Dreaming in Digital

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20259114 i was in university but taking the subway system. I felt free of responsibility so i travelled to a mall. I went window shopping in an area that had a Chinese grocery store.

20250107 i dreamt Amaretti lived in a multi--million dollar mansion, and its history. The master bedroom was built in a separate, smaller building outside the main one, and the main building was L-shaped. Amaretti showed us the blueprints before an event started in the main building.

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20241124 I left my hotel in a suburb of the greater toronto area and took the subway all the way to the heart of toronto (there isn't one built on this period of time). I met shortbread there and some friends, and we stopped at a Chinese store. It was late in the day and the stores were closing. I threw a bunch of things (i couldn't get where i lived) into a cart and took it to a cashier whose register was outside the store while everyone waited at the sidewalk. He took a long time ringing up my items. When he was done, i was alone with my bags and everyone couldn't wait longer. I took the subway alone back to my hotel room.

I had a few dreams, but I only remember three.

In the first, I was visiting his family with Cookie. I knew something was wrong with my memory, and the more I fought it, the more it failed me. I tried to remember names to faces, but I couldn't do it properly. The last person I tried to identify was Blsckberry's and Cherry's mother, who appeared as a tall, leggy blonde woman. When she asked what her name was, I forced my mind to formulate her name. "Aunty Nancy," I said, immedately regretting and knowing it was wrong.

In the second, Blackberry and Raspberry were getting married. It was a garden wedding at night, and unfortunately was not illuminated enough, as the only lights around the fifty-to-a-hundred seated guests were the altar stage and the projected screen. The projection was short video clips from Blackberry's and Raspberry's life, but puzzlingly pieces of Blackberry's humourous clips on YouTube. Astonishingly, there were several Spiderman clips with very crude humour. When I looked at the altar, the couple no longer stood there, and I assumed they went somewhere private to do the ceremony. I turned to the Asian girl I had taken a seat beside and asked her a question.

The third dream was related to the wedding. As I stood from my seat, I was immediately pushed to sit back down. The man sitting behind me on my aisle seat spoke to me and the girl seated in front. This man was skinny, blond and grungy - he stood out from the sea of wedding attire. I didn't understand what the man said, but I knew if I didn't cooperate with his wishes, something terrible would happen. The woman in front of me stood up and took my arm. She had short red hair and looked very much like Scarlet Johanson. We walked briskly to the drug store nearby where she grabbed a few random things off the shelves and cradled them in her other arm.

Turning to me, she asked in an annoyed tone, "well? Aren't you going to take something?"

I spotted a bottle of nailpolish in bright purple. I squeezed it in my palm, debating whether I was suppose to pocket it and run, or pay for it. Following Scarlet to the register counter, she plopped her stash on the counter and I placed my bottle beside them.

We walked back to the garden, making a turn into an abandonned building and into a room. It was tiny with two dividers for toilets in the corner. I walked into one to find an oversized toilet and fresh urine dabbing the seat. The other's toilet was in the dark. Sitting on a love couch in the middle of this tiny room was a dirty blond man, ripped from his arms to his legs and a six pack of defined abs. He was deep into his thoughts, smoking a rolled joint.

The skinny man from earlier came in... And I can't remember the rest except Scarlet's face had been serious and focused the whole time.

Cookie and I were in a classroom held in a floor above a mall. It was the last day of classes so we were having a tamed party. We sat facing each other, on a small square table, with two other students on either side of us; one male and one female. We were eating a glamourous meal of rotisserie chicken and vegetables. Cookie had an idea to go to the dollar store and buy some drinks on the floor below us, so I came along with him. I asked if he was worried about leaving our things with our classmates and he said not to worry because our table mates would look after them.

The floor below looked like the street of the business area of a small town. We arrived at the dollar store, and once we went in, it looked like a thrift store within. We browsed through the merchandise, being loud and having fun, and soon we caught the attention of  a serious employee. When she was near to us, we removed our sweaters - his black, shiny Roca Wear sweater with white trimming and a zipper, and my compact, brown, cropped hoodie - and stuffed them into a shelf of clothes by the glass door entrance. We grabbed two large books, sat down and pretended to read them, covering our faces. When she'd passed, we rushed for the cashier, and bottles and stacks of twenty-four cans of Pepsi suddenly appearing in our hands. The total came to a shocking fourteen dollars, and we asked why. The stacks came to twelve each. We opted to buy a stack of twelve and the bottles instead (I'm aware the math isn't right). We came back to the classroom and remembered we forgot our sweaters in the store. After dropping off the drinks, we returned to find the dollar store a thrift shop during closing time, as the sky was becoming a dark blue and the street lamps were all lit. A Korean girl with long, straight hair opened it for us and let us look for our sweaters, which were now gone from the shelves and possibly bought. Cookie was angry and I was sad to lose our sweaters, but now that they were gone, we couldn't do anything. The shop was run by many Korean women in their twenties, and because it was dark outside, they let us stay the night. Along the bookshelves were mattresses lined up to form one big bed. We all crawled in, the feeling of putting Cookie in a bad mood and losing my sweater weighed heavily in my heart. I curled up beside Cookie, facing away from him, and slowly drifted away to the dream world. Sometime when everyone was asleep, I noticed an arm around my waist; it was Cookie's. It was like an act of forgiveness.

I went grocery shopping with my sister for some things our mom needed and as we were picking up a cart, we ran into Benedict Cumberbatch. Excited, I rushed to him and chatted I knew my sister was a huge fan (not in real life) but she didn't go near him or try to say "hi". She ended up leaving to go to another store within the small mall and I spent time with Cumberbatch, wandering around until the mall turned into the foyer of a hotel. To our left, we circled a big breakfast pavilion in the shape of a circle. I took a picture of it as we passed with my cellphone's camera to use as a game background later. While I still had my phone out, I asked if we could take a picture together and he agreed. My sister caught up with us and I asked if she wanted to take a picture with him. She acted shy and aloof but said yes. I didn't know how to use her camera and it wouldn't autofocus correctly. I fiddled with the settings and when I looked up again, a group of cosplayers ended up posing beside Cumberbatch; my sister was not by his side anymore. I tried taking another picture without luck and the group kept getting bigger and longer that my sister was no longer close enough near him to take a decent picture. This kept going on until Cumberbatch said he had to go. He was getting fed up of waiting for a faulty camera to work. I gave the camera back to my sister as the crowd dispersed and told her I didn't get a picture- she wasn't close enough to him.

Superboy (Connor Kent/Kon-El), Robin III (Tim Drake), Impulse (Bart Allen) [all from the DC Universe, mainly the designs from Cartoon Network's 'Young Justice'] and I were wandering about an slightly empty street market on a hot, sunny day. We were laughing and kidding around as we passed a vendor with many nicknacks and merchandise hanging from a wall he erected. We all slowed down when we came to it, looking at the various items hung. Superboy turns to short, little me and dares me to go buy a giant sombrero hanging from the wall. I shyly wandered to the wall, looking at every object and saw a brown leather messenger bag that I'd rather buy. The bag beside it also enticed me, but it was a small backpack. I reminded myself I was suppose to buy the sombrero, so I reached up to try and pull it off the wall. My height humiliated me as I couldn't grab the hat, so Impulse took it off the wall for me. Robin was beside me too, as they were both curious to what had my 'interest on the wall'- I guess they didn't hear Superboy speak.

I had another dream where I went shopping to find Bonk a birthday present. We buy each other charms, so I went looking for something that can be converted into a charm.

I had three dreams but I remember only bits of the first and third.

In the first, I had an envelope with something important in it, a cheque maybe. I put it down temporarily to look at something on a table at the mall, but when I looked into my envelope, it was gone. I panicked, but I also saw the thief left something there too. It looked like an important paper. Somehow I ran into Britney Spears and she said she knew the thief, so we went into a girl-accessory shop like Claires, and there she was. Britney talked to her first, but I hid in case I would scare her away. When Britney finished the deal, she returned to me with the thief- a woman with long red hair and punk clothes- and told me the deal. I was to give her a bus ticket and what she forgot. She gave me my cheque and she left with her forgotten paper, but she forgot her bus ticket. I pulled out a sheet of folded tickets. They were about 1cm x 2cm each and I tore one off for when I met her again, and I did and gave her the ticket.

In my third dream, I worked at fast food and when my shift finished, I hopped on a bus back to Waterloo. The seat I chose had a cat and a lizard sitting on the same seat, but I sat beside them on the same seat anyway. When I reach there, I hopped on another bus that led to the school. I bumped into a lady who invited me to ride free with her ID pass, but I still had mine from school.

For some reason, my mother and I were in South Korea. I wasn't alone; my friends went too. We worked at a korean restaurant, but my mom worked at a factory not too far from the restaurant. One day, master, Andy, an elder Caucasian lady and two other girls and I were working. In the back room, a girl from another shop came over. She was blond, tall, and chubby, wearing a baby blue shirt, long apron and black pants. She had a conflict with our restaurant and Masterr took charge, sending her back. I was sent to mopping the floor, and so was the lady. While mopping, I decided to mop a little differently, hoping I could make the floor really clean. I told Masterr and others to tell customers to walk in the thick line, as our tiled floor was divided by coloured tiles. I got to the backroom still mopping and all hell broke loose. There was a crowd of people running through the dark tunnel we called a back room, and it connected to every shop. The girl who complained was there. She was a little battered and she said some mean things about the people I Valued and myself, I couldn't help but hit her for those mean things because she made me angry. When she was gone, I saw my mom in the crowd. She said the factory was closing because of some kind of melt down. As we ran together, we ran into a box of candies. My mom wanted to get it for our family in our native country, but since the store owner ran with the crowd, it was abandoned. We told it with us, because I told her to since everyone was in a hurry. I lost my mom in the growing crowd and found some acquaintances who I hugged and greeted. I dont remember how I lost them but I was alone with the lessening crowd since I ended up at the end of the line. Somehow i was only in my underwear now. I fell to the floor on my tummy like I was swimming and this man asked me, "what are you doing?" he was on a bicycle. I tried to paint it on the ground in letters with purple sparkle paint upside down to face him. I don't remember exactly what I was trying to write, but the second half said "I feel indecent." he read it, trying to understand, so I turned and read it myself. I quickly corrected the first half of my writing since I had written, "i''m pregnant", and I wasn't. He took me on his bike and we rode to the end of the back rooms together. At the last store, there were more candies in a box. I took the box for my family and we rushed up the steps into a field of dead grass. There was an older man closing the doors behind us and my mom waiting outside. There was a golf cart we piled into- my mom was driving and my cousin Bren was at the back seat. She didn't really know how to drive it, but we crashed and fell upside down. The scene changed to the sky on top of an ocean, and a Canadian airplane and Korean Air airplane were fighting. They weren't designed for fighting, as they were passenger airplanes. It was cinematic and a waltz music played while a voice over said something about only Canada and Korea bombed each other, meaning it was only these two planes. When that view disappeared, I sat beside the bike dude on the airplane pavement as the Korea Air airplane pulled into the foggy airpad. I unlinked my arm from his as people were boarding and joined them.

There was a field trip in university taking students to the country where they speak Dutch. I was allowed to go, but I hid from my parents that Cookie went too. In the airplane, we had our passports and one dude and this guy behind him were comparing travel stamps. Our stewardess was strange. She started scanning me with a metal detector and told me I can't have my belt when it beeped on the buckle. I gave it to her and we were already landing. We were passing a golf course and there were so many flowers. They were large and beautiful and happy, and they were in the course. I told the person sitting behind me that they were so pretty and why couldn't Canada get flowers in our golf courses. I was also thinking of buying postcards to send. We landed in a country field with windmills and got out. I don't remember what happened for a bit. I was with Cookie and a group of our friends and class mates. We wanted to stop at many stores. There was a chocolate store, so I asked if we could go there and Cookie and I went. I was looking for something to give to Shortbread and Wafer at home. As we went around the store, we ran into ChocoChip, who was also buying. We asked what she was buying as we went around the store once more. She pointed to a pile of children's footed pajamas and I hugged her excitedly if she was pregnant; she was thinking about having a child and she wasn't, but she was preparing, just in case. We left the store and our group was gone. Cookie said that he has a hint of where they could've gone since Biscotti like Marvel and JammyDodger likes etc. Etc. We walked to the streets on this sunny quiet day and along the way, we got something to drink. We reached apartments that were old and spaced out well, and a street. With a garden on the other side. We also ran into Passionfruit and Pineapple, Cookie's two friends from university. Looking at the old apartments, I started feeling a little nostalgic and sad. We wanted to go to the garden, so we ran across the street, even in front of the police car, as it didn't do anything and drove off when we crossed. Pineapple said he had to go washroom so he went behind one of the garden bushes and peed. I also needed to go. The sun now was setting and gave a yellowy glow to everything.