August 2, 2014

I was sleeping in a shelter by the track. When I got out of the room, there were people on the field walking towards me so I knocked on the closest door.

“Get in” whispered the girl at the door.

She was invisible. Except for when I consciously put my mind into envisioning her, she would constantly flicker in and out of existence. As a result, there would sometimes be multiple copies of her around the room, stuck in space as if the frames were frozen.

I woke up in the same room. Everything was a deep aqua blue. I reached for my phone and turned on the desk lamp. As usual, I couldn’t unlock my phone properly. I looked around to see a small window and a mirror with a cross on it. I turned to my left to see a Din Tai Fung bag. I thought to myself that if I looked at its side and the logo wasn’t there, I could be sure that I was dreaming.

I was lucid once again and so I got out of the room to find myself in my old house. I thought about what I should do as this meant that I had more time than usual. I couldn’t think of anything to do upstairs so I headed down to the kitchen for which the lights were already on. There were boxes all over the place and so I decided to look through them with the intent of going over past memories.

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I woke up on an overnight train at 6:35 AM. I felt rather sluggish as I opened up my laptop and strained my eyes to adjust to the brightness. I thought now would be a good idea to check if my ports were really open. I encountered an unfamiliar error screen with white text on a black background. It had something to do with a graphical failure. I felt very warm in my shirt so I took it off and wore a fresh one. There was some kind of component stuck right behind the display in the top lid and it stuck out in between. I carefully slid it out and assumed it must’ve come from some other part of the laptop. I started to wonder whether I was using my laptop, albeit recklessly, in my sleep.

The screen finally turned on but it was with an unfamiliar background of purple flowers in the grass. I right-clicked trying to change it and clicked the option “Background and Tease”. Apparently “tease” in this context meant a thumbnail of sorts. I realized League of Legends was also open and was attempting to connect to a game. I right-clicked again and chose “Pan here”. Suddenly my display was permanently zoomed into a corner of my screen and there was nothing I could do about it.

When the game finally connected, I was met with a screen of defeat. I wondered how the hell I managed to even get into a game when I was sleeping and away.

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I was riding a bike on a highway bridge. And I was going very fast in the opposite direction. The bridge kept sloping up and down and as a result it was very hard to control the speed. I wasn’t the only biker on the road. For some reason, every single bike was going in the direction against traffic. Chaos was rampant as everyone tried to dodge the oncoming cars at high speed.