Dreams

To catch up on the not-dream-diary (I really need to format and move everything into there at some point), here's every dream I accumulated from Feb 06 2026 until the end of this week.

Feb 09 2026

• I was the leader of a guild but had not been on very often, so when I got on, I was asked to give member promotions to a bunch of people. One of my officers was a kind old grandma and she had invited a bunch of other old people who she had played with and vetted to join the guild, but she did not have the permission level to promote them past Recruit.
• I promoted them all to Member and had a nice chat with one of them where I inquired who they were. I realized that I had not been online nearly enough recently and resolved to change that.
• I did a group quest with Kel and Mom that ended up with us getting a bunch of beanbag-sized prize pouches. There was a safe way to open them that we didn't have access to at the moment, so Kel just opened a couple anyway and out popped three translucent lizards. They leapt away from us and scurried under the furniture in the living room, much to our consternation.
• I then noticed that each beanbag actually had a picture of the item inside of it. A bunch of the remaining ones looked like keychains, and there was one more lizard booby prize as well, but there was also one with the picture of a fuzzy kitten on it.
• Sure enough, a fuzzy black kitten materialized out of thin air once I opened that pouch. It leapt into the living room, then proceeded to chase one of the lizards around. The lizard bounced around like a fish until the kitten finally caught it and ate it, leaving only the tail. Satisfied, the kitten then curled up for a nap. I noticed that the tail had a tag embedded in it that indicated that it was from the prize pouches. The tag was a long, thin, and white curved tube.
• I knew that Mom had said that she didn't like cats, but I figured that this might be a good way to actually introduce one to the family as well, now that she could see how useful they were in keeping lizards and other pests at bay.

Feb 17 2026

• In the context of an MMO, I had a quest reward key that would allow me to use an elevator to get down to its bottom floor instead of only halfway down, which is as far down as players could get without the key. I occasionally used this key to help others get to the bottom and skip some content.
• One time though, Kezheng was AFK on a cart just outside the elevator while we were waiting inside, and a friend pushed him in since we had a time limit for using the elevator.
• However, it was too late, and a huge rock the size of the elevator with a comet-like pointed bottom end appeared at the top of the elevator shaft and started to fall. It only moved when the elevator moved, but it was right above the elevator, just touching its ceiling, when the elevator reached the ground floor, and opening the elevator door would cause it to fall the rest of the way and crush us. We ended up having to restart that round.
• In another segment, I remember helping a Caucasian son and dad duo team earn their key so that they could use the full range of the elevator too.
• I was also kidnapped at one point, and the point of view shifted to a sidekick pet that I had but that I had recently argued with, which turned out to be a good thing as that meant that he wasn't with me when I was kidnapped. He was talking to my family and vowing to go rescue me.

Feb 21 2026

• Snippet: In one scene, I remember being in a shop trying to buy a space ship, and having to unpack and peel back layers of the spaceships like onions while trying to decide which was the best one.
• Snippet: In another scene, I was seated on a bus with a couple of friends and watching the scenery go by outside. The scenery was a rerun of events that had already happened though, and we were watching for specific events that we knew were coming up.
• Snippet: In yet another scene, I was living with my parents and siblings in a large square room, and our mattresses were on the ground, taking up a bunch of space in the room. There was a pile of plastic container boxes near the back of the room that contained our possessions, and Mom and Dad wanted to rearrange and move them around so boxes containing our own individual stuff were moved to next to our respective beds.

Feb 22 2026

• Snippet: I remember a scene revolving around receiving and sending packages, and how a certain landmark or building on a map actually had its package receiving and sending points located on oval pads on the road slightly before and after its actual position as marked on the digital map.
• Snippet: There was a scene where a young girl fancied having power over me and would assign me extra homework and such to flaunt that power. I obliged her as and when I could, including sneaking in to the corridor outside her room at one point to finish up some of the work she had assigned me as I didn't have time to do it during the day. She happened to wake up then and saw me doing so. This took place within a larger storyline where I was doing quests with friends during the day.

Feb 23 2026

• Kel and I were loot running a small, circular arena next to an open air hawker centre or food court. Besides the loot, I knew that she had to kill a bunch more lizards for a LotRO deed, 15 more for tier 1 and then 40-60 more for tier 2, and this arena spawned five at a time.
• We went into the arena and approached a trigger spot right in front of a television perched on a stand. This caused the lizards to spawn and we killed them.
• We also had either very weak friends or minions with us and one of them collapsed as the last lizard died. But Kel was now level 45, and I knew that that meant that she had just unlocked a resurrect spell that could even be used in combat. It could also be used out of combat, and I told her to use it on the collapsed ally so she could see how it worked.
• I then tried to trigger the fight again but it nothing happened. I remembered belatedly that the fight would only respawn once every five minutes.
• While waiting, we went to the hawker center or food court and Kel went to the drink bar to order some coffee, which required her to bring her own ingredients in addition to paying a processing fee. She had both though and handed them over. I asked how much she paid for it, saying that I was going to buy something around the same price. She quoted a price around $10-11.
• I looked at the menu. Most of the drinks were either caffeinated or alcoholic, but there was a juice section and apple juice was around the same price, so I decided to order that. However, the four servers, who were dressed up in animal suits or onesies for some reason, had wandered away from the bar and were interacting with another patron somewhere else, so I couldn't make my order. Kel had also wandered off, so I just went back to the arena to wait for respawns.

Mar 04 2026

• Snippet: I was sick and to get well again I had to acquire a ticket from a shop at the train station. There were many, many options here, most being sold by random people in little booths, and often involving train stations that weren't even the one we were at. Which was fine since I didn't need to use the ticket, only acquire it. In the end I picked up a ticket from this station to Shanghai even though it would mean I would slightly overshoot where I actually wanted to go.
• Snippet: I also had weird dreams about the length of time needed for sleeping and how that can sometimes be up to one hour off from the length of time that was actually needed. In some cases both durations were fixed and nothing could be done about it, while at other times, especially involving buildings that ended at the rooftop of a taller building somehow, I could adjust the remaining duration to make it match up with the longer sleep duration.

Mar 07 2026

• The temperature was -120 degrees Celsius outside as I walked up to a train station parking lot, although the temperature did nothing more than cause a lot of snow to be falling. I passed a couple of cars near the entrance on the way in to the carpark, one of them had two people in it, with the driver waiting to try to run over someone from another car that he hated. I befriended him earlier though, and he waved to me as he let me by.
• There were no cars near the actual station entrance on the other side of the carpark, but there was a coyote and bear waiting there. The bear was docile, but the coyote charged me. It used an attack pattern where it swiftly approached, then lowered its snout and turned into a blur as it charged me. But it couldn't change direction at all during that charge, so I barely dodged it twice as I retreated to the entrance where the other cars were.
• A woman there told me to get onto her motorbike, and I did so. She drove past the coyote and smashed into the entrance of the train station, which was packed floor to ceiling with snow. She accelerated and continued driving into the wall of snow, smashing it apart. It was all snow all the way in but she made a tunnel to the stairs leading down so I could reach the platform, before her motorcycle gave up and tumbled over into the snow. I thanked her as she picked up her bike and wished me a good journey.
• The platform below was covered and thus snow-free, and had dozens of people waiting there for the next train, which arrived shortly after I did. I saw Huihan not far off from where I was, and went to wait in the same queue as her without actually calling out to her. We both got on but then she jumped off before the door closed to wait for her husband to arrive. She never saw me and I remained on the train as it started to move off.
• The train turned out to be a massive landship with several underground levels, each one themed after a different civilization or culture. I walked by a girl in an Egyptian costume, and realized that I had worked with her before so I asked if she needed a team and wanted to transfer over to the level I was on and join my group if so.
• But she just stared at me, and I realized that she had worked with us as a matter of convenience just to get onto the landship and didn't care about the people or the team we were on. I wasn't even sure she remembered me. In the end she just ignored me and walked on.
• I went into a large cavern that was my team's main room. There was a lady in business attire doing inspections in the room, she was apparently someone important in the organization. An acolyte girl wearing a temple uniform rushed to her and asked her to become her mentor, much to the horror of a couple of bystanders. But the older lady smiled and agreed.
• Snippet: There was a school scene where I was sitting near the front right side of a class that I joined late in school year. The guys at the back of the classroom were slacking off and were tracking their classmates in front of them and the number of questions that they got wrong as they got called on. I didn't know the answer to a question when I finally was called upon but managed to change the topic long enough for the teacher to get distracted, and thus got away with not getting a wrong answer added to my tally.
• Snippet: There was also a card game tournament with static decks, so one could borrow a deck of cards to join and play in it. Each match had multiple rounds, and the first round was the longest, but not all the cards in a player's deck survived to subsequent rounds, so subsequent rounds got shorter as lesser and lesser cards remained in play. The winner of each match was the person who removed all their opponent's cards first.

Mar 13 2026

• I was in the back of a van being driven by someone else, with the driver and I both being part of a team trying to survive in a post-disaster world by scavenging things. I believe there were vaguely others on the team too but they were not with us and not involved in this dream.
• As the two of us drove down the road, we passed several abandoned cars and I suggested to the driver that he stop and siphon some gas from one of the cars since there were gas canisters and plastic tubes lying around too. He agreed and stopped next to a house to do so.
• While he was doing so, I also stepped out of the van and looked at the house. In front of the house was a cardboard box, and I quietly went up to it and opened it to find ingredients for baking a cake in it. I took all the ingredients and moved them to the van.
• Once I had done so, I remained in the van as the driver was almost done as well. Then the front door of the house opened, and a father and his three kids stared out at our car in front of our yard. Two of the kids ran out into the yard while the third ran right to the van and hopped in before I could fully close the door.
• I was going to ask the kid to leave but I noticed from his profile that he was actually a special NPC that could be taken to another location and turned in to a young girl that acted as a powerful quest NPC. We would then get a special reward from her from a large list of potential ones. We decided to bring the kid there to try this instead of chasing him off.

Mar 17 2026

• Snippet: I remember waiting for my missing DJI camera and spare battery to arrive at my hotel, and having it actually be delivered by a courier to the hotel front desk at midnight. It came in a giant white cylindrical tube that reminded me of a giant bone, with a panel in the middle of the cylinder's long side that slid open to reveal a compartment carrying the items. I retrieved them and discarded the tube.

Mar 20 2026

• There was a challenge game that popped up as a vertical game board on a wall in a school that was part of a larger complex that acted as a small town of its own. The game involved a devil king character that took up the top middle of the board, and a bunch of smaller demons and minions of various sizes and strengths fully packing the rest of the board. They would all protect the king and attack the player, and the challenge was to find a way to defeat the king.
• I came by far the closest out of anyone, with the help of Huihan, Zixiang, and Xuanjie. I figured out that I could charm all the lesser demons and have them attack the devil king, and only the king himself was immune to charming and it would be pointless if he could be charmed anyway since the demons wouldn't attack him.
• With this strat, I got him all the way down to about 10% health left, at which point we reverted to the strategy most other groups used, which was to throw things in real life at the king from afar. Some stones, vegetables, and other things later, we got him down to a sliver of health left but ran out of time.
• We could attempt the fight once per day, but I made the call that we were going to use tomorrow to refine our tactics and gather more ingredients instead, as one thing that did cost me is that my specialized charm spell required some sort of liquid to be thrown over the minions that I was about to charm, and I didn't quite have enough to get all of them today.
• The close attempt on our first try made us local celebrities though, and a couple people asked for pictures with us. One of the two boys I was with also said with surprise at some point that he was caught in a photo that someone else was taking of a third party in the background who turned the camera angle at the last minute to try to catch us. He used the term "got Instagrammed" and we briefly discussed whether that was a suitable phrase even if the picture didn't explicitly end up on Instagram.
• Later on, Huihan said she needed to go to the washroom and asked us to wait outside the department store we were next to. However, that felt dangerous to me. I said that we knew a couple of changelings were hidden around town, and if they caught someone alone, they would desync the person into a version of the map with no one else, while taking their place in the town. I said that I'd go with her and wait outside the bathroom, sitting on a chair in such a way that she could see me from the toilet, and I could see her from out of the corner of my eyes. In the meantime, the two boys would watch over each other downstairs. We carried out this manouver, with me noticing how thin and slightly bony Huihan's shoulders were through her shirt as I ascended the escalator behind her.
• On our way back down, we passed through a supermarket and stopped by the board games section to look for inspiration and gear or resources there. I saw a bunch of identical-looking men in matching pink shirts and tights walking around in the grocery section and decided that we should try to avoid them.

Mar 23 2026

• Snippet: I dreamt of Shibuya Crossing and a giant statue of an idol girl whose legs formed an arch diagonally over the crossing.

Mar 24 2026

• Snippet: I remember being on the outside of at least two street markets, each one a large square area fenced off by road side railings. I was comparing prices between items inside of them and I feel like I might have eventually entered at least one of the markets too.

Mar 26 2026

• I remember living in a room that had a stone floor and a mattress in the middle. For some reason I knew that the room was in Hong Kong. It was raining outside and water was slowly seeping into the room, and I had several stacks of papers and books on the floor so a couple of them were starting to get soaked. I didn't really mind them getting soaked though since it would mean I had less work to do or something like that. My siblings both came by to visit me at first, and then later Mom also stopped by and told me to go save the papers.

Mar 28 2026

• Snippet: I remember looking down at a city map with a large hospital-mall building that stretched over three city blocks. I was standing outside the northeast side of that hospital-mall block, but I remembered being outside the western side of the building much earlier on the trip. I had then moved west from there and gone somewhere else before coming back around to where I was now.