===== Dream Log =====

I've come up with various exercises to try and improve my memory 
retention, and one of them is frequently recalling dreams I've 
had, in the order that I had them. I'm getting to the point where 
it's starting to become difficult to remember them all, so I 
figure I should probably start writing them down somewhere. This 
seems like as good a place as any. 

(Newest at the top - I'll eventually fill out the backlog though I 
can't recall the dates on them) 

 ===== Dreams =====

 --- 2025-10-27: Aquabat House ---

Someone won a contest or something where a bunch of us got to 
spend a few days at this big house where all the Aquabats lived. 
There was this young kid who kept trying to loudly take over every 
conversation (often with overdramatic theatrics such as throwing 
himself on the floor) and grab all the attention when we were 
hoping to just chill with the Aquabats as normal people. Also, in 
the dream one of the Aquabats was really short for some reason, 
and kept making jokes about their own height. 

 --- 2025-10-25: Cool Car ---

I was excited about getting a cool car. A big semi arrived and 
there were some cool cars in the back, and mine was presumably in 
there with them. I woke up before I got to actually receive and 
drive it, though. 

I'm normally someone who prefers janky old cars, so this was an 
interesting one. I guess sometimes it's just cool to feel like you 
have something cool. 

 --- 2025-10-20: Endless Cinema, Orcs & Humans ---

I was in a massive cinema complex with countless hallways leading 
to virtually any movie I could think of. The real fun part was 
that every bathroom had a miniscreen playing Rankin & Bass's "The 
Hobbit." 

Also, another dream about a conflict between orcs and humans, with 
me and someone else scouting for the humans side. At one point we 
showed up at a known orc camp (which for some reason was 
occasionally represented as my grandparents' house) and it was 
completely deserted, which we found concerning. The only thing 
left was some kind of Tauren blanket. When out scouting around 
elsewhere to look for signs of where the orcs might have gone, we 
ran across Trump on the side of the road. He tried to sell me some 
business pamplhets. He was saying war was good for business and 
that I should jump on the opportunity while it was hot. 

 --- 2025-10-07: Backyard Campout and Big Wedding ---

My brother was camping out in our childhood house backyard. A huge 
windy rainstorm hit but he was fine in his tent, playing around on 
a laptop. 

Shift to another dream where we were at a wedding for one of my 
friends I grew up with. It was in a church area and I remember 
feeling uncomfortable with how fancy and showy the place and 
wedding were. 

 --- 2025-09-22: Can't Leave This Job ---

I had some kind of office job that was boring and tedious, with 
supervisors constantly harassing me to increase my numbers. At 
some point the dream took a turn where I was suddenly trying to 
get out of the job because I was fearful for my life. A coworker 
had mysteriously gone missing and we all thought they had been 
killed, for some reason. At one point during a break I made a run 
for it, trying to escape the office parking lot, but I was being 
shot at. I didn't get far down the street before I was finally 
hit, and collapsed to the ground. The last thing I remember was a 
supervisors looking over me and telling me there was no leaving 
this job, and getting ready to drag me back. 

Note: I am not currently in an awful job so this isn't a 
reflection of my current life situation. Probably just a grim 
presentation of general sentiments toward capitalism/rat race/etc. 

 --- 2025-09-??: Fishtanks ---

This is an older dream I'm recalling from later, not sure on the 
date. All I remember is being in some sort of store or warehouse 
that was full of fish tanks. Not like one of those big fancy 
aquariums with shark habitats and stuff, just like in-home-size 
aquariums, though some were still pretty big. The lighting was 
dark, the only light coming from the aquariums themselves. There 
were all sorts of weird fish in them, but I specifically remember 
a bunch of jellyfish-like things and just watching them float 
around weirdly. 

 --- 2025-08-26: Sneaky Goblin ---

I was a sneaky goblin in some kind of massive medieval fantasy 
inn. It was more like a complex, with lots of different sections 
and whatnot. I was sneaking around and pilfering things, and 
managed to snag something that for some reason I (and everyone 
else) thought of as a "ring" even though it was way too small to 
fit on anyone's finger. A woman started chasing me around, 
claiming it belonged to her baby. I ran through a random door and 
a guy inside was acting helpful, telling me to jump down a 
trapdoor and to hide down there. Of course there was some kind of 
ogre with a ball-and-chain down there that attacked me. I tried 
throwing some knives at it to no effect, then managed to grab the 
chain of its weapon and started swinging the ball-and-chain 
against the ogre. It fell down after a few hits crying, put on a 
nightcap, and held a plush dragon as it tried to fall asleep. 
Making my way through a few more hallways I found my oldest 
brother (who was not a goblin like me in the dream, but still my 
oldest brother apparently) and he guided me toward a safer area. I 
think the scene and setting shifted from there to something more 
mundane, but the memory is foggy from here and I woke up not long 
after. 

 --- 2025-08-20: Police Academy ---

I was training to be a police officer. I didn't want to be there 
but I needed a job. I told my trainer I wasn't a big fan of the 
police and he just chuckled and said "Who is, these days?" and put 
me through some lazy "training" that I recall being mostly cheesy 
videos and a few obstacle courses. 

 --- 2025-07-30: Snake, Dinner, Schrutes, Zelda? ---

Massive orange-and-white Snake in the trees behind my childhood 
house that neither of my kids could see. I got frustrated that the 
kids wouldn't answer "yes" or "no" when I kept asking "Can you see 
it?" 

Big Dinner. I don't remember much, it was like a big communal 
dining area in a rustic lodge or something. There was a lot of 
fuss over preparing the dinner, I think I might have been on staff 
at the lodge and we were preparing for quests. But there was also 
a sort of adventuring party vibe to it. Which doesn't really make 
sense, but I don't know how else to describe it. 

Schrute Underground Carpenter Compound. I met Dwight Schrute's 
folksy father and brother down in the depths of this laybrinthine 
under-construction compound of bare wood walls. 

Zelda Game: Pretty sure this is a recollection of an older dream, 
but I was in a Zelda-like top-down world reminiscent of the first 
game of the series. I spent a lot of time on a raft going from 
landmass to landmass, finding little hidden caves on small islands 
and stuff like that. I eventually got to a dungeon that had 
multiple entrances and I couldn't figure out how to get through it 
before the dream ended. 

 --- 2025-07-17: Space Trucking ---

It was me and maybe one or two other people. We all seemed to be 
down on our luck. We were doing space trucking. I was looking over 
a map of known systems we could space truck to. There was a long 
expanse of uninhabited space before getting to another pocket of 
occupied systems and I thought it would be cool (and lucrative) to 
deliver across that expanse. I remember making a delivery at one 
place and having a guy show me around the facility we were 
delivering to. It seemed to be fairly hoity-toity and the guy 
showing me around was very insistent that they were keeping people 
like us down and relatively impoverished on purpose to hold 
themselves up. 

 --- 2025-06-20: Cactus Ed ---

By some bizarre series of events I ended up as new head of the 
local Guild of Thieves in a town. There was clearly a lot of work 
to do as the local government, who clearly had an unofficial 
working relationship with the Guild, was complaining that members 
were not holding to their side of the bargain of being allowed to 
operate in town. I walked into the Guild chapter and told everyone 
I would be cleaning things up, whipping things into shape, and 
renegotiating where necessary. I then went upstairs and was 
surprised to see "Cactus Ed", a particularly notorious Guild 
member who topped wanted lists in many territories, lounging up 
there. I felt starstruck as I confirmed he was who he was, and 
asked him what he planned to do since the local government was 
cracking down on the Guild around here and it probably wasn't the 
best place to hide out. He winked and said "There are going to be 
a lot of reported sightings of Fenrir around here," shapechanged 
into a huge wolf, and jumped out the window. As I watched him 
leave town in wolf form, several other wolves and a large lion 
were approaching town. I woke up before I could see where this was 
going. 

 --- 2025-06-10: Try-Hard Evil ---

I'm not sure what the dream setting was trying to be, because it 
felt like the modern world but there were also swords and all 
that. I know there were swords, because there was a guy who kept 
trying to show off how evil he was, and he had a serrated sword 
that was emanating some kind of spooky crimson aura, as evil 
swords do. I can't remember now exactly what he was doing and 
saying but I do remember everyone else getting really tired of him 
trying to be "the evil guy" but also expecting to be allowed to 
coexist with the rest of us in a functioning and cohesive society 
with things like expectation of a baseline level of civility. At 
one point he accused me of being a "goody two-shoes good guy" and 
I said "I don't oppose you because I'm 'good', I oppose you 
because you're an obnoxious and unrepentant jackass." I know there 
was more to the dream, but this is the only part I remember at 
this point. This isn't the way I act or the type of thing I'd say 
in real life, but if I met and regularly had to deal with a guy 
like this one then maybe I might in this specific situation. 

 --- 2025-06-06: Exploration: Space & WoW ---

First dream was in some kind of big conference hall, part of a 
group that was involved in space exploration. I remember feeling 
like I had been part of a team that had made some significant 
discoveries in the past, but for our next expedition only three of 
us were going, while several others were opting out. It seemed 
like one of the previous team members was upset with me over 
something and wouldn't even speak to me, but the others seemed 
like they just weren't interested anymore and wanted to do 
something else, and I felt pretty bummed about that. 

Second dream, I was playing WoW, or rather I was a WoW character: 
a troll paladin, which as far as I'm aware isn't a possible 
race/class combination in the game. Started out with me and some 
others in a minigame race to see who could reach the top of a 
mountain first. I managed to get there first but many others were 
close behind. The other side of the mountain was just a sheer 
dropoff but it looked like there was something in the valley far 
below. We were all supposed to leave the area at that point since 
the minigame was over, but I asked the gnome mage (of course there 
was a gnome mage) to cast Feather Fall on me so I could jump over 
the cliff without dying (why didn't I just jump and bubble, if I 
was a paladin?). A few others followed and it was an extremely 
cold and icy place down there, and it felt like we were out of 
bounds and somewhere we weren't supposed to be able to reach. I 
put up a resist frost aura that kept us from freezing as we 
explored a what seemed like a village that wasn't finished being 
developed. (Thinking about it, this dream was probably inspired by 
a video I watched yesterday about writing for a story vs writing 
for games, and the subject of LitRPGs came up (which I've never 
really been fond of.)) 

 --- 2025-06-05: Plumbing Park ---

I was in a yard that felt like it was part of some very old large 
grounds: rough weathered stone with ivy climbing over it and all 
that. For whatever reason there were some pipes out there and I 
was trying to figure out a plumbling problem, and I kept asking my 
dad for advice but he would only say that it wasn't his area of 
expertise (which it very much wasn't - he never was much of a 
handyman). The location then shifted to one that had the same kind 
of overgrown old stone structure vibe but it was like a theme park 
based around learning about plumbing. Bizarre, but it was actually 
a lot of fun. I remember running around (amidst crowds of people, 
the place was clearly popular) to various exhibits and workshops 
that were there to teach people how to be better at plumbing. 

 --- 2025-05-31: "Submarine" ---

Everyone (myself included) kept referring to it as a "submarine" 
but it definitely was not. More like a battleship. It also did not 
go under or even on the water: The people who owned it offered to 
take me for a ride on the "submarine" and it proceeded to somehow 
scoot along some large busy multilane highway. The whole time I 
was worried that we were going to squash people who were driving 
their cars far below us (because the deck was so high up on this 
large vessel). 

 --- 2025-05-25: Big Church ---

I was in a big church/chapel, and it was one of those ones that's 
all fancy and ornate. There was some kind of big performance going 
on, I think it was someone's birthday or something? Afterward, 
some sort of big square outdoor pool in the middle of a grassy 
field (felt like a defaut flat Minecraft world or something) 

 --- 2025-05-20: The Sacred Bear ---

A rugged snowy landscape. I would occasionally see a bear. A man 
that for some reason I knew was some kind of ancient immmortal 
being kept trying to convince me that I should hunt the bear, 
though he had a pretty obvious "sinister trickster" vibe about 
him. I tentatively agreed to at least stalk the bear around a bit 
just to observe it. Nothing much happened until I then met a 
similarly somehow-obviously-immortal woman with a more genuine and 
kindly feel, and she told me I must not hunt the bear. I woke up 
before finding out why either of them were concerned with whether 
or not I would hunt this bear. 

 --- 2025-05-25: Pancakes with Dad ---

Not much to this one: I was making some pancakes with my dad. Very 
mundane. 

 --- 2025-05-13: Banished (also an earthquake) ---

I was in some kind of more rural-ish community, almost had an 
old-west-y kind of feel. At some point someone was chasing and 
shooting at me, and I eventually shot them back in self-defense. 
This resulted in me becoming ostracized by the community, and I 
remember going around to all my friends trying to convince them 
that I was just defending myself, but constantly being told that 
it didn't matter and that by shooting that person, the entire 
community was going to turn on me and probably hunt me down. 

Then various scenes of trying to gather some essentials and get 
out of the community before I got turned on and shot at some more. 
Didn't know where I was going, just knew I had to get out. I felt 
awful about it the whole time, having to give up the community 
that I once felt a strong connection to. 

As I'm writing, now I remember that I woke up after that dream, 
felt melancholy about it but was still really tired and went back 
to sleep. Next dream was about a big catastrophic earthquake. 
Maybe inspired from a video I watched the other day where the guy 
mentioned how terrified we all were as children in Southern 
California, constantly being told that "the big one" was coming. I 
remember those earthquake drills and preparation courses quite 
vividly, now that I think about it. 

 --- 2025-05-09: Potions ---

My secondborn was making potions that all tasted like kool-aid 
(mostly orange flavor), but had various fun effects like super 
speed and super strength and whatnot. I can't remember at this 
point what I actually used any of them for. I think I may have 
just been trying them out. Hang on ... vague memory of being in 
some kind of elementary school setting, but I was there as an 
adult, probably on staff as the IT guy (which I've done in the 
past for work). Hmm ... and some kind of competition was going on 
in the large cafeteria room at the school among the kids, but I 
can't remember more than that. That's what I get for not 
immediately writing this down in the morning. I've been slacking 
the past week when it comes to the dreamlog. 

 --- 2025-05-05: Annoying Superman ---

I was sick or injured, resting in some kind of hospital bed. For 
some reason, Superman kept showing up and talking about random 
nonsense, and wouldn't go away when I told him to leave. 

 --- 2025-05-03: Nick is Missing ---

My friend Nick and I were looking for jobs in what seemed like a 
nice little area of town (not any town I've ever lived/been in). 
Like what you see when you watch those videos on "walkable 
cities", or what Disneyland Main Street felt like as a kid, where 
every building I walked past had its own pleasant look and 
personality instead of a bunch of identical boring blocky office 
fronts. After a while Nick went missing, and I started trying to 
find where he'd went as increasing hints were dropped he'd been 
kidnapped for some reason. 

Jump ahead a little to hiring mercenaries to help me break into 
some sort of stronghold where he was being kept. The entrance was 
a submerged tunnel and I nearly ran out of breath getting through 
it. My sister was on the other side saying she knew I'd make it. 
There were various disjointed scenes of searching different rooms 
in the underground compound. Dream ended before I found Nick. 
Sorry, buddy. 

 --- 2025-05-02: City Council and Concert ---

A bunch of people were gathered to see who won seats on the City 
Council. The location was unfamiliar and didn't seem to resemble 
my current place of residence in any way, and I didn't recognize 
the individuals who got elected. Then while the location stayed 
the same, the dream shifted to some kind of local concert being 
put on. I was supposed to be performing but was sick, so a friend 
went on stage in my place and started singing rather badly. The 
audience took it in good humor. 

 --- 2025-05-01: Dreams of Dreaming, Water Park, NigelKart ---

Both yesterday and today I remember having moments trying to 
commit a dream to memory so I could write it in this log, but by 
the time I woke up in the morning all I could remember was the 
effort of trying to commit them to memory. Or was I dreaming about 
wanting to remember something to put into this dreamlog? Hmmmm. 

Also, this morning I distinctly recall worrying about feeling 
"self-important" when it came to writing down a dream. Wonder what 
that was about. 

Some dreams are coming back now as I'm writing this. Being at some 
kind of outdoor water park with my family, and the kids hitting 
each other, my wife, and I with those foam pool noodles, because 
of course. Then a cut to a scene of ... I think it was like 
someone narrating over some kind of Mariokart-like game, but Nigel 
Thornberry was one of the drivers, and the narrator was talking 
about a part where he (Nigel) sabotaged another driver and then 
covered up evidence of the sabotage. Nothing so direct as red 
shells in NigelKart, I guess. 

Huh, and now an old dream about a kind of park with tall 
playground equipment, several being like those UFOs you'd see at 
old McDonald's play places, but bigger. And being a dream, the 
interiors of them were much bigger than their exteriors. I know 
this is an older one because I recall recalling it in the past, if 
that makes any sense. It's interesting how thinking about recent 
dreams can sometimes unlock memories of older ones you'd 
forgotten. Or maybe I just recently dreamed about having recalled 
it as an older dream. Things get kind of twisty if you go down 
that line of thought, though. 

I think that's it. Interesting morning that started out as just "I 
know I had a dream but I can't recall any of the details." Did I 
end up recalling dreams I'd actually had, or was the dream part of 
my brain generating some on-demand to try and satisfy the need to 
have recalled a dream? Man. I think I'm just going to get some 
breakfast. 

Still don't know what the "self-important" dream was, though. 
Guess that one's going in the mystery file. 

The word "dream" is sounding funny in my head after writing it so 
many times in this entry. "Dream." Yeah, it just sounds goofy now. 

 --- 2025-04-29: Snowy Lodge ---

I was driving a twisty narrow road through a wooded mountain 
canyon in heavy snow and made a stop at a rustic lodge to check on 
the people there. One of them told me how he and one other person 
had been keeping an eye on a camp of potential troublemakers 
nearby that seemed like they were getting up to no good. I asked 
if there was anything anyone needed me to bring them next time I 
stopped by, and the answer was: oatmeal chocolate-chip cookies. 

 --- 2025-04-28: Sardine-Class Flight ---

Ended up mistakenly in some kind of extension to an airplane that 
was pretty much a human sardine can where the occupants were all 
laying down and secured in place, and there was no room to stand. 
There were windows in the sides, at least. Started getting to know 
some of the "passengers" as I told them I wasn't supposed to be 
there, and one mentioned we were about to stop somewhere before 
taking flight again. 

I exited the "sardine-class" plane extension and found myself in 
some corporation's extended storage/processing property. Found an 
employee and asked for help getting out of there. "Of course, just 
let me see your debit card and we'll get you out." "My debit 
card?" "Yes, so you can pay the exit fee." "No thanks, I'll find 
my own way out." Cue movie-like chase scene where I'm trying to 
escape the area while being chased by corporate guards who are now 
shooting at me because I didn't pay the exit fee. Dream ended when 
I got hit by one of them who was using some kind of stationary 
chain gun turret. 

 --- 2025-04-27: Immortal Campus Staff ---

Dream started at some kind of empty classroom in a college campus 
or the like, and I was talking to a friend (resembled my friend 
Mike) about how we were glad to be done with classes, but sad to 
be parting ways and wondering if we'd see each other again. 

Then a significant shift to a room full of what I'm assuming were 
a pantheon of godlike beings or their avatars. There was a lot of 
bickering going on and I can't remember the details except that 
there were a good number of oceanic-themed beings. The one I 
remember most might be described as some kind of mix between a 
jellyfish, a mythical siren, and a banshee - power through voice, 
song, and a loud shriek that would cause all others there 
significant pain (because it happened a few times during the 
bickering). 

 --- 2025-04-24: Snoop & Aubri's Music Video ---

Had a dream that my wife and Snoop Dogg were working on putting 
together a music video of the song "Angel" by Shaggy. It was 
hilarious. Then for some reason the dream shifted to me and my 
wife and kids at some kind of Willie Nelson convention in a 
parking lot that suspiciously resembled the parking lot of my old 
high school. 

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