Dream Log

• Dream 11.15.13

  Nov 15, 2013

  There were creatures with slightly bulbous heads and black eyes with red outlines. If they touched you, you froze in place forever or became one of them. They weren't quite like zombies but kind of reminded me of them.

  Somehow I and some people I knew had been captured and put in a place that was like real life but I got the distinct impression that I was asleep. There were giant red letters in the sky warning us of the fakeness of our environment, but the end of the message was garbled and only a few new letters were added every day. Some people in the building where I was kept had figured out how to trick the drink machines into giving out more than water. I was trying to figure out how to manipulate the machines as well but I was suddenly outside, watching a Jeep tow another car with a chain. However the Jeep jumped the median and went against the flow of traffic, while the towed car was still in the right lane. They came up on a light pole and collided due to the chain.

  I was back in the "real world" because we had to get supplies at a really dark and creepy grocery store. An epiphany suddenly came: Maybe the sleeping people were all these pop bottles moving around on a conveyor/sorter thing I saw! Not knowing how to free the sleeping pop people I went with the rest of my party and exited the store, always mindful that if one of those red eye creatures touched me, I was toast forever. In our hotel room we pondered how to escape.

  
  

• Dream 1.17.19

  Jan 17, 2019

  I just had this really intense dream My three friends from California and I were on some other planet. I was thinking about how in the old days people would need to be in space suits and check on the environmental conditions but not any more. Now it was like Star Trek. We were trying to help this girl possibly named Katie who was trying to use mental/magic power to do something (overthrow some regime?) but it wasn't strong enough so we were traveling around digging up and building these nodes that I realized were some kind of reflector that would carry the magic further across the globe from wherever its source was. We had to sneak onto someone's property to build one, and for the next one we knew of some lady who was a sympathizer to the girl's cause so she let us work at her house. We drove there with an overhead RPG style view through a sort of desert area to the dark green oasis where her house was. She had some old artifact called a Donaldson or something that was like a dark gray phone booth with a circular tube/disk on top but I think it was a particle accelerator or teleport system of some kind and she claimed it worked perfectly, but we didn't want to risk using it because the enemy would know where we were. The last device we were building was a little circuit board that went in a PlayStation 1 and you had to trick it into running some custom code but had to find an ISO that was the same size in order to do that. While the other three guys were doing that I went to the back of the house and turned on an AM radio with a weird exposed vacuum tube for the power button that I found because I was pretty sure there were listening devices planted there and I didn't want us to be found out, so it was playing some classic alien planet pop song of yesteryear while we tried to get it done. There were other radios with dead batteries and speakers in various states of repair on the back side of this house as well. Some guy I didn't know started asking me how long I had known Katie. It was around 6 or 7 years.

  
  

• My dreams were in turbo mode last night.

  Jun 11, 2019

  A guy at work took my headphones because they were the kind that went with his Cadillac

  My car key broke in half and there was wood inside so I was going to try to superglue it back together

  There was a tricot EP I didn't know existed but the shipping on it was $40

  Madeleine L'Engle wrote a fantasy/Star Wars ripoff book trilogy but it had a really exact painting of Darth Vader on the back cover and he was in the story too, but completely removed from the context of Star Wars itself

  
  

• Dream 2019.8.31

  Aug 31, 2019

  Dreamed I was in a vast countryside/farm area. I knew from reading a report from the future that a small dog was angry with me and would pick up a large chunk of concrete, stand on my car, and fling it into my windows. A car-sized meteor hit the ground and bounced slightly, leaving a large impression. I put the dog in my car with a now dented passenger window and went to look for the meteor. When I found the meteor, the area rapidly became midtown and I was having a hard time parking. The meteor had been built into an alcove on the outside of someone's house with a chair and a fountain.

  
  

• Dream 2020.2.3

  Feb 3, 2020

  Dreamed I was watching a movie from the 70s on The Weather Channel. I was looking for a bowl for food or something and Data's hand was walking around on a checkered floor like Thing from the Addams Family, grabbing the bowl. Then the narration started. Some British guy was talking about his exile from society. The camera was pointed straight down from above as he was walking across a snowy landscape towards the bottom right of the screen, chased by a multitude of cars. His feet were sliding as he walked so he covered great distances with few steps, basically like he was superimposed on the footage. The next few scenes involved him swooping through the skies. The camera followed him tightly as he dipped and soared. He was a moose or large goat or yak in ski gear. There were trees close to the ground, and very narrow, very tall mountains here and there. There was one mountain in particular that had a tree on it where he landed and had to face his rival. There was just enough room for the two of them to stand on the top of the round, green hill. The tree was small so they fought with it between them. The opposing flying creature-person put its arms up to grab the protagonist's neck, but he just punched the rival in the shoulders, causing them to fall backwards. The protagonist then grabbed the tree and took it and its dirt mound with him as he leapt off the small round mountain and swooped up, turning into a grey fighter jet in the distance and flying far away. The copyright information displayed on the screen. I tried to record it on a DVR at Mom's house but when I played the recording there was just static.

  
  

• Dream 2020.4.4

  Apr 4, 2020

  I was playing Super Mario Advance and thinking to myself what I had forgotten how much crazy stuff they did in it.

  I was playing as Mega Man (slightly enlarged, badly scaled NES sprite) in a cloud level with lots of Birdo eggs lying around. After a while I got to a part of the level that was more like NES SMB3 with a black background where the goal was to keep getting Starmen and plow through as much stuff as possible. You could destroy items and enemies while invincible. There were spinning "disks" of items (things like POW blocks mostly) that took up most of the screen, items arranged diagonally, items stacked up that seemed to lower the ceiling when destroyed, and weird little gold Christmas trees that you could get trapped under if you destroyed too many items. By the end of the level, I was Kirby, thinking to myself how great the next section of the level was, but I ran offscreen past the doorway, over which there was a logo that said "All About Eve" in the style of the logo for the movie "All That Jazz."

  
  

• Dream(s) 20.4.19

  Apr 19, 2020

  We were apparently in Tokyo. Girlfriend received a call from some guy asking a question, also saying he was too close now to turn back (I guess he was calling from the plane) It had to do with where we left two hats somewhere in our house or in a store. We left with him once he arrived. Our hotel was apparently on top of a mountain with a large lobby that had a gravity-propelled skyride down to the ground, which ended up at a weird place where some American guy inspected us to make sure we weren't part of the slave trade(?) and told us next time we needed to be more clear that we rode down to this station. I was telling him that the cool thing about Tokyo was that it was so futuristic but you could walk into a neighborhood and find 100-year old houses. This is basically not true of course. We walked into a shop at night and found lots of bootleg Star Trek action figures, or ones that were seemingly made by the real company by request, so they had made up mash-up names and bodies. I was excited to discover there was a Star Trek World attraction in the middle of the city (which looked totally different on Google Maps.) I was trying unsuccessfully to get good quality pictures of some of the weird toys.

  Girlfriend asked me to check something so I went into my room at night and looked out my open window where a couple of chickens were hovering just outside singing small "bok bok bok bok" songs and if you said it back to them they would respond.

  
  

• Dream 2020.4.22

  Apr 22, 2020

  Dreamed that I dreamed that I saw on the news how at Target Stadium Amphitheater, after you watch an event, you can go shopping at the giant Target in the stadium's concentric rings, and then slide out any exit, shooting out from all sides. The exits were trapezoidal and slippery with fun drops at the rings' edges. We decided to go out to see it in Catoosa? during an icy windy day and we had a fun time sliding through the empty parking lot and holes cut in the chain link fence of this area with no stadium in sight. At the end of the parking lot there was a very cool looking retention pond with waves blowing very intensely in the breeze. I took a picture of my girlfriend in her coat and for some reason this caused me to call some guy named Cody, and I canceled the call immediately. Then I got a message on the Plex Stax messaging program like Discord+Google Hangouts+Twitch. My friend was planning to switch to it. "You have a Stax" was its push notification. My friend and I and this Cody guy voice chatted for a while while I played with this weird toy car that was not well built and had wider tires on the left than the right, and had a space for watch batteries to power its cop lights.

  
  

• Dream 2020.4.24

  Apr 24, 2020

  Several people are sculpting a clay tablet in the form of an 8" floppy disk. They are having trouble getting it thin enough. One daughter says "I can't do this anymore," and gives up sculpting it thinner and thinner. The father tells her that this is his legacy and how he wants his knowledge preserved. They slide the halves of the disk sculpture apart and he presents his finest work: the disk media, or a sculpture of it. I ask what is being preserved on it and he shows me a screen with a config.sys file that causes Windows XP to boot in record time. He shows me on a computer and when you turn it on, the OS is usable almost instantly, with graphics and fonts loading in a second after everything is ready.

  At night, the line outside Taco Bell wraps around the restaurant, and both drive-thru lanes are packed. I stand around the doorway for a moment, and then I pretend I'm tired of waiting and leave. This causes everyone else to decide they're leaving and they all vanish from the line, and the same goes for the cars. I get in the drive-thru and order, and I'm informed that whatever I ordered doesn't have its correct sauce right now but they can still make it but it might taste kinda weird because it needs a certain lemon sauce. I say that's fine so I drive on through. I am now standing in line inside, where the interior is a mix of collectibles stores Starbase 21 and Vintage Stock. There are sci-fi toys and tons of Game & Watches for sale. I see variant models I've never seen before so I pick up a cheap "Octopus 3-D" for $8.95. I also notice a "Mario Bros. Arcade Edition" and show my family who are now here also. Finally arriving at the cash register, I've found several other items on my way through the line. My dad's friend rings me up and gives me a ton of change and single bills for the $75 I handed him and it's extremely hard to follow his explanation of how much change there is and he keeps dropping the coins everywhere. I finally exit to the gas station parking lot and see some people I was with waiting on a motorcycle. I can't hold my stuff so I take it to the back seat of my car. As I sit down to organize, I see Mom driving my electric 80s Firebird away very poorly. Someone inside touches the roof and sparks fly. The interior of the car starts to burn so I get out and start yelling. I'm very upset because it turns out my younger brother was driving and every time he drives one of my electric cars it bursts into flames. The car turns around and they finally get out and walk down the street towards me.

  
  

• Dream 2020.5.30

  May 30, 2020

  Dreamed that as I was going to bed, I saw a mouse, so I cornered him and grabbed him with my hand. He had weird little sparrow wings and after I petted him he calmed down but his limbs started to stretch and mutate, Tetsuo-style. I put him in a paper sack and found that there were two other mice downstairs, along with other weird creatures like 16-legged mouse-shaped insects and little beetles that looked like pineapples. As I attempted to clean this mess up, emergency alarms blared in my ears and I wondered if a tornado was coming.

  
  

• Dream 2020.6.28

  Jun 28, 2020

  Mom and I had to steal a Roxette casette tape from someone's house. It was dangerous so we let the residents' dog free from our car to distract them while we went inside. These were seemingly tapes from our house.

  Driving back down our street going east, there were larger-than-usual houses and the white house with pillars had luminous purple and magenta fog in its trees. It was some kind of factory.

  I was having a very hard time keeping my car driving straight. First I had to turn the wheel nearly all the way to the right, then to the left as we went over the various slopes of the road. After a while we found out there was a "load simulator" function indicated on the dashboard that had been turned on. After we turned it off, the car worked fine. I was supposedly driving back to my house but the image in my mind was Grandma's house.

  As we got closer to our cross street, the image shifted. I was controlling a top-down view of a pinball-like scene where the goal was to guide a Disney prince on a horse through this zigzagging lane but if you went too fast the horse couldn't handle the turns and would spin out or fall over. Close to the end of the track, he fell off the rails and became Goofy falling into a water hazard below the track. Climbing the stairs back to the main attraction area, we were approaching a very wide and long outdoor stairway to a mall-like castle. It was getting dark as we entered, and we struggled to figure out whether the dancing figures in glass displays in the wall were people or animatronics. Some of the dancers emerged into the walkway area and one of them was like a small, egglike Buzz Lightyear with a cube or sack on its head.

  Girlfriend went into a shop where they had a stack of items on display near the metal detector. I noticed that the shops were starting to close and pulling down blue metal doors. I figured we had better leave and by the time we walked through the door and left, it had already closed and had its metal door in place. We began to walk out of the mall and went down some steps that were smooth enough that I figured out that I could just slide both my feet down them at once, extremely quickly. This reminded me of the way our exchange student's brother slid his feet down the stairs when we visited them. Outside, it was getting dark but there was a misspelled sign that amused me so I took a picture of it. It took a long time and was blurry and somewhat diagonal from the long exposure. My brother put his hand through the holes in a trash can to reach me and I thought that was gross.

  
  

• Dream 2020.7.26

  Jul 26, 2020

  Dreamed about two movie stars skydiving down without parachutes and having a conversation in a bathroom covered in movie posters. I remember just losing it at a poster that described forearms as "turbo arms" and then having to Google to see if that was a thing anywhere else but the only result was that movie poster in tons of results in really weirdly rendered Thai

  
  

• Dream 2020.8.10

  Aug 11, 2020

  We had an "egg race" at my house, which was first herding live chicks, but then became kicking large amounts of popcorn kernels ("eggs") across the floor through the kitchen and out the laundry room (there was other interesting scenery as well) and once the race was outside it was dark so we had trouble differentiating large weird bugs from the roly-polys which were now the racing items

  
  

• Dream 2020.8.30

  Aug 31, 2020

  We were storing leftover food on shelves in the garage. Most of this was uncovered, on plates. A can of Spaghetti-Os had exploded, blowing the top part of the can off. We don't even eat Spaghetti-Os.

  A friend of my brother was describing receiving "Hey Therapy" which involves someone repeatedly saying "hey" at you in different tones of voice.

  I put some thin orange tape above my eyebrows and it was hard to notice.

  
  

• Dream 2020.10.11

  Oct 12, 2020

  I was in an underground compound in the style of an early DOS FPS with Chief O'Brien and Ben and Jake Sisko. I went into one yellow room that seemed to be a chapel with rows of pews. I went to the third one from the front and clicked my mouse on a blocky sprite of Dr. Manhattan. He looked at me from the side of his face with one big round eye and disappeared, leaving a device that looked like an open TOS communicator with the handle of a phaser. There was now an outline of Dr. Manhattan's body that looked like a gorilla in place of every closely-spaced doorway in the blue corridor that led to the way out. As the other three wandered around looking for a way to the surface, I started trying to activate a transporter that had a passport ID-style fingerprint scanner, but it had the voice of Picard and wouldn't let me beam us out. O'Brien figured out that the weird device I found was some sort of absolute matter controller, and it was blocking the gain of our signals. He decided he would stay behind, saying "Are you crazy? We can't take that thing back with us. It'll destroy the universe!" Somehow though we got into the transporter booth and managed to control it enough to start beaming us out as he threw the device to the wall. We beamed out to a place at night with a fountain and a weird round shiny TOS-style turret above it that shook and blew sparks as the underground compound exploded. The turret fired three capsules, about the right size to hold in two hands, one red, blue, and yellow. The red and yellow ones bounced off the parking lot but the blue one stayed stuck in midair and rotated on its long axis quickly for a while.

  
  

• Dream 2021.1.16

  Jan 17, 2021

  Dreamed my dad sent me a viral post featuring 3 "song fails" about video games. The second one started off with girls driving a "taxi" (more like a black amusement park ride vehicle of some kind) with a weird sign on top of the open-air cab that said "Morocco" in volcanic letters. The lyrics were "video game marquee, imported says G-C-E" but the girl singing it pronounced it "mar-queue" so it didn't even rhyme.

  The preview of the next song was "girl meets supergun" and it showed a girl trying to sit down at a candy cab-height control panel but it had some exposed high voltage PCB/contraption on it and she zapped her knee and fell over.

  
  

• Dream 2021.2.4

  Feb 5, 2021

  Trying to explain the layout of an old church to a bunch of people while we were in one section of it (but it was actually Grandma's house) talking about a long narrow corridor that led to a section over a cliff

  Ordering food from a doorway at the side of an automatic car wash where it pulls your car through

  A "new" version of Batman Returns. I was viewing it from the perspective of Batman. I became aware that there was another Batman as well. He had a Brooklyn accent or something.  We both had gorillas to help us out. So far there were no supervillains but 2021 Michelle Pfeiffer seemed to be playing a washed-up Avon lady. One night the other Batman and I, along with our gorillas, were on a rooftop and some weird little triangular weights on chains dropped down from the sky.

  One gorilla grabbed one and was whisked upward, so we all grabbed on and were pulled up to a white foggy Penguin-themed aircraft interior. There were bird-styled controls and as we looked at them, the craft took an incredible dive and began swooping closer and closer to the buildings of Gotham City. The other Batman said something like "we're on the wrong ride!" and one of us followed up with something like "we got the wrong guy!" This was very funny. We managed to jump off the deck of the aircraft and laid low on top of another building. This one had a small room on top with a large hole where giant hornets were coming out. They were about a foot long and just crawled around on the roof before going back in the hole as I scrambled to turn on a flashlight. Then the room also had a door where some dachshunds came out. After a while it got to be morning and the "fire department" showed up. They seemed to actually be some kind of film safety committee and we had to pay them to get them to leave us alone. Avon lady and her lackeys were there eventually and she had to give the committee some money as well. After this, we were sitting in a garden in the city and some event was happening. I was sitting across from a woman and she was next to the Avon lady. Avon lady said "I need to borrow your shoes" and the woman across from me handed her an extra pair of shoes that she wasn't wearing. Moments later I found she had used the shoes as collateral in some kind of gambling, and then started betting large amounts of piano sheet music. As she read off the names of each piece I realized this was all music I owned. I looked at my piano and all the sheet music it had on its stand was missing. She could not pronounce "Le Cathedrale Engloutie" and at this point I declared in a very loud voice that this music belonged to me and I demand it be returned immediately. The person officiating this didn't know what to do and then someone in what had now become my parents' living room turned to me and showed me a book of single-panel cartoons which he explained were drawn by a woman who was also a letter carrier. He said "but this is twice as much!" and tried to get me to look up the price for it on eBay so he would know what it was worth.

  
  

• Dream 2021.4.1

  Apr 2, 2021

  Dreamed there were colorized thick volumes of Urusei Yatsura but I didn't want to buy them because they were copyright 1935 by Donald Rumsfeld
  And had a URL of "don-jr.net" on them

  
  

• Dream 4.3.21

  Apr 3, 2021

  Dreamed that I had a bunch of ebay orders but the 3D printer printed everything upside down, which made all the battery covers paper thin and flexible like the Lego fire house garage doors. My house's kitchen countertops were even worse than they were in real life, being only about 30 inches high, sliced up sections of counters that were slapped together here. Some of them were covered in .5"x1" formica tile instead of a sheet. There was some creature living in the very precarious pantry with lots of things sticking out from it, and it was making noise but really hard to locate.

  
  

• Dream 2021.5.14

  May 15, 2021

  We were driving somewhere in St. Louis. We were on the highway but there was a road we had to cross to get to a tunnel that was an uninterrupted road to whatever street we were going to. It was a weird sloping road on the left, that looked like it went to an autobank, kind of in a place that seemed incorrect.

  As we drove through the tunnel, we were walking instead and going past lots of other people who were content to stand on the moving floor. Two girls and one guy kept pace with us and we all got in a large elevator at the end of the concrete conveyor belt with steps.

  The elevator had seats so I sat down. The elevator was going up at a very fast speed, sometimes slowing for a moment and then continuing up. After a while, the golden woodgrain walls were windows and I could see that we were moving backwards as well as upwards. I could feel the vibration every time the skyride carriage moved past the rollers, but otherwise it was a very fast ride that almost seemed like we weren't moving at all. We went higher and higher away from the city center and I was trying to remember what professor this ride led to. I whispered "what a smooth ride. This is the kind of thing I'm always dreaming about," just as my alarm went off.

  
  

• Dream 2021.6.25

  Jun 25, 2021

  I was in a semi-outdoor Mexican/Spanish style restaurant watching some women speak at a table behind a plexiglass barrier. I wondered if people would be mad that I didn't have a mask when I had to get back on the plane later. I washed my feet off in the drain that was used for the soda fountain runoff. The soda fountain in this case only had very small hot and cold water knobs. My younger brother was at mom's house around 4 AM after being up all night gambling. He didn't like it at all. I couldn't sleep and I was wandering around. He started asking me why I didn't follow bands on social media that told all about the projects of their auxiliary members. He couldn't understand why I didn't use social media the same way he did. His girlfriend's cat was an even larger cat than usual and for some reason he was at mom's house. The small grey cat from next door was there too, playing with him and biting him. The first cat was in his litter box rolling around and getting ready to eat his food, which was a bunch of dissolvable packing peanuts. As he devoured them and continued to roll around, we discovered some very large flies under the kitchen rug. The cat was now a dog and while chewing, smartly squished one of the flies with his paw. We were all very impressed with his show of coordination. We managed to swat and destroy the other flies and dispose of them as the music got more and more intense. I thought about what a wild battle that would have been if the overpass we were fighting on hadn't been blocked off and under construction as a giant pile of rubble. The cars would have made it much more difficult. The Final Fantasy XII party consisted of 4 Smash Bros. characters with two Ganondorfs, one being Lt. (Light) Ganondorf, a white-magic-using version whose catchphrase "you die now!" seemed very out of place.

  
  

• Dream 2021.8.12

  Aug 13, 2021

  Dreaming I was at a recording of a Rick Astley concert where he was saying "this is the most important night of my life," had his shirt unbuttoned and was crowd surfing and started to look increasingly more like Buckaroo Banzai with the crowd screaming uncontrollably while he was singing "only mortal doctors, only mortal doctors... only mortal doctors have seen it all"

  It looked a lot like a giant version of my brother's room with lots of posters of Bob-ombs and other things around the studio's blue walls

  This has happened just as I was trying to use the HD camcorder's light to illuminate the inside of the Asteroids Deluxe cabinet so I could work on something and when I was getting ready to record what I was doing, that was one of the videos that played because I accidentally had it on play mode

  In a previous dream I was being driven downtown by going away from it on the expressway

  When we got downtown the sky was looking really cool and I tried to take pictures but they didn't turn out

  Then we got out and there was an extremely large building that had glass sides and a large overhang with nothing below part of it, and it was so high that there were mammatus clouds against the bottom of the overhanging area

  There were lots of annoying apartment buildings too and I guess the new thing to do was to have a lot of furniture glued to the outside of your building, with various wall colors and angles, like parts facing straight down for pedestrians to look up at

  
  

• Dream 2021.9.1

  Sep 1, 2021

  Dreamed we suddenly had a kid, probably because in real life a puppy suddenly showed up in the backyard. Couldn't tell at all, suddenly a leg was sticking out, then the whole baby, never cried though, just kind of looked content most of the time Dad's side of the family was at my house taking a photo behind all the bushes and trees for some reason, and I looked up and saw a rocket falling. A large space capsule fell out of the rocket and as it got nearer and nearer to the ground, you could read the brand name on it and it got larger more and more dragon quest slime shaped. It hit the ground probably somewhere near Expo Square and made a huge noise. The rest of the rocket and some other piece quickly exited the atmosphere.

  
  

• Dream 2021.9.18

  Sep 18, 2021

  Dreamed I was going to the "downtown Lowe's" to pick up some supplies but I was driving my older brother's ambulance to a store that was orange inside, but it was kind of like the entrance to Ikea and there was an extremely long line to get in. I found out there were also places to check out outside the store area, which didn't make sense since you couldn't have anything to buy yet. I had a lot of stuff in my arms so I went to put some things in the ambulance but it was actually a school bus, but inside it was like a school and not a bus. The classroom was kind of dilapidated and looked like some work had been done on the walls but the desks were bolted to the floor and falling through it. Some guy asked me for like $20 to buy his stuff and I was like no way dude. There was a globular bottle of wine on the ground that had cracked at the neck and was leaking all over the floor. It got harder and harder to arrange and handle the stuff I was trying to organize in order to get in line to get inside the store until I woke up.

  
  

• Dream 2021.9.19

  Sep 19, 2021

  Movie about one person trying to uncover corporate espionage? at a really tall building with a rudder/weathervane hanging over the vast futuristic city. Every time the main character (male?) gets close to the truth, he is thwarted by a Ghost in the Shell Puppeteer-like villain who leaves cryptic threats but is never seen, and causes machines and corporation personnel to chase him. Scientist and two goons enter building from roof as protagonist is leaving, ominous feeling as if scientist is doomed. Protag witnesses scientist being shot, probably for uncovering the conspiracy. Story moves to different planet where city is very snowy and hard to navigate. After a while we find an area with the same rudder/weathervane and realize the snow is just hundreds of stories high. The corporation is running the same operation here as on the other planet. For some reason protagonist is able to walk freely through the building as if a known entity/not considered a threat (perhaps they don't know that he knows what's going on) He meets the same scientist who was shot on the other planet and tries to warn him that they are going to shoot him. This probably alerts the goons that the jig is up. The corporation has clones/copies of the same people on each planet where they are running their operation, each unaware that they are the same as on other planets. This version of the Scientist is later seen at a party, unharmed. Unknown girl reporter? is also on the trail but tends to leave the protagonist hanging (literally) by escaping and jumping large distances down to waiting glider, etc. Main character gets captured accidentally because he didn't jump at the right time. Perspective shifts to girl?

  
  

• Dream 2021.11.27

  Nov 27, 2021

  I was playing a game on my phone that had a very complicated story and setting, which seemed to be a Mega Man Legends/Xenogears remake. It had beautifully animated cutscenes of people in an old tavern hallucinating stained glass paintings of Elly from Xenogears after seeing some strange faces carved into the wall with push buttons in their mouths. The catch about the game was that they ran out of money to fix a bug and so to please the shareholders they patched in a crypto miner that would run in the background as you played until you collected about 10 whatevers and allowed them to finish fixing the bug. This was all announced on the screen before you could get back into the game. Part of the game also involved climbing up to save people from high places in ruined buildings.

  Before that I was dreaming about a school auditorium (full concert venue) with a weird hexagonal mesh over the middle, and kids were climbing up on it, unaware of the human-sized spiders that were there with their near-completely invisible webs. I made a comment later that they were like the spiders from a Christopher Nolan movie, and I said "that's a [name] sized spider right there!"

  
  

• Dream 22.2.20

  Feb 20, 2022

  We were at a beachside apartment with either my family or with my friends from California. We went to the beach and while we were there a shark came up onto the beach. It could breathe air, but we managed to convince it to go back to the sea. Later, after we did other things, I returned to the apartment and found the shark there in a floral pattern dress, conveying to me that she was going crazy because she wanted a boyfriend. She had beady shark eyes and incredibly mangled, thin teeth. It seemed like the shark could speak, but it also seemed like I had to interpret so everyone else could understand her desire. The rest of the dream involved us getting into a boat and taking the shark back out to sea to find a boyfriend for her. There seem to have been more details that I don't remember now. When I woke up, I tried to tell my mom and dad about the dream in excruciating detail but they kept interrupting me a couple words into each sentence. There was an in-ground hot tub in the backyard and my dad was getting ready to soak. I was doing laundry and found a bunch of my girlfriend's socks stuck in the gasket between the drum and dryer body. I was looking into the dryer at my house and getting ready to use its trap door switch after luring people to climb up into its drum from the back side, under the house. Pushing this switch caused some grippy material near the dryer door to change shape and slope downwards to form a supposed barrier to keep the people from getting past it. I had to quickly enter some guy's SUV in order to escape from or apprehend someone but there was no room to get in the passenger seat so I started moving all of the papers and action figure boxes out of the seat in order to sit down. There was a large stack of papers on the dashboard and I also moved those out of the way. I also removed a bunch of static cling stickers from the passenger section of the windshield, which made the guy upset, so I promised to put them back. As we started moving, I had to try closing the passenger door several times before it would actually shut. The rest of the trip was spent organizing the papers and looking for where I had put the static cling stickers. I eventually started organizing all of the action figures and stacking them as efficiently as possible. There were unseen Star Wars characters and small-scale Star Trek figures that I had never encountered before. I didn't find the static cling stickers by the time I woke up for real.

  
  

• Dream 22.9.4

  Sep 4, 2022

  At some twilit riverfront area in a restaurant balcony overlooking the water, I saw green creatures turning their bodies through the water. At first they appeared to be alligators, then they looked like hippos, then they seemed to be rhinoceroses with very small horns. As they swam they would put their feet out of the water and I could see the bottom of their feet were like someone making a really beefy circle with their hands. They started getting out of the water and sitting on the riverbank by the dozens and to my surprise, they were a bunch of green apes. "Regular apes," someone corrected me, and then I could see they were just covered in algae. The river was someone's lawn and there was a kid throwing a hackey sack with a hole in it up to the people on the balcony. This became a progressively more concerning situation for some reason and everyone began to complain. Eventually there was a girl in some square costume like she was a Game Boy or a Macintosh, trying to pick someone for something. I guess she was the emissary for some aliens. Eventually I went home to a place similar to my house where some woman complimented my mom's script for whatever had just occurred, talking about how natural her dialog was.

  
  

• Dream 22.10.20

  Oct 20, 2022

  I dreamed I was on vacation and I went to a music store but they didn't have any instruments. The shopkeeper started quizzing me about what people wanted to buy when they were on vacation and I looked around the shop and said something about all the books stacked everywhere, so he was like "exactly! Books!" anyway I ended up buying a Virtual Boy game I'd never heard of, one other game for an unidentified system, and I also accidentally bought a dark orange DSi for $210

  
  

• Dream 2023.3.26

  Mar 26, 2023

  At my parents' house upstairs watching Return of the Jedi on Laserdisc, on the old JCPenney TV. It's next to a newer tube TV. I am wondering if the other TV is hooked up to the LD player as well. The movie has a preview of itself at the beginning, with two annoying guys doing running commentary on the famous scene with some giant guy lying flat, face down, on top of a pyramid, and at one point changing the direction of his head and limbs to try to grab some people who have climbed above him to get into the small structure on top. Commentary like "he smells like it," etc.
  The movie is about a group of Rebels trying to sneak a kid into a large government facility where he is being searched for. Nancy Pelosi needs the kid in order to launch a space shuttle and they are trying to avoid his capture at all costs. There is more Huttese spoken in this movie than any other Star Wars film.
  The kid is in my parents' house. We hatch a plan with one of my friends to use my car to get the kid to safety, while some arrogant guy mockingly takes pictures of my jaw with a vacuum cleaner hose in an attempt to intimidate me into telling him where the kid is. My friend drives away from the diagonal back-in parking space directly across from the front yard.
  After night comes, we are in the driveway getting something out of my car's back hatch. I discover that the kid is the son of one of Mom's friends, and the reason behind all this turmoil is that the small violin he's using makes it hard not to play multiple strings at once. I say that there's something wrong with the bridge, which is now a lozenge-shaped piece of wood with small raised areas for each string to rest on. I don't think the curve of the bridge is correct, but Mom protests. She thinks there's something wrong with the "innercord" (a part that does not exist) connecting the tailpiece to another part on the violin that I struggle to name, under the fingerboard. There is loud dance music coming from a treehouse across the street, featuring a lighted inflatable palm tree. This is apparently something new we have to live with. We are in the living room and I notice that it is 12:56 AM, and I am upset because I won't get enough sleep.

  
  

• Dream 2023.4.8

  Apr 8, 2023

  I had flown to Japan and was meeting some friends and enemies at a restaurant where you could play video games while you wait for your food. We played several selections including Devil May Cry, a 4-player minigame collection starring outlandish characters. After a very strange action/karaoke minigame, the people I was with started to leave. I became panicked because I didn't remember whether I had paid for my food. It was getting late and I was getting ready to speak to an employee who ended up being an American, throwing off my plans to speak in Japanese. My problems were further compounded when I realized that a girl had caused me to drive my car off a cliff by the road and my wallet was at the bottom of the sea along with my car, just as in the City Hunter episode I watched the night before. The restaurant tried calling my enemy, who was the person who had set up the meals, but he was agitated on the phone. I went to the mine-like underground dining area to speak to him in person but he was on the verge of tears. I was trying to get through to him but all he did was tell me that the cops would react badly to me not paying, despite the restaurant agreeing to wait for me to pay if I discovered that I had in fact not paid. My friend went back with me to the counter and as I explained the situation, they prepared another platter of food for me, this time with meat instead of tofu. My friend warned me of this so I said he could have the meat. My friend and my enemy left with the food. My family was there and my mom said my dad was a bitcoin millionaire for now, and he could lend me some money. In our hotel room he had a small ring box full of diamonds and said I should go pawn one to get the cash, but I didn't have an ID since my wallet was gone. While I was inspecting a diamond, I found two little black pixel squares on each side that you could use to enlarge and explode the diamond like a diagram when you pulled on them. The diamond was full of plastic layers and curved rods in primary colors. I spent some time expanding, disassembling, and contracting the diamond, until I held it near an opened window-mount air conditioner that was on the floor and accidentally mangled its delicate white rubber fans and rubber moisture splatterers with the sharpness of the diamond. Feeling bad about this and about the restaurant situation, I felt worse when I remembered that I hadn't told anyone at my office that I was going on vacation.

  
  

• Dream 2023.6.27

  Jun 27, 2023

  I had gone back home for a day from visiting Singapore. Mom and my brother were in my "neighborhood" which seemed to be indoors. There was a pile of stuff on the corner and some guy told me he thought "they" were clearing out someone's house. One of the items was a midsize camera that recorded onto microcassette. I thought it was strange that a FreeStyle Lego box looked exactly like mine. I was at a work meeting outside in my car and my boss was making some kind of joke about my presence, seemingly unaware that I was on vacation. I was driving my car somewhere but it was turned off. It kept bumping gently into a building as I tried to push the park button. It didn't make sense that I would come home for one day and return to Singapore because it would take too long. The strangeness of everything made me realize this was a dream. I made my car do a forward loop and it landed on my shoulders, so I picked it up, floated over, and sat it at the crest of a hill. I was floating face down and didn't seem to be able to fly, and I decided I'd better not start off too big since I didn't have a full map of of the environment in my head, so I floated to a tree and used my hands to propel myself up a tall tree to survey the area and decide what to do, but before long I could feel my body lying on my stomach in bed.

  
  

• Dream 2023.9.4

  Sep 5, 2023

  We were driving around in Dallas at night and I decided I needed to get some cash so we went to the Fifth National Bank. There was a spray paint stencil sign/wanted poster of a grinning guy with an elaborate mustache and a patch over his left eye with a skull and crossbones on it. I went inside and began to fill out a ballot/survey about whether or not they should arrest the guy on the sign. A different guy came in to rob the bank and while he was threatening the teller, I asked him if the guy on the poster was his friend and whether he helped him rob banks. The robber said no, so I voted "no" and signed the ballot. I left the bank and called 911 to report the robbery. I got a detailed explanation of how the street numbering worked, and guessed that the bank was in the southwest part of the city. I was totally wrong and it was in the northeast. We drove around, trying to avoid the area, but ended up right back at the bank. The police figured out where the bank was anyway, and I tried to tell the officer this was the place from my position in the car.

  
  

• Dreams 23.12.9

  Dec 9, 2023

  dream #1 Girlfriend dropped me off at "my house," a large urban townhome with a front and back exit. People began to enter my house and touch my things, eat my food, etc. Eventually a police officer came in and I told him I would like to evict these people from my house as I was walking on the landing in my staircase.

  dream #2 Severely underpopulated Beck concert in a medium-sized theater/auditorium, maybe 30-40% full. We were sitting in the right side of the house. Musicians were all on stage right, no recognizable songs. Eventually we moved left to be closer to the stage. Mom was sitting on the couch facing the left wall trying to find small pieces of chocolate of a disturbing shape. I looked through the couch cushions to find one of the concerning chocolate pieces but found the torso of a cricket. Eventually two kids were coaxed onstage wearing baseball caps with unknown logos on them and large, ill-fitting headphones. They were supposed to sing Private Eyes. One of the kids said he was going to imitate his dad's sense of music and faced away from the audience and began wailing/grumbling on stage while pressing a yellow attenuator pedal with his heel. Someone in the audience could not contain his laughter at the supposed hilarity of the spectacle, which eventually caused me to start laughing. I laughed myself awake and my girlfriend wondered what was wrong with me because my breathing was so abnormal.

  
  

• Dream 24/3/18

  Mar 18, 2024

  I was playing the middle version of Thomas Edison in a biopic alongside Matt Smith and Harry Dean Stanton Then Matt Smith decided he wanted to change something about the movie that made me question why I was still there and whether I should quit acting, and they were both like "yeah you should"

  
  

• Dream 24.6.1

  Jun 1, 2024

  Dreamed my Dad revealed he was really good at "QWOP", an 80s arcade game starring a character similar to Kwirk on Game Boy, where the object was to make goat noises at enemies to distract them before you shoot a tether at them, jump up and spin them around your body a few times for points, and then catapult them onto rockets coming out of the ground and floating metallic platforms with volcanic, Bonk-esque scenery.

  He was showing this to my uncle while we were waiting in the green room of the local Theatre for Todd Rundgren to arrive. He walked past to get ready. Someone came in asking about the cat you could see from the window outside and I told them someone lived up there and that was their cat. Some girl came in wanting to buy Doobie Brothers records but as this was my parents' living room, it was kind of crowded and hard to get to the record bins. I showed her three 12" vinyl bags of cotton balls based on Doobie Brothers album covers and she said she already had them. She went back to look through the records by the front window.

  Grandpa came in and gave me a hug instead of a handshake, then asked me if I got my heritage while I was in jail. I didn't know what this meant since I had never been in jail so I shook my head and he walked away disappointedly.

  The video game was now a 2.5D platformer about a young boy who was too foolish to know that the proper thing was to make goat noises at your enemies, so he was reprimanded by his father and jumped down to an area with no floor, so the blue sky was just beneath the bricks and logs he was sitting on while his mother tried to figure out where he was.

  
  

• Dream 2024.10.2

  Oct 2, 2024

  Patrick Stewart making off with untold multiplying amounts of frozen burritos in a canvas bag

  
  

• Dream 2024.12.7

  Dec 7, 2024

  I was reading on Wikipedia about a branch of the "Don Caballero's" arcade chain in Tochigi that once famously had a giant statue of PaRappa outside it, somewhere in its giant parking lot, but it was eventually removed because the arcade version of the game was no longer there. The story went that people were fighting in the arcade and since arcade cabinets were valuable, someone got it as compensation for the injuries they received in the fight. Tony Hawk also apparently had done some extreme unicycling inside once which was only documented on some bootleg dvds from China. Eventually I found some English language radio broadcast archives from an Utsunomiya radio station that featured a guy explaining that it was all a myth and none of that stuff ever existed. I was preparing to write a blog post about it since I figured Wikipedia wouldn't allow my edits.

  
  

• Dream 2025.5.5

  May 5, 2025

  meeting on an overpass to discuss new katy perry single and how she did not have the juice on this one according to my only friend that listens to her lots of people covering the song including the band "Dangit for Darren" (written in Mistral font)

  
  

• Dream 2025.5.15

  May 15, 2025

  I went in to pick up my Switch 2 preorder and they kept handing me Switch 2-branded cassette tapes and stuff (in that type of packaging with a plastic blister between two layers of cardboard) and then acted like they had done their job and I was like uhh no I ordered the console and then they never found one in the back so as the store increasingly became my parents' kitchen I poked around and found a disassembled one in two open boxes that someone had returned but left some kind of credit card/camera flash enabling card in the back of the machine, with the guy's name on it. It had a button to switch between 4 total functions and seemed to be designed for tourists. After that, we went outside and got in a giant gold three-axled RV shaped sort of like a bullet called a Sophia and talked to some guy for a while. He called a small black dog into the RV, who ran through the driver door and out the side door extremely fast. The guy told the dog to run home, and as the dog went through the grass-covered street, he was bitten by a small snake and freaked out. Some other guy walked up and picked up the dog and the snake let go of the dog and bit the guy's hand. After a while we watched the Sophia drive out of a small parking lot and marveled at how its middle wheels compensated for the height problem as it drove off a curb.