Dreams

Jun 23 2025

Dream 1

• I had a backpack arranged with items that triggered themselves like in Backpack Battles on preset timers with different synergies. One particular item was a bag that triggered itself as well as items to its left and right every 2.82 seconds as long as there was an item inside of it.
• Black and white robots in the dream world outside of the backpack were being controlled by the backpack and I think specifically that 2.82 second bag, and they would toggle modes everytime the bag triggered, going between a mode where they were shooting and destroying each other and a mode where they were docile.
• Another item in my backpack was a square “room”, it was a model version of a small roofed shop named Victory that somehow fit within the confines of a 2 by 2 inventory box in my backpack. Despite being a model, I had the sense that it was actually a real shop and I could purchase things from it.

Dream 2

• I was on a school bus on the way to Dunman High, for my first day of school there in many years, and I was listening to other boys on the bus talk about another girl named Rachel who was very well liked. This was not the Rachel I knew from my time there though, but a separate girl who came on the bus at the second-last stop before the school. She came over to me and sat down behind me, then beckoned me to follow her once the bus reached the school. We disembarked and I followed her to a small, closed gate near where the bus was.
• We chatted for a bit, though she seemed to know me a little better than I knew her. She wanted my help with something but she couldn’t find the actual things she wanted help with, or had problems starting something up to demonstrate it, so I apologized and told her that it’d have to wait for our next meeting as classes were about to start. She agreed to that.
• I asked her if her name was Rachel, but she looked a bit confused and said no. She gave me her name, and opened her worksheet file to show me how her name was written in Chinese. I said that it was going to take me perhaps two or three meetings and reminders to remember that, as I was bad with names, and she laughed and said that she was the same way. I forget her family name now, except its Chinese character had a lot of strokes, but her last name was Xin Xin (星星), or star. I gave her Jessica for my name too as we parted ways.
• I went into the school and then into class. The male teacher was a bit behind me on the stairs, and I was a bit behind Zixiang, and I proclaimed as I entered the class that as long as I arrived there before the teacher, I was technically early even if the bell had already rung! Strangely, there were only four people in class — the room was informally divided into two, with Zixiang and Xuanjie on the far side, Zixiang in front and Xuanjie behind, and Yiwen and Jean on the near side, both near the front of the class. The tables on the far side were haphazardly arranged, and I wanted to go over there and join them, but subconsciously I realized the gender split in the class and instead decided I wanted to sit next to Yiwen and get to know her better instead.
• I think a few more students trickled in after the teacher arrived, however the class never actually started. Instead, Yiwen and I first had to lift up the round table as Jean requested us to do so in order for her to find some pencil lead boxes that she had dropped and scattered on the floor. We found two or three beneath our table once we did so. Once we put it down, Yiwen brought out a lot of boxes of tea and chocolate, and formed a long wall around the far edge of the table, blocking the view between us and the class blackboard and teacher’s desk. The wall was at least six boxes high and I was impressed at her collection, mentioning that I also had a lot of tea at home but all my tea combined would still only have been about a quarter of what she had just here. She invited me to help myself to some.
• A little later, I left the class with a laptop and ended up in a school room with a laptop and a portal that I tweaked the settings of. Someone wanted me to go through the portal, but the portal had a temperature reading for the zone on the other side, and the temperature was still really high from me tweaking the settings, though it was gradually dropping. I tried to edit the room and give myself a God mode with damage immunity, but when I tried it it just renamed the room itself to the immortal command instead, so I renamed it back so no one would notice and decided to wait for the temperature to decrease naturally.
• The way the portal worked, it cycled through a new zone option every 5 seconds or so, and the average temperature of the zone on the other side gradually dropped from about 80 degrees Celsius, to 40-50, then to the 30s, though it wasn’t a completely linear drop, sometimes a new zone would be a couple of degrees hotter than the last one. But over time it trended downwards. Each zone also had a “modifier”, and eventually, when it was in the high 20s, I decided it was enough and hopped into a zone with a modifier of “Hidden Exits”, though I think it was named something different.
• The reason I wanted this modifier was that in a previous portal that I went through, there were staircase exits everywhere and it was very unsightly. This modifier concealed the stairs leading up behind switchbacks in rock formations and similar so they were harder to find, and I figured it would mean the place would look nicer for taking pictures in too. When I entered the zone, I found myself outside a Japanese castle, with a large path going around a pond and leading toward it. There were ghostly Japanese women in long, pretty gowns floating around, and they floated towards me to try to attack me, but I had an actual fly ability and flew above where they could reach and into the castle.
• Snippet: Somewhere in my dream I was also walking through an arcade with my family. I asked little Jon and Kel if we wanted to play a ball game on the side but they refused, to my relief, as I had just come out of some encounter or other and wasn’t in the mood for it either.

Jun 24 2025

• Snippet: I remember playing inventory management with a backpack that was divided into two by a vertical line going down slightly to the right of the middle of a square grid that represented its inventory. To the left of the line was where I tried to place various 1×1 and 1×2 pieces that mostly had passive effects but increased luck or something based on how many adjacent pieces were touching. To the right of the line there were robots moving up and down the squares autonomously, fighting each other or patrolling the area, and I think the items in the squares on the left influenced how well the robots on the right did.
• Snippet: I also remember going to watch a musician somewhere and seeing a small stack of about four CDs of his on a table near his stage. I was interested in buying one but I don’t remember if I ever did within the dream.

Jun 25 2025

• Snippet: I remember two Backpack Battles type inventory snippets. The first one was a white pillow with a 15-square grid on it, 3 rows and 5 columns. The first seven of them were filled with a rectangular item around the size and shape of a Chinese red packet, and I spent 1 coin in buying another one and filling up the eighth slot with it. The second one was having only 3 coins on hand but needing 4 coins to buy a pet. I eventually did scrounge up a 4th coin to buy it.

Jun 26 2025

• There was a game involving a town map overlaid with landmark icons that I could click on. Each landmark also linked to a character from Uma Musume, and picking one turned the game into a sort of raising sim minigame that started on Day 0. There were 4 days of raising before the player could bring them on 1 on 1 battles against other Uma Musume characters from the 4th day onwards.
• Each girl also had a backpack, and had stats represented by items in the backpack, like a pouch or water bottle or somesuch. Those stat-related items took up specific slots and could not be moved around in the backpack. However, there were also other empty spaces between the stat items that could be filled with custom items. The battles between characters then took place in a very Backpack Battles sort of way.
• I could also apply skill points to the stat items in the backpacks to increase those stats, and there was additionally both a set of stickers that one could acquire by charging each stat item from level 0 to 4, as well as another set of stickers for doing well in the growing life sim and battle part of the game depending on time played and overall skill levels.
• There was also a story involving the player starting off and feeling very weak and only being able to select one character in the middle landmark of the map to start, but eventually being able to start branching out from there to adjacent ones once they completed the first one.

Jun 27 2025

• There was a hotel lobby and reception area that was split into two, with an inner room and an outer room that connected together via two doors. Specifically, the inner room was shaped like a T piece with a shortened stem (ㅜ) that fit into the outer room which was in a 凹 shape, roughly forming a 3 by 3 grid of squares. The stem of the T piece had two doors on it, one on the east and one on the west, so they both led into the larger outer room, but when one was in the outer room, one could not see the other door from the first one. The outer room also had a door leading out into the world and the inner room had doors or passages leading further into the building.
• Several dream visits took place here, the one I remember the most being that I came here once with Mom and Jon late at night to stay overnight, even though the hotel was closed. However, I had booked a room at this hotel for $200 and stayed here in the past when I visited the town, and this somehow meant that I had a right to stay here on an ongoing basis when I returned.
• This was lucky, as this late at night, every other place was closed for the night as well, except for one other hotel, but that place had a No Vacancy sign up in front of it. This hotel was not closed for the night though, but rather seemed to be closed due to being under construction, with a wrapping material covering most of the outer walls of the building. However, this didn’t seem to affect our ability to enter it. A couple other touristy-looking people were wandering around and looking for places to stay at night too though, so I had to make sure that they were not near us before I could swipe my card and open the door to this hotel, in order to ensure that they did not tailgate us and get into this building.
• We walked through that above lobby and went to the room that I had booked the last time, which was vacant, and we stayed there for the night. It was not a super pleasant stay, but it was cozy, despite a big hole in one of the interior walls that separated the entry hallway from the toilet, and a few other blemishes.
• In the morning, we hurried out to that lobby before checkout time, but then realized that there was an entire bag that we had forgotten to pack. We left our stuff there with Jon while Mom and I hurried back into the room, rushing past a tired-looking, muscular guy in a singlet who was apparently the hotel owner. He looked at us bemusedly as I told him that we technically hadn’t checked out of the hotel yet and were going back the room to get another bag. I grabbed a couple of plushies on the floor, plus some larger things, and stuffed them into a temporary duffel bag, whereas Mom grabbed all the smaller things we had left behind and put them into another bag. We then brought both bags outside to the lobby to properly pack the items away.
• A second dream story that took place in the same lobby involved a war that was approaching the area, and how I and a few others were trying to evacuate people through the lobby, leading them from the outside room to the inside room and then through somewhere else beyond. Soldiers started to arrive at the outside portion as well while we were still herding people through the inside portion, but I don’t remember how this one ended.
• A third iteration involved a large minotaur wielding a giant brown club chasing me from the inner room to the outer one. The minotaur was too large to nimbly fit through the doors, but since I could not see which door it would come through, I could not tell for sure where it was. I knew that its AI was programmed to find the shortest path to me though, so I hid behind a pillar in the outer room that was closer to the right door than the left one and assumed that it was most likely coming through there. I needed to find an item in the backpack I was carrying that I knew could defeat it, and I hoped that it would get briefly stuck in the door and that that would buy me enough time.
• A fourth story that took place here involved hanging out in the inner lobby with friends. It was raining outside and there might have been a plotline to do with coins and the two doors, but I don’t remember what.
• A fifth version had me powerwashing things with a hose in the outer lobby, and some onlookers were very amused due to the order in which I chose the things to be washed, and the way that I was washing each one. Apparently a combination of the order I chose and the way I washed them was very creative and unique somehow, and they were commenting as such.
• Snippet: In a later dream, I visited a ship museum with pieces of the Titanic displayed inside, like wavy half-ovals that were apparently attached to the outside hull of the doomed ship like frills on a skirt. There were also pieces of rope, and some building instruments that were used to construct the ship.

Jun 28 2025

• Snippet: All I remember is a giant mushroom that was so large that it covered up an entire squiggly city block on an overhead map of a city that I was looking at. The city block with the mushroom was hemmed in by a road that ringed around it, but somehow there were only 3 locations where there were considered to be entrances to the mushroom city block — one on the north side, one on the southwest side, and one on the southeast side. There was also something about a Reverse Day that was happening as a couple of friends and I walked around.

Jun 29 2025

• Snippet: I visited a table in the middle of a hallway during a school festival, while on some sort of plotline where I was looking for something with a time limit. The people at the table were building large, white paper flowers, and each one contributed in some way to the time limit, so I watched them and possibly helped them out with it as well.