Dreams

Dreams are wild. I had a long streak of dreams, then a streak between the 14th and the 18th where I only had one dream, then another sizable streak of dreams after that. In that second streak was a set of 3 days out of 4 where I was a VTuber, and one where I broke a key as well. How life affects the subconscious!

Sep 23 2024

• I dreamt that I was a VTuber and was in a building with various other streamers. There were a lot of happenings in there, but I sadly forgot most of them, except for a general feeling that I was enjoying my time there. One event I do recall however is when we were defending multiple entry points in the building from monsters that were entering it, and I and someone else were standing guard against two adjacent entry points, one a door and the other a manhole. For whatever reason, the person next to me wandered off, and I ended up having to guard both points and stab any approaching enemies from both entrances at the same time.
• Eventually I was overwhelmed and two enemies darted into the building before I could stab them — a level 9 purple spider with instant kill venom, and a bat. I joined a group to hunt down those two enemies, and we managed to take down the spider without casualties, before chasing the bat into the cafeteria. One of the hunters managed to injure it by shooting its wing, which also impeded its mobility, and we ran up to it and defeated it after that.

Sep 24 2024

• Snippet: All I remember is being in a group in an MMO, and specifically being in a lightly forested area where we were hanging out near a mob spawn that we had just defeated and was in the process of respawning. I selected the actual spawn point itself and could pull up and see pages of fight history for that spawn point, both from us and from other adventurers beating up whatever mob regularly spawned there.

Sep 25 2024

• I was in a detective mystery game with some friends in an MMO guild, and this game took place over a section of a city and over several day and night cycles. I don’t remember the overarching plot but we were trying to locate a particular criminal and trace what had happened to them, and were visiting various places over the course of the game to look for clues.
• In particular, I remember a set of three balconies on the second level of an unoccupied building that Kel and I visited a few times. We had to climb up or swing up to those balconies, as they didn’t actually connect to any rooms that we could then enter them from. New clues would spawn on top of, and in rooms under, the balconies whenever we found the name of a new criminal and “regenerated” that balcony mini-area using the new criminal’s name, so whenever we discovered the name of a new criminal that we had not investigated yet and who might not have been the specific criminal that we were looking for, we would return to the newly generated balcony and look around to see if we could locate more clues.
• Other locations that I remember the dream taking place in and that I visited in the dream included a quiet indoor shopping centre with sparsely open shops and a small food court and that gave me the feeling of visiting a foreign place the further back into the shopping centre that I went, as well as a bus that I remember riding, and possibly a room with a bunch of sand scattered on the floor.

Sep 26 2024

• I visited a sheltered outdoor marketplace, which was divided into three sections separated from each other by a couple city blocks in between, with a couple of other friends in a car. I wasn’t going to follow them into the central section that they arrived at though, as I wanted to meet a few LotRO friends at the northern section instead.
• I looked at the guild roster and saw that Valygar was online there, on his captain character, and he had been in our previous group visit to the market as well so I assumed he was also waiting for Nak to come online and form the actual guild group for the outing, so I asked him for a group invite and he accepted. But he said that he was only going to be here for a few minutes more and then would be logging off for the night, and would not actually be here for the group visit later.
• I could have gone to a stall in the market and spent some solo time there to generate resources for either the guild or myself, and I knew how to do this resource generation action at five different stalls, but each one would have locked me in the action for five hours or so, which would have made me miss the outing as well, so I did not. Instead I waited for Nak and the others, who I had been here with the day before as well.
• Snippet: I also dreamt that my replacement main door key was about to snap in half just like the original one did.

Sep 28 2024

• I was playing a game that involved a Mario character that could curl up and spin like Sonic, but couldn’t jump around like he could. This specific Mario was falling down a long pit, with little alcoves to the side that occasionally contained coins and that I could navigate myself into. Eventually I found a portal in the falling shaft led into a different map, turning the game from a side view one into a top down one which was filled with grey mist that forced me to take damage every few seconds or so.
• I had to find a planet hidden in the fog, represented by a circle the size of a large coin, and navigate on top of the planet, which would send me to a second grey map with another hidden planet, and then a third one where the planet was just a single dot. Once I did that on three maps, I got to some safe place with a piece of treasure that I could take, and then I had to navigate my way back out of the three grey maps and back into the falling shaft again.
• At the end of the game I then arranged my gear briefly before submitting my inventory in a way similar to Backpack Battles.
• Snippet: I also remember a dream where I was in China, wandering past and browsing some clothing, furniture, and food stalls on the first level of a fictional building that I had been to before in previous dreams. I ran into a Caucasian tourist there, who spoke English to me and expressed susrprirse that there was even a shopping area here as his Google Maps app did not display it. He then went back to his friends, who were seated at a round table just outside the shopping area, and they all got up and ascended an elevator toward a train station two levels above us. I followed them since I had nowhere else in particular that I wanted to go to.

Sep 29 2024

• While Mom was in the bathtub, us kids were sitting on a couch in the living room in our parents’ current apartment, facing the TV and playing our own instances of a game. There were other people in the room also doing the same thing, so we were all playing the same single-player game together but separately. I was seated with Kel on the left of me, and at some point Jon in his 4-5 year old form crawled up between us to snuggle there with tears in his eyes.
• This was apparently because he had no concept of how to pull groups of enemies separately, so he was having trouble getting past a section of the game where there were 5 groups of enemies that could be pulled at once. I put up a cushion in front of his face to block his tears from being able to be seen by the other people in the room, and then taught him how to move backwards once the groups were aggroed so that only one group of two came toward him at once, since the others were a lot further behind and fell out of aggro range once he moved back. I also then showed him how to mez one of the two enemies, which was basically a daze/stun skill with a 30 second effect and a cooldown of 30 seconds. The game was a turn-based, tactical game where each turn represented several seconds, so he could slowly and precisely kill the first enemy while keeping the second enemy fully locked down.
• Later, there was a scene where I was returning home to my Edmonton 205 apartment with a couple friends. There was a public toilet across the corridor from my front door and a maintenance person was replacing the toilet bowl itself there. The two people with me were supposed to help me paint that toilet or something, but they couldn’t work there because the maintenance person was occupying it, and after talking to him I also realized that he and the other building maintenance people could also paint the room as part of the repairs they were doing. So I told the two people with me that their help probably wouldn’t be needed here, and they nodded and left on the truck that they had arrived in.
• Snippet: There are two additional snippets that I remember around the timeframe of the second scene, the first being that Jah joked that he had re-created the trailer for an upcoming movie by piecing together postcard stills of it that had been posted online and using AI to generate the rest. The second was that a portal to battle a boss of some kind could be summoned, perhaps after the room painting had been completed, but it required 6 marriages to be performed in order to unlock 6 seals on it.