Circlejourney records their dreams

One of the rival supermaxis was in the lead, but then in the middle of the race, it suddenly turned around, leaving us in the lead. We soon found it had retired.

Throughout her life, she encountered multiple cursed individuals and stolen their life force and energy, growing stronger each time, and she had learned how to cast magic in secret rather than learning from a school (because she was shunned by society). I think I was her friend who sometimes hung out at her home base in an abandoned shop house, and was there when she found a device that could transfer power from one person to another. The device was like a frame with six glass tubes, and was configured by putting a number of empowered glass spheres in each tube. when she experimented with it with a random person, she discovered a catch - if the power donor wasn't magically enhanced or adept in some way, it would simply kill them. Anyway she killed someone in this way.

One day there began this rumour that some man was hatching a plot on the streets, where he wanted to start transferring the life force of people with a device like this to empower a super-soldier (and killing them in the process). The first thing he did was go to girl's hideout where I also was, alongside a guy based on Jayce, but poor, and he began to interrogate us to try and find out if he could recruit us and our friends to the cause. "Jinx" of course was very standoffish and acted like she couldn't help, but I let slip that we had friends who were good at persuading others, and he seemed interested.

We were called to the start line, and off we went. I managed to get up to the front of the pack and ahead through many twists and turns, until I got distracted at a split in the route and briefly forgot which way went back to the finish, and second and third place overtook me. I made a huge serially propelled leap by pushing the manual propulsion, and flew overhead to land in front of 2nd, finishing 2nd.

We later gathered for the post race meal to talk, and started talking about strategy. The winner said she liked to keep her distance till the end so she could plan her approach. I said I just got distracted easily by visual input so I tried to keep my view clear and get to the front. The winner was clearly more experienced than I was.

An older woman came over with snacks on toasted slices of bread with different toppings. I got toast with liver pate. It was tasty and we thanked the one who had brought them. I remember making a joke like "as if I didn't already taste enough seafood during the race." (Even though I'm pretty sure that's not seafood)

Soon, I found myself walking home through the streets, which resembled Brisbane. It was all houses on foothills - it had Brisbane vibes. I was with someone else, possibly my partner M. I became aware that some dark crow-like creature was following me. Then I was told in my head that I could create a tulpa of that crow creature if I performed some series of mental actions that I have forgotten.

The part that I do remember was that each time I started to do this, I saw a black shadow shaped like the crow begin to form inside my mind's eye, and my brain started to get zappy (brain zaps / sleep paralysis) and I would partially wake up, but struggle to move or fully do so. So I guess it was really more like a sleep paralysis entity? Cool design though.

When I went back to sleep, I went home to a house that was just like my family home in Singapore. I remember meeting S (my crush) in my parents' bedroom, which had turned into a sort of hall in my dream. Also unlike in real life, this hall was adjoining the back garden, which was much bigger than in reality, and very well kept, like a European garden. We talked about a game I made (she gave me many compliments about it). And then I got in a debate with someone, who informed me that her pronouns were actually they/any (not accurate irl as far as I know).

Suddenly, I was in the hospital bed waiting to be put under anaesthesia for a procedure. I had the needle in, and I think it wasn't meant to hit the concentration needed to put me to sleep so soon, but the nurse had messed up the settings and I could feel myself starting to pass out. I forced myself to get up and turned the dial back to prevent it.

Later on, the procedure actually began, and I was put under properly. But rather than going unconscious, I entered some kind of other world, a black and white copy of the operation room except there were souls wandering around it, sitting on the edges of counters and such.

When I woke up from the anaesthesia, the procedure was done, but there was no difference in how I felt.

Then I was on the road in a big city in a country I didn't recognise, and being directed up increasingly remote roads on a very tall mountain. I reached the very pinnacle, a very small plateau with precipitous drops on every side. Beyond, on all sides, was the city. It was cold; I was trying really hard to take a panoramic photo of the entire landscape, but also trying very hard not to fall off.

I think I was up there with a person who seemed to be a merger of my partner M, and my ex Y. They told me to take a photo of the conjunction of Jupiter, Venus and Mars, which was flawlessly visible from here.

We went down the slopes on our shuttle bus. On the bus or something, I ran into 2 other people I had had a crush on. We all lay down together, as if I was romantically involved with all of them?

Down on the streets, one of them told me the name of the city. I got a text from my brother asking me if I could get a photo of the tower (name forgotten). I looked up a main road, and it seemed the city had been designed specifically to create line of sight to that very tower from every cardinal direction. It stood on the horizon, a skyscraper with a zigzagged silhouette and beams of spotlights radiating from it. I got my photo.

I believe we were all together at a university - the campus had a lot of glass, reminiscent of QUT GP but also the building where I did most of my bachelor's - and we were acquaintances in real life.

I was doing a music major, or something of the sort, and I had learned how to play the flute. She was also at the same school, though I am unsure if she was studying music. She was unassuming and friendly, but rarely extended social connection by herself (much like IRL) so I made the first move of extending friendship (also like IRL), sitting down at the table with her and a few others during lunch.

I remember being attracted to her, even then, but being the way that I am, my "advances" were all simply offers of friendship (also like IRL). I remember feeling a little jealous towards the other people in the cafeteria who were also talking to her and dividing her attention.

I could tell she was enjoying my company, though. At some point I noticed she was often leaning against me when we sat side by side. She doesn't strike me as that kind of person in real life, but dream-me felt some very nice fuzzy feelings about it.

The first and only round I played, me and my friend were taking turns controlling the same boat. Your boat would be randomly generated upon joining the game, but all had similar weapons with which to take down opponents, each having a "charge time" - mostly missiles and similar but you had the option to prepare a nuclear missile. Also, every day before the day elapsed, you had to be touching a "fuel point" to charge your attacks. Everything was rendered in a schematic lineart top-down style, except for the explosions.

The way we played was interesting...I believe we slotted our ship into an abandoned container floating in the north part of one of the maps (idk how it was big enough) and that caused the battleship to appear inside the silhouette in the top-down view. We watched other boats hit each other and wipe them from the map. We made it two days undetected, and would simply spend the last few minutes of each day pushing our ship gently towards the fuel point so we could charge our nuke.

On the third day, someone spotted us and began to attack. this drew attention to us, and then we started to get hit by others, which we quickly retaliated and healed from in a panic. We hadn't used any of our weapons up till this point, so we were full, and when people began to attack, there also came a moment where all the opponent ships were concentrated in one part of the map. We launched our nuke and took out everyone else on the map at the same time, winning the game.

At some point, I went to a computer lab in secret and booted one up (old Apple Macs like at my primary school) and played an edutainment game based around deducing the meaning of words by analysing their structure and parts + identifying their cognates in other languages.

There was this sense of the facility having many layers of secrets, and one of them was that there was a secret location I knew could be accessed via the lift but I had to look up the code for getting it to take me to the secret level, and it took me a while to figure out how to trigger a secret mechanism to open the lift (there was a hidden button on the front decal).

I had an offer for one free "special" coffee from an app on my phone, which I applied at checkout when ordering, because the meal came up to $144. But it worked in a weird way, in that after you paid on your phone, you had to go to the counter and specifically request the desired coffee flavour.

I did so, and then it turned out my preferred flavour was out of stock: they brought in our meals and only mine wasn't there, so I had to go to the counter to ask.