Mon Sep 30 2024

In a car (Morning)

I dreamt I was laying in the backseat of a car. There was a girl sitting shotgun and her dog driving. She was talking on the phone to her sister about a guy who doesn’t have a job yet.

“He doesn’t have a job yet,” were the exact words I recall.

The car stopped somewhere, and I stepped out to a cloudy and rainy day in the middle of a neighborhood. There was a destination I had to run to. After a short street, I got to a “campus”, similar to a college campus. When I got to a door, I woke up.

At a hill (Day Nap)

I was on a grassy hill. The skies were cloudy. The corspe of my dead pet with sunken eyes appeared in my hand even though she should have been long buried. Her feathers were in unusually good condition and rigor mortis hadn’t set in on the corpse.

Sun Sep 29 2024

I was in a haunted mansion. There were multiple ghosts. The room I found myself in had a piano playing by itself. A ghost lady wearing a dress who appeared to be from the 19th century was playing it. She appeared as herself when she was in her youth, but she had died of old age as I could see her when she was old.

I was sitting on a bench with a magazine. The front cover had a picture of an north Asian or Alaskan warrior/hunter wearing brown leather armor and pelts. But an illusion wore off and I saw him when he was elderly. He was wearing contemporary clothes and less happy.

When I had walked outside, I found that the mansion was on a small island. I remember there being some kind of island escape sequence like the ending of Devil May Cry 1.

Sun Sep 22 2024

South American Dungeon

I dreamt of an RPG party that consisted of:

1. a knight, male, blond hair, blue eyes — like a classic protagonist that always wants to do the right thing; moral and kind sort of guy
2. a barbarian/warrior, male, who as friends with (1)
3. a pirate that also had a degree in archaeology; female, red hair, brown eyes
4. a buddhist monk, asian guy, wields a brass or golden or looked-golden staff with keyrings at the ornamental top

They were wandering a stoney dungeon. There was a reoccuring theme of eagles, death, and sacrifice on the carved illustrations ont he walls, so if there was an ancient culture I would pin this on, it would be ancient South America.

Members 1, 3, and 4 had wandered into a chamber at a slight depression (a few stairs down from the door). (1) was walking the forwardmost and had awakened an ancient spirit. (1) was then beset by a 90 year curse that persists after death (if the afflicted died before the curse expires). Then I think teleported into the distant past.

The image of (1) appeared on the stone carvings on the wall. Then (1) appeared again as a vengeful mummy, angry towards his teammates because they either didn’t or couldn’t save him.

Because of the curse, he was teleported through time into the ancient times when the civilization was still active. He was enslaved. However, through a combination of luck, contemporary knowledge, and merit, he had managed to become a respectable citizen and influential figure remembered throughout time, given a name like “Q-something-cotzl-zuma”. So his mummy had a headdress of green feathers.

When the curse lifted, his youth, flesh and blood were restored so he looked like his former self before the curse, but he was still mad about the whole thing. The color of his eyes were “undead red” instead of blue, and he attacked (3) and (4).

By the time (1) was strangling (4), (2) arrived to stop him or try to calm (1) down.

Fast Food Worker Somehow Knew My Name

I was walking in a city to a fast food place. At the counter, it looked like the gummy bear dispenser had spilled. So I had collected the gummy bears in a cup. Because I was cleaning after the “spill”, one of the staff had mistaken me for a “gig worker”, someone who works on a short, spontaneous basis for the restaurant for a bit of extra money as opposed to long term employment.

She addressed me by my first name. First, I clarified I wasn’t working; I was collecting gummy bears to later buy and eat them. Then secondly, I got suspicious and asked her how she knew my first name.

She then whispered in my ear that she knew because there was a leak at an insurance company. She also knew my first job but incorrectly stated it to be my current job. So (unreasonably?) what came to mind was to delete some of my profiles which were stewarded by other companies then figure out what to do later.

Last thing I remember about the dream was driving behind a school bus that made a sudden stop. My brakes didn’t seem to work as well as I expected, so I had ended up swerving my vehicle to the side away from the opposite flow of traffic (towards a sidewalk). I had ended up not colliding with the school bus, but awkwardly driving on the empty sidewalk before returning to the road.

Missing Calender Page

I dreamt I was at my grandmother’s place, but I didn’t see my grandmother. Instead, my mom and her brother were there. They were bickering like siblings over something.

On a wall, there was a calender that was missing a page. I had the missing page in my hand, and I used a thumbtack to pin back the page.

Sat Sep 21 2024

Empty City, Deathmatch Map

I was in an empty city which had a bay. I was near a harbor. There was no boat but there were stacks of wooden boxes. Floating off the ground was a teal colored (like rusted copper) “tube” which turned out to be a hand cannon. This was an early firearm used in pre-modern Asian warfare, a lot like the ones seen in the video game Nioh.

When I picked up the tube, I started to fly across the bay. I ended up at another harbor that looked similarly to the one I came from except the boxes were black, and that it looked like a late 90s to 2000s era video game. The stacks of boxes were placed like a game designer from the time would in order to provide cover. I then saw other people who had weapons like modern rifles, pistols, etc and got the objective that this was a deathmatch.

I wasn’t clear on whether this was free-for-all or team deathmatch, but I remember running up a ramp (again something like a video game where the map designer put a ramp where instead there would have been a set of stairs in real life).

KF_Bedlam (Daytime?)

I had a dream of running down a hall to the outdoors (courtyard). There was some grass and not much else for landmarks. By the door, there was a set of stairs to walkways. The layout of the building and area were extremely similar to the map KF_Bedlam in Killing Floor except there was a third floor without a roof. It was raining and it seemed to take place in a jungle that wouldn’t exist in Britain.

When I ran to the top floor, I had talked to a Sorceress about a magical tiara. I was carrying one and showed it to her, but she said it didn’t have much power (like a common, magical item in an RPG). I told her I could get something better that would augment her spells. Again, I thought of it like an RPG and had the characteristics quantified like a Diablo II item. I outright thought about the rare item I have equipped on my sorceress.

Tech Recruiters (Fri Sep 19 2024)

I got a recruiting e-mail from a tech company for “Senior Project Manager” listing requirements I wouldn’t be qualified for. They had sent an e-mail for my father, but because of a typo, it had gotten to my mailbox instead. I had instantaneously appeared at the location (“Oceanside”, toward the west) where I was supposed to meet with the recruiter.

This building had:

• a curved, white staircase leading up to the second floor
• metal and glass guard rails on the second floor
• (second floor) a cafe with a wall of glass cups
• a disorienting wave pattern (round, near circular edges) on the decoration reinforcing the wall

The recruiter came up to me and was a guy with brown hair and thick black-rimmed glasses (stereotypical post-hipster aesthetic, 2020-era nerd). I had mentioned that the email got to the wrong person and that my (lack of) experience does not qualify me for the position, but the guy went ahead to talk about the project details. The project was a smartphone app that— if it weren’t for multiple software developers coordinating, GUI, and unfamiliar target platform— I would be able to functionally recreate with a python script on desktop. I called my dad, so he could talk to the guy instead.

In a completely different building east of where I lived. This was a city with a three part name with the words “Black” and “Point” in its name. The building had:

• grey-shaded glass
• black-colored polished stone floors
• a curved staircase at the corner of the room leading down, which was where the recruiter’s office was.

Here, another tech recruiter approached me about a position for “associate developer”, another tech job but was nonetheless entry level.

Siblings Okay With The Town Burning (Tue Sep 17 2024)

I dreamt of a pair of siblings, brother and sister, who woke up to find the house they lived in derelict. Portions of the house were burnt. The walls were barely intact and had some gaps exposed to the outside.

The brother was initially in disbelief, as though he had been teleported to another plane of existence. However, he found his personal belongings (unaffected). His sister had woken up first and was outside.

His sister was more apathetic to whatever had happened to the neighborhood. The skies were red, dark, and ashen. She was talking to an old man, who was either the mayor or former mayor of the town. (He looked ike the mascot of Monopoly.)

The major had said there was a great fire that was destroying the town, and the necessary infrastructure to communicate the disaster was down. He had hinted he wanted the pair of young adults to courier a message, but neither of them cared.

From a shed, the brother pulled out a table and umbrella, while the sister pulled out a grill. Shoveling in the charcoal around the area, the two created a make-shift bonfire and hung out.

Venomous Snake (Mon Sep 16 2024)

I dreamt of going to the movie theater with my parents. We didn’t get to the theater yet. From an underground tunnel, I walked towards the surface. On the other side of the guard rail,

there were small dining tables for two people. There was one woman minding her own business (reading either a book or her tablet) and a giant snake creeping around her table.

“Wow, that’s a huge pet snake,” I commented.

She took notice and freaked out. It turns out the giant snake was not her pet. After she got startled, the snake was thrown right around where I was standing.

I stepped on the snake and grabbed it by the neck. The snake had a metal collar like a garden hose and could talk. It told me it was venomous and threatened to bite me if I didn’t let it go. It had spat some green colored, viscous fluid to prove it was venomous. But I figured if I did let it go, it would be able to bite me.

In the meantime, the lady called animal control and apparently my parents were already at the theater with their tickets. They found me outside and said that the movie already started and was 30 minutes in. I didn’t really care about watching the movie to begin with.

The animal control guy that arrived was some hippie looking dude with long hair and moderate length facial hair. When I transferred the snake from him, he talked in a quiet, gentle voice to try and soothe the rowdy snake. Though I wondered to what extent that was actually effective.

After the snake was taken care of, just in case, I asked the guy who could I consult regarding the snake’s poison. The guy had told me every citizen’s house could transform into a giant robot through a remote control which looks like a 3d printed replica of the house. Facing the house/replica, the button to transform the house into a robot was under the left window. I woke up when I thought too much about how this would affect paintings and other objects hung on the walls.

Sun Sep 15 2024

This one was hard to recall.

It started with me putting glass tubes on a tube rack in a building at night. It looked like a school because there was a hall with rooms like classrooms. There was something walking down the hall towards me which I didn’t do anything about.

Then the dream skipped.

I was supposed to catch an atmospheric balloon that was going to land near a large salt lake northeast of my town. (This salt lake doesn’t exist in real life.) This salt lake was huge and had a small island in the middle. I looked at a map and I thought there was going to be a tiny city on the island, that because of its location it would be frequently visited. There was only one bridge from the west.

When I had driven there, I didn’t see much. There was a massive parking lot almost as though it were wasted space, then a tight, terraced cluster of buildings to the east. I saw a middle aged guy wearing a hat, eating pink cotton candy, and walking from there which indicated there was some kind of fair going on.

Sat Sep 14 2024

Flight Sim

I dreamt I was playing a flight simulator game. The seat at my desktop was customized to simulate the aircraft tilting too. I was playing an easy mission; the scenario was to launch, from a jungle, and intercept one enemy jet, fly back and land.

I had friends with me, so like in other flight sims, we would do one run properly, then mess around and see how accurate the simulation was, for example to move the plane in ways that would rip its wings off.

Underwater Gnome City

I took a submarine to a gnome city that was under the oceans. The gnome city was ornate. It had marble floors, stone columns, and architecture decorated with metallic trims. The lighting was mostly orange-gold, but this was less obvious near sections with windows the ocean. The area overall had a strong semblance to a mall with an atrium; individual buildings were compartments similar to a store in a mall.

The gnomes were around 3 ft in height. They did not wear red hats.

There was however a “off-limits”, barricaded sector of the city that had fallen under the influence of a combination of cocaine and a dark rat god. The area that was “off-limits” would realistically be off-limits; however, most gnomes had weapon and arms training. So this barricaded sector was more like a somewhat hazardous workplace where gnome citizens could collect bounties by fighting/killing rats and cultists.

There weren’t many stairs in the gnome city. Many of them used fireman’s poles to descend. I was guided by a gnome tour guide who told me to try descending the normal way, but I had gotten stuck in a hole that was too small for me and had to push myself out. I later had to route around to find the big staircase.

The atrium of the gnome city had portals to its sister cities. I went through one portal to visit a ciry (above water) in a crater within a forest. The eastern rim of the city was level with the low lands while the western rim had a mountain. Some areas of the city either “dug” into the cliffs or were formerly caves.

Political Theater

I had to attend what looked like a baseball stadium except there was no game. There was instead an argument between two politicians on various issues. I don’t remember the words exactly but I thought the arguments were poor, old/exhausted, emotionally loaded, and not worth paying attention to.

Partway through, I thought that “pro-life” (faction regarding the issue of abortion) should not be able to use “personal responsibility” as an argument if single mothers of underdeveloped careers were going to use welfare programs I prefer not to pay for. Then thought population control exercised exclusively by the government was worse than the population doing so. That it was maybe more interesting to watch a debate between the economic advisors advising the politicians than to watch a debate between politicians.

However, as a closing ceremony, the entire audience was then catapulted into a free rollercoaster ride. As advertised, at a height of 500 ft, there was a loop. I wanted to opt-out but I had landed upside down into the seat and got stuck, then blacked out for the duration of the ride.

When exiting the ride, everyone got free hand-held silts, and because I liked stilt-walking I wasn’t too angry about the ride. I however noticed the exits were designated for certain types of people. The rightmost exits were for people who vote for the red-colored party while the left were for the blue. Each exit had a security guard next to it. I read an exit labeled, “Users with passwords that begin with ‘q’,‘w’,‘1’,or ‘2’”. I woke up when I wondered for which service the username/password pair was meant for.

Glass Building (Thu Sep 12 2024)

I dreamt I was in a building of glass. It seemed to be an academic environment for adults (college?). There were a lot of walkways bridging the sides of the building. I was talking to this girl, she shared a photo of the garden she grew taken from her phone. But I viewed the photo using a “traditional” digital camera.

I had noticed on the touchscreen of my camera that the photo she had sent to me could be clicked on as a link to her Instagram account. She, also looking at my screen, noticed as well but didn’t intend for her Instagram account to be shared. It was weird as my reverse image searches had never tracked an image down to a social media account.

Later both of us went to “class”. The room however was not a classroom were we get lectured on topics. Rather it was a discussion opened by the “instructor” who stood at the front of the class. I sat next to the girl and a close friend of mine.

The instructor opened the discussion stating the benefits of immigration to economy, citing that immigrants open restaurants or take (low paying jobs) that the natives are unwilling to do. But I was skeptical because dining wasn’t necessary and less people now than before are dining out. I also thought about the time when TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductors) brought in workers for their new factory to the discontent of local residents; how most local jobs were retail, fast food, sometimes landscaping, and so on (cashier, receptionist, “sandwich artists”). So I didn’t think the economy didn’t needed more restaurants or services. So to say immigration is beneficial because immigrants open businesses was too broad of a brush stroke.

My friend whispered to me how the frame of the discussion is closely related to comfort food. The girl next to me stood up and said her own opinions though I don’t remember her words.

Wed Sep 11 2024

Old Neighborhood

(Late afternoon, sun near the horizon.)

I was in the neighborhood of my childhood home, but everything looked different. There was road on the side of a hill that lead to a dead end. The house at the deadend was the home of a girl named Kelly who moved away after kindergarten, but the home no longer existed. Instead it was a playground that lead towards a cliff.

There was a small watchtower, and I looked for any older adults that may have been in the area before my childhood because I wanted a photo of that old home. I had found one old guy, but he told me he only moved in since 4 years ago.

(Sun has set, evening.)

In this dream, I could fly, but I couldn’t fly for long and had trouble controlling it to the point it was hazardous to try. But when nightfell, I saw two moons, one overlapping the other, and a third moon isolated in another quadrant of the sky. For some reason, I had a much easier time controlling and sustaining flight.

I flew nearly to airplane height and far out enough to find my neighborhood was on an island. I got concerned as I flew over the sea and headed back.

I landed around the place where there should have been more houses near the park with a pond, but there was a marketplace. I checked out one guy’s wares which was just trinkets and crafts (nothing I needed). Somewhere in the marketplace, I met an angel who had her wings hidden.

She told me she could give me a trial to find/collect spheres of golden light (“virtues”) while flying. If I succeeded, I would go to / join heaven. But if I collided while flying into spheres of magenta light (“sins”), I would incur enough sins (as a scalar value) to go to hell. I was skeptical because eternal damnation for mistakes seemed too draconian, that it was maybe only for the context of the game.

When I had accidentally flew into one magenta light, the angel said I failed and departed. Nonetheless, the spheres of golden light were still around. When I found one and picked it up, I noticed it didn’t matter because I collided into a magenta sphere once.

Red Tailed Hawk

I was in a red desert and I found an injured red tailed hawk. I picked it up and brought it to my friends at a long van that was almost a bus. At the bus, I had a bird cage of three budgies, a green one, a white one, and a sky blue one. I haven’t seen these budgies in a long time and I was concerned the injured hawk would try to eat them, so we kept the hawk away.

We drove “home” to an apartment. I remember seeing an old but ornate fence, metal spirals, separating the walkway and the garden. At a living quarter, I found a slice of roast beef to feed the hawk. It didn’t seem to recognize the roast beef was meat until the slice touched its beak.

Later, I wanted an audience with the landlord, who seemed to be some combination of a CEO and king, so I could ask to keep the hawk as a companion.

Demonic Roommates (Tue Sep 10 2024)

I had a dream of a group of demons that lived together under one roof. There was:

1. an extremely powerful demon that commanded the favors of darkness, main character of the dream; red colored hair and clothing, grey-ish skin
2. a chubby lesbian (Cassidy?) who owns more than 3 dogs (two of them huge) and has the ability to conjure items which almost always take the form of dog treats
3. either her girlfriend or wife, or abstractly partner, who doesn’t seem to be involved in (1)’s plan
4. a beastman who was a mariner; does not have the form of a marine animal
5. one that either had a presence but I didn’t see, or was my avatar

Either 1 or 4 was named Boris.

Their living space had:

• teal-colored wallpaper
• white trims on the wall before the floor
• wooden fish carvings mounted on the walls (belonged to 4)
• chairs made of thick woven reeds

Demon 1 was very “evil” but had the plot of undoing the evils of another demon. The oceans were contaminated by a demonic substance, and Demon 1 wanted to undo that because it would be undoing the work of another demon.

Demons 2-5, his roommates, were unconcerned about the rivalry but nonetheless wanted to support him as friends. So Demon(ess) 2 (Cassidy) conjured purification powder in the form of dog treats. The items conjured come out of an enchanted dog treat dispenser. As all of her conjurations just took the form of dog treats, they had to be kept away from the (normal) dogs. The dogs, however, were large and liked to jump onto their hind legs and land on people, so this wasn’t always easy.

At some point, I remember taking something from the dog treat dispenser. A big dog pounced on me, knocked me over, and stole what I had taken which I didn’t want anymore after it had been in a dog’s mouth.

To purify the waters, there were two different powders: the powder that cleanses the water, and the powder that attracts contaminated marine animals. The plan was to swim out from the beach. Demon 1, having conditional teleportation powers, telekinesis, ability to summon minions, would do the rest.

WHen the group went to the beach to carry out the plan. They were pestered by a blonde, red-eyed news reporter who seemed to do everything in her power to bring attention to the plan to purify the waters and ensure the group would be reprimanded after. (This news reporter had the same hairstyle as Clover from Totally Spies.)

However, Cassidy had the foresight to appear to wear something inappropriate even for beach standards, for the reason of triggering media censorship laws. She was wearing shorts with a fake butt window that closely matched her body type, so it was convincing. Cassidy was butting into the camera from the background.

After some confrontation, Cassidy successfully baited the news reporters into violating the Code of Conduct of the company she works at. So the news reporter was left referencing the book regarding the Code of Conduct, censorship laws, and thinking of how to edit the footage to report Demon 1 purifying the waters.

At this point, the rest dove into the waters. Demon 4, the mariner casted a spell that allowed either underwater breathing or extended breath under water. Because Demon 1 had visited a destination, he was now able to teleport to and from it. I recall Demon 1 had made some back and forth trips from the enchanted dog treat dispenser.

Mon Sep 9 2024

RC Car

I was out at night. I picked up my mom from somewhere. She was sitting shotgun and I was in the driver’s seat. The car could be remote-controlled with the remote on the keychain. She told me I could nap while she controlled the car.

However, the car drove erratically when it went up a hill on the freeway. I was getting concerned, and told her to let me drive instead.

City of Fountains

I thought of buildings that collected rain instead of pumping water from the ground floor and up. I saw a city during a cloudy morning.

From the top of tall prismatic buildings, there were waterfalls forking and flowing into a gardens on the balconies. There was one building releasing rainwater into a pond with a waterfall.

From the sidewalk, I noticed there was a sakura tree, a plastic hose with a decorated nozzle shooting a stream of water.

I was running down an overpass.

Seeing old friends

I overheard three demons quarreling. There was a blond girl (B) stopping her (gay) friend from prostituting himself (A); the third demon in a car (C) was a potential client.

The words I heard from the girl were,

“Avery, stop! What about respecting yourself?”

Demon C decided to butt out of the situation and drove away.

Demon A was then mad at Demon B. Because he could have made money. The two shed their human disguises briefly, their horns visible, and glared at each other.

I was in another city with hatched walkways. The area between the hatches were ground and dirt ( “grass paver” or “permeable paver”). I was walking towards a campus? I came across two girls I had met in middle school. We recognized each other and wanted to hang out for the evening.

I had in my car, two friends I met high school. There was one fat guy sitting in the back, so the back seats were packed fitting two extra people in.

I asked the girls where they parked their car. One friend pointed out there was a parking structure labeled WD. This was a large building divided in lots with a wing in each cardinal direction (north, west, south, east). I was then concerned as I had an interdimensional car.

Because I did not recreate the interior of those buildings in Minecraft, the girls could not return to that parking lot on their own. I remember giving them a ride to the parking lot, so they could arrange something.

River that reflected the stars

I was looking out the window of my bedroom. Instead of what was normally outside, I saw the blue night sky as though I had amazing night vision, the stars as though there was no light pollution, and a river that reflected the stars. From the reflection, I recognized the constellations.

At first, I thought I saw Orion, with his belt, then the rest of the body drawing his bow. However, I then visualized completely different constellations (had the same artstyle as Stellarium). There was The Archer at Harmony with Nature. His bow pointed south. He had waterfowl as a companion to the east, and a entourage of chipmunks (or small mammals on his head). Compared to real life, north and south were switched.

I saw the wildlife gather around the river. They were however bear-sized otters with six legs sprawled like a lizard. Some of them were glowing in the silver moonlight. There were at least 20 of them, and I kept looking north (according to the dream) to see even more of these weird animals.

Sun Sep 8 2024

I dreamt I was sitting in a classroom. But on a projector, there was a video game that bore a semblance to Diablo II: Lord of Destruction. My player character appeared to be a Sorceress on Battle.net, which meant she completed the game; however, because of the multiplayer community, she was carried and would independently fail milestones a similarly progressed singleplayer character would pass. I noticed she wielded a staff that was purchased from an NPC when easily something better would have dropped in the world or from the boss. (This was suboptimal in the real game as it is almost always better to wield a one-handed item and a shield.)

In the game, I fumbled a bit and ended up dropping my weapon then leaving the session, ensuring that I had lost it forever. As a result, my player character was filtered from joining the next session with players. (Filters that don’t exist in the real game.) So I had stopped playing.

People then seemed to appear in the classroom. This time on the projector, there was a series of stock market graphs and prices. The prices were declining and volume was decreasing, but at some point, the prices started fluctuating as though I was looking at the slots in a running slot machine.

Xbox Controller Launches Car off Hill into Tree (Thu Sep 5 2024)

I don’t know where I was. At a company? At some unorthodox organizational structure? I remember, outside of my car, remote controlling my car with an Xbox controller, and I wanted to park it. The parking lot was like a flattened hill and square-shaped.

My first attempt at parking the vehicle: it was to on the right side of a lot between a car and a curb. There were two parking spaces between the other car and the curb. My vehicle was going faster than I anticipated, and I was worried about hitting the car. I ended up parking safely but off, my car taking up two parking spaces.

When I had tried to reverse, my car went extremely fast. It had launched itself backwards out of the parking lot entirely. I was concerned it may have hit someone on the road or kept moving and escaped the range I could control it. I ran for a bit to find it stuck in a tree (I was relieved).

I went inside an old building, giving small business vibes, which appeared to be a workplace. The company project appeared to be a video game sequel to a PS3/360-era game. What was unusual what a replica of a cash register as an additional peripheral to interact with the game.

The project lead told me there was a power plant in the area. He wanted to base the game on it, that the game narrative involved dealing with high voltages. But all the power plant operations took effect quicker in-game versus actual equipment.

Wed Sep 4 2024

Two distinct dreams somewhat blended together.

Community College

I had a dream knowing it was the year 2024. I was going to a community college class about language arts. Unlike a community college, the classroom was huge like the auditorium of a high school.

The instructor was returning graded schoolwork. When she had gotten to me, some of papers from 2015 came back which don’t correlate to real assignments I’ve had before. There were three packets of at least 3 papers in them. I didn’t look at he topic or assignments; I just looked at the grade it got. The numbers I recall were 48/64 and 54/54.

I heard some security officer or policeman do something with the locks or the door. But I didn’t think about it too much when it happened.

But later the alarm sounded. I thought it was just a drill for everyone to get under their desks in case of an earthquake or the ceiling collapsing. However I then noticed blue and red lights flashing from the windows.

At the door, there was a guy with shoulder length hair with a semi-automatic rifle. He crouched to the level of everyone under their desks then started shooting. I couldn’t tell if the bullets pierced the door or wall or not, but no one appeared to have been hit. The silhouette of the gun made me think it was an AR-15, but it did not sound like one (sounded lower pitch, “meatier”, “blunt”).

At this point, I didn’t want to stay under the desk to remain an obvious stationary target that can only hope not to get aimed at. So I along some others, got out from under the desk to try the door at the back. This dream ended when we found it was locked and that the gunman got in the classroom from the other door.

Submarine

I dreamt of a naval police. They were showcasing a pirate submarine they had captured. Across a lake, they were towing the submarine. There was a police guy with a megaphone talking about the history of the encounter, and the captured flag of the defunct pirate faction was unfurled.

There were also tours to that submarine which I was on. On the submarine, there was a little game where they simulated the submarine getting attacked by a kraken and the angry spirits of sea creatures. However, this game didn’t seem to go well, and the submarine was attacked by actual spirit sea animals. (The lake was getting unrealistcally deep.)

Originally, the game was that some utensils and tools would drop in some a chute. A tourist would use it fight against a sea creature. The staff for the game were trying to get passengers through the shortest route out of the submarine which was to get through a giant eel by using a “vicegrip”, what appears to be oversized weaponized spikey tongs, and swim about 7-10 feet to a sea cavern. Before they evacuated me, they evacuated a young girl who barely got through the eel encounter safely. I remember she was wearing a black skirt with white rims.

When it was my turn, the tool that came out of the chute was a hammer, which was not effective against eels. (The logic was that a hammer does not grab.) Each time I rolled for a new weapon/tool, I got something else (pizza cutter, steak knife, metal stake). So it doesn’t look like I was going to be able to go through the eel.

Last thing I remember about the dream was ambushing a spirit crocodile with a combination of the tools I got, pinning it down with the metal stake and “killing” it with the pizza cutter. Cutting through its spectral body felt like cutting a giant gummy bear.

Mon Sep 2 2024

Too many computers

I was in a hose with a small basement. This basement had a symmetrical lobby which led to 4 smaller rooms. Besides being in the basement, the four rooms appeared intended for bedrooms. I don’t think the rooms were used as intended.

The lobby was used as a computer room. There were five desks each with a desktop computer. The specs for the computers were for early 2000s PC gaming or earlier, and while I don’t mind the idea of a LAN party, I thought these computers weren’t in the right rooms; the room was crowded; and that there were too many computers. Even as I thought this, I finished putting together a desktop and screwed the lid to the chassis closed. So now the comptuer room had six computers.

Nioh, William in the Interim

I saw William in the hollow tree in the Interim (Nioh 2), which was canonically the area between life and the afterlife. He was taking a break from the matters of the living, but when he returns, it would be around the time for a gymnastics contest involving either him or Okatsu (his Japanese wife).

Temple (Sun Sep 1 2024)

There were a pair of siblings, brother and sister, who were alive but at the border of to the Underworld. There was a white, vast expanse and a shadowy stone Greco-Roman style building. The building had stairs leading to it and a row of columns before the entrance.

Before this building, there was a hunchbacked ghost wearing a black cloak who sold funerary items. Incenses, notes, candles, or other items intended to be burnt to grant the dead access to different afterlives depending on the item. The siblings didn’t buy anything from the merchant, but they did enter the building.

The brother had a .22 caliber handgun. He spontaneously got the idea to shoot his sister in the head before proceeding further into the building which he did. The sister did not die but became brain damaged.

She had degraded motor skills and was shambling as she walked, like a zombie. In vengeful rage, she charged at her brother. But he kicked her off and outran her.

Some parts of the building resembled a train station. Other parts resembled the atrium of a large building (such as a shopping mall or museum). The brother entered had entered some corridor. The rest of the dream was him getting confronted by his brain damaged sister reoccurringly.