Dreams

Feb 17 2025

• Snippet: I remember a 3 long by 6 tall grid of buttons, each one represented a different building or piece of infrastructure and both produced, and needed to be built by, resources that accumulated over time. Thus they had to be built in a certain order, like homes or farms before the town hall, then an open forum area, then a barracks, etc. There were several grids of this that represented different villages that I could hop between.

Feb 18 2025

• Snippet: There was a game map with a staging area lobby zone that could be accessed between roundabout circuits of other zones. So when a player set out, they started from a lobby, did a loop of all the other zones, and then ended up back at the lobby. The circuits had modifiers that could be set and quests to do while on them.
• The main lobby itself had vendors and resting areas, and I knew of partially concealed vendors, each one standing by a light pole, in subzones to the northeast, northwest, southeast, and southwest of the middle lobby area, one per subzone. They were not well known, but I knew that each one sold unique food dishes. I was with two friends but was about to set out on a solo circuit myself, and I told them to wait for me at one of the vendors and that I would find them there after my circuit loop to eat one of the unique dishes there.
• Snippet: Much later, I was with my family in a stealth action game with skills to use and enemies to subdue, and there was a walled compound with an office building at the end that we had to infiltrate. There was a Chinese house on the near left side of the compound, and a Japanese house on the near right side, that we had to go through to reach the back building, and across two different playthroughs we tried out both routes. I was not the party leader, but had already done either both routes or at least the Japanese route before, so I was familiar with some of the quirks of the zone.
• There was also a town area we had to walk through now and then. Though we might have been riding around on slow personal vehicles like scooters. We had a spare stretcher on wheels, and Dad pushed Kel around on it even though the streets were busy. To get it through some tight areas, like between occupied food tables and a wall, we had to sometimes tilt the stretcher until it was vertically perpendicular to the ground.

Feb 19 2025

• Snippet: There was a series of stone platforms, set either over a chasm or over some out of bounds grass that I couldn’t walk on. The platforms had a ledge in the middle with four things that needed triggering, but each trigger was set behind a timed stone door that only opened when a touchplate in the northeast, northwest, southeast, or southwest were activated first, one per central door. Each of those touchplates were also locked behind two doors that automatically opened and closed, one in front of and one behind each touchplate, and I had to toss a heavy ball at these automatic doors with the correct timing so that it went past the first door but not the second. This timing was difficult to accomplish in the dream, though I eventually figured out how to get them.
• Snippet: We sold our Edmonton 4012 house to some Indian friends, possibly including Uncle Droy and his family, who came by to make a conditional offer. We accepted the offer, and they then inquired if we were going to take the furniture or if they could have them too, though it didn’t seem to make a difference to the offer, it would just be extra money. They were most interested in a white bookshelf against the wall, as well as wire shelves that went around and over the washer and dryer. Dad indicated that we’d most likely take the shelves though. Also, the visitors had brought a pair of hockey sticks in the car and wanted to leave them here since they’d be moving in anyway. We obliged and propped up the sticks against a wall in the basement.

Feb 20 2025

• There was an open field where pairs of ghosts stood together, where each pair represented a different stage of some game or quest. The scene reminded me a little of a baseball field even though that wasn’t exactly the formation they were standing in, nor were there any markings on the field itself. To pass each stage, I needed to apply a vulnerability on the ghosts to make them vulnerable, out of 7 different skill choices that I had that all applied different kinds of vulnerability. There was a mentor figure with me, standing at the side of the field, who was outright “better” at this part than me though, so I just had him do them all instead.
• There was an entire story plot wrapped around this too, which involved travelling around a city and doing stuff in each chapter, but I forget the details from this part.

Feb 21 2025

• There was a room with a chicken in a cage, and a raven in another cage, and a mad scientist in the building but outside the room who was going to clone many copies of the original chicken and raven in order to let the cloned ravens eat the cloned chickens. The original chicken was trying to plan an escape and was asking the original raven if he would help too, because surely he wasn’t content just being in a cage forever, but the original raven just lay languidly in the cage and did not want anything to do with it. I believe the original raven was complicit in capturing the original chicken in the first place without realizing that he himself was destined for a cage as well.
• I’m not sure if it was from the same dream snippet or a separate one but there was also a scene with two 2D sprites, the first one being a single vertically-aligned sausage and the second one being a crate stuffed full of those sausages. As part of either a game or some escape attempt, copies of those sprites had to be arranged to look natural and yet create enough concealed spaces behind the sausages to hide something or someone.

Feb 22 2025

Dream 1

• There was a man living in an unused school building, and he was doing an online draft of football players that started with it being college football related, but suddenly after a few picks turned into an NFL draft instead, which for the purposes of the dream was considered a worse alternative. He complimented someone for going in on a lot of players from “Southern” early on while the college part of the draft was still working, due to a fondness for that school, as now they were significantly more powerful than other drafters.
• This somehow led into a chess game with multiple kings and queens, with a square part of the board on one player’s side blocked off due to there being a room or boarded-up area there. As a result, the placement of the pieces was all weird, but because the player who had part of their board blocked off had to line up their pieces on the other side, concentrating their forces there, and as the game went on it was implied that they were going to win, although I did not see the end of the game.
• This dream ended with the school building being gutted in a fire for some reason.
• Snippet: A bit earlier than this dream, there was also something about a giant cylindrical machine, about as tall and wide as a human. It was slightly taller than me. It was located on a floor grid and I could both advance and rewind time and see the machine bouncing around to other squares on the grid. However, in both time directions, it would occasionally run out of ink or something similar to stamp the squares on the ground with, so I had to refill it with a press of a button.

Dream 2

• I was moving to a new ground-floor apartment near my current dream apartment, and while packing I had sent four little blue robots, around the size of Tigey, from my old apartment to wait at my new apartment as they could be controlled by commands and that was easier than packing and moving them myself. When I got there with my latest batch of boxes though, I found out that they never arrived.
• I first had a conversation with an architect who said that he could turn my new apartment into a similar layout as the last apartment but it would be smaller as the apartment was narrower. I said that this was a corner apartment and I could renovate and extend the walls out to make it as big as the last one, and that I would probably do that. The floor plans also showed the end of the apartment furthest away from the front door having a chair that looked like a king’s throne.
• Next, there was a young kid visiting my apartment and I asked her to watch over it for me in return for some snacks as I went out to hunt for the little four robots.
• There were a couple of places where the robots could have gotten lost between my old and new apartment, one was a semi-outdoor Singapore-style kopitiam food court, and another was a busy elevator lobby next to it that led up into a tall apartment. The layout of the dream basically went old apartment > kopitiam > elevator lobby > new apartment and all four of them were more or less side by side, so there wasn’t really anywhere else the robots could have gone to.
• I first looked at the lobby but saw no sign of them there, though it was possible that someone found them and brought them up to their unit. There was no way I could ever retrieve them if that happened though so I hoped that that was not what had transpired.
• Next, I went to the food court and initially saw nothing as well, but after I asked the serving girls on duty, one of them brought me a napkin with the four robots on it, and some text in blue ink scribbled on it indicating that they were found at the lobby and brought here by some kind person who thought they were lost.
• I happily reclaimed the four blue robots, even though two of them were missing their heads now. However, their heads in this case were like Lego pieces that could just be snapped back on, and those parts were apparently easily buyable and replaceable. The important part were the robots themselvs and their autonomous cores, which I had now gotten back.

Feb 23 2025

• I was helping people at school in some sort of emergency response crew as part of a plotline, but Mom was angry because I was summoned early in the morning and had left a piece of bread half-eaten on a plate on the kitchen table, plus I hadn’t brought along my school stuff with me while on my way to help the emergency response.
• She came all the way to school itself, just to scold me and tell me that I better be home before 9:45 am to get my stuff and get ready for school. I was mad at her for coming all the way without actually being helpful and bringing my things along.
• I don’t remember what the emergency response itself was, but we had a bunch of tasks or quests to do outside the school itself and there might have been a part that entailed shooting laser guns into the darkened entranceway of a building. There might also have been another segment where we were building a rope up from the ground floor to the level above to be able to get up to the second and third levels of a building. That specific ground floor might also have been coated in ice.
• I did get home by 9:45 am anyway, though not before complaining to Dad about Mom and showing him a recording of the conversation with Mom. Still, by the time I got home, Mom wasn’t angry anymore and just looked at me passively as I entered the kitchen to grab my things.