Dreams

Jan 20 2025

Dream 1

• There was a puzzle where I was inside a small area, looking down on myself from a top-down perspective as though I were in a video game. Which I probably was. The area was enclosed with fences, and the ground inside the fenced-in area had three height elevations, with about ten or so poles in all to activate inside the enclosed area.
• I could activate all these poles at once if I were “charged”, but I could not charge myself and needed a friend from the outside to hit me with a charged ball, which could pass over the fence, in order for me to radiate static energy and tag all the poles. However, the challenge was that if the friend’s charged ball were to hit just one pole, it would dissipate the power and only that pole would become charged for a brief second, and then uncharge right after that as nothing else was charged.
• Therefore, we were trying to find the best location for the both of us that would allow my friend to hit me with the ball without hitting any of the other poles.
• Snippet: I also remember a scene somewhere outside of this “game” where I had taken a bite, then had offered Mom another bite of a small, cooked cricket that was inside a larger dish, to reassure her that the way I was going to use it as an ingredient was safe. She accepted the bite and agreed that it was both tasty and safe. I brought up the fact that we had apparently eaten fried ants in the past as well and it wasn’t all too different from that.
• Snippet: There was also a hockey match that I was playing in, alongside Connor McDavid and a few other skaters. There was a large, oblong concrete island in the middle of the ice that we had to skate around, and we were up 1-0 with minutes left in the game but the opponent only had one skater besides the goalie left on the ice. Connor McDavid tried to fill our own net with gloves and other hockey player accessories that were strewn around the ice, left there from the people who had left the game, so that it would be easier to clean up afterwards. He ended up being named the third star of the game, while the opposing goalie was the 2nd star, and the opposing team’s last remaining skater was the 1st star even though he didn’t end up scoring.

Dream 2

• It was late at night in a foreign country where we were living, I had my mattress up on a bedframe against the wall and had a bunch of storage boxes underneath it. There was a window on my right and a door on my left and my two siblings were with me as I entered the room with two hoses.
• We were trying to hunt down two spiders, a smaller wolf spider about the size of an orange and a larger other spider breed about twice that diameter, that were crawling around on the walls. We didn’t want to get near them, so I handed one hose to Kel and Jon and used the other while we tried to spray them from afar. We eventually got one spider, the larger one, that simply died and faded or was washed away.
• The other spider proved very elusive and resilient, however, and although we nailed it several times, it was difficult to actually kill it and it ended up crawling around the far wall and ceiling, up on a cupboard, on my mattress, on the boxes beneath my bed, and because it was a light brown, it was difficult to see in the light of the phone that Jon eventually brought out, and a lot of time was spent peering in the semi-darkness for it while also chatting with each other.
• I was annoyed that we could not get to sleep that night, as I glanced at the clock about halfway through the dream and saw that it was already 4am, but we didn’t dare sleep with the spiders still around. We even managed to get the wolf spider into what looked like a dead position under the bed at one point, lying on its back with curled legs in the air, but somehow it inverted itself and made its escape.
• Things were happening around us as we did this too. Two men came in and started taking out the boxes from under my bed, apparently this was because we were moving off to some other house the next day. They did not seem to be concerned about the spiders or the water. Also, Jon left partway through to cook a breakfast meal for Mom and Dad, who were apaprently celebrating their marriage anniversary that day.
• The hose I was using was like a shower hose, with a setting that sprinkled water everywhere and several that concentrated the water into more of a jet. At one point, I sprinkled the walls and immediately saw a bunch of hidden creatures come to life, crawling out from hidey holes and forming three different curved lines on the wall itself as they headed toward the window and out of the room. I realized that they were doing this because the water sprinkle fooled them into thinking that it was spring, and they were almost certainly headed to a bad time outside since it was still the middle of winter.
• Although there were about 20 or so creatures amongst the three lines, each line containing 7 to 9 of them, only four of the creatures were actually spiders, and none of them were our wolf spider nemesis. I did suck one of the spiders up with a vacuum cleaner hose before realizing what was happening and letting the others leave of their own accord. The most exotic animal was a small elephant, about the size of a loaf of bread, who like the other creatures was walking sideways on the wall with their body parallel to the ground. It led one of the three conga lines, and I could not find my phone so I grabbed an actual camera and took a hasty and slightly blurry picture of it as it reached the window.

Jan 21 2025

• Snippet: I was either playing a game with levels, or doing work assignments, and in between levels or assignments there was a lobby that was represented by a large, flat concrete surface with no walls. The system was perfectly calculated so that there were just enough assignments of quests to do in an alloted time, but I learnt that I could throw the numbers off by chipping away at some filler tasks between levels or assignments, when we were back at the lobby. These filler task were represented by a small, round rock that I literally chipped away at. This caused a discrepancy in the remaining time which increased over time, which I considered to be a positive thing, though I don’t remember why.
• Snippet: I was on a train and calculating the amount of time needed to complete a journey somewhere, and I concluded that it would take 12 years to get to where I wanted to go.
• Snippet: I was playing an MMO, and a girl with a high-level character took me and another guy to the edge of a pond with lots of bouncing slimes and told us to level there. The MMO was in first-person view when we were walking to the pond, top-down view when we were actually hitting the slimes, and then there were minigames in the pond that took us to a side-view screen. One of those minigames involved protecting seashells on the right side of the screen against fish that entered from the left side of the screen and tried to get to them, and another involved a group of fish, led by a shark, chasing me around and trying to eat me. I failed at both minigames.

Jan 22 2025

• Snippet: I watched a streamer make their way through most of an rpg, which had realistic graphics with stone pillars that could be dragged around. He could ricochet a ball between blocks and connect blocks together to move them around, but he discovered that it worked a lot better if he used his bolster as neck support while lying down on the bed before getting into the game. This put them into the game at a slightly higher elevation, and allows them to bounce the ball off of the tops of the movable blocks, which were higher than other blocks. They then proceeded to solve lots of problems and got a lot of building done using this shortcut.
• Snippet: I was in a room with friends but stepped out of the room to try to defeat a dog that I had seen lurking across the road, either for food or to protect the colony that I was part of. While I was some distance away, I knew that I could hit it with a grenade if I aimed correctly because it was just within my maximum range. And due to the distance, I was outside of its visual range. I wound my arm back and threw the grenade accurately, and was proud at that, but the grenade I threw was just a smoke grenade, which was a good thing because the dog picked up the grenade and ran over to its owner nearby, proving that it wasn’t a stray or threatening dog to begin with. The owner looked suspiciously around, and I made myself scarce, returning to the room where my friends were being debriefed by a teacher.

Jan 23 2025

• Snippet: I was the leader of a motorcycle race group, about 6 of us or so, racing against other groups of around 6. We travelled together, and I set the course by cutting corners, aiming angles etc to save a second here and there while we travelled. It felt like I was good friends with the rest of my group and I enjoyed that.
• Snippet: I looked down from the window of a tall apartment in Singapore, at an exercise race that students dressed in their PE outfits were taking part in. There was a long line of students stretching along the street, but the line kept on elongating and shrinking because the students also had tasks to do at various points in the route, things like running on the spot for a few seconds. After a bit, I looked away from the window and at Dad, who was next to me. We were trying to apply for something, possibly to migrate away, and would soon know the outcome of our application, but we weren’t sure if we would be accepted since it wasn’t quite 2 years yet since he left the army.
• Snippet: I logged into an old MMO that we had not played for some time, and saw a white, rectangular plaque in our guild hall listing all our raid characters from when me and my friends were still active in the game. My character name, Shiara., was at the end of the list, though I wasn’t sure why there was a period after my name when none of the other characters had it.

Jan 24 2025

• There was a hurricane coming while we were on vacation in Australia, so the family and I took shelter at an underground bunker below a row of city shops. We found a spot near the back of the shelter and I unpacked my stuffed animals from a backpack onto a picnic sheet on the ground.
• I then left the family area to join a line for some lesson with a teacher. As the hurricane approached, I had to borrow someone else’s cell phone and send a text to Kel asking her to pack up the animals just in case we had to relocate quickly. The teacher seemed to be annoyed that I was also talking but I was also helping people line up in the right order and such, so I didn’t care what he thought.
• A bit later, we were dismissed from the lineup and I went outside with someone else to check how far away the hurricane was. I was four steps from the bunker door when I was almost blown away and barely managed to keep my balance, so we ran back inside and I yelled out that the hurricane was here, and to close the doors and hunker down. I looked around to see if anyone else was just outside the doors I were at, and needed to run in before I closed them, but I didn’t see anyone else, so I slammed them shut and went to rejoin the family.
• We settled down in an area of the bunker that looked like a bus, with leather seats on both sides of a narrow aisle facing each other and some windows on the other side of the aisle that we sat down at. Across the aisle from us were two punks who looked nervous to be here, like they would be caught and reprimanded by the authorities if they were found, but they were hoping to hide here until the hurricane was over anyway. We watched the minimap as the hurricane, which had an intensity of 18, went over top of us, but due to the air pressure only a strong gust of wind came in through the windows.
• Once the hurricane was over, I got to chatting with the punks, and one of them said he was going to steal a nearby flying bicycle and go for a ride, asking me if I wanted to join him. I said yes. We snuck out and took the bike, and flew into the air chasing the hurricane, with him powering the bicycle.
• We followed the hurricane west from Australia, over the sea, and all the way to Africa. We looked down and saw the hurricane going over a huge highway road with huge flood walls guarding it, and I wondered how the cars were still able to remain on the road. He said that the road and walls were built to withstand catastrophes like this hurricane, the only tradeoff being that the vehicles were forced to travel slowly when a disaster was in effect.
• The punk said that he was from Singapore and had moved to Vancouver with his friend, and that neither place ever saw natural disasters like this place did. I said that I had done a similar move, from Singapore to Edmonton, and also never saw natural disasters. We chatted a while about our shared heritage and other things as we travelled.
• Eventually, I requested that he return me to the bunker in Australia where my family was, though I told him that he could set me down a short distance from the shops so that the authorities wouldn’t find him. I also said I wouldn’t mention about the bicycle’s battery as its charge was down to 53%, and if the authorities realized he had stolen it and realized that it needed recharging, they could just lurk by a specialized charging station to capture him. Needing those stations was apparently the biggest drawback of those flying bikes.
• We said our goodyes and I went back in to meet the family. Kel received a text from him asking us to buy a certain hand-held toy for me, since I had commented on him having it while we were travelling on his flying bicycle. I said that it was an incredible coincidence that it was the third copy of that toy that I had seen people have in a week.

Jan 25 2025

• Snippet: All I remember is being in a green room with white platforms of different elevations in the middle, and thinking that it felt like a jungle despite the white floors. It had multiple switches that I had to hit with balls from the middle, however I had several other people with me and there was a discussion regarding the options about some kind of dilemma after each switch that we hit, and also an aspect of me teaching the others what to do and how to trigger them, so the entire thing felt more like a scene from something like Mass Effect rather than CrossCode, where the bouncing balls aspect specifically would have been inspired from.

Jan 26 2025

• I was with two or three other people in a van when we dropped off something that needed repair to a group of people in a garage. We had found a business card for that group saying that they could repair said item. We were however surprised when they jumped into a van and drove off with the item, and we tried to give chase, but they had a head start on us as we were not yet back in the van when they first drove off. We weren’t too concerned though because we had a GPS tracker inside the item they had stolen, so we could see them on a display in our van anyway even though they were several streets away.
• Two or three of us remained in the van, with me driving, while the other person stepped out and spread his wings, saying that he’d track them from the air. I took a side road in the same general direction that they were driving, when we suddenly saw them stop and turn around and double back toward the same direction they had fled from. It soon became apparent that they were headed for a construction yard near the original garage and that they were going to dump off the stolen item in a shipping container there.
• We were still closer than they were, though I was a street off to the side from them, so we reached the junction in front of the construction yard first and then had to turn around and go back the way we came so as not to tip them off that we were there, since they were still stuck in traffic at the front of the last traffic light and our van was painted a very noticeable pink and yellow colour.
• I made a loop back to the last street and then back to the one in front of the yard again, and along the way we passed a girl sitting on the grass on the side of the road, surrounded by some glowing sticks that formed a fence around her. There were about a dozen tiny snowmen on the grass with her, and it looked like she was trying to prevent them from melting for as long as possible even though there was no snow left on the ground anywhere else. She posed with the snowmen for a picture that someone else was taking as we drove past back toward the yard.
• This time, when we arrived, the thieves were already in the yard and had unpacked our stolen item, and were waiting for the Chinese gang who had not arrived yet. They were not paying attention, so a guy with me took out a pair of silenced pistols and killed two of the thieves, before approaching the third one who was obliviously still staring toward the warehouse. He looked at me as though asking if we wanted to kill this last one too, just as the dream ended.
• Snippet: We were in Edmonton 4012 and our basement had long brown crickets on the ground that Dad was picking up and throwing out of the house, one by one. I pointed out a couple more he had missed, two of them still alive and a third one squashed. I didn’t want to touch them myself though so I was glad that he was not squeamish at all. Dad said that the basement had become infested because a baby cricket managed to reach some of the books and had bred in them. Kel, along with another mom and her young kid, had been staying in our laundry room down there as a temporary hoteling space, though they were all out at the moment. We brought up some items for the mom and her kid so she wouldn’t have to go down there for now. Kel was stuck in a hotel not too far away because there was a thunderstorm and the storm triggered her time of the month so she didn’t want to be near anyone, and I told her over a phone call that that was a blessing in disguise so she didn’t have to experience the cricket plague.
• Snippet: There was a weird game world where everything synced to a clock and happened in rhythm. We were solving an overall mystery case by doing things with other friendly players as well as NPCs, like fighting 6 guardian mobs at once on a tree branch with 6-10 of us, everyone attacking and punching in rhythm, and then once done the survivors ganged up on a boss standing behind those 6 guardians.