me googling "are there any flying mammals"

just googled it for real and yes

bats

i was inside a pocket dimension or something

it was a tropical area with a big metallic staircase above ground and a cave or something below it that was closed to by a big round door and had cobblestone walls

it was really i mean really foggy

you couldn't see more than a couple meters past yourself

i was there with i guess a couple of my relatives

the atmosphere was not really overjoyed but more like extremely content with everything

i think i referred to that area as "heaven" but i certainly realized that it was not the real world and i was there temporarily

i kept repeating it in my mind so i don't forget it or something

i didn't realize it was a dream however

then i had a false awakening and it was another dream where i was with my dad near a kitchen table

i told him about the dream including that i didn't realize it was a dream while not realizing it was still a dream

for some reason i mentioned that the dream took place in 1991 and i was 21 in it but i don't think that actually was the case

he started ranting about the soviet union how it was great and he'd protect it right now and he could

sorta implying that i should've protected the soviet union too

i woke up for real shortly after that

guy selling jojo stand arrows online

his website was called something like "bortd.me"

the arrows were apparently made out of silver and didn't require sanitization

also there was an unrelated section where he described how he constantly masturbates to images of frogs and never cleans up

it was some kind of ritual

most of the dream was spent in a city i've never been to and a house i've never been to

but i supposedly lived there with my dad and no one else

i remember being inside and driving with him somewhere

i'm not sure if it was a "real" thing that happened or something i watched on my phone but there were some fucked up gore videos

like an old man putting his legs up and then violently shitting himself

and i think a person being devoured by a giant meat grinder

either way i didn't make a big deal out of either

there was also a scene where i was trying to draw something in inkscape

some funny cartoony illustration but i don't remember why

i had trouble drawing so i asked a person from discord

they replied with a wall of text on how to do something in svg

i'm not sure if i replied or just thought that they're useless because i'm using an editor

can't remember where chronologically this scene happened or its context unfortunately

but it might've been the last

i was held captive in some sort of underground base/ship

there were other people there and it looked practically like a dim basement but with metal walls

i had a phone and could access certain websites but i couldn't post anything

everything i did was monitored and my peers were beaten up for not complying regularly

i think there was no release date

there was some new trend where western companies started releasing animated manga series

so like regular anime but black and white and high contrast

i saw several of them in the dream but the only one that was recognizable was "avengers"

it was basically every marvel movie that has "avengers" in the name combined into one big tv series

there was a scene where there was a control panel with buttons and i could "choose what kind of dream i want to have"

unfortunately it wasn't for real and it didn't give me any control over the dream

the first dream i chose was apparently an endless suburban area with a lot of grass and trees that i just walked through

i saw some boy in a kitchen on the first floor of a house so i decided to scare him by slapping the window that was open a tiny bit

the other dream was me running through a dark corridor away from someone

i was held in what was essentially a lax prison

like it looked like a prison but i could leave

there were some former classmates there

it was supposedly located in south africa but everyone was white

at some point i went outside to listen to "nelson mandela's" speech

i remember he said he's gonna use some power that he already used once and people didn't like it

and that it's not on his website mandela.com because he's just announcing it

after that i tried to go back but got lost

i tried to search "prison" on google maps but it took me to a different place

the city itself (it wasn't cape town and i think it wasn't called by its name in the dream) looked like a bunch of skyscrapers interspersed with soviet buildings

at some point i just gave up and started flying somehow

either college or school

it's hard to tell

we had a task to make a pizza

i think it was an informatics class confusingly

we had only half an hour left and everyone else somehow already did it

i left the classroom and went to the grocery store to find the ingredients

i visited like 3 of them and there weren't any

i found them in the end but there were 10 minutes left at that point

i woke up right after

it was like a single player second life game

like irl simulator

probably in vr because i remember it in first person

there evidently were multiple clients because i switched them at some point and the graphics got better

i spent most of the dream either flying or wandering around the subway

there was a location where there was a bunch of armed people behind unbreakable glass and i somehow managed to break in and not get killed

also some areas of the subway had invisible walls like you couldn't walk past them

weird for an open world game

after i switched the client i appeared in a generic sunny big city

i started bothering random npcs and destroying their shit

then i got bored and decided to see how high i can fly

i flew really slow upwards for some reason

i woke up before i could find that out

i was playing minecraft and some guy showed me how a certain key combo makes a terracotta platform appear beneath bedrock

i think i discovered there was another dimension below that like in terraria

and there was a wired scene where 2 guys were killing some important person in his boat

i was like in a mental asylum?

but i also routinely left it and did very questionable stuff

also my relatives visited me

i think there was something related to getting people to the roof in the middle of the night?

also i tried to disassemble a couch (idk why there even was one) and there was a hidden compartment inside

like to hide people or something

it was filled with tiny plastic spheres which i think i called "marbles" in the dream

i removed all of them and put them into my desk's drawers

they weren't heavy but they somehow broke all 3 of them

my mom was disappointed but not angry at me

1. it was summer and present day

my house wasn't any of the ones i've actually lived in

i was just walking around

there were a bunch of hills and small cottages

like a mini rural area

then some time passes (i don't remember what happened in between)

i have another walk and there are no hills and no houses anymore

but there is a large mine that digs for some chemical that i can't remember anymore

it was some blue metal

+ there was an under construction bridge

i don't know why because there were no bodies of water

but it was fucking massive

like as tall as a skyscraper and spreading beyond what i can see

i don't think bridges this big even exist

2. me walking at night

the city didn't look familiar

there were a couple of scenes where my dad and i drove in a mini van at night but i don't remember the context

3. vacation?

we were in a city with several lakes and it was a sunny summer day

the lakes weren't big but apparently people swam in them anyway

my parents told me to take pictures of them

they gave me a shitty digital camera with a fake metallic body

it folded like a flip phone and had a big 6 inch 4:3 screen

i don't think any 2000s cameras did that

it had a very confusing ui and you had to press a special button to access some functions by going through a long ass menu

also it needed a sim card to be inserted into it for some reason

there were 2 cards inside: a plausible sounding mobile operator (can't remember the exact name) and something like "Fast Money NOW, LLC"

after we arrived home i decided to study the ui finally so i went to the room that looked exactly like my grandma's house from my childhood

there was something playing on the tv that had magic symphony by blue system as the soundtrack

third time hearing a song in a dream btw

it was playing really fucking loud but i didn't mind

i think i also tried to play homm3 on my windows xp laptop?

i woke up soon after that

oh yeah the camera also had a weird lens

it was a zoom lens and it went from insane fisheye to also insane fisheye but at the same time zoomed in

idk how that works

it was a dream within a dream

the first layer was a middle school day where wild shit was happening but everyone expected that

i guess it was like an irl battle royale competition or something

either way it was night and everything was falling apart

one guy got killed by a falling block of concrete that looked suspiciously like a sphere

i can't quite remember what other dangers there were but you had to escape them

me and my friend survived and we drove in a bus afterwards

also i think i could fly but only within the school?

layer 2 was a regular middle school day

i don't remember anything except that i told the guy who got killed in layer 1 that he got killed

it was about 2 clones of a fictional character finding each other and fighting to death

i don't remember the character but apparently it looked like a smesharik (i.e. also round and with the same arm shape)

the original had arms made out of wood and the clone had arms made out of brass

it was happening inside a vr video game or some shit

i was in an american style prison

there were a lot of black people

also i could fly

at some point i moved to an alternate universe somehow and everyone was sorta free but not really but also wearing caps of different colors

also i could stop time but i couldn't feel when it unstopped

i was living in an old soviet house

i started hearing the sound of my gas stove even though it wasn't on

i assumed i had a gas leak so i started calling the firefighters

instead of actually accepting my request some grandma started talking to me to make sure i'm not mixing something up

i turned off the electricity and the gas in the house so i can wait for them

when they arrived (i don't remember what they looked like but they didn't have uniforms)

i opened it back and walked them through the steps

for some reason my fridge had a built-in gas stove on top

i turned it on and my fridge fucking exploded on the inside

i woke up right after this

it was like a shitty jrpg in real life

i had to explore abandoned malls and fight some scary creatures

+ move between them by train

the trains looked straight out of the ussr but cities outside looked like a shitty attempt of a young foreigner imitating an 80s city

there were other characters/npcs i interacted with but i don't quite remember them

there was also a funny scene where it was like a bunch of rooms but they went up and down like an elevator

and i noclipped on top of them and skipped a fight

looked pretty cool because it was clear broken video game shit but it was in first person and realistic

it was supposedly my home town but it looked nothing like it

i was walking alone during the day and at night with my mom

also i woke up early and i can't sleep rn

it was like a video game or something

most likely an avgn game because he was the main character

you play as him and race against his clones to dive down from the sky into the secret base that's in the ocean

the one i was playing came in last but then he like entered his own consciousness and lifted the concept of a secret base from it and won?

not sure how that worked

also there was a firefox download dialog

not related to the video game in any way

middle school

there was a giant market in the school's back yard

like a supermarket but where students sold their shit

i think it was also night but it was illuminated and there were people there

it was pretty active so i suppose it might've been a holiday or something

anyway it was apparently summer but there was snow everywhere

it wasn't cold but the later was pretty thick

there were like 2 patches of woods and a long hill that separated them in that yard

both in the left part of it

so i went on that hill and started swimming through snow

at an insane speed

in the end i arrived to the entrance of the school and met some person who was transferring money or something

the school itself didn't like any i've ever been to

i woke up right after

1. gunbuster 3

i only remember a couple moments

one episode began with a fancy montage where a water drop turns into a bug which then turns into a cat which then turns into a catgirl (all pink for some reason)

one episode ended with the camera slowly revealing a room with a bunch of corpses in coffins

presumably battle casualties

one of them was the main character (generic anime girl) which suddenly woke up

there was also a sentient monkey who was her friend and it put itself in a coffin on purpose

it was like being sad and shit that she died then it realized that she woke up

the episode ended right there

the music in that scene was indescribable

like melancholic but with a very pronounced sad part

2. minecraft youtube video

so there were 2 guys

they were building shit on a server

they had some kind of conflict which i don't remember about

guy 1 made a video lashing out on guy 2 and it became a meme gaining 13 million views

it became a meme apparently because it showed an unfinished building made by guy 2

and like it was really ugly or something

guy 2 made a followup video where he talked about all the insane stuff guy 1 did to him and explained that the building was unfinished

i think guy 1 found him and locked him up in a basement or something

3. a weird video game from the 80s/90s

can't remember the exact time period but it was likely the 90s

it required an external device that you connect to your computer with "vga or serial" however that worked

it also had an insane amount of hidden usb ports that slided out if you pressed on something

i got the device first and then i started looking for the game itself on forums

i found it in some forum where people guess the game and the one who guesses gets money from the poster

weird shit but i got the game this way

there were screenshots but they didn't load for some reason

it was described in a way like it was an early video game that pioneered a lot of stuff

so like presumably 80s but there were usb ports

idk how that works

anyway i woke up before seeing what it looks like

me my grandma and my dad were going on some really long car trip to a place i don't remember anymore

for some reason me and her needed to arrive to a different city independently

we decided to meet up in the cinema and watch a movie while we were at it

i bought her a ticket online on my laptop but it had little charge

when she arrived it died completely and she had no access to the ticket anymore

she was disappointed at me

also idk if it was the same dream but there was a scene where i and some guy were sneaking on a hill approaching a trailer

we were discussing something and he mentioned that we caught chlamydia because we weren't careful

not like we both but we as a group of people that involved more than 2 of us

then another guy this time with green skin ran out of the trailer then flipped the guy i was walking with

he put a sharp piece of wood near his throat and started saying something that sounded alien

idk what i said to him but he changed his mind and bit both of us in the neck

then he said "hi i'm chlamydia"

so like chlamydia referred to that guy and not the disease???

idk

either way him biting us cured us from something

i was making a template for my website that'd associate pages based on the probability of some shit

i think there was also the windows 7 installer

i feel so bad

my sleep schedule didn't get any better

every part of my body hurts

big ass building (hollow apartment building? weird school?)

i was flying in it with my school friend

i was also at some point reading a blog post by gnome devs who apparently started building elevators

they built them mostly out of wood for some reason

i think the post said the phrase "internet dendrology" and that sounds pretty sick tbh

anyway they were trying to perfect the cooling system because it somehow improved accessibility for plural people?

not sure how

there was also a color palette on their website which i presume was for buttons inside the elevator or something

the accent color was acid green

i was watching a transformers cartoon apparently from 1993

the plot was that humans nuked themselves and the ones that survived became robots or something

and also the planet turned into steel somehow

also the main villain pulled terms autobot and decepticon out of his ass on the spot and the good guys just decided to go on with it

he also etched the logos onto the planet with a big ass laser which is kinda weird

i think before that i was watching yt videos by an old man who's always drunk and posts rarely

it was a review of a french(?) music video from the 80s

waking in the park full of drunk and dangerous people at night

for some reason

also visiting some school and noclipping through walls there

the was also a scene where i edited a tree out of my dad's wallpaper because it was no longer there irl?

doesn't make sense now that i write it down but it did in the dream

also he played a simultaneous multiplayer version of homm3 with some insane mods where they added animations of monsters ganging up then running and being up the opponent's monster

college

it was the end of a semester or something and we were told that we have to get 4 commits merged into minecraft's source or get kicked out

or was it 3 i don't quite remember

i was nervous but you weren't and you were planning to help me somehow

i'm not sure how this dream ended but the next one was a bunch of characters fighting

and it was like right after this one

it felt like the same dream

i can't remember what was the reason for their fight but it was a bunch of people with and without exoskeletons/mecha suits

they were trying to kill each other so only one survives

i don't think i saw who won

there were a couple more dreams after that but i don't remember them

the last one was me playing a game that was obviously a ripoff of super mario bros 3 but pretended that it wasn't

and it was apparently a mini game inside deltarune

i also found a video(?) where 2 guys discuss a lawsuit involving another game copying smb3

and they were like in a building that was just one small room and no ceiling

the walls were quite high also

a third guy jumped into the building from the top and he expanded while he was falling

like extreme bloating he got several times as big and filled almost the entire room

one dream was like

there was a anthropomorphic orange fish

probably clownfish

okay how do i phrase it

there was another fish this time gray and it was trying to save the first

kinda like a peach-mario situation

i don't remember what exactly it needed to be saved from but i was some sci fi shit

then the orange fish revealed that the gray fish was actually artificially raised for the purpose of entrainment and dreaming all this time

the gray fish didn't get didn't any less enthusiastic after that

i think the dream just ended here

there was a dream where i was trying to write down the fish dream to you

the last dream was me and a couple of random guys (students?) being on an airplane

the airplane was unusually wide and there was a big area where there were no seats and a light bulb with an adjustable color temperature for some reason

we spread a cloth on the floor and we were planning to discuss something there

i woke up before we could

btw the airplane looked suspiciously like the apartment we had when i was like 9

so not curvy even

i just looked up what a clownfish looks like and no it wasn't that

there were no white stripes

just solid orange

i thought that it was clownfish in the dream where i was writing down the fish dream to [the person I'm writing this to] so i thought must be legit

there was a windows xp tablet called Samsung Nise

which i didn't know how to pronounce

which also had a (not-quite-)mini pc addon or something

it had a similar design to that liteon litepanel monitor i had as a child

the tablet was from japan and it was vulnerable to some exploit that involved a weird a key combo and an alarm clock app that xp didn't have

also it was all happening inside my grandma's apartment from my childhood

google had its own original stock music studio

kinda like incompetech but official

one of their tracks was "YouTube Creole"

it was a jazzy woodwind composition

i think there were 3 instruments: flute, clarinet (had to google how this one is called rn), and some long ass one

it wasn't contrabassoon because it was so long you had to put it on the floor

anyway there were apparently many covers of it

like one where a white girl with ukelele covers it

and also meme national covers

where the title of the video is like "youtube creole of hungary" but the song inside is completely unrelated

1. a scene from a nonexistent movie called "black suv" ("чёрный внедорожник")

i no longer remember the scene itself

2. a scene that i thought was a "perfect recreation" of something that actually happened to me in one of other dreams

i no longer remember this one either

3. psychedelic middle school shit

we were supposed to attend some weird ceremony that was absolutely required for graduation

i went to school and it was a maze of corridors and rooms that were completely brown

like you know it was wood but painted with a shitty brown color

there were people there and i think they were all dressing up?

either way it looked like a really confusing minecraft map

when i found my way out of it the ceremony already ended and i started crying

4. playing a video game that sorta looked like homm3

i also attempted to recreate the maze from the previous dream in minetest

i used a fucky skybox with galaxies so it looked like it was floating in space

although maybe it wasn't minetest?

i remember there were also like stars and planets and shit and those weren't cubic

well whatever

5. watching a cartoon that has characters from neon genesis evangelion, scooby doo, and madagascar

i only remember the ending scene

the main villain (generic evil woman) was planning to drive into the middle of a "thousand kilometer wide desert" and leave someone there

she was driving a buggy or whatever the fuck it's called

like an suv but without a roof

i didn't see the victim themselves so i assume they were in the trunk or something

either way it turned out asuka was somehow there all that time and she yeeted the evil woman with a fishing rod from minecraft

then the camera was still on the ground and pointed towards the sunset

the woman ran then that fat sexy hippo from madagascar (but a chibi version of him) and scooby doo walking upright followed

scooby looked really weird like you could still tell he had an anatomy of a dog and he wasn't supposed to walk like that

1. discord added some new weird features and i was trying to configure them

one of them was backups apparently because i restored one from 2023 at some point

2. i was in a mental asylum with my middle school friend

he said something along the lines of

"how long have you been here for? 4 weeks? are you sure you're ever gonna get out?"

that was unsettling

3. preparing to cook human arms

i don't remember how exactly i was going to cook them

also i don't know where i got them from or if they were real

they kinda looked like a copy of my own arms but more pale

they were lying in a long square container with no lid for most of the process

probably marinating because they were in liquid

i think they also had gloves on for some reason?

i woke up before i saw how i cooked them

there was a weird issue with my oldest observations

like something missing

so i was trying to fix it via the command line interface that doesn't actually exist

my dad hinted me that he's been waiting for me to finish for quite a bit

we were going to go on a trip or something

so i started dressing up

the room i was dressing up in looked like the one i had in like 2014

also i was way thicker than i am now

i couldn't figure out how to put my shorts on for some reason so i put 2 of them and then struggled to get one of them off

then i heard a really loud ass siren that sounded like what i imagine would be a nuclear strike siren

it said something like "hands to the wall" or "head to the bottom" and then "it's needed for victory"

it wasn't clear

either way i ducked then closed my eyes and covered my head with my hands

it repeated for a couple more times

i woke up right after

i think i was also thinking about an upcoming vacation to some cold country

iceland?

i was planning to visit some places where some guy first was a couple centuries ago

i don't know why i wanted to do that

middle school

my friend and i were walking around the city during late evening

neither the school nor the city looked like any i've been to

i also could fly and it involved holding some sort of object in your hands

my friend didn't fly so ig he couldn't do it or something

also there was a moment where i realized it was a dream and then forgot about it 5 seconds later

driving with my dad through minecraft landscapes early in the morning

it was in first person and irl but both of us acknowledged that the terrain was minecraft

idk how that works

at first the terrain was really impressive with large mountains and shit

so i complimented that thank god they finally fixed in the modern versions

then we drove into an area with flatter terrain generated in older versions

the grass in modern versions was much greener btw

like alpha green

it could be i switched a resource pack half way but i don't remember doing that and idk how that'd apply to like irl

either way at some the dream turned into myself and some people i know (friends?) going through weird buildings and shit

like skyscrapers and subways

in the end it turned into an online video game or some shit

i had a fight if you can even call it that with 2 people

there were 2 rooms and they were connected by a corridor

i entered one of the rooms and there were a shitton of movable shower curtain holders

without the curtains themselves + they could still hold your weight despite being movable somehow

i felt like i completely expected them to be here so ig you could choose your weapons?

but again i don't remember choosing them

either way i arranged them in a way that when the 2 guys enter i'm gonna beat the shit out of them as fast as possible

i waited for a few minutes and they never entered

i decided to enter the other room to see what's going on

right away one of the guys pushed me into some tiny portal thingy while i wasn't looking and i lost the game

i felt like i fucked up and entered the wrong room but idk why

$30 got withdrawn from my bank account which i converted as "7000 rubles"

hopefully the actual price never gets that bad lol

either way i woke up soon after realizing that

me and some other person having many short bus trips to explore a new area

it was like a city with a picturesque nature around it

the person was my friend but i don't remember which one

we were unsatisfied with the trips after doing a few of them because the buses themselves sucked

i don't remember how exactly tho

there was a scene right after that but i don't quite remember it

i think we walked in a shopping mall or something?

anyway after that we decided to watch a movie

i only remember the scene that felt like it was close to the end of the movie

a guy in the police uniform and a spherical helmet a la spaceballs was going somewhere in his mini truck

a woman was also going to the same place by bicycle and she was saying something about saving her child

the guy and the woman were cooperating i think

so not enemies

then some weird shit happened and they both daydream for a couple minutes thinking they did something important but then realized it woke up and continued

the woman daydreamed of finding her child and the policeman dreamed of grabbing some guy and beating the shit out of him

after the policeman woke up he noticed the guy he was daydreaming of was driving away from him by motorcycle

he took a portal gun out of his truck and magnetized him

it was really fast like he just flew back

he then put him into the truck and started trying to murder him with a feather

like one from a bird

then the scenery suddenly changed from a city road to a forest and the roof of the truck disappeared

the feather also changed to a pen

he was still trying to murder him but it really looked like they were fucking

unconvincing acting in other words

it was much more convincing before

at some point the policeman acknowledged "the viewer" when he accidentally bumped the camera person and they didn't cut that

in the end he also told them to go shoot from the top of another building because the view is better there

1. godfather visiting us

the apartment didn't look like any i've ever been to but the room he stayed in looked like the room he lived in when i was like 10

he was staying overnight

in the morning i went to him and it turned out he wrote a fully functional fully documented nes emulator

i think we agreed to something similar but it still surprised me

2. escaping a building that's about to explode or something

not sure if there was a time limit

there were like 30 something people including me and my grandma

we all climbed down to the last floor of the building with the person who knew how to escape

at the very end there were 2 ways: a regular door that you needed a ticket to go through or a giant puddle of human feces that covered your legs

my grandma decided to go through the shit puddle and i had to stop her because we could go through the door

btw there were like those spinny thingies before the door that they put in the subway that prevent people without a ticket to enter but these did nothing

you could just go through them

the ticket was checked right near the door with a scanner

so when we got to the door it turned out the guy only had 1 ticket and he was going to escape alone and leave us all inside

we bullied him into giving up his ticket and all left with one ticket

he was left in the building

idk if it exploded because the dream ended right here

3. weird top down isomeric game

it kinda looked like a strategy or a civilization building game

you only what i'm talking about

but it was actually an rpg

you did have multiple characters tho

the game had a default windows 95 ui so ig it was old

it wasn't pixel art tho it was like prerendered 3d

you could choose which time period to put yourself into and you had to find some shit

the default second character was an ancient spirit of some kind that you couldn't actually control but you could pray to

i haven't seen that much gameplay because the dream was short

4. viruses killing a human from the inside and then escaping

the viruses were played by humans

it kinda looked like a movie but it didn't feel that way in the dream

it felt like that's just what was happening and i was watching

i forgot most of the details at this point but there were multiple people those viruses transferred too

it also looked surreal

1. some kind of hotel

we were on vacation but it wasn't any tropical place

i remember being in the elevator and going through the hotel entrance

everything looked pretty nice and that had warm lighting and dark walls of different colors

they also had trees planted right in the floor if looked pretty cool

the soil around the trees was covered in polished white stones

like the ones you find near a river or something

2. tv series?

it was like 4 short sci fi movies about a superhero or some shit

or not really superhero but a powerful guy

he had a catchy name but i don't remember it anymore

the locations it was shot in had that kind of doom vibe

or maybe outlast

endless corridors with cool lighting

actually i think this may have been part of the dream 1

because i remember telling my dad about watching it while in a hotel

3. finding out that the names of the songs from an album i like were based on ancient poems

i don't remember which album and i don't think i played it at all

the first song was apparently based on the poem about the creation of the world

i don't remember the name that the song was based on but the poem had an older version

from mesopotamia if i remember correctly

it was called "the" translated in all lowercase for some reason

it was written on a clay tablet that also depicted a deity that looked like a more humanoid version of patrick from spongebob

like a giant pointy star with arms and legs and a human face in the middle

me and my dad in a parking lot near some building at night

he told me to analyze something on the map

find the gas stations?

i did whatever he asked but when he got back into the car after visiting the building he was disappointed that i didn't do something

also he came back with 2 giant bags with 4 champagne bottles in each

that barely fit on the back seat and which i was worried would bump into each other and break when we lifted off

also there was a smaller bag that was signed "additional bonuses"

it had food in it or something

it was sealed from the top kinda like a lunch bag but the bag itself was plastic and way bigger than a lunch bag

i woke up before discovering what exactly was in it

1. me on a discord server

i was complaining to people that i couldn't find a job

also there was a person living in space somehow

they mentioned venus but the sky in their photos was black even when there's sun

i guessed that it was a moon of venus

they were born there and they were telling how depressing it is that they'll spend their entire life there without ever seeing the sky or earth in general

i also was visiting some places in person when i wasn't on that discord server but i don't remember any but one

i visited a person which i think i actually know online

they were working as a cashier in a small convenience store

i arrived here in late evening

it looked dark but not like completely black

and it stayed that way for a long time actually

it looked kinda like what it looks like when it's right after the sunset

i was gonna say "right before the sunrise in the north" but now that i think about it it doesn't actually look that way

anyway we talked about employment and they shared my concerns

2. school? college?

it didn't look like any i've ever been to and there weren't any familiar people

i remember running around the place with a group of people

not like for fun but we were short on time or something

there were no classes tho even though it was daytime

also i think i haven't seen the insides of any classroom or a single teacher

there was a scene (it was actually before the running around but i fucked up the order already) where i was in a really big mall during evening

it felt endless but it also felt like the same building

anyway i was looking for a uhhhhh

shower puff

which in the dream itself i called a "shower mop" for some reason

although ig it makes sense why i did that because i didn't actually know what it's called until now

anyway i couldn't find it anywhere

no one sold it no matter how long i looked

one place sold decorative paper versions of them but that was no good

okay now back to school and running around

i was at some point encountering "famous people"

like a guy who designed a computer algorithm or some shit

and a former firefox/thunderbird designer that decided to join us

he flew to the school by slowly landing with a parachute from a ridiculous height

i could see his pov but i still knew it like wasn't me

the outside of the school was a forest

it didn't feel endless but i couldn't see the end

the school itself looked like a giant fucking concrete rectangle with no windows

imagine a hundred skyscrapers right near each other forming a square

terrifying megastructure but it felt pretty chill somehow

anyway that guy landed and i started asking stupid questions to him

one of the questions was about the redesign of a selection dropdown that determined the severity of something

i remember several designs: some circular symbols colored like a traffic light, a square that's only filled partially with a triangular cutoff on the left and text in the middle colored purplish gray, and a version of the first where the symbols are slightly different looking suns in the color of the second

the first was apparently the old firefox design, the second was his thunderbird design, and the third was his new firefox design he did recently

if we pretend that it wasn't nonsense for a moment then i think his new firefox design was the worst

because the first mostly used color to differentiate and the second mostly used shape and the third just kinda sucks

anyway back to that guy

i was asking questions and at some point he got tired of answering them while we continued running

at some point we bumped into a dead end

like a solid wall at the end of a corridor

there was an alarm and it started screaming really loud

i was told to "GET DOWN" (it was said in a more agrammatic way but i don't remember the exact phrasing) and cover my ears

we didn't run away and nothing happened instantly so i guessed it wasn't an explosion and there would instead be just a really loud sound

i never found out because i woke up right before it happened

i found an unreleased game called "rubydung 2"

which was made by notch in collaboration with an old partner

not partner as in his old wife but a business partner (but female)

the game had 2 versions available

the early one but it was a bit similar to minecraft

i remember that the were landscapes and shit

like forests and mountains

i don't quite remember if it really was a sandbox tho

the late version was completely different

it was a first person multiplayer game where you're in a tiny apartment with other people and you do shit

i played it in vr on an android headset that was really cheap

actually that may have been a separate dream

anyway you could also switch to the third person isometric view

levitation was part of the gameplay which was a bit weird

i also looked up the controls online and there were 4 separate control schemes and all of them used at least 1 nonstandard button

one of them used 🤡 and another used ☁ which was colored blue like a cloud storage service logo

the 🤡 one had an icon like that creepy clown gif

1. i don't remember the first one but i do remember that it was there and it was elaborate

2. going through a website with obscure songs

it looked a bit similar to spotify (there was only a dark theme) but with a blue accent color

there wasn't any sidebar on the left however

anyway i found an electronic jazzy something artist from like the 90s or 2000s

i checked the cover art and it turned out it was [former prime minister]

i thought maybe it's from the 80s because he looked too young for the timeline to match

i woke up and then almost instantly fell asleep

3. "school graduation" that i "fail"

this time it was a grand festival in a concert hall where you had to arrive the day prior and sleep in the dorms with everyone else

the festival itself had stuff that "tested your abilities" or some shit

like we had to make a dish (i think i just filled a plate with dry apricots) or a poem or something like that

i think i actually did relatively well because i went through all of it without having a mental breakdown

in fact it was kinda fun albeit a bit stressful

but in the end i was told "sorry you fucked up" and then i did have a mental breakdown

i got so angry that i decided to go back in past

which i did actually

i did something wrong during arrival and instead of dorms i was put into a bathroom with 2 beds one of which was already occupied

it smelled disgusting especially because the toilet was open and there was unflushed shit

i flushed it and right away went back in past again

the dream ended before i could fix anything

4. i'm not sure if there was a dream here but the previous dream doesn't connect to the next one in the slightest so there might have

5. playing homm3 during class

it was the same school i was graduating from 2 schools ago

the classroom looked nothing like any we had

i don't remember what anyone looked like except my friend and the teacher

both of them looked like what they did back in the 9th grade

there were windows xp computers with crt monitors

it was supposedly the russian language class so idk why we needed them

anyway at some point i installed a mod out of boredom

it added really weird game mechanics like getting control of the opponent's monster at the cost of giving up the control of yours

it also added new towns and made the ui look like it was a ripoff of homm2 drawn in ms paint

idk if it was intentional but it also made all sound effects unimaginably compressed

it was like 64 kbps mp3

when i tried to exit the game it kept playing the music and went me through a couple of useless dialogs

in the end it left me with a list of games or some shit that kinda looked like a list of virtual machines

the music still kept playing

there was no close button which confused the hell out of me

the teacher noticed this and it we were suddenly ordered to summarize text

i really couldn't do it

like i'd read text and my brain wouldn't process it

i gave it to my friend which copied his version onto my sheet

including the illustrations which he drew with a pencil so well that they almost looked printed

we gave our sheets to the teacher and went on our 5 minute break which we never had in the 9th grade

the break felt more like 1 minute because we ran down the stairway and the bell already rang when we were halfway there

we went back to the classroom and i woke up after that

btw i remembered that when i woke up between dreams 2 and 3 i had some thoughts about being able think freely within the dream but not control it

idk if that actually happened because it didn't happen in dream 2 and i don't remember dream 1 still

me and a bunch of my former college groupmates were in the mountains

like snowy andes but it wasn't particularly cold

i don't think you were there tho

we were at a train station planning to go to a

i don't know how to even describe it

we had a video game like quest to defeat a big monster or some shit

we were going to wear armor and had the expectation that dying is fine because you don't actually die

it kinda was irl tho?

either way there was a small isolated area of the mountains with a "country" that didn't know much about the outside world and had those video game mechanics

we bought tickets there and it was like a 15 minute train ride

the mountains were really steep and at some point it felt like we were upside down and at another point like we were falling

i thought that maybe the train turned into a bus and then into a plane but the interior stayed the same and when we left it it was still a train

so idk maybe it turned into a rope suspended train or some shit

either way when we entered the territory of the country we had a radio announcement telling us the basics of survival there

they only told them once and i almost right away forgot most of them and i felt confused that you couldn't ask for them again

what i did remember is that they had an emperor and you weren't supposed to say certain phrases or they're gonna kill you

like you weren't supposed to mention jesus if you're christian

so yeah we arrived and it was like a 70s city in the mountains with a dense fog

some boy bumped into us and he had a completely emotionless face

he wanted something from us but i didn't know what so i said he could follow us

there were tram tracks that i wanted to cross but i couldn't figure out how to

there were no traffic lights and each time there was no tram when i tried to cross a growly voice would say something unintelligible on a speaker

so i instead just went down the road with the rest of the group

i don't remember how but we met their emperor which was just a really swole dude with cyan skin

reminds me of some zelda character but idk which one since i never played it

anyway he allowed us to look through his apartment because it's was a common thing there apparently

i found "hd" cds in his cupboard

which were like compact disks that were used to store hd video

i looked at them like it's some ancient piece of shit from the 2000s

it said that it fit 20 gigs of data and i thought "okay so a dvd fits 250 gigs so this is 1/5th of that"

wildly incorrect math aside neither cds nor dvds were ever that big so idk what i were thinking

i continued looking through the cupboard and the emperor offered a person from the group to betray and murder me

which was apparently also a thing there

i think they declined but the dream stopped shortly after that anyway

after i woke up but i still was eepy i imagined being on a beach in "los angeles" which looked like a european town with a lake

i had my eyes closed but i could still see what it looked like a few days prior

there was a rope with like small floating platforms in the water the size of a smartphone but cylindrical

i entered the lake by them but when i tried to go back i bumped into someone i knew (my dad?) so i had to open my eyes

idk if that counts as a dream technically but whatever

oh yeah also in the dream that's actually a dream my seat in the train was no 9

completely irrelevant but i still somehow remember it

i was sitting right next with a groupmate i didn't really like

1. i realized i was in a dream and right away decided to have sex with a serial killer clown

i couldn't do it because reality failed to bend according to my will

the dream ended abruptly at some point

2. walking alone on the highway during twilight in winter

it was an open field with a couple tiny villages

i was looking for somewhere to stay at night

it wasn't really cold (and i was dressed light) but i was still scared of the night

i didn't find anywhere to stay but i did find speakers playing really loud music just standing outside

i thought i remembered leaving them there before with my friends

which is strange because the landscapes and the village looked completely alien

btw i also had yandex maps on my phone and i think it said i was in northern siberia

like roughly the same geographic area as norilsk

anyway i couldn't find anywhere to stay in the end

3. driving repeatedly through the same stretch of road

i was in a completely empty bus and it was driving for like a couple kilometers then everything would reset

the outside was an unbearably saturated sunny summer day

like imagine the worst minecraft video thumbnail where they pushed saturation as high as possible

it was that but without gamut clipping

each time it'd rest the outside was different

the one i remember was like a generic asian city in an underdeveloped country

i think i saw the flag of uae which is funny because i have no idea what that flag looks like

so like the buildings were arranged densely and were mostly small

there were big ones farther away from me

absolutely not a single person tho

also the perspective was kinda weird because i didn't see any buildings right in front of me

it was like as if everything was in the background

but it wasn't just a flat image because there was parallax it didn't look like a video game it looked like real life

the landscape the city was built on was mostly flat with a few sporadic perfectly circular mountains

it was like someone just randomly placed them in the old unity terrain editor

btw one of the big buildings was that big ass tower from seattle

like the one with a dish on the top

hold on there was a dream after that

4. i wake up inside the dream (presumably from the previous dream)

i was in a different bus

this time there were people with me and the bus looked lived in

it was like a house on wheels but inside a bus

it was dark outside so prolly either early morning or late evening

i knew that the bus was in the united kingdom and the people were my partners but i they weren't anyone i've seen irl

i wanted to do some trivial action but one of the guys told me i shouldn't do it or the other guy will kill me because you shouldn't do it today

i got scared for some reason

i woke up shortly after

it was "high school"

i don't remember who my classmates were except one from middle school

he discovered a way to make jet fuel out of olive oil and he made a scientific paper for it and shit

there was also something linux-related which didn't look out of context in the dream but idk how it fits

also a scene where we make dough then take it home and promise to make bread

my dough was green and i thought i was gonna throw it out

it was like the last class or something

the inventor classmate showed me his wallet and there was a bill of every country's currency during that class

looked pretty cool i was jealous

anyway after the class ended i went through a hole in the wall in the corridor and flew away

i was talking to the same middle school friend as last time

in the meanwhile i was noclipping through buildings

including my grandma's apartment which somehow had way too many rooms and was floating in empty void

it didn't feel like a video game tho

and it didn't feel like talking remotely

even though he wasn't there

weird sense that's hard to describe

anyway we had a really nice conversation

at some point i called him darlin'

the whole conversation was in english btw

he told me something about pronouns even though that's not a pronoun?

not sure what that was about

anxiously going through supermarkets trying to find stuff while it's raining outside

the city was big and it wasn't any i've ever been to

it was autumn and my college groupmates and i were going to swim in a body of water

it was cloudy outside and the water was really fucking cold

like almost freezing actually unbearable

there were only 3 groupmates but it still felt like an assignment

don't remember at the point if it actually was or if it felt competitive

so anyway they went swimming and i chickened out because i was prolly gonna die in water that cold

i went to an empty bus that was parked in the front yard of a khruschevka and just sat there

ig it was the bus we arrived there in the first place

i returned to them half an hour later

all 3 of them looked like those medical drawings of people with skin removed

like the ones where it shows all of the muscles

and it was supposedly due to the temperature

somehow they were not only alive but also happy and talking to each other and blaming me for not coming

it took me a while to process what just happened and get back to the bus

the dream ended before i got back to that bus

now right after that i had a false awakening like 3 times in a row i swear

it was like "oh what a cool dream i need to record it" and then it was that again

after that i still didn't wake up

instead i had another dream where i'm walking through a neighborhood at night and see a grandma listening to music in headphones

she was sitting near something that looked like a tv frame but the inside only had a vinyl record inside

i googled and it was a vinyl record player from 1903

not sure if vinyl records existed back then but she was using that monstrosity nonetheless

i also discovered that they had a way of writing up to 200 GB of digital data on it also back in 1903 which certainly wasn't a thing

i woke up for real shortly after

it was supposedly a hospital but it looked more like a sanatorium on the inside

the main room i was like a giant communal bedroom with like 20 beds on each side

every bed had a black blanket

each bed was populated and i remember that one of the people was a former groupmate

supposedly we had to stay there because the only other option was to go to the military commissariat and ask for a hospital there and that was worse

also we could use phones which we wouldn't for the later option

anyway at some point we went to the doctor

it was the one that checks your throat and whatnot

while waiting in a queue i counted my fingers and realized that i had the wrong number of them

i thought "huh okay i'm dreaming" but it didn't feel like i gained control

it still felt like a regular dream

so anyway i immediately proceeded to have sex with the doctor

at some point i had a false awakening inside the same communal bedroom

i right away counted my fingers and realized i was still dreaming

i told a couple guys "what if i told you you're in a dream right now"

still didn't feel like i had any control tho

i proceeded to teleport to a random big city and noclip through buildings to fuck with strangers (literally)

very unoriginal i wish it'd do something like playing the greatest song ever or something

anyway at some point i false awakened again inside the same bedroom

i counted my fingers again and there were 10 of them

i was like "cool i'm actually awake now"

afterwards there was a scene where i went outside and the weather was cloudy and there was no grass on the ground

i woke up for real in the middle of that scene

1. playing some vr game about fish

like you're fish and other players are fish too and you build shit in the water

it felt really lovely

2. there was a plot about how inaturalist at first was an online game

they added the photo upload feature during one of the updates and they forgot to limit it to in-game objects

so players started uploading real plants and animals and it eventually took off the entire site

i found an old faq online and i was reading through it

also i found videos from a person who was in his 70s and was using the website for 25 years or something

i don't think it's that old irl

3. driving through mountains with parents

at some point i noclipped out of the car and started flying

the landscape looked almost like a stock image

really green grass and blue clear sky

there was a road sign so i went where it pointed and i arrived to a tiny town at some point

it had mostly soviet buildings there

the dream became completely incomprehensible here

there was something about my classmates back from middle schools mocking me and something about video games but idk where it fit

and in the meanwhile i continued walking through the town and my parents continued driving

4. watching a video game review

it was an snes game i think but the camera was rotated in such a way that you could see different layers separately

like a 3d effect

certainly isn't possible on the actual hardware

anyway it was a platformer where you played as a tomato (apple?) and you had a friend who was a banana

the reviewer remarked that the developer was famous for making christian games and they were trying to make this one not christian

but they kinda failed because of numerous similarities to their previous games

like "these are essentially the same character" or "this character has a very similar catch phrase"

doesn't quite make sense as an analysis but whatever

there was a tv show where people were fighting over getting a chance to become a character in some famous thing

i was watching the final episode where there was a tear jerker episode that involved a character doing something impossible

also before that there was something about a group of people that couldn't escape a moat around them until someone figured out you can put a bucket upside down and use it as a platform

after the tv show i was in a weird bathtub

it was shaped like a hollow donut about 3x3 meters in size and like a meter tall

there was no roof so you could get out of it but i fit in it entirely

2 people could fit in it staring into each other's feet and still have space left

the tub was made out of broze or some other kind of orange metal but it wasn't cold to touch

it wasn't filled with water completely but instead like only a little bit

barely covering me

i don't quite remember how it could spin at this point but i think it was suspended with metal wires

kinda reminds me of waterpark slides actually

the room that it was in looked like a soviet canteen kitchen with white walls

it also spun around slowly which was pretty relaxing

i was listening to the radio in the meanwhile which mentioned something about a super mario bros being the only person who achieved something as a teenager

after that i navigated through maze-like dressing rooms 3 times

first one was normal the second one was "run through the beach naked and hope no one spots you"

also i had to jump down a stone cliff without breaking all of my bones which i somehow did

third one was also normal except there was a section for "foreigners" which is what i entered

my mouth was full of salt for some reason and i couldn't open the water tap so i used a conveniently placed water battle with a sprayer

line the kind of sprayer they put on soap bottles

the walls there looked like they were from a japanese house

dark blue and seemingly made out of paper

youtube poop of a mecha anime series (although it looked live action)

the final scene was the main character is near the final boss preparing to attack

their friend arrives on an old ship familiar to the main character

it looked exactly like the ship from sdf macross

and funnily enough the main character's mecha looked like star platinum but in a middle eastern hat which name i don't remember

it was like the white wide one that kinda looks like someone wrapped a towel around your head

flat on the top

anyway they tell to the main character

it was something along the lines of "i know it's old and half the ship is missing but it may be useful"

the ship barely managed to get level btw

then they swapped

the main character entered the ship and their friend entered the mecha

i woke up shortly after

1. me and some more people were enslaved by some guy

we lived in sheds and he was feeding us trash

also he used some contraption that held you in a seated position and injected poison into your neck

in the end we ran away in a car

i was paranoid about him catching us but i think it didn't happen?

2. giant mall with slides

like you took a ride on a slide to get from one floor to the other

the slides were green and dangerously narrow btw

was pretty fun

all of them were in the middle of the mall

on some stretches it looked like you were in a void idk what that was

maybe they weren't completely in the middle but went around the mall through service rooms

3. flying through a city

not a big city just a regular one

it was like a spectator mode in minecraft

although i didn't noclip through buildings

i did noclip through the ground into a cave tho

1. it was raining and i had some plumbing issues

the sky was gray but it wasn't sad

very dreamy atmosphere

there was also something about like a secret tiny house on top of the apartment building

like a tree house but not on a tree

2. middle school

there was a boring history class and then an unusually long celebration of some military holiday

i managed to skip both by fucking around the school

when everything ended it was also night

i went home with my friends

3. nonexistent cathode ray dude video about modern apple ii replacements

one of them had an intel 8080 cpu apparently

it was like a small box with several identical very big ports on the front

like an audio jack but much thicker

it cost $400 or something so he didn't like it