visit a couple of specific places in these few levels, like a stone hut where someone was living in. I led the way through the levels as the occasional enemy group spawned and dropped in around us.
• Outside of Floors 17-21, we also tried to visit a fast food restaurant elsewhere in the building, where there was a set deal for buying two burgers, and Kel ordered two of the same McChicken burger and then decided she wanted her second burger to be something else with fresh lettuce instead. I had been busy figuring out whether a Happy Meal set was cheaper if I bought all the components separately, so I was a bit behind on my order as I had decided to first order a large whipped potato side dish, as opposed to the Happy Meal which only provided a medium side dish, and then had only picked one of my two burgers so far. I volunteered to take Kel‘s second burger as my second one so she could take some other burger as her second.
• Kel got into a heated exchange with the cashier who was trying to get her to accept a raccoon meat burger or something though and she kept on refusing. In the end they were unable to fully fulfil either of our burger requests as the kitchen, which was on another floor, had run out of ingredients. They did manage to make one of my burgers before running out, and it came with an anime girl sticker pasted on top of the bun. I was relieved that they did not misprint the sticker and have to throw away the burger since the whole process of making it was apparently new.

Sep 03 2024

• I was at a guild meetup with my online gaming guild in a neighbourhood that several guild members owned an apartment in. There were eventually about 15 of us in all, with two vans that we piled into when we needed to drive around. People I know including Kynji and Frotswa owning a small house in the area, and Rinuruc hearing about the event and driving in from about two hours out. Rin was one of two people who drove in to the city at around the same time, one from the north and one from the south.
• The guild meetup took place over a couple of days, with many of us staying up overnight and being tired the next morning. Our activities involved us looking out for crimes and random events and solving them. There was a robbery, a helicopter crash in a garden, a lost transit card, mysterious visitors looking for one of us at night when we were all staying in our guild house, and one of our guild members was shot at one point when he scuffled with some drug dealers outside a science centre or something that the rest of us were visiting. In turn, we had been visiting that science centre to check out an exhibit which contained a hidden set of GPS coordinates, but multiple people also discovered that other random people had already also come to that exhibit and put the set of coordinates on Google Maps to spoil the puzzle.

Sep 04 2024

• There was a scene where I was going through immigration at an airport with a female acquaintance that I met there, and I talked to her about importing Singapore food to wherever I was going because I would be there studying for a while and would miss the food. Apparently there was a food delivery company similar to Doordash that did deliver internationally and I was musing how they could possibly do that with a styrofoam box of noodles so that it would still be warm when it arrived. Anyway the Chinese store I liked to get delivery from was apparently going to add a couple of new dishes soon and I wanted to try them.
• There was also an old man nearby who I overheard talking to one of the airport attendants, he was asking where the nearest toilets were and she pointed him out of the gates that we had entered the room from, and toward the shopping area just outside.
• Later, I was relaxing in a bathroom with a couple people. It was similar to my Edmonton 4012 bathroom, and I was sitting on the toilet bowl facing the door, with a cabinet table to my left, and the bathtub to my right. Dad was sitting on the edge of the bathtub while Kel was sitting in the bathtub itself, and we discussed newspaper ads and recent happenings with each other. At one point, I asked Kel to get out of the tub so that I could use the glowing showerhead to wash myself, it apparently emitted ultraviolet rays instead of water.
• At another point, Nomakk was there instead of one of them. I had fallen asleep during his previous stream since it was late at night and he told me that he had bought a $50 battery pack that fit in a fanny pack around his waist to help ensure that his stream would not go out if he lost power.

Sep 05 2024

• I do remember at one point I was looking over a map with rectangles on it representing pieces of land. Most of the rectangles were long and thin, like half the length of an ice cream stick. I had about 12 or so sticks laid together to represent my entire kingdom, and each one represented a district or province and had a name and everything. There was another player who had one large rectangle that was about the size of eight smaller sticks, which represented her home base, and about 12-15 smaller sticks as well. She had a larger kingdom, but I was considered more well off than her and we were mostly on friendly terms with each other even though we considered each other rivals.
• Something happened that caused us to have to move our fiefs though, which meant that we had to pick up our sticks and put them down on another map. I lined my sticks up right against the left edge of the map, while my rival lined her sticks up against my right side, hemming me in. However, one of her provinces then expired, which put it up for auction, and I bid her up on it, pushing the price from a couple hundred gold all the way to slightly over 5000 gold, and then pushing the bids from gold to real life dollars instead.
• Gift subscriptions to the Twitch channel that our game was being broadcast on cost $2 per subscription, and I had purchased 25 to give away before the game started, so I pushed the bid up to around 50 dollars, which made her bid $51 or so in order to retain her little ice cream stick piece of land. I let her win that bid at that cost, but planned to donate the $50 worth of gift subs to the channel anyway as a donation.
• She had a similar thought process and also donated 25 gift subs to cover off most of her winning bid, but it turned out that she ended up donating to the wrong channel because she had clicked on her own channel to look up something at some point, so all her gift subs ended up on her channel instead of the broadcaster’s one. When she realized her mistake, I told her not to worry about it since I was going to donate to the channel anyway, but she bought and donated another 25 gift subs as well, except that this time she donated them to the channel for the overall game that we were playing on accident, instead of the broadcaster’s channel. I then did my donation to pay the winning bid for her before she could misfire any more gifts.
• Snippet: I remember wandering around what seemed like a school, in a world that reminded me of a first-person crafting survival game but was not actually that. I don’t remember much except I had to pick between two things a bunch of times, and that near the end of the dream, I met Zach and Lukasz who had to pick another role for their characters because we didn’t need programmers in whatever context of the dream it was.

Sep 06 2024

• While out on a walk, I saw Jon and Mom putting up a sign that said that they were having a potluck food event for the three of us in a week’s time to coincide with the holiday season. It was even covered by the newspapers with a minor footnote since they had put up the public sign, even though the feast was just for the three of us.
• I also did read in the newspaper that a major annual charity event set up in the city, near the University Hospital, had been shut down since the philanthropic donator either had run out of money or had felt like the event was no longer worth supporting in these tougher times. In previous years he had donated 2 million dollars a year to host a Christmas block party or festival outside the hospital with entertainers and food.
• But anyway for me it looked like the family gathering would replace the festival this year. I donated a bunch of food through the week, and heated up a big pot of drinking water and brought that over on the day itself as well, since they needed two big pots of water for the feast and hot water was apparently not the easiest thing to get in this world.
• However, when I arrived and went into the kitchen, which looked like Edmonton 4012‘s kitchen, I found very little food there, only several bite-sized, chopped up pieces of white bread, cabbage, and meat spread out over the counter next to the stove and over the kitchen table to make it look like there was a lot more food than there actually was. Most of the food I had sent them was also not there.
• I surmised that Jon and Mom had actually started to sample a bit of the food here and there throughout the week, and over the course of each meal ahd slowly whittled the food down to nothing already. They were now pretending that there was still a reasonable amount of food left when there wasn’t, and I was mad at them for trying to mislead me and for basically ruining the party for me since there was barely any food left.
• They argued that I should not act like that since Mom was recovering from her stroke still and could not get up and walk around much, and also that there was still so much food left and that they were now all easy to just pop into my mouth and eat. I retorted that if we gathered all the food onto a plate, it would barely even cover half the surface area of the plate.
• I regretted not immediately taking a picture of the tables when I first arrived since I had actually ate a couple of the food scraps by then anyway but I decided to give the event a bad rating in the newspaper so that others would not be misled by it into thinking that there were suitable personal festivals that had popped up to replace the philanthropic one that had been cancelled.

Sep 07 2024

• Snippet: I remember running through a bunch of 2D overhead maps and placing things on them, possibly with another player. There was a collection of different pages, each one filled with different items or effects, and I/we had to select and buy one page out of the catalogue, which would then be the items that we could place down for the level or something like that. I tried to calculate what exactly had to happen for me to break even for the page that I ended up selecting.

Sep 08 2024

• There was a dream scene where I had just finished watching a Twitch channel for school or something, and in between watching channels I was solving puzzles involving railway tracks laid out on the ground in a room, connecting different stations that were represented by dots on the floor. In particular, there was a puzzle where the commentators said that it was impossible to traverse through all the stations exactly once because the tracks were laid out in a figure 8 pattern with several stations in the intersection between the two loops, but I said that it could be achieved if we unhooked one of the tracks where the bottom loop connected to the top one, and rehooked it so both the entrance and exit to the bottom loop were between the same two stations in the top loop. This would require more train track pieces overall, but would allow all the stations to be visited exactly once.
• Later on in the same scene, Mom was at home and recovering from surgery but was helping me by going through my items and cataloguing what I had in a nice, big list. For some reason though I discovered this only while at school, and only because I saw some people carrying long, white tables with my things on them through the school hall to bring them from wherever I stored them to my Mom, who was at her home, even though I think I was staying together with her. I didn’t mind her doing this but I remembered that there was a box with some folded sheets of paper containing fan fiction or something that I had written in the past and that I didn’t want her to see now, so I resolved to go find that box and remove those papers before it got shipped off to her.
• In another scene, I was receiving requests for cards in a computer game world in sets of 3 cards per person, and pausing time each time I received one to craft or summon the cards before sending them to the requesters. There was some mechanic around creating them that I don’t remember, but I do remember a group of rich CEOs getting several copies of a card that was out of print and very rare from me using this service, and I was annoyed at that because I felt like they were rich enough already. However, I believe I decided that either the card or the game round was also temporary so they probably wouldn’t be able to sell it.