Dreams

Nov 04 2024

• I dreamt I was on a huge airplane flying from one city to another during my vacation, although I had my own bedroom and bunk bed in one of the rooms on the plane so the interior felt more like a cruise ship than a plane. Satinel was with me, and some of the places we had yet to visit included both Hong Kong and Singapore, with the possibility of Japan after that as well.
• I took out all my plushies from my suitcase. I had brought along about 50 or so of the ones I owned, there were so many of them that it took up half an entire suitcase. The centerpiece was a new plushie that I had picked up from our last stop that was around the same shape and size as my Special Week plushie, but I arranged them all on my bed and took a photograph of them with my phone as I reminisced about the last location I had bought the new plushie from, and how I had visited a nice food place there that was similar to a hawker centre.
• A little later on, I went out into the main lounge with Satinel and joined a card game that was taking place in a huge room. There was a huge, oval bar table in the middle of the room, with seats for players all along the outside of the oval, and a hollow middle area where a couple of Chinese guys dressed in fancy formal shirts were acting as the dealers, keeping track of turn order and handing out poker cards as needed during our turns. Satinel sat on my left, while a couple Chinese guys that I did not recognize sat to my right.
• There were easily about 50 players in all, although it did not seem like any of us knew how to play the game. Each person was dealt two poker cards and had a mechanical device with lights that told us which cards were still remaining on the board and thus that could be drawn by us. We also all had a really complex scoring system in front of us that told us that specific combinations of three cards could be cashed in for a certain number of points each. Some required specific cards, like a 7, 2, and 2, or a 7, 2 and 1, and some required patterns, like a 7 accompanied by any pair of cards with the same number on them. There were well over 30 combinations and some other weird rules by the side as well that gave us extra draws.
• Each player also had a personal objective that they were trying to accomplish. Mine, for example, was to only play cards that had a value of 7 and under. We also had an overarching goal that everyone in the room was trying to work towards to, though I don’t remember what this was. There were also bonus objectives on top of that that people could aim towards but that could only be accomplished once per room. So it was partly cooperative and partly competitive at the same time.
• People dropped out as the game went along, either due to lack of interest or perhaps something about the point system that I did not understand. The person to my right was one that dropped out, and he returned to his room but left his phone behind. The person that was to his right also dropped out and said that he’d take the phone back to the other guy as they knew each other. In the meantime, I had completed some of the 7-combinations and they had triggered extra draws of three or five cards at a time which then triggered for more bonus points for me. I still had no idea what I was doing besides trying out different combos from the sheet but it seemed to be working.
• I noticed that a couple people were wandering in to the lounge late, but still managed to join the game since there were so many empty seats now, even though the game was very far along already. I did recognize one of the people wandering in as Rambalac, a Youtube live streamer who records Japanese walking videos. He was not recording at the moment since we were travelling between locations. I was in his Discord server and reached out there to say hello even though we had not really ever talked much before. I said that I was near him, he was surprised and asked who in the room I was. My username in his Discord server was Shiara, and that was my registered nickname for the card game as well, and he found me and smiled and nodded my way once I mentioned that.
• Soon, the game ended, and the remaining 15 or so people that were still playing gathered to a side of the table to look at the game summary scoreboard. We had not completed the group objective, and I had apparently failed the personal objective as well since some of my automatically drawed cards, which were rewards from completing certain sets of three on the board, had been cards higher than 7. I definitely had drawn a full house involving all face cards at some point, among other cards. My name was prominently featured on the scoreboard though as I had gotten the highest number of individual points at 18, though there was a separate picture for someone else who had the highest number of individual points while also managing to complete their personal objective.
• After this, there was a second card game scheduled, but there was a brief intermission in between, during which I hung out in the lounge with Satinel and Rambalac and a few other people. I looked up at a window in the sky and saw a short, thick plane that looked like a reconnaissance plane or bomber plane but that I identified as a Concorde supersonic plane in my dream. It flew right to left over our own cruise-ship-like aircraft, and I marvelled that it was moving so fast but also mused that the people on board would not be able to enjoy games the way that we were doing on our plane.
• During this intermission, I also texted Kel to ask if she and her boyfriend would be coming down from China to Hong Kong to meet Satinel and I while we were there, as I knew they went down on weekends sometimes. I did not have a visa for China this time and so would not be able to meet her directly. I texted her on WhatsApp at first before remembering that it was blocked in China, and noting that the app said that Kel hadn’t looked at the program for months. I copied and pasted the question into WeChat instead since she could access that. I also asked Satinel if we wanted to visit Japan. There was also a credit card bill that I resolved while waiting.
• The second game soon started, and the room layout this time was different. There were three small oval tables set up at the front of the large lounge for the dealers to stand behind, and then a huge circle of small oval tables going in a circle around the room with 8-10 players per table. There were about 15 of those tables. There were also two tables inside the large circle of tables where all the people who were playing at the end of the last game were sitting. This included Satinel, Rambalac, and me.
• Our tables were not right in the center of the circle of tables but closer to the dealers’ tables, so when the dealers asked each table of new players to send one representative up to the front, we could hear the conversations as they lined up and chatted. Even though it was a card game, this second game was mystery-themed and the people were assigned some cards and roles to bring back to their table depending on how they answered. Satinel noted that one of the representatives, a guy, changed his answer when asked whether he was a guy or girl, because the person in front of him was a girl and had gotten a specific set of cards that he either wanted to also get or avoid.

Nov 05 2024

• Snippet: I was in an airport looking for room 5C7 (or 5T7 or something like that), and followed a sign that led me into an elevator that then opened up into a small maintenance corridor where all the 5C rooms were supposed to be. For some reason though the corridor ended up at 5C3 and 5C7 was nowhere to be found. While there, I met two girls wheeling suitcases around, and from overhearing them speak it sounded like they were headed to the same place as them. I desired to become friends with them so I chatted them up but they told me that they were actually looking for room 4C2 (or 4T2) instead. I left them and walked on myself, and eventually found the 5C7 room elsewhere back on the main level of the airport itself.
• Snippet: Later on in a separate dream, I attended a class which only had about four students in it. The back of the classroom had no walls and opened up to a podium facing the outside world where one of my usual streamers, Killadrix, was monologuing about a game he was playing to his viewers. His voice was loud and the girl seated in class in front of me looked back at him in confusion now and then as she apparently could not pay attention to the class in front of her.

Nov 06 2024

• Snippet: I dreamt I was in an election district on a map that had a horizontal and vertical component to the district defining how wide its influence was outside of its district area. The horizontal component was a crab that scuttled east and west from the district on the map, which was shaped somewhat similarly to the province of Alberta, into the surrounding areas, and the vertical component was some other creature that only went north and south, both moving as though they were on rails connected to the middle district. The creatures were not real and never got tired.
• Snippet: Later on, I met Kel and there was something about either not having met for 15 years or having done something together for 15 years.

Nov 07 2024

• My dream took place in a school, with a group of three transfer students or international students who were staying overnight on the second floor of the school along with a good number of other students in their respective classrooms.
• In contrast to the second floor, which was full of brightly-lit classrooms, the third floor of the school was almost completely dark. Still, the group of three students needed to go up to the third floor while looking for something whose exact location was unknown to them, and they traversed along the darkened third floor corridor as they searched for their destination.
• Despite the third floor being dark, they could still hear noises coming from some of the classrooms, and one of the classrooms suddenly had a cacophony of noise burst forth as they went by, scaring them. This was apparently because people were in that classroom, and the three students walking about had in turn scared the people in the room as they were not particularly silent themselves. There was a second darkened classroom further down the darkened corridor that was also making noise in response to the three students even though they had not reached that part of the corridor yet.

Nov 08 2024

• Snippet: I had one dream about wood-chopping and flitting between several scenes of trees that I could chop down. Most of them were singular trees, but there was at least one pair of birch trees side by side on a sandy beach, that I could apparently chop down together. This was somehow linked to a plotline where I was preparing to go study overseas, possibly to do with farming language points to improve my knowledge of a new language.
• Snippet: Another dream involved a set of apartment elevators, four of them in a lobby, but each one went up to a different apartment building and set of units. I had just moved from one of the buildings to another due to neighbours, so my main elevator had shifted, but I was thinking of shifting again to yet another of the four. There was also a cola drink being piped into a fountain in the middle of a sandy coliseum, and this was somehow connected to the coliseum. Some people were trying to decide something or other about the drink and one of them said that it was good it was set up in the arena as “The Romans only enjoy bloodsports”.
• There was also a stealth combat segment against armoured guards where I was holding a mouse like a game controller device to control my character, and could sneak around and backstab them in animations that looked like they were from Dark Souls. They were very difficult to fight even with the backstabs, but I did discover that while they were stunned from the backstab, I could spam the middle mouse button to fill a gauge, then spam a side mouse button to fill another gauge, then press the left mouse button in order to steal their clothes and make a disguise for myself, which helped me get around the market as long as I kept away from other guards (and Allen, who was also hanging out as an enemy guard there). I used that to get behind some guards who were standing on an elevated platform, and then stabbed them too as my disguise decayed out.
• Snippet: Yet another dream involved two crying kids that escaped from their mom into a throne room, and a queen that was taking good care of them. She said that tears would have no effect on her but the crying kids seemed to unlock her motherly instinct anyway and she doted over them happily until the children’s real mother arrived and hurried into the room to reclaim them.
• Snippet: Lastly, there was a dream about an adventurer who finished a dungeon, and on his way out, he met the owner of the dungeon at its front door. This person was an old man, possibly a goblin, whose name was Tij, and he wanted to fight the adventurer, but the adventurer pointed out that Tij would not stand a chance. So instead, Tij used the opportunity to survey the adventurer about his experiences in the dungeon.

Nov 09 2024

• Our family was moving houses, and Mom, Dad, Kel, Jon, and I loaded up Dad‘s minivan with all sorts of furniture, boxes, and plastic bags, before we piled in to the van ourselves. There were only four people in the van, as Kel didn’t joln us there, and Dad drove us toward our new home.
• On the way to our new place, I saw a giant black bird in the distance being tied down to a huge frame on the ground, and the frame itself was then attached to six vans who could then tow the giant bird around somewhere as a captive. The bird looked like it had little plumes of black smoke emanating from its feathers too, but I couldn’t tell from that distance for sure. I pointed out the bird to the family and both Mom and Jon marvelled at it too, but Dad could not see it since he was driving and had to pay attention to the road. I said that the bird was at least twelve times as long and as wide as the length of our minivan.
• Once we reached our new place, we started to unload Dad‘s minivan. There was one single elevator that we could use, so we propped the door open with one of the furniture pieces before piling everything we had into the lift and taking it up to our floor. Once we reached our floor, we similarly did the opposite, propping both the lift door as well as our apartment front door open and moving things in slowly. I remember this packing and moving being a lot of fun personally.
• Some of our relatives, including Auntie Doris as well as some of Dad‘s other siblings, were waiting for us at the lift landing when the doors opened on our floor, and they helped us move things as well. In this way there were a bit too many people helping out, but they all left the items right in the front doorway of our house itself as they had no idea where to put the items, so people were unable to get in and out, and thus I decided to climb over the pile of items there, nicking a wood chip off the top of the door frame in the process, though I noticed that it had a slightly larger nick next to the fresh one that I had just made.
• Once I was in the apartment, which looked almost exactly the same layout-wise as Ah Ma‘s old Bishan flat in Singapore, I started to move the furniture and bags from the front door into piles in the living room proper, so that everything could safely fit inside the house once they finished unloading the lift. Another of Dad‘s siblings was also already in the kitchen for some reason, cooking a meal on the stove there.
• Snippet: Later on, a medieval house owner was having a sale for his furniture items in a town bazaar, selling off everything he owned for just one or two coins per item. He was nonetheless glad that he was doing this, and that it was selling well, as he had been tempted to just give away everything for free to someone else who made a zero-coin offer to him earlier in the day. Even though he was still selling it for next to nothing, these coins he was getting for them at least allowed him to then turn around and buy two empty treasure chest containers from another stall keeper who had his items laid out on the mat. This cost him 45 coins per treasure chest.

Nov 10 2024

• I was in contact with a woman who was a researcher and a museum curator. I mostly chatted with her over Google Chat, which was represented on my computer monitor with a long horizontal chat bar that stretched across the entire top of my screen, but was vertically a very short box. But I did also go visit her at least once, and she worked out of what seemed like a storeroom with plenty of metal shelves. I had helped “playtest” her website earlier in the dream, and eventually when it went live I talked to her about my blog and showed her the section of my blog where I had uploaded my collection of ephemera. She seemed interested in the scans of all the mailbox flyers that I had collected.
• Later, in the same dream but a decidedly different event, I went into a first-person camera view of a game scene that was representing the Canadian election, except the election simply involved walking through a ticket gate that looked like an airport scanner. There were a couple of people hanging around on either side of the scanner that seemed to be trying to cheer people on to vote one way or the other.
• One woman stepped to the side of the gate and cashed in on a photo opportunity by posing for a selfie with the gate behind her, and then a view of some mountains in the background behind that. She was very pleased with the result, and shortly thereafter two black children came to the same spot for a photo and someone else took one for them.
• There was also a separate dream later on which I don’t remember much about, but there was a construction fair where I deconstructed something that was shaped like a refrigerator into many little 2-point pieces, where the points had to do with their value or weight or something. I then reassembled those 2-point pieces into a larger object, I believe.
• There was also a group event at school which I teleported to using a UI screen that listed all my party members and their statistics, because I was far away from the rest of the group when it triggered, but using the teleport command locked everyone into a 5 second cooldown before they could start the event.