August Dreams, 2024

I prompted an AI to generate some images that resemble what I saw in the dream. A lot of people don’t like AI; however, this is a quick way to create a visual record of what I saw.

Tasteless Green Drink (Sat Aug 31 2024)

I had a dream that took place at a tall tower. I remember dense crowds of people walking and traveling between floors using the elevators. This tower was an anything building that had dwellings, stores, and workplaces (unrelated to aforementioned).

I came out of this tower to the ground floor and passed by a grocery store that was fully stocked with peaches and apples. But I didn’t smell anything. There was one person behind the counter, staring straight at me. Just as I wondered if this store also sold meat, I turned around and found that there was a section for that, but there was no person staffed behind the counter.

I went towards another elevator which had led to a “Mexican restaurant”. The interiors were only styled after Mexican culture, and I couldn’t attribute the cuisine to any actual culture. I somehow joined a table of people I was acquainted with. One of them had an odd menu item where the waiter scrapped a layer of molten red-colored cheese into the dish.

I remember I ordered a drink that was spring-green like an apple and teal towards the bottom. The waiter had told me the drink was alcoholic, but I said it was okay. I thought it would taste like apple, watermelon, or mint, but when I drank it, I tasted nothing. (This caused me to wake up.)

Torture Train (Thu Aug 29 2024)

I was on a train that was unlike any in real life. It was completely impractical as though its purpose was to show display cases and items out the window to its passengers (the only one being me).

The train had stopped at an enclosure for small animals. Two birds, my pets that most recently died, saw me and were eager to get as close as they can. As a result, they entered that small animal enclosure to get as close to my window as they could. However, the enclosure was dangerous. There was some kind of exposed electrode I feared the birds would make contact with. Also there was a speaker playing screams that startled the birds into panicking. Before I could do anything, the train started moving again.

Wed Aug 28 2024

I don’t recall this dream well. I was a 2nd co-pilot for large helicopter-like aircraft. The pilot’s seat was where one could expect, but the co-pilots were seated in a pod below each wing.

Village Underneath a City in the Skies (Mon Aug 26 2024)

I was standing in a pseudo-European neighborhood located at the edges of dangerous chasm. Above, there was a city in the skies though I wasn’t sure how it realistically supported itself. The villagers were involved in some kind of maintenance work, and there were pulleys and ropes for them to climb upwards for whatever needed to be done.

One villager had shown me what his work was like, so I had climbed a rope with him. As I got further up and closer to the city, I heard a loud, unpleasant cacophony like an orchestra of speeding cars.

Afterwards, the same villager hosted dinner for me and some others. Customary to the village, dinner was held on the roof of the house. His house was an earth house, so falling wouldn’t cause much injury. I remembered his dinner table had at least 8 chairs.

Axial Tilt (Sun Aug 25 2024)

I dreamt that the Earth was tilting such that the equator was repositioned northward. The sea levels also rose. The southern borders of the United States were flooded and became the “salty shallows”. Some of the terrestrial animal life had adapted but behaviorally only. A group of wolves or other carnivora would paddle in the waters.

Aggressive RC Aircraft (Fri Aug 16 2024)

I was in a building that resembles my childhood home. When I walked out to the deck, I saw the night sky and a remote-controlled “Lego” aircraft descending from over the roof. It was making its descent with small parachutes, but after I looked at it enough, it turned around in air and flew after me.

It bumped against me once. It was freaking me out, so I went back inside. I closed the glass door immediately, so it wouldn’t follow me inside. I saw it wait outside “looking” at me.

Last thing I remember about this dream was going somewhere else. At a fairground, I saw flying machine demonstrations though each of them were chained to post. One flying machine I took notice to was swinging like a pendulum in the air.

Thu Aug 15 2024

Only thing I remember about this dream was cuddling a bird. I don’t think it was any of the ones I had before. The bird was a budgerigar.

Sat Aug 10 2024

I dreamt of a music video for a metal song that involved vikings. It took place in a dark European forest and had a viking wielding a battle axe. I had thought the viking was wearing some kind of armor until I saw the pants which was of contemporary design.

After that, I had left a room and found myself in a busy narrow alleyway like one would expect of an old European city, but most of the people there were Middle Eastern or south Mediterranean. They were openly speaking a language I didn’t understand.

Last thing I did before I woke up: there was a Jewish man speaking Hebrew who was eating at an outdoor table of a cafe. I pretended to understand what he said by turning my head straight at him when he said certain words mid-sentence.

Bad Elevator (Thu Aug 8 2024)

I dreamt of a 20 year old demon girl who lived with her grandparents. They lived in a rectangular dilapidated castle built by her grandfather. There wasn’t a straight answer as to what kind of operations the castle was running. But the demon girl had human employees and attendants.

The castle had more underground levels than it did above ground. There were at least 2 floors above ground then more than 50 below. A few things about this elevator:

• it was a raising/lowering platform which appeared to be constructed of a grid of 5x5 large tiles
• the outer perimeter of the elevator was made of textured glass
• if the occupants were facing -y in a 2D plane, there is a small hole on the +x, -y corner glass tile which wasn’t large enough to fall through.
• color scheme was red and teal

In this dream, she was escorted by one employee (male, quiet for the entire time) and traveled around underground floors 16-21 which was where she stashed inventory. The elevator was in seriously bad shape and didn’t smoothly go down. When she arrived at the floor, it appeared to be a grocery store, but it was her inventory of store-purchased supplies and items. Though some of the containers have been opened and left out.

Around floor 17, she found two human employees, a man and a woman, who were “lost” and had been surviving on the supplies stored on the floor. They were “lost” as they explained because they didn’t dare use the elevator to return to the surface. So this gives the demon girl an idea to get the elevators fixed.

She returns to her grandparents who live at the surface. But during the trip upwards, the elevator nearly fails. The elevator rose to the second floor above ground which was adjacent to an broken wall exposed to the outside. The elevator floor started tipping and gets caught . She and her attendant disembark before the elevator possibly drops.

The demon goes to her grandmother to ask how to fix the elevator. Her grandmother describes two possibilities which was to recharge the Maker’s Gauntlet (her grandfather’s prosthetic, magic robot hand) or use it herself. Either way, she has to find her grandfather who didn’t seem to be around.

The outdoors was a red rocky wasteland lit by a weak star. The light that reached the ground was as intense as light from a lamp. The demon had found her grandfather collapsed outside and dying. The dream ended with her mourning his death.

Musicians Night (Wed Aug 7 2024)

I was in a town full of musicians. For the night, almost every building had an artist playing music to an audience. Meanwhile, the army was around doing promotional work. I initially thought they were only running a booth with swag. One of the items on the table was a prize for being able to a small physical task (withstanding a hot sauna).

In this dream, I was “split” between multiple people representing friends and acquaintances. So one part of me wanted the prize and the other thought the prize was random junk I wouldn’t need. The part of me went to do the sauna challenge, while the others went somewhere else for the meanwhile.

The sauna challenge turned out to be a trick where someone doing the challenge would get their clothes stolen then kidnapped by the military. I don’t remember how I got out of it, but I snuck out of the building. (I have trouble remembering if I snuck out in a towel and had my clothes stolen or snuck out in regular clothes.)

While I was sneaking out, I saw a person following the army personnel. I don’t remember if that person was a friend who may have wanted to check up on me or another random person. I later found my friends at bar/restaurant. The musician performing was some woman singing a country-pop about love, life and aging similar to what’s aired on the radio. The lyrics I heard was “older and colder”.

Urban Graveyard (Tue Aug 6 2024)

I barely remembered this dream.

I was walking around an “urban” graveyard. There were beige brick walkways and no grass, and it looked as though a duststorm had clouded the skies. The graves were marked with owl statues.

The last thing I remember before I woke up was being with my friend at some booth or market. There were points in the air connected by a bright red line or string, and some feeling of disappointment.

Mon Aug 5 2024

Two distinct dreams again.

Out at Night

I was out at night with a childhood friend and a girl I had met at work. We were out late at night, but there was plenty of activity regardless. This city was on top of a mesa with a sharply-defined cliffside.

We were walking along a trail to some destination at the side of a cliff. I didn’t know what this destination was. It gave me the vibes of a fun, adventurous place like a dungeon from a video game or an arcade but also a spiritual place like a shrine.

A Guy Who Can Levitate

I was uncomfortable. I had the false feeling of wearing multiple layers of jackets in a cold, rainy hinterland, also that my nose was runny.

I think I was a kid, and I had my handheld portable gaming system. While I didn’t play it much, there was a scene of a giant metal wall and a clandestine sci-fi facility. The graphics remind me of Source Engine. (It was giving me Half Life vibes like the resistance hiding out from the Combine.)

Because of a radio, I had heard of a man who could levitate. Which I could do the same, but I needed the wind to blow first, and I could only direct the “push” it gave me. (When I tried flying is when I was partially conscious, but not aware I was in a dream.) So I decided to try and find this guy. Oddly enough, he was staying at a strange motel similar to a scene from the game.

I think I found him past a basketball court when Alyx first introduces her pet robot to Gordon. He told me the way he levitated was by wall-walking (gymnast move as an intermediary to handstands) then lifting his hands.

Sun Aug 4 2024

I barely understood what was going on, only that I was in a group of people during what appeared to be the early morning. (There was a dreary overcast, and most of the dream was blue like early dawn.)

The most memorable part was when I was in some kind of park and found a tree. Only because I wanted to do exercise, I jumped up to do some pullups. I was barely able to reach the branch. Despite what the girth would realistically indicate, it didn’t support my weight. Almost like some kind of rubber, the branch started to bend and deform. I also didn’t feel any friction with tree bark on my palms.

Some short blue-eyed guy, standing around 5’7’’, commented on what I was doing. He said that pullups wasn’t a bad idea.

Sat Aug 3 2024

I had two distinct dreams.

Teleport Stone

I went to the airport. I don’t know where I was going. At some points in the dream, I thought I was going to visit Japan. At other points, I thought I was going home. I, however, had a magical stone (“hotelstone”) that teleports me to the last hotel I stayed at.

When I was going to the airport, I thought I was going to Japan. After going to designated gateways and boarding the plane, the dream skipped over the plane flight. After I had arrived and boarded a tour bus, I was bored enough to rummage through my backpack. I had then incidentally activated the hotelstone which teleported me to a hotel lobby.

This caused me a lot of distress because I needed to be back where I was before and plane tickets are expensive. This was the point in the dream where I thought I needed to go home in order to return to work on time. So I had to go to the airport and explain to them I had to be reimbursed one plane flight.

KF-Diner

I had played a game of Killing Floor set on a nonexistent map. The map took place in an urban diner built on top of a hill in a perfectly square lot of land in the middle of the city. The bounds of the map where streets that formed a perimeter around the lot.

Just before the final boss, my friend had bought a stupidly expensive and heavy sniper rifle. This was analogous to the real weapon in-game that less experienced players pick because they think the big damage gun will help them against stronger enemies when instead having lower encumberance helps more. However, because of circumstance and the timer, I didn’t reach the Trader in time, and I was terribly underprepared for the boss.

After the boss spawned and the first encounter, I was the last player alive on the map, and I could only scavenge the terrible equipment my teammates had dropped. I just happened to grab the sniper rifle; even though it was a crappy weapon, just for the damage, it was my best chance at beating the boss given his current health bar.

Every single time I tried firing from rifle from the hip as I was running, the boss just laughed and kept walking after me. Like an unorthodox tutorial tip from the developers, the boss started saying that the sniper rifle had to be mounted in order for it to fire.

I ended up doing that around a fence outside. I managed to land two shots which took his health down to 8%. But I think I ran out of bullets, plus the boss retreated to heal himself. The last thing I did before the dream ended was pick up a katana.

Cave Shrine (Fri Aug 2 2024)

I was decorating areas near a cave shrine. The cave was a cavity on the side of a cliff. I remember putting a red torii gate on the rockier paths further from the cave entrance. Near the cave entrance, was some patches of neatly grown grass. When I finished, the spirit I was doing work for made me “disappear”, so we could watch how humans used the shrine.

The people that came were a fugitive and her daughter. They had stolen something from a city. I saw two possible outcomes in which they were apprehended and the other in which they were not. In the former scenario, they stayed overnight at the shrine but as they were being escorted by some figure of authority, they would escape. In the latter scenario, they planned a route to another destination, only being present in the cave for at most a few hours past sunset.

Beach Memorial (Thu Aug 1 2024)

I had a dream of being at a beach at night with a group of friends and acquaintances. We knew a girl who had died out in the water as a teenager around in the late years of high school. We (the ones who attended her funeral that were of no direct relation) visited her place of death rather than her formal resting place.

One of the things we did was light a bonfire. We mainly hung out without structured group activities. I had my guitar with me, but I didn’t play any song and instead hit random notes. I noticed my guitar was out of tune and tried tuning it. No matter what I did, the guitar remained out of tune. The whole thing sounded awful, then I noticed my guitar strings were shoe strings. So I had given up on entertainng myself with the guitar.

A gang was then giving our group trouble. There was a standoff but no fight yet. But I remember wading out to the water to get away from them. There weren’t any waves to fight against. I was torso-deep into the water before I saw the girl’s corpse in the horizon swimming towards me to the horror of some gang members who followed me.

She went to me and said she had brought gifts from the Underworld, a gold coin and a silver coin. She dove under the waters again and dragged under the people pursuing me. I think she had killed them.