I called my parents to ask about their plans for an upcoming visit but I never got a straight answer from them. I sat up in bed and sent a selfie to the Discord server. It was just a daily thing we did. My mom asked me what it was like to remember my dreams from 22. I corrected her and said I remembered them since the age of 5. The earliest was one where I fell into the gap between the ferry and platform while trying to board. She questioned whether there actually was a gap but I said that didn’t matter to my child self. I had memories of having a jump onto the boat.

I was in a moving train car with my mother as we waited for food to be prepared. I wandered to the other end of the car when someone placed a large metal cylinder on a machine tool. Moments later the drill bit punctured the surface of what appeared to be a large battery and a hissing sound came out. I started to feel a dull pressure building up in my ears as I told my mother to get away from the machine. I feared it may have been too late.

I was reading through a Wikipedia page for “eparenthesis”. It was both genetics term related to hybridization and a grammar term for nested parentheses.

I was trying to grab a cable out of the floorboards when I yanked too hard at the bundle of wires and accidentally unplugged the lines that some of my classmates were using. I quickly apologized before hurriedly reconnecting the whatever I could.

I brought my friends to a supermarket that I frequented. I wanted to show them the crepe station that was in the corner of the store but when we got there we found out that it was already closing time. The small cart usually serving samples was gone and the lights were turning off. We retraced our steps to meet back up with the rest of the group at the entrance.

I was watching a game of Starcraft. It was PvT and the Terran player had sent a large group of Marines against an army of Zealots. The game seemed to be over after all of the Zealots were wiped but they kept playing anyways. “What’s his plan?” I thought to myself. The Protoss quickly hit the supply cap again but his army didn’t look like it. Marines and Firebats made a beeline to the mineral line as the Protoss player failed to block off the ramp.

We were sitting at a table in a restaurant and the shelves on the wall were stocked with bags of “weed packs” which were bundles of various forms of cannabis.

A former Chinese leader was giving a speech by the shore concerning new territorial claims in nearby waters. “These outlying islands will be like a new Taiwan!” He announced as he pointed towards the sea, which was met with a lot of confused murmurs from the crowd. Suddenly there was a large bout of cheering as the crowd chanted “Welcome, Taiwan! Welcome, Taiwan!”

We had moved into a new place that was kind of like a service apartment. There was a large multi-tiered cabinet that occupied half of my room. One could pull out one half of the storage unit and jump into the middle of the shelves and drawers. I liked how discreet it felt to sort my stuff from the inside.