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It's time for a dream roundup!


( Dreams from February and March. )


The current final line in the document in which I note down my dreams is 'Pickaxing tortilla chips out of the walls of the tortilla mine. I'm not sure whether this was a dream or just an incoherent thought that wandered into my mind when I was half-awake.'

It's only been three weeks since the last one, but it's time for another roundup of dreams!


( Dreams from December and January. )


It only occurred to me while editing this entry that I've had multiple dreams about erectile dysfunction lately. It's... it's not a topic that's often on my mind, if I'm honest.

I still haven't written up a post about our New Year's Eve karaoke! (Of course we did New Year's Eve karaoke.) I must get around to that at some point.

I saw that hamsterwoman had done this television meme and thought it looked like fun!


TV questions: pick five TV shows you like (in no particular order) and answer the following questions. Don’t cheat!

1. Community
2. Lost
3. Supernatural
4. Scrubs
5. Death Note

( Television questions! )


Someone anonymously messaged me on Tumblr today to say that I should write more Lost fanfiction, and they're absolutely right. What a great show.

I've played a few hours of the demo for Metaphor: ReFantazio, which is basically mediaeval fantasy Persona, and unfortunately I love it. Looks like it might be time to sink a hundred hours into another Atlus game.

When the protagonist's dialogue options turned out to be voiced, I was so shocked that I paused and had to take a moment to recover. It's not what I expect from something so clearly rooted in the Persona series!

Hilariously, the background music is diegetic; your fairy companion is magically making music play in your head. Incredible. I also inexplicably find the battle music extremely funny; it's something about the singing!

This game immediately got its claws into me by introducing a mouthy, overconfident young man with a guilt complex and a desperate need to do what's right. 'Kind of a little shit' and 'fundamentally good-hearted' is a very hard combination for me to resist. And then he was nice to our protagonist when everyone else looked at us with suspicion! I immediately loved him and wanted to be his friend.

(To be honest, I've already checked whether I can romance Strohl. The answer: no, because this game has no romance system. I'm going to pretend I'm romancing him.)

At one point an army captain asked me about my skills, and the game presented me with a list of options. 'I can take a lot of punishment,' I replied. The captain's response was 'Really now? I'd not have guessed... Sounds like an invitation to me.'

I felt the game had looked straight at me and said, 'You intentionally made the protagonist say the horniest of the options, didn't you?' and, to be honest, it was right.


The rest of this entry will be a dream roundup!

( Dreams from September and October. )

A few nights ago, I dreamt there was a large, poisonous red and black frog on my bedroom wall, right next to the bed. I dreamt this so vividly that I had to turn on the light in real life to check whether it was really there. I don't usually get confused about whether my dreams are real; it was a very disconcerting experience!

For the benefit of anyone who's concerned: I have not been poisoned by a frog.

I definitely feel I've been remembering my dreams more often since I started posting these dream roundup entries. Interesting side effect!


( Dreams from August and early September. )


Finally, the dream of this batch that amused me the most:

Dreamt that Odo of Star Trek: DS9 came to our house and found a contraband chocolate orange and we were in big trouble.

It feels good to be able to make polls again! It's been a long time.

I usually don't include 'I can't answer this' options, because they can drown out other responses. I've included them for question three, though, because I'm curious about how many people aren't answering because they don't know the characters versus how many people aren't answering because they don't like the characters. You can still submit the poll if you haven't responded to all the questions, so feel free to skip anything you can't answer.




The final question is based on a dream I had a while ago, in which it was a meme to make one-page 'fact sheets' about canons. These fact sheets always ended with 'QUIZ TIME!', a simple question in allcaps, and the answer options 'A) A COCONUT       B) AN OLD MAN'.

'Who could have played Until Dawn?' was the only question I remembered from the dream, and I felt compelled to bring it to life.

Watching this Omori fan animation (NB: Omori route spoilers and Omori-typical unsettling imagery), set to a remix of 'Bad Apple!!' from the Touhou Project series, really leaves me in awe of the passion and creativity of fandom.

So many people worked on this! There must have been so much organisation and editing involved, on top of every individual animator putting in the work to animate their segment of the video. Not for any sort of material gain, but just because they all wanted to make and share a cool thing about something they loved. I just think that's neat!


The rest of this entry is going to be a collection of dreams I've had since April. As ever, there's absolutely no obligation to read these, and in fact I'd strongly advise against reading the one about Barret Wallace.


( Some recent dreams. )


I'd be really interested to know what percentage of my dreams have me taking on the role of someone else, rather than being present as myself. I'm fairly sure I'm myself most of the time, but it's not unusual for me to dream that I'm someone else, usually a fictional character. I think I also occasionally have dreams where there's no 'me' present at all; I'm just experiencing a story I don't play any role in. It's impossible to get actual statistics on this, of course, as I don't remember most of my dreams!

It's time for another roundup of dreams!


( Some recent dreams. )


As ever, I tend to assume my dreams are mainly just of interest to me, so there's no obligation to read my dream roundups (not that there's any obligation to read my other entries either!), but you're very welcome to if you're curious.

It's time to archive some of the recent dreams I've noted down on my phone. As ever, I'm doing this mainly for my own benefit - I don't expect other people to be especially interested in my dreams - but feel free to read if you're curious!


( Archiving assorted dreams. )


Finally, here's one outside the cut, for a preview of the sort of thing I dream about:

Dreamt Light Yagami was strangling me with a face mask. Fabric mask, elasticated ear loops. I was on my back; he was on top of me, pressing the stretched elastic down hard against my throat. I'll be honest: it was not a comfortable experience.

Not a great dream, but I have to respect my subconscious mind's characterisation of Light Yagami. No 'I meet my favourite character and he finds me enrapturing' here; I meet my favourite character and he immediately murders me.

Who wants more thoughts on the subject of Light Yagami masturbating? Nobody, but somehow here we are. Light is not a particularly sexual being; I'm not sure why my mind has fixated on this subject!


( Yet more regrettable thoughts on Death Note. I'm sorry this keeps happening. )


Here are a handful of Death Note thoughts that aren't about masturbation, if that helps. I'm up to episode eighteen on my rewatch.

Light basically treats Ryuk as his mildly obnoxious but loveable talking pet. It's kind of great.

L asking Light to play the role of Kira in their fake video! What a little shit. I love it. And I love that Light is a little shit in return by writing a message that would get L killed and then going 'pfft, just a joke'.

I love how, when L criticises a move Kira makes, Light leaps to explain why it was actually exactly the right strategic decision. Not that Light is invested in having people believe that Kira is really smart, of course. But, just so you know, Kira is really smart. If Light were Kira, which he's not, he'd do the same thing.

L absolutely drives Light up the wall in every scene they have together. It's a delight.

I feel so sorry for Light when he has amnesia. Just a bewildered, suffering piece in his own game. Light will use anyone as a pawn, himself included. He gets himself imprisoned for at least fifty days, and for over forty of those days he thinks he's innocent and being framed.

And then he's handcuffed to L for over two months, which is just hilarious. What a sitcom premise. They must have got to know each other so intimately, or at least as intimately as you can when one of you is extremely private and the other has significant parts of his memory missing, which is still more intimately than they're used to knowing anyone.

I don't think either of them would suffer if they refrained from masturbation for a few months, so you're spared further musing on that front. But I stand by my headcanon that they have to share a bed while handcuffed, and that L sleeps in disconcertingly weird positions.

When he sleeps at all, that is. The first few nights, whenever Light wakes up, L is still perched on the side of the bed with a laptop. Eventually, Light expresses mild concern; if L never sleeps, how is he supposed to investigate with a clear head?

The fourth night, Light wakes to find L sleeping face-down with his head dangling off the side of the bed, his arms trailing on the floor and his legs across Light's ankles. It is not an improvement.