Dreams

My Nov 27 dream this week was a good dream, one that left me with warm, happy feelings when I woke up, and was at least a 7.5/10 rating dream, possibly an 8/10, which is very rare. It actually inspired me to work a little bit more on the dream diary blog this week, as I mentioned above.

Also, I just finished a full month of having a dream diary entry every day! I believe that’s the first time this has ever happened, though I’ve had several months (including last month) which have been close, just missing 1-5 days.

Nov 25 2024

• Snippet: My first dream had to do with three old women living in three separate houses, one in a small village, one in a grassy field, and I don’t remember where the third one was. I could visit each house and generate artifacts at random from a pool to give to the women, though after a while it didn’t seem random due to the nature of some of the artifacts which, once drawn, made it so it would be very likely that the other two women would also draw and equip that artifact for their next draw as they were all connected somehow. Some of the artifacts included things like assault rifles and knives, but they were symbolic artifacts that granted buffs rather than weapons to be actually used.
• Snippet: My second dream involved being in a classroom and the female teacher, who looked like Ms Khoo, had just returned a math test paper to us. I had the top mark in class, with a 39/40, but I noticed that the score had originally been 40/40 before it was downgraded, and the question that I got wrong was one at the end of a convoluted long-form problem that simply asked “which one is best” out of a couple of scenarios that the question had laid out. I had all the previous parts right, but I apparently picked the wrong scenario as the best one, and I had no idea why. I went to the teacher to ask her but she couldn’t give me a proper answer as to why that was the best answer either, nor would she listen to my interpretation. I also brought my textbook to the teacher’s table but somehow managed to lose it in her pile of books there.
• Snippet: There was also a dream snippet I remember where I felt like something was chasing me, and I slipped into a small voxel-style house with two wooden doors across each other on opposing walls, and a small hole (narra) above each door. There I met some friends and we slipped into the sewers through a hole in the house, to escape from whatever was potentially chasing us. I’m not sure if it was a separate dream or connected to one of the above two, though.

Nov 26 2024

Dream 1

• This dream involved an apartment that my family lived in, and a giant board game that was as large as the entire floor plan of our house, with short game pieces that were less than one foot high. Basically it was like our house was superimposed on top of the game board and we lived our normal lives around the game and its events taking place beneath our feet.
• The map was a war game that had been solved in a previous dream, so it was a piece of land populated by NPCs of the winning side. Some of the NPCs had spikes and were annoying to accidentally touch, they didn’t hurt but they did prick any of us that touched them still.
• Dad supported the winning side, but I wanted to get rid of them, especially the spiky ones, so I quietly raised a small army of rebels in an island in the corner of the map, away from where Dad was seated on a couch and watching TV, and away from the rest of the family who were in other rooms. When I had a large armada of about a dozen boats, with two rebels per boat, I sent them out and they attacked one of the cities in the mainland area.

Dream 2

• This dream involved going into an RPG, possibly an MMO, although I never saw any other players. I do remember Milumbar and others in Discord talking about the game at some point, and he pinged some of us asking to see if we knew how to get past a certain mine zone that many players were stuck on and suspected was broken. I was not at that point yet but was headed that way eventually.
• At that point I was finishing up an abandoned house zone where I had infiltrated a group of cultists and had been given some items to carry forward to the next zone. Those items included two blunt objects wrapped in cloth that were supposed to be weapons, as well as some bloodied things that I didn’t recognize and didn’t care for.
• I also had a television mounted on a wall in my base where I had answered the Discord question earlier, and I seemed to have constant access to that base as I remember setting the television to sound-only mode, and flipping through the channels until I found some music playing from one of them. I then kept it on that channel as I headed toward the mining zone.
• When I arrived at the mine, I was attacked by a foreman and about two dozen miners. The foreman was invincible, and my attacks simply passed through him, but the miners were not and I mowed them down four at a time, at which point the foreman disappeared into a deeper part of the zone, closing an impenetrable door behind him. All I had access to was a quest board, which was what other players claimed was bugged because it didn’t give them any quests.
• However, I figured out that it actually spawned events that I had to start once in a while instead, for example the first event caused four miners from deeper inside the zone to be reluctantly sent out by the head miner to investigate a giant mushroom located below the quest board. Eating the mushroom or killing the miners would cause a soft lock or quest failure, and a gentle guiding voice advised me to not do anything like that and to eat my own food if I had any, which I did, while staying out of sight of the miners.
• I did so as I watched them and figured that the way to progress in this zone was to keep triggering the quest until the miners became convinced that it was safe outside, and opened up that impenetrable door again.

Nov 27 2024

• I dreamt that I returned to Dunman High for a tour. My friends were in the 4th and final year of their secondary school there so Debbie and Paul went down to the front gates to meet me there so that they could bring me around and quietly help me bypass the “ground floor only” tour restriction that I had run into the last two times I was here by myself. I was dressed in the new-style red Dunman PE shirt, and Debbie commented that this helped them show me around to the student-only places more easily as it made me look like an attending student.
• The school itself had been merged into a mall, so some parts of it were nonetheless public and other parts of it were off-limits to students only. Paul said that their 4th year classrooms were on the 4th floor, but that at this point in their school career, everyone was doing research for their final projects and so only a handful of people still showed up daily. He said that besides the two of them, only Kenneth, Jianwei, perhaps Antonia, and possibly a couple other people were around in class today.
• We stopped by a number of places on the way up, taking our time as Debbie and Paul had things to do too. In some areas only Debbie was there with me, and in others only Paul was with me.
• One of the places we visited on the way up was a clothing shop, I don’t remember much of what we did here but one of them did stop there for a few minutes.
• Another place we visited was a library, Debbie showed me around this place. There was a spiral staircase leading up to the second floor of the library from the ground floor, but some of the horizontal steps making up the spiral stairs were rickety and would bend and sag when I stepped on them. The middle part of the spiral staircase had some foundation and was stable though, so Debbie encouraged me to walk in the middle on the foundational part instead, but I was still nervous using the stairs, especially when going down after Debbie was done showing me around the area. She said that it hadn’t been repaired since not long after I left two years ago.
• After that, Paul led me into a cramped public washroom and I saw some toilet stalls on the left side of the washroom, with some hand sinks on the near right side, and three school desks on the far right side. All three desks were occupied by students working on some homework, with at least one girl and one boy in the group of three. Paul explained that after the merger with the school and the mall, the classrooms sometimes didn’t have space for everyone to study in, so there were spare desks set up all around for people to use.
• The washroom floor itself was slightly wet, so it wasn’t the best place to be studying, and I saw the reason for the wetness just outside the washroom. There was a large pipe up against the ceiling that was leaking from the seal around the place where two of its parts joined together, with a steady stream of drops falling down onto the ground. Debbie complained that the school was planning to fix this by installing a large fan into the ceiling, sucking up all the water from the ground, and then transporting it with another pipe outside the school and across the road before depositing the water there. She said that that was far too convoluted and that they should just fix the leak itself instead.
• As we left the washroom, we also passed by a girl who was looking for people to sign a petition that she had. She was collecting signatures from adults and the petition itself was something to do about the people working in the mall, which I had no opinion on, so I pretended to be a clueless student so she didn’t look my way. She did recognize Paul though and greeted him.
• We stopped at at least one eatery at every floor on the way up to the 4th floor too, and on the 3rd floor we stopped at an A&W outlet store where Paul grabbed a snack and told me to go grab something for myself too. I said that I wasn’t hungry and the food was too pricey, and that we had already eaten something at the two previous eateries, but he said that I should really at least talk to the female clerks at the counter and check with them anyway on whether I should eat something. I refused and sat down, and pulled out a $50 note from my wallet to reimburse him for the food from the previous levels, as well as the library, which had required a fee to enter. He had paid for all that and the tab had run up to a little over $40.
• I had taken tons of photos on my phone on the way up too, and that 3rd floor A&W outlet especially was just below my friends’ classrooms on the 4th floor, so I took some pictures of that area from the other side of the 3rd floor, and then took some pictures of the rest of the mall from the A&W itself. However, the dream ended at the A&W outlet so we never did reach the 4th level classrooms.

Nov 28 2024

• There was a shopping mall near a ship, and a team of friends that I was on that was part of some larger overall game that took place in that region. The game at one point involved infiltrating the ship and trying to sneak through it, but there were lots of enemies around so the mission was slow.
• At one point, we recruited and helped out someone that was not on our team, but this was somehow illegal so another team tried reporting us for it. I don’t believe we got in much trouble, however.
• Later on, I was headed back to school and was cutting through the shopping mall to do so. It was very early in the morning and school had not started yet. I was walking together with some stranger who then turned south in the middle of the mall to head to their school, which was connected to the southern end of the large mall. My school was in the opposite direction, connected to the northern end of the mall, and I had to turn north at the same point as the stranger did to head towards it.
• Snippet: I also have a faint memory of a top-down game scene which had to do with a spaceship circling planets while doing something to said planets.

Nov 29 2024

• There was a casino-like building with an upstairs and downstairs level. The downstairs area had a secret room with a hidden NPC that I had to dig a path to, which I did starting from underneath the stairs that connected the two levels together, creating a passageway that was two voxel squares high by removing blocks in the white wall of the building, Minecraft style.
• There were NPCs with tasks that could only be completed by giving each of them several food dice that were rolled to a certain type of food item. Those dice were common enough, though there was a certain challenging encounter involving an NPC who needed a special die to be found and rolled in order to defeat them.

Nov 30 2024

• I played a Chinese chess game with Kel where we both had a bunch of extra pieces, with double the usual number of chariots, cannons, horses, and pawns in particular. We also had about 15 turns of free setup moves at the start of the game, where we could move our pieces around on our side of the river dividing the two halves of the board. I tried to balance the left and right halves of my board as much as possible, but it was quite congested.
• I became a bit distracted once the proper game started, so even though we first both did some offensive forays into each other’s territories, I seemed to miss out on a number of turns and lost the few troops I had sent across the river into Kel‘s territory. However, once my focus returned to the board, I also saw that she had lost a significant number of troops from attacking my left side as well, even though my defence there was also now weakened. I had more pieces left over than Kel though so I rearranged my troops and then invaded her territory again.
• Snippet: Various other snippets from my dreams include a scene where I was planning to go somewhere else in the city with a friend, and contemplating either taking the bus there and the train back, or vice versa.
• Snippet: Another scene involved staying at a place with another family who was in a separate room, and I woke up early so that I could rinse something, possibly a tray, from a backpack that they had left out in the hall, before putting it back into their backpack afterwards.
• Snippet: One last snippet involved a PvP team shooter game where both teams were in an arena, but instead of shooting each other, we found some NPCs dancing as they walked around, and formed a dancing snake line behind one of them, prancing our way through the building. I was glad for this, as I had team colours and names turned off due to some previous challenge, so I had no idea who was an enemy and who was a friend. I got into line too and went into the options menu and found the toggle for it while we were dancing.

Dec 01 2024

Dream 1

• One of my dreams had to do with a banking system connected to the University I worked at, and how our password recovery system was set up to not help people who had let their University accounts expire already. Technically we could do it, and there was something about exact and inexact dice totals here, but many people whose accounts had expired tried to call in for that, and a good number of those people were apparently scammers trying to get illegal access to the banking system.
• We had a specific password tool shared out amongst our team that also acted as a scammer monitoring system, it would trap people calling in for that password recovery (when they didn’t have an account) in an endless loop of options and make a mark on an admin events timeline on a screen to let us know that someone had been ensnared. I saw on the screen that Tyler P, who was now on the Security team and was not on our team anymore, had also been in the system recently, as his name showed up over one of the admin events as though he’d recently reviewed it.
• Ronnie, who was seated in another room, sent me a message through the system with a joke alert because he saw me putting a document in my bag to bring home, I told him it was an printout unrelated to the job and we laughed about it.

Dream 2

• Another dream involved a big overhead tiled map that looked like it was from a game, it represented several towns and regions that I could travel within. I knew some friends elsewhere on the map but was mostly travelling by myself. I soft recommended a Japanese festival in a town on the top side of the map to them, as I had been there before, it involved an antique flea market in a wooden building as well as a muted celebration by some old people outside the building.
• However, I reached there far too early in the day, when the festival was happening at night, so I teleported south to go do something else first. I could not reach back in time though, as there was a white fuzzy zone in the middle right side of the map, next to a long coast that stretched along the right side of the map, that made me have to go around it to get back north. By the time I reached the Japanese town again, the event was over and people were leaving the town via a path that led south from it.
• I went back towards the fuzzy zone and saw a small quest hut on the south side of it with some quest objectives that involved going into the zone to do things. I made my way there and started to do those quests instead.
• Snippet: I’m not sure if this snippet was directly connected to this dream or was separate, but I remember Ethiopia invading Asia from the northeast and a question that someone posed — apparently Japan defeated Ethiopia and sent them home and the Japanese policemen defending the country then all returned to Tokyo to undeploy and rest at the end of it, but what would have happened to them and where would they have gone if Ethiopia had successfully taken over Japan and then Laos?

Dream 3

• There was a fishing dream as well, where I was seated with someone else in a covered fisherman’s hut at the end of a pier, after we had busted someone for illegally fishing. They had a huge bucket containing dozens of live fish, and we helped empty the fish back into the water to ensure that the fish had another chance.
• We were also legal fishermen ourselves though, and I joked that there was now a high density of fish just beneath the pier where we had emptied the bucket into, and it would be a good spot to fish at.
• I had a fishing line with me, and a little plastic loop with a shrivelled up shrimp attached to the end of it. I also had a fishing bobber with a narrow middle that I had to wrap a fishing line around, and there was a table nearby with a plastic packet containing a coil of fishing line on it that I took, and then started to wind around my bobber. My partner pointed out that that packet was not mine nor his though, and actually belonged to someone else, but we had no idea whose it was so it was no big deal.