We were playing a survival game and a toxic gas weather event was fast approaching. We had to properly insulate our house out in the suburbs with concrete and water proofing material gathered from the garages of nearby homes.

I was back on my college campus but was being questioned if I was actually an alum. It was currently a holiday so we had to fill in a form for contact information before being allowed to enter further. We were asked to fill in the forms in order of when we first got online and directed to different rooms accordingly. I figured 2000 might’ve been too early as I would’ve only been 4 by then. I thought 6 might be closer. I heard someone blurt out “7!” followed by a brief chuckle.

My parents had started teaching Finnish and were posting daily lessons on an online forum.

It was the first day of class and I was struggling to find a desk to sit where I could clearly see the whiteboard. Our first assignment was to answer some questions about a cartoon show. I rummaged through my backpack but was unable to find my notebook. I had a feeling someone had taken it but didn’t want to make a scene. I left the classroom to buy a replacement.

I was trying to give someone my legal name but they couldn’t seem to understand that a “first name” could be made up of two “words”. They asked me to write it down but I struggled to scribble out anything legible on the sticky note.

I was playing mahjong with my grandma and someone at the table hadn’t won a single hand yet. My aunt commented on how the tiles in my grandmother’s hand had arabic numerals on them. I said they could sometimes be useful for teaching. We ended up talking about Roman numerals and I brought up how they were still used on clock faces but we couldn’t manage to find a single one in the house that actually did.

I had been living in a shed in my cousin’s garden. The garden was very large and the shed itself was located in a shaded area with lots of moss where the geese liked to hang out. I was telling my friend about the bees that buzzed over my head and he said how he never gets to see any bees in the city where he lived.

I caught glimpses of someone watching the English dub of The Tatami Galaxy out of the corner of my eye. Meanwhile, we were playing a platform fighting game while sitting under the sheet metal roof. Someone dismissively called it “black and red Smash”

I was in a hotel room watching a Trigger short that was about giant autonomous airships transiting across the land and the unwitting generations of passengers living aboard. The landscape and the designs on the airships gave off a Breath of the Wild vibe with the Sheikah-like decals on the exteriors.

I was playing an evolution simulator game and I was stuck inside of a whale. I had to wade through furniture and other forgotten things while managing my air supply.