The new semester was starting soon and I was feeling anxious about not having registered for classes yet. Two children asked me if Taiwanese people didn’t like singing. I asked them why they would think that. Apparently their host family told them to stop singing while they were brushing their teeth.

I was in a dungeon out of some kind of video game. I had been turned into the size of a small fairy and needed to retrieve a magic wand. I looked around and up the stone walls with my dad until we saw it perched on a shelf way beyond reach. We’d have to find another way around to get it.

I was being chased around campus while on horseback. After riding down the stairs to the ground floor, we jumped over the wall at the end of the parking lot. We figured that they wouldn’t follow us over the wall and jumped into the getaway car.

It was already morning and I was laying half-awake in bed. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a cockroach scurrying across the sheets. I felt a wave of disgust but I couldn’t bring myself to get up. I swatted at the roach and fell back asleep.

I was making my way across the plaza when I met my friend who was in his graduation gown. I told him that I was thinking about heading to this year’s college reunion as well. We entered a small coffee shop and lined up for deserts. When we got to the front of the line, I ordered a scoop of apple ice cream. The barista just looked at me and asked, “That’s it?” I nodded, unsure if I had said something wrong.

I was running through the shopping mall trying to look for a story character. New areas were opening up like a video game as I ran past the corridors. Some of them led to boarding gates, others to a train platform. I walked past a group of students playing a word association game. After hours of running in circles, I lost track of where I was supposed to go. The “mall” was closing for the night as the lights started going out.

The court that we were playing basketball on was in the middle of a field. I had somehow made it through tryouts and we were playing some warmup games. Players would sit down in the middle of the court during a game whenever they felt like it, knowing full well they were in for a scolding afterwards.

I was half-asleep on the sofa in some kind of office when it felt like someone was kissing me on the lips. I opened my eyes to see that it was actually the sensation of wind from the fan blowing back and forth into my open mouth.

I was playing Deep Rock Galactic but it took place high up in the atmosphere. I floated my way towards the ship and had to “repressurize” before reentering the cabin. I felt like my thighs were swelling up as we stood in the holding chamber that was only lit by a few red bulbs.

I got off the bus in the middle of a residential area of the city. Apparently Russian forces had pushed up to this area and tanks from both sides were streaming onto the streets. I quickly made my way down the sidewalk, hoping to not attract too much attention.