Dreams

Mar 17 2025

• In this dream, I played a scavenging game with solo/team-based PvP together with Satinel and Heg. Frotswa was invited too and almost made it, but he either didn’t like or couldn’t come due to the time involved with the quest structure that Heg decided on for our group, so we ended up starting without him. Satinel mentioned that this was perhaps lowkey payback for all the previous times he had always taken so long coming to quests or something. Anyway the quest structure did favour me, as I wouldn’t have been able to come on the other game mode, so I came on this one instead.
• Anyway, the game involved riding on trains to abandoned train stations, looting schools nearby whose classrooms look like they were from my Rosyth school, and then extracting into a safe area outside the school. Only within the school area itself was killing other players permitted.
• At the first train station, we moved from there into the nearby school, and Satinel and I went to start looting a classroom on the second floor while Heg searched the neighbouring classroom. I needed two more onions and two more beetroots to get to 21 of each to finish a quest, and I showed Satinel the pictures of the items I needed. I then found two onions in the fridge in the classroom and added them to my loot bag, but it didn’t have beetroots so those had to wait.
• Someone came into the classroom when we were rummaging about. I saw them but they didn’t see me, and I hid against the wall as I looked for Satinel. She was out of sight so I slipped out the door while yelling that we had company to draw the player’s attention. The player followed me out but couldn’t find me as I had slunk into the doorway of the neighbouring class, and Satinel came out right behind them and attacked them in melee.
• I took out my rifle and tried to help but it only fired large green marble-shaped projectiles that moved slowly through the air. Not only did they do next to no damage, the two combatants were constantly moving so wherever I aimed for when I pulled the trigger was completely irrelevant by the time the projectile arrived. One even hit Satinel in the right lens of her glasses, but did no damage.
• Heg also appeared in support of Satinel and the two of them downed the opponent and looted them before heading over to me. Together we headed back to the train to move on to the next stop.
• On the ensuing train journey, which was packed, I looked out the window and saw a clown coming out of a restaurant that the train was passing. I pointed that out to Satinel and Heg but due to the fleeting nature of the moment, neither of them saw that. However, while we were all still looking out the window, the train passed by a neighbouring eatery and we all saw a clown with large shoes emerging from that shop’s exit too.
• When we arrived and disembarked at the station, there was a presentation on how the station was round and a band that I had never heard of had made a music video that circled the entire station while singing a song. Apparently Metallica covered this song several years later too, and did a similar video but broke off halfway through the circle, as the song also similarly started the same and then radically changed its style. I remarked that I actually had heard of that song before and had no idea that it was a remix of an earlier one.
• Our plan for this station was to go one at a time to minimize suspicion. There was a food stall in the station that we wanted to visit, then a classroom, and then we would reconvene at another food stall downstairs. Both the food stalls were in safe areas, only the classroom was in a PvP zone, and Heg and Satinel both knew that I had no interest in sweet foods so my role was to keep watch to make sure no one entered, while Heg went on to scout and then stood guard at the food stall ahead which sold savoury food, while Satinel went in the middle and actually did the looting of the classroom.
• All this went as planned, and soon enough the two of them were at the second food stall, with the classroom safely looted. It was then my turn to cross the PvP zone to get to them. While crossing, I saw a scrawny dog sitting in the middle of the corridor and bent down to take a picture of it. When I pointed the phone camera at the dog, the phone’s AI surrounded the dog with a jagged, pulsating circle and asked me if I wanted to report this dog to the police for rescue as it looked scrawny. I ignored it, took my picture, and walked on.
• I also safely reached the food stall at the end, but as I was approaching it, I heard people complaining that the payment system was down and the stall couldn’t accept any credit cards or gift cards to eat there. We wondered if we could just convert our gift cards, apparently looted from the classroom, into equivalent generic cash at the store so that we could go somewhere else with better food to eat at instead.
• Snippet: Much earlier, I had another dream where the only thing I remembered was a portrait shot of the side profile of a girl in an apartment, standing against a blank wall. The picture was then divided into a grid, and a bubble drawn in each grid. The picture was seven bubbles tall and four bubbles or so wide, and there were two vertical lines drawn on the part of the picture where the blank wall was, each line being three bubbles long, one stretching up from the ground and one coming down from the ceiling. Essentially one long vertical line that skipped the middle bubble. I had a 1 by 3 horizontal line and inserted it between the two vertical lines, and this apparently signified the spot that a television was going to be placed in the apartment.

Mar 18 2025

• I was one of several people travelling on a moving base of operations and many of the other people, who were NPCs, had one passive skill represented by skill bars and that levelled up over time. There was always the sense that something was wrong though, and eventually I found out that we had a spy or saboteur after an incident where a bright red and green frog was let loose in the bathroom while I was there.
• I wasn’t sure if the frog was poisonous or not, but thankfully the frog didn’t attack me and I clambered out of the bathroom while it hopped under me and went to the far side of the room. The rest of my family was there too, and Mom and Kel asked Dad to catch and dispose of it, but Dad was lying down fast asleep inside a half-built wooden cot that he had constructed himself and didn’t feel like getting up even after we woke him up.
• Eventually he grumbled and got to his feet and went into the bathroom to catch the frog though. To dispose of it, he stuffed it just under the left sleeve of a short-sleeved shirt he was wearing. He kept a small slime pet there, and the slime devoured the frog and left no traces of it. He then went back to bed.
• After that we discovered who the saboteur was and instead of getting rid of her, forced her to level her own skill up properly like everyone else on the ship.

Mar 19 2025

• Snippet: I was travelling around a wide-open area in what I believe was a game, and the zone I was in was largely made out of grey cobblestone. I had a top-down view of the area as I moved around. The most striking feature of this game that I remember was that there was a party size limit of 8 people, though I only currently had 4 people in my party.
• Snippet: In a separate but similar dream, I remember another game world where I could recruit identical party members of the same type or race or species, and their stats would combine for me favourably as they combined together into the same party member slot. So like I could recruit a creature with high fire damage but a short lifespan, and then find another similar creature with low damage but long lifespan, and I would end up with a version of that creature with high damage and a long lifespan. There were a couple of stats where it was better to have a low number, and for those ones the game did indeed give me the lower score of the two creatures being combined.
• Snippet: I skipped classes at school to hang out with a friend on the 9th storey of a school building, because he was doing something interesting that he needed help with, whereas the class was just a study session in preparation for a difficult quiz in a couple of weeks. On the way up to him, I stopped on the 7th or 8th floor and entered a washroom, and found that it was under heavy construction, with collapsed walls everywhere and many of the cubicle doors in disrepair and fallen over. A pile of clothes was in the corner of the room, and I wanted to investigate that, but a cleaning lady was in the washroom too. She said that I could use any of the cubicles and that she’d step out for a moment, so I did so in order to try to get some alone time, but then even though the washroom was located in a quiet corner of the building, a group of people came in soon after to use various cubicles too, including WingBenny, so I never had a chance to be alone with the pile of clothes.

Mar 20 2025

• Snippet: I was alternating between being on a giant landship that cut its way across grassy fields, and being someone that was trying to communicate with a girl that was trapped on the landship’s crew and not being allowed to communicate with me. I travelled around with the ship, but also once per day would stand at a particular location to look at the girl and make sure that she could see me too, which was apparently a prerequisite for some future plan to rescue her that I had.

Mar 21 2025

• I dreamt that I was travelling with two others across a city. We had different spells that we could cast, mine being fireball, and we could enhance those skills with gems by inserting the gems into spell-swords that we carried around and had about two dozen notches for gems to fit in. Upgrades included things like a larger area of effect or more damage output. At one point, one of the others insisted that we should let them cast their activation spell at a location, as that would summon a portal to an additional zone or something that we would enter.

Mar 22 2025

• Snippet: There was a torch puzzle in a room and a code I needed to input, which I could not figure out at first, but then I eventually realized that the answer to the puzzle involved a number of holes in the south wall of the room, one for each torch, and each digit of the code corresponded to how many visible floor squares I could see past the holes.
• Snippet: I remember a scene where I was in a classroom with Derpie, and two other Indian students, a boy and a girl, were discussing a spell that Derpie was able to cast. Neither of them was aware of his presence at first, but the boy, who was facing the front of the classroom, eventually saw Derpie approaching them and fell silent, whereas the girl, who was facing the back of the classroom, obliviously spoke on and wondered if it was true that Derpie could cast spells by touching his forehead to someone and drawing out power for the spell that way. Derpie was in a playful mood so he walked up to the girl and leaned in toward her to touch his forehead against her back, and then demonstrated the spell afterwards.
• Snippet: I entered a music hall with Ronnie and a couple other people from work. The hall was narrow and long, with only three rows of seats facing the stage, but with easily about 20 to 30 chairs per row. An usher by the door told us to hurry and sit down as we entered, since the musical performance on stage had already started. We were only here temporarily as a distraction from going back to work though, so we were in no hurry. We all sat in the front row, and while everyone else went the shorter way around, I took the long way around the rectangle of seats, and ended up picking a seat on the left side of Ronnie, with only empty seats to my own left.

Mar 23 2025

• Dad and I were passengers aboard a ship. Various modules aboard the ship were activated by placing resources on squares above deck, but it only sometimes involved us doing them, as other people who were aboard the ship participated in keeping them running as well. Sometimes we just ended up watching them, or watching the world go by as the ship moved. The latter bit of watching was somehow also integral to regenerating resources as well as boosting our efforts to solve a crime case that happened prior to us boarding the ship and that we were working on.
• There were a couple other snippets involved in my dreams, one where we tried to catch some fish for dinner, and another where there was a top-down view of a game board that I was defending, and there were some tiles with pigs around the board. The purpose of those pigs was so that I could get from one end of the board to the other to attack enemies there, by chaining an attack on a pig tile in the middle of the board using a skill which gave me an extra turn of movement after using it.