June 2017

Jun 01 2017

• This dream involved a huge dance party for all the school grades at my school. It was being held at someone’s house. It was raining outside, off and on, as I arrived.
• You needed an invitation that was basically a written essay to enter, but not everyone who arrived had one. I was afraid mine would get wet so I wrote out my invitation by hand. So did Ronnie. One of our friends didn’t get an invitation, so we chatted with him from inside the party while he remained outside.
• At the end of the day, we learnt that they didn’t actually take the invitation/essay from the attendees, just checked it over. The hosts, one adult female and one adult male, even talked about this flaw in the system. So I offered mine to the friend to copy.
• While there, I did some prep work for our D&D workplace game. Other people were doing things like taking family reunion photos.
• Later on, there was an overhead-view car race to escape town in time after the party had ended. There were cars trying to stop us, and later on there was one car that we had to try to obstruct, as we had to get out of town before it left town. Instead of doing that via the obstruction method though, which was the “normal” ending, we took a semi-hidden road detour that got us out of town via another exit.
• Editor: The D&D workplace game refers to a game that Johannes was running in real life that involved some of my teammates as players.

Jun 02 2017

• There were two of us living in an apartment, plus a lady and someone else (or a pet?) who were our neighbours. Our front doors were next to each other and there was a glass wall separating our two apartments. Despite that, there was not much of a view, we could see her entryway and some stairs up but that was about it. There was an adjoining door in the glass wall to access each other’s apartment, but both sides needed to press a button at the same time to open it.
• For some reason or other, we may have just moved in or were hiding as fugitives of some sort, and there were people prank-calling 911 with our intercoms or house buttons, which did nothing but created some sort of buzzing on our intercoms. We used the glass door to communicate with the lady neighbour.
• We had some sort of insight power that helped us determine this, and our neighbour somehow determined that they were also responsible for some sort of mixup to do with Margaret Lackey and a website owned in our neighbour’s name. She also said that due to that, every parcel she sent out was a risk now because she had to start by sending it with the wrong address and inform the central post office to change it, but they would only sometimes correct it.
• Editor: Margaret Lackey would be a portmanteau of two fantasy author names, Mercedes Lackey for sure, and probably Margaret Weis.

Jun 04 2017

• There were two opposing “advertising” teams trying to achieve certain points/objectives. There were different rounds, and the teams included regular humans, titans/giants, as well as some female leader-type friends, one of whom one tried to cheat and was caught and exposed by our sister team at work, as it said they had done all their courses or something on the very last evening to end up with more points than their legit friend, which they were not allowed to do.
• A titan then chased this friend down through the area/house and she had to lean against a bulging door to stop it from catching her.
• Later on, there was a flood and electrical discharges in the water in our house, along with a connected doctor’s office and other rooms in buildings. An entire family was unconscious, and I dragged them out to safety and then asked the doctors if they were fine. They were. A patient at the doctor’s lost their pet cat though. I inquired where our pet cat was but we had given away the chocolate cat to another clinic (apparently they had originally given it to us) a dream or two ago.
• Snippet: There was also something about a talk show, unsure what exactly.
• Snippet: Also, Dad was leaving for a multi day business trip right after he recovered, Mom was enraged at me when I put air quotes around business trip and came over to hit me.

Jun 07 2017

• There was some sort of weird adult “fountain quest” game where we had to perform some points for tasks while or between visiting a set of fountains, or pay a penalty of some kind (like dousing various parts of your body/clothes in the fountain and then moving to the next one) if you ran out of time for each task. To eventually “win” the game you had to mail the creator a large fish in a box.
• There was also a sort of good society vs evil society thing going on, the evil ones may have been vampires or something similar. This involved themes of mind control and we had to physically restrain some friends sometimes to save them. Conversely, there were also ways to pretend to be affected and tricking the evil vampires.
• I had a quest on a piece of paper that involved doing something with others to earn $40, which apparently was a lot of money in the world, but I had no one to do it with.
• I also met the nurse for my surgery and was given the date for my final surgery – Jul 30. I asked if we could push it back to something more reasonable, like in November. I saw her calendar that she scribbled dates in.
• Editor: At this time, I was arranging for a date for my vaginoplasty surgery in real life. It did end up being in November 2017 in the end.

Jun 08 2017

• I was in an MMO world where public emotes were locked behind levelling or gathering materials to unlock something, so people created custom channels to roleplay in. Roleplay matchups were done using a ‘wheel’ ui screen of like 20 cards (more optional) where you could list pictures of things you liked or disliked.
• I visited some guy in his cave/house but thought he was an NPC until I left and he sent a tell to me saying how nice it was to hang out, how he had been gone so long that his family channel had gone from green (active) to white (no recent chat) without ever reaching level 3 (or 3 players in it or something), and to stop by again sometime.
• Snippet: I remember playing Chinese Chess with two adjoining boards glued together. Then I had a power outage ‘in real life’ in the dream but outside of the MMO, and was in a room with all my family being annoyed at the power outage.

Jun 09 2017

• Someone at work had her new phone stolen along with one other item. We could wipe it remotely but could not locate it using any of the built-in tools. Some states had an auto-wipe policy for lost phones when it crossed state borders, so we were trying to discover if it had been wiped or not and hope to narrow down where it could be by that.
• Eventually, I found that because she had sent me one message with it before it was filched, I was eventually able to trace it down. I found out the item was in possession of some solo male hiker not far from Portland, Oregon.
• I told everyone and convinced two or three other people (from a mix of my workplace teammates and Discord) to try to retrieve it. He had an accomplice woman who used to work for the company, but she blew up and died on some mines that he had set. Belatedly she remembered that he hated the executives of the company and she was related to them.
• We took an evening flight down to Portland, Oregon. I forgot to pack anything in my backpack, no change of clothes, no torch, etc, but oh well. We found out from the minimap that Portland was a perfect square, and there were little rectangular strips of nature in the four cardinal directions away from the city. We played a small minigame and found out the thief was hiking/camping overnight down in the strip south of the city.
• Portland was also under a two week vacation period, and nearly every shop was closed and many people were gone from the city altogether because of some holiday or other that was taking place. We visited the Canadian embassy and met Lejjy and his wife there. He looked very different from how I remembered him. There was also some person in a business suit just outside the embassy who was selling cake.
• Lejjy had a box full of unused Air Canada scratch-and-win lottery scratchcards that he bemoaned were useless. He scratched one and showed us – he had won $39 and change. I jokingly told him that was enough to check in a bag with Air Canada. Congrats!
• We plotted different scenarios of how we were going to retrieve the watch. Most involved sneaking up to where he was camping, waiting for him to fall asleep, then stealing his backpack, trying to quietly detach the watch from his hand, punching him unconscious and taking it, or pinning him down with all of us.
• But I woke up soon after, before we could resolve the heroic attempt to retrieve the watch.

Jun 10 2017

• Grandpa owned an old building of some sort that he turned into a ship museum. The outside of the museum was decorated like the best sailing ship there was, but he refused to let the people doing the renovations redecorate the indoors. Because of that, an old exit had to be removed and sealed over from the outside, and inside decorations or displays were put up, including over where that door used to be. But it collapsed because there was no wall backing for it.
• I do remember looking out my “house” window and seeing a car dealership just downstairs and outside. There was a nice night-sky cityscape visible from my window.
• There was a 3 versus 3 or 4 versus 4 deathmatch game in a supermarket where we tried to murder/stab each other but it eventually broke down into chatting with each other.
• One of my “classmates” was a giant guy without hands that I had helped rescue from his house in some long-ago disaster much earlier in the dream.
• There was some kind of science experiment held in class where kids and classmates were doing different exercises, like jumping on a mat with many circles on it or jumping from one side of a pyramid exercise mat to the other side. Vastly different times were recorded for the exercises, some were much better at one exercise versus the other, and that was supposed to prove something.

Jun 11 2017

• We found a cheat url in a game suspiciously similar to ArcheAge, by browsing a webpage that had suspicious info on it and looking at the URL they used to get the data. That let us see how many trade packs were in each of the three main trading posts and what they still needed to tier up. The north one required larder packs, while the mid and south ones required fertilizer packs.
• The url popped up a nice panel that among other things, also let us read people’s emails, see what packs people were turning in in real time, etc. There was also a custom page for collected pictures of people’s pet cats, and we looked at that too.
• We “taught” the page to a class of four or five people who were guildmates, who cringed at how much info was available. We predicted that this exploit would be fixed soon.
• Editor: Larder packs and fertilizer packs were two types of trade packs that could be transported from a trading post in one location to another in ArcheAge.

Jun 13 2017

• I was homeless or got kicked out of my old home for some reason or other. I did some chores for a lady and got to stay at her place for a night. My dream got really jumbled from here, as some bad people visited her at night, and it spawned an epic tale involving:
• A kraken, and how I avoided impending death in its jaws by gathering people up and escaping from a room.
• Zombies digging up soil in front of a prison/dungeon (the zombies were normally kept in the basement as prisoners) to help us unearth some treasure.
• Planes that we controlled being shot down by people I know in some sort of minigame. I and someone else had to fly past them to continue our quest.
• A collapsing office complex, caused by the owner, who eventually ended up in jail for embezzlement/fraud.
• Going out for lunch with the family.
• Matt asking me in front of the zombie prison if I had seen his blue pants while we were tangled with the kraken. He had been on a ship that got chewed up by it in the past.

Jun 14 2017

• There was a scene at school, where during lunch Kim and a few others went down to the courtyard to a stone bench to have lunch, while Johannes and I and a few others stayed upstairs. We ended up playing some sort of card game.
• After lunch was a sort of VR security class, where they were demoing security of VR using my account and showed how no one else logged in would be able to see/use anything. The VR device looked like one of those oversized mice where my hands had to hold the mouse with my hand sideways (four fingers on top of each other and cupping the mouse as though it were a cup) to use.
• There were also other presentations going on, and Tyler was there complaining about some sort of Matrix tracking software but he was really embarrassed at something and mumbled his whole way through after being told to speak louder 3 times. No one could hear anything but apparently out of all 8 or 10 people he spoke to I was the only one that tried to give him some help on it.
• His supervising professors all used the Matrix software and were administrators for the program because they were advisory board members, but they didn’t really know how to use it well, and he never actually got to talk/study with them much as all their time was tied up in the board and program.
• I had to show Angie how to use a zip program, someone named Lisa (not the one from our shared high school) had given her a 700 mb file with zipped videos of recorded chess matches between their girls club. I saw her chess moves in her current game, being played in a locked dorm room with 4 people playing 2 separate games, and it involved marching all her tiles up 1 square so her last row was blank.
• After that I ran into our group and some others leaving the building for lunch (again). I was miffed they didn’t tell me but apparently they did send me a Hangouts chat, I just forgot to bring my phone to Angie‘s room.
• I ran up to grab my cat purse and ran into a group of old ladies about to use our classroom for lunch. They were pointing at and commenting at things we had left written on the board.
• I ran to the canteen where my group was already ordering lunch at. I went to the Indian store and bought some nasi briyani. They cooked it on the spot. Ther were other dishes that I could see, especially curry ones. The store next to us was some sort of Malay cuisine store.
• After ordering, I ran into an old acquaintance from my time in the Scouts. He knowingly complimented me for my transition, something that definitely happened quite a long time after we had last met each other. He then mentioned he was in a job that gave him a lot of info but required a lot of confidentiality. He wouldn’t tell me what it was. I think I noticed that ‘he’ was also perhaps in an early stage of transition.
• I went to the canteen table and sat beside Ronnie while waiting for them to cook. I told Ronnie about it and then wondered about looking him up once we got back to class after lunch. Ronnie said he liked to eat enough to set himself at around 10% past full, though anything 1% or higher was great, but if he ate over 26% past full he would gain weight immediately. I said I had no such issues and could eat 50% past full just fine.
• When they called me to get my food they butchered my name to something starting with “Ein” or something. I had no idea if it was me but no one else claimed the food and it was the dish I had ordered so I went to grab it anyway. There was a bowl of rice and chicken, and a second half-empty bowl of some sort of soup thing. Condiments included a pile of sliced onions which I added to the rice, and some cabbage soup which I added to the half-empty bowl.

Jun 15 2017

• I went on a vacation with family and friends to California. We went to/passed a town named Construction. We had a spacious personal tour guide van with 3 other friends + the tour guide and driver in it. While in the van, we had some discussion about art between the tour guide and the other three people in the van, and some discussion about animals/wildlife and how they had migrated away from California even though it was summer there.
• We passed by a town with some sort of a magic shop owned by some fantasy folk hero. The magic shop was set up where three magical ley lines met and also by waterfalls/springs of bright blue liquid oxygen which could be processed into actual oxygen, which was going into short supply all over the world. Because of the location he could acquire and sell lots of interesting and unique items. We didn’t go in but the tour guide told us he could have been and was asked to be mayor or president or something, but declined, and everyone could see why when they realised that he would have to give up the shop and location to do that.
• The tour company skimped on giving us free meals by making sure they got back right at 8pm when we were supposed to get scheduled meals from the company. I met mother at an “east meets west” fancy cuisine restaurant, although the menu only had drinks available and everything else greyed out while we were still in the van. They had several sugar cane dishes that I supposedly recognized from the past — it was a version of a Singapore drink, turned into a fancy dish in my dream.
• Also, I was making plans to visit Mount Rushmore.
• We were moving crates or ArcheAge-like trade packs at some point, on a push trolley, and stopped in a toilet to divvy them up. They were marked by D&D classes – rogue, ranger, etc. We discussed adding some things to our workplace D&D character sheets.

Jun 16 2017

• I was playing some sort of game that was the prequel to 4 different gaming series – Mount & Blade, Borderlands, and two others. This was being played at a desolate train station in the past and broadcast up on the train station screen. There were 4 or 5 people at the station, including a judge/mayor type person, and a passenger whom would eventually become the protagonist.
• The story showed him being bored and first discovering how to get over to the “high side of the map” – the AI’s side, and the east side of the map using an overhead view, to be able to journey on past the train station. He did this by hopping onto a trolley that just had a plant on it, which was coming down the tracks to the station, west to east. Once the plant/trolley reached the station, he used the momentum and height to jump the eastern gate.
• We went to a coin (possibly called glim) and item giveaway from an announcer on a hall stage to 30 audience members. They lined up in rows and he tossed coins and boxes out. Someone (who may have been named Vincent, but was not anyone I knew) got a really nice item from a box, and then the first ever air regeneration ring that dropped from the game a few boxes later.
• I was asked to keep score on the board on who acquired what, coin and item wise.
• Editor: Glim would have been the currency in an MMO called Trove.

Jun 17 2017

• I was part of a group of five friends going out together, and we had five different colours, one tied to each of us, which also tied in to some sort of game and also weird things like coloured locks in the world.
• The night before, we had tried going into a mall after hours, and the front door of the mall needed 3 colours to open. 3 of us were already in the mall, in the basement where we had some sort of den, and the other two eventually found their way in when someone passing by let them in or something. We told them they could have just called down to us. The next night we went together as a group from the start so no one would be stuck outside again.
• All this was tied in somehow to trying to schedule a time when we were all free to play a game, much like my Discord group’s scheduling woes IRL.
• Separately, there was some sort of interrogation scene where a female protagonist and her partner were trying to interrogate a prisoner. The guy was chained to the wall and the protagonist was using electric shocks on him to try and find out something, but as some sort of safety protocol against overdoing it, she had also spiritually linked in to him (his manhood, in particular) so she could feel the shocks too whenever she triggered them. She secretly enjoyed it a little too much though.
• I learnt that the fireworks last night (IRL) were due to a nearby music concert of some kind. Then it started snowing and someone that was trying to show off how smart he was wondered if that meant that the Oilers were back in the playoffs.

Jun 18 2017

• I randomly saw Huihan while in Thailand of all places. I asked for permission to hug her (she said yes), then asked if anyone else we knew had moved here with her. She said no and commented that everyone had scattered to the seven winds after finishing school.
• Before and after meeting her, I and some friends were doing some sort of minigame which involved stealthing around packs of mobs, in a multi-levelled arena that included a ruined camp full of gnolls and goblins, a river, a couple of elevators, crafting quests that involved planting seeds, and other things. The “owners” of the game had just shut down part of a level of the minigame and I wasn’t too happy about it.
• At some point the leader of the gnolls/goblins wasn’t too happy about his punching bag role and was demonstrating what sort of traps he could lay to try to ward off two invaders, but they were pretty terrible, they were basically temporary crowd control traps that could not stop the players from beating him up once the crowd control ended.

Jun 19 2017

• I had a dream that involved needing to unlock and enter a house to progress in a quest. The house had a northern and southern entrance on the west wall that had to be opened initially, then a northern and southern entrance on the east wall that could then be unlocked.
• This was a stealth-based puzzle-solving game, but I also had a sense of being a small fish in a much bigger pond. There may also have been some sort of point system where I had to get a certain amount of points to defeat monsters. Among other powers, I had infravision, and whilst outside the balcony windows, I could toggle it on and see huge monsters fighting in the distance to the south — terrible Tyrannosaurus rex-type monsters and Beast-type hulks.
• The group I was with had to do the house quest after I had already figured out the locks, so the second time around I knew how to unlock and bypass them quickly. There was an elevator guarded by snakes after the part of the quest with the house. We chopped up the largest one and defeated each segment one by one, then I used a broom to swat the rest away. The rest had been melded together along with some nettle plants so they couldn’t move. Then I found out you could disable the snakes just by visiting some website.
• Later on, I was level 19 in an MMO, and had just returned from work on Friday night so I was going to grind out a few levels. Jeremy had declared war on another guild with ours because a halfling village near them, Halfmoon, gave 9000 xp per halfling defeated or captured. The war was to be decided by how much NPC/PC killing and territory capture we could do to the other guild and vice versa. I was a rogue and cleric multiclass character and he suggested I concentrate on getting level 20, and then went over to the halfling village himself and slaughtered everything.
• Later on, we had partially liberated Saruman‘s tower, and I had an amulet which when worn, gave me the option to run two commands, one to check the status of a hatch in his tower and one to open and close the hatch. To fully liberate the tower, we needed to have someone go into the hatch area and stay inside for 3 minutes with it open, however the hatch couldn’t be opened from the inside and led to some sort of molten place with really hot steam, with precious resources growing within. But if the hatch was closed, anyone inside would die quite quickly.
• The danger was that the defeated Saruman had a caretaker who would check on the hatch “every now and then”, and the hatch itself was locked for part of the day as well and only unlocked in the late evening to early morning. So sending someone in for 3 minutes was very dangerous, even if the hatch could remain open.
• But we won because I put on the amulet after returning on Friday evening, and immediately ran the text command to close the hatch instead of checking it first. The caretaker happened to be inside harvesting some material, and burnt to death. If I had ran the command to check first, he would probably have been alerted and been able to leave. It was a lucky move but was very effective.
• Also, while levelling, I could have a party of 4, so I recruited 3 other npcs to go with me. One was a halfling who was upset that we called him by his name (Mame?) while trying to recruit him and he hated it, but I convinced him to stay because the recruitment attempt had been done under duress while in a battle with others and we were definitely usually nicer people than that.

Jun 20 2017

• Matt was pregnant, which I found strange, but apparently it was because “his ingame character was different from his real life one” even though both of them were inside a dream and I’m not sure how that logic made any sense.
• Four of us were being trained by someone similar to a character named Angel in his gym in Saints Row 3 to fight against enemies, except our lessons to start were to learn how to control telekinesis powers. The trainer wasn’t too impressed with us because we were tardy the first time and didn’t really understand some of his instructions. We ended up outside Southgate, playing a game of throwball with workmates and random non-magical people passing by, using trash cans as the goalposts, and with us using our powers to try to intercept and throw balls.
• Later on, there was also a dream where we could all only roll or play existing elves in a game today, so we all rolled up elf characters. James was a trainer for the elves too and had left his training room keys behind downstairs. While everyone else rushed off to wait outside the door and not be late, I just followed him downstairs because the lesson wasn’t starting without him anyway.
• We tried to troll the people waiting outside the door by saying some things about how we were going to detour and do other things, through a water pipe downstairs that led upstairs to the door area and that they would have been able to hear us through if they were paying attention, but they either didn’t hear or weren’t biting on our prank.

Jun 21 2017

• Someone on my team was pregnant again (not sure who, not Matt this time, it was another girl but I’m the only girl on the team and it wasn’t me, so it wasn’t a real person). She wanted to skip playing DnD and instead play battleship during work hours.
• The people on my team were secretly mad at other people and had issued ultimatums to each other, I was unaware of who or why though.

Jun 22 2017

• I was on a trip with my family to South Korea, then to North Korea, then back to South Korea. There was some sort of ruin straddling the border that we stopped off while on the South Korean side of the island, on the way up to North Korea. Half of it was in South Korea, half in North Korea, so it was split up in two and also helped split up the two countries.
• We took a coach of some kind up to North Korea, past broken, ruined streets. We scouted for and hunted some ArcheAge-style world mobs on the way. Our stuff was stored on the top of the coach, and I had to reach my hand out the window and up onto the roof to get things. I also found some sex toys up there – a dildo and some jingly nipple clamps at least.
• Around it were rural farms and mountains. On the North Korean side of the ruins, there was a quaint little square farm with growing crops in the ruins. We stopped off at a bookstore in the airport, and the North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un was there.
• I wanted to buy some books but was unsure if we were allowed. Dad was going to buy one anyway so I persuaded him to also add a couple books related to the ruins that I wanted. I didn’t have “Asian money” with me but told Dad I would pay him back later.
• I decided to go talk to Kim Jong Un and ask him for permission to buy the books. He ended up being quite nice, especially once I told him I was Canadian, not American. I told him I wanted to read about both sides of the story when it came to the ruins – because otherwise usually victors wrote history and you only got one side of the tale.
• I took the books back to the cashier, Dad paid for them using two credit cards, one wasn’t working but the other did. The cashier gave him 13 receipts.
• We were flagged by a security guard while walking out the store after paying and had to show him what we had. The chubby security guy was apologetic, apparently a shipment of something had disappeared and he had to locate it or would be in trouble. He didn’t find anything wrong in the 13 receipts, though he did find some tiny weird text on one of the receipts that shouldn’t be there.
• I wanted to leave and go eat something, so we left. Just outside the bookstore, in the airport, we saw an annoyed Caucasian lady dressed only in a shirt and panties, and her annoyed boyfriend. Apparently they had been in the lounge for a couple weeks as their plane had been delayed due to the North Korean authorities. We were worried we were going to end up like that.
• They called the cashier up to talk to her. She apparently lived in a basement below a grate behind the counter. She also seemed innocent. One of the other female staff members talked about how the cashier girl was a new hire and was given a cup of exotic milk every day since being hired – every day so far it had been a different type of milk.
• We had to stand through a long monologue by the Caucasians, then finally they let us go. On the coach back to South Korea, I realised I had forgotten to trade in Canadian money into Korean money back home to use as trip funds. Argh.

Jun 23 2017

• There was a huge squad broken up into many different groups of 8 to 9 people, playing some sort of turn-based game. There was an eastern and western part of the map, and the aim was to do things and eventually assassinate some people and then commit suicide. The assassinations and suicides were done by mixing together vials of things like blood and various other things, which eventually made some kind of acid.
• The party members who would be doing the suicide portion, ominously, had no portrait in the group summary.
• Earlier there was some sort of stealth-based team shooter thing where I was hidden under a table while opponents roamed about, then one of the girls spotted me and jumped onto me, straddling me so I couldn’t escape. I gave up and conceded.

Jun 24 2017

• Snippet: I went house shopping with Dad while trying to avoid enemies of some kind. There was a grid map and the houses for sale were all located next to each other like a showroom, mixed in together with cupboards and doors and things.

Jun 25 2017

• My jumbled memories include grocery store shopping, where I went to order slices of pork from the butcher counter, then asked them if they had pork belly as well and they did not. I then was looking for a pound cake or something but could not find the cake section or aisle.
• There was also a roguelike game where everyone else died right at the start and I had to progress slowly, but past the first wave there were no other monsters that spawned.
• For the roguelike game, I swiped the road on my gaming device forward and backwards to move. I could see the entire map in 3D, and the roguelike road portion had very obvious left and right turns when for example we hit a zebra crossing or traffic light where we could turn off onto the pavement.
• Near the end our entire block was doing home renovations, and the renovators were using the interconnected balconies to get from house to house instead of the front doors. There were 3 or 4 of them, and they were friendly with everyone and knew things about them, for example they knew that the neighbours had just gotten a new computer and were chatting with them about it. For me, they knew that I needed nice music to feel good about myself, so they played music even when they were working on my neighbour’s house next door before they got to us. I was leaving to go to work or something by the time they reached my house, though.

Jun 26 2017

• There was a survival game involving a large group of people. Nak bought it thinking it was an action game but wryly commented about how it turned into a survival game partway through.
• It involved a prison and both group and solitary confinement, and involved another team and trying to defeat them somehow. There was a points aspect where we had to both kill things and use objects (like a dancing pad) to earn said points. There were also elevators that not all of us could fit on at once. I went in the first group.
• We also stopped off at a restaurant where you had to be locals belonging to some place in China or Malaysia to visit. It had a short name, which was also a prefix for some sort of food dish, something like Peking.
• Then there was a scene near the finish line of a race where we swooped in and assassinated a number of the racers by shooting them Saints Row-style while we were driving by in some vehicles. Our group was confronted by another group after and we talked about it, saying that this was good practice in case we ever wanted to transfer from Landroval to Brandywine for real PvP, we needed to know how to do this type of thing.
• I mentioned that as dead as Landroval seemed in terms of there not being many enemies, in ArcheAge we only really saw a red enemy player once every month or so.

Jun 27 2017

• The dream involved some kind of day 1/day 2 team-based shooting game. I bought the game’s DLC between day 1 and 2 for our team to help defend something, even though there were very few players of the game in general.
• Jeremy bought some noodles from Thai Express at some point and was disappointed at the amount of food they gave him. Matt was there too and may have helped himself to some of the food.

Jun 28 2017

• Ronnie lived on the 5th floor of an apartment building, and his apartment was accessed by going up the right stairs. I lived on the 2nd floor (room 205), on the left side of the building.
• We had a D&D game that Johannes was hosting in that 5th floor room around a table. I went down to the first floor using the right side stairs to get chips and other stuff (two near-empty bags and a third full bag) to bring up. Everyone from work was there.
• The D&D game was a blur but basically we had fallen asleep and Johannes was narrating the dream for us to write down, I remember thinking as though it were a meta dream diary and I had forgotten the details but he was telling me what had happened and refreshing my memory.
• We all had the same dream within my dream — an artifact, a mask of some sort, was lying against the wall that we were guarding. An evil priest who could teleport stole it, he had a short range teleport that left orange movement trails that he used to get in and then get away from us, a quick channeled medium range teleport that he used to bring him to a warp machine on the other end of the courtyard, and he then used that warp machine to perform a long range warp.
• We all then awoke, separately, not long after. When I ‘woke up’ after the dream, I found myself alone but in the same room, in the 5th floor apartment, on the right side of the room. I started off downstairs. On the way down, on the 4th floor, a door was ajar, and a young woman was inside an apartment there, seated lengthwise on a couch reading a book with her back to the door.
• Immediately after I entered, someone else tried to break in, and I tried pushing the door shut while he tried pushing the door open. The woman was concerned but continued reading without even looking up, she had to finish her book above all else for some reason.
• We were at a deadlock for some time at the door, but then he started drawing or tapping on the door and three lines appeared in front of my eyes in what seemed like black marker ink but that appeared and disappeared as he tapped. A number was at the end of each of those lines, and if they incremented to a certain number (one was 300, another 100, etc) the door would be forced open.
• After the numbers had increased more than halfway, I figured out I could tap on them with my elbow or finger to reduce the number as well. I did so. Once the numbers were back down to near 0, the intruder gave up and stopped pressing on the door. We exchanged niceties like polite rivals, and he then left. I closed the door.
• Eventually the girl finished reading, got up and thanked me, then we exchanged details on which apartment I lived in and she gave me a cup of tea in a small styrofoam cup, prepared at the sink in her bathroom, which was right next to the couch and the front door.
• Either everyone, or all the women in the building, had to collect $75 worth of loot. She tied together some napkins into a sturdy cloth rope so she could try to climb up and loot that room, but I told her that the room above hers was one that I had access to and there wasn’t anything left there.
• I left and went downstairs to get to class. Outside it was the middle of winter, and there were random students walking around. A girl in a skirt hurried by because her legs were cold. I was still sipping the tea in the styrofoam cup.
• Once the tea was done I realised I was still holding the cup and needed to dispose of it back in the woman’s room. I ran back into the building, whose entrance looked just like the entrance to my workplace building, and met the 4th floor girl in the lobby there. We again exchanged room information (this time she told me her room number, even though I had been in there already) and I gave her back the cup.
• A recurring theme in the series of dreams, even right from the start, was a door in one of our communal rooms that led to outer space. Even though we all lived in different rooms, I and someone else (Satinel?) wanted to eventually have a hidey hole somewhere else in a similar sort of space where we could have a tent in a 2×2 unit of space and have doors to other rooms connected from it, and no one could access any of the other rooms without finding the main entrance first, so it would be super secure.
• To that end, we saved our game at various points and tossed items, kids, and other NPCs out the doors leading to space at some point just to see what would happen with them. We then loaded the game and pretended nothing happened.
• Johannes was away for a few days later on in the dream and left his stuff with HR – HR was doing things with the stored items and that also involved the outer space area somehow.
• Dad at some point was going to drive me somewhere and insisted on stopping at some mechanical shop along the way to “check on something”, which would delay me getting to my final destination by 15 minutes, although I would still be early. I knew someone, possibly Johannes on his holiday, was there too, and the way Dad phrased it made me suspicious that there was a surprise or something being built there, but I never found out what it was.
• Shelley had a lab desk across from mine in a school room near a door that also led to space. She showed me some salad that she was making – she had sealable bags with different types of veggies that she would combine into a bowl, before putting briyani sauce all over it, and it was awesome even though I usually disliked salad. I told her that I would also like to try the recipe but would start by buying actual small bags of salad rather than separate veggies.
• She mixed it all up in a blender, and I noticed that she had two blenders but only one power socket. She wasn’t allowed to use the one for the table left of hers even though the owner of that table was gone. My desk was sitting across from hers and facing her, and I plugged the end of her other blender into my power socket so that she could use it for now.

Jun 29 2017

• There was some kind of large gathering hall with students and such in it. There were also multiple open bathroom/toilet stalls at the back of the hall, as well as a doorway leading to a separate bathroom area at the front. There was also a flower planter at the front of the hall, and I had brought a bouquet of red plastic tulips, so I stuck the tulips in it.
• A music machine was being installed at the front of the hall, it was terrible but the audit person approved it anyway and posed for a picture in front of it listening to the music — but his headphones were connected to his own music player because the machine wasn’t working well. I asked for his email so I could write him a message asking him not to approve it.
• People from my workplace featured prominently, although I do not remember how. Shows were also being performed up on stage.
• A Donald Trump crew was up on stage at one point, playing catch against a cartoon cat and dog. The dog AFKed by his team bench, which also acted as a discard pile, while the cat danced around in the arena – none of the crew could catch the slippery cat who just ducked in and out of their arms. Only one or two of the crew could be on stage at any given time, and every 25 minutes they would just slump to the ground and the cat would win, and another set of one or two would replace the ones that left. Those that left would end up in a pyramidal pile of bodies by the dog, thus forming the discard pile.
• The only one who had a bit of success catching the cat was the only girl on their crew, because the cat couldn’t resist her charms – she then tossed the cat at a pink wall after catching it but that wasn’t enough to defeat the cat. Some of the guys tried to build a water spraying machine to try to defeat the cat, but that was ineffective.
• I was feeling ignored during the stage show, as people I were with, like Tyler, were being recognized and teased by the people on stage for various things but I never was. There were food stalls on stage at some point as well and I ordered Country-style Fried Noodles, a dish from Hoho’s.