The River Cruise

Woke up at around 9:30. In fact I think this is the 3rd or 4th time I have woken up. Had several dreams again. So here it is.

In one of my earlier dreams, I was underground with 2 of my former roommates. One of them I recognize as Frankc (My real-life roommate 2 years ago). He was digging in an underground cavern looking for some antics. I think he was looking for some ancient play cards.

He dug up lots of fake ones which other people also usually found. Finally, he dug up a real valuable one which he quickly hide it back into the earth covering it with a lot of those fake cards. Frankc later returned to find the card but realized it was stolen.

In another dream, we went on board a huge cruise ship. I sat in a passenger seat along with many other passengers. I was writing some important things in my notebook and left it there on a desk. I think we came on board by my friend's wooden fishing boat which was tied outside the cruise ship.

It was evening when a huge storm started. The waves in the water are enormous and fierce. My friend's fishing boat that was tied onto the cruise ship was badly beaten by the waves, almost sinking it. I was just standing there looking out the door at the helpless ship.

The storm lasted for some time and I am not sure about the fate of the small ship. Daylight has arrived and the cruise ship stopped at a jetty. I went out for some fresh air and walk and the small stony path nearby. I then realized that we are at Kinabatangan. The cruise ship has been on the Kinabatangan river all along going towards my hometown. I then pondered how great nature is to create a storm and violent waves in such a small river. The huge cruise ship is pretty amazing too as it can fit into this river without any problems.

I walked for a while and remembered it was time to return to the cruise ship. I quickly went back and ran down the grassy slope to the jetty below. As soon as I set my sight to the ship, it took off leaving me behind. There is nothing else that I can do so I just watched it leave.

I walked back to the old path and began walking down the path until help arrives. I then realized that I have a remote control device which I can use to send a message to my friends in the cruise ship.

I took out the remote control which is light grey. There are 4 lever switch on the device. The first one I can only pull it down and up; the second one is tiny and I can only flick it up or down; the third and fourth one I can move in more directions. I figured out these are used to write alphabets to create message. So I tried them out and then gave up halfway not knowing how to create a message. So I just continued walking down the path with sadness. Then I realized that I could just wake up and end all this.

This will be scary if I was trapped inside that ship

I dreamt about the huge wave crashing at the fishing boat because I watched a video on that yesterday.

It seems that I have been recently dreaming about being late and get left behind as a result. Yesterday I dreamt about returning home from a flight (or train) where halfway we stopped at a country where I went to photograph a tree and got left behind. The other day I also dreamt behind left behind when I failed to catch up at a vehicle. I think I am dreaming about this theme because I am worried that I may not complete my assignment fieldwork in time as the deadline is approaching.

The Crash and The Monkey

I woke up minutes after 10 am. I had a strange dream. 

I was in a vehicle in the middle of road. The traffic was slow but then there was a sudden crash. A huge thing crashed into the back of the traffic.

It seems like an airplane has crash landed onto the road and destroyed several cars. I seem to be an investigator so I went to look at the crashed plane. The plane was weird and then I finally realize the truth. I told my fellow investigators that this is not a real plane crash. The airplane seems to be fake. I can see that the walls of the plane seems pixelated so I know it is created from a computer. My fellow investigators seem to be agreeing with me.

So we set out to a village with lush grasslands. The grass we really tall as we walked through it. The two of us came to this village to look for more clues. We reached a bare tree and saw a strange animal on it. It looks like a huge squirrel or just a monkey. My detective friend went closer to take a better look at it. I followed him from behind.

The mammal has this long brown bushy tail which reminds me of a tufted ground squirrel. The rest of the body are really hairy too, like a tamarin covered in densely long curved black hairs. It came down the tree and looked at us. We moved a few steps back to give it some space. Then it starts crawling towards us. We slowly walked backwards but it started to chase us so we increased our speed. The next thing I know, I am walking very fast through the grasses not wanting to be caught up by that creature.

Armageddon

Watched Gravity Falls: Weirdmaggedon last night before I slept (at close to 5am) and I was instantly in love with the spectacular ending. I kept thinking of the wonderful plot and ending on my bed that I am sure to dream about it. Not surprisingly, I really did dream about that.

I was in a town that is destined for doom. There was lava flowing out from a volcanic fault a distance away. The town people were neglecting it, they don't really bother about it.The lava slowly flooded the town, trapping everyone in it. Helplessly, I hide inside a large garage but the lava soon flowed into the open entrance towards me. I could not do anything. This is my end. Unless....
I turned time back!

So I turned back time, reset the world as it is before the lava flood.Confused why I can do that? Well, read my previous dream then you will understand.

So I went back in time and tried to warn the people. I went to a warrior lady's home and told her about the lava flood. She was not believing the disaster that will befall upon us. I destroyed her floor and created a big hole to see the lava flowing underneath her house. She finally believe it but it was too late since the lava has flowed up to here. She was kneeling down looking at the lava below and I suddenly pushed her. She fell down the hole and into the lava. I looked at her as she slowly melt away quietly. Don't worry about her, I will just turn back time again.

So I turned back time. This time I managed to warn the whole village about the dangers. I think I was hailed as a hero and invited for a lunch with some guys at a round table. I was so happy that I actually cried. I sat with them, recognizing them as my friends. However, I soon felt sad and told them that I have lost some precious books that has the complete piece of the ancient world map. I identified one of my friends as Norman Platnick, an old guy. I told him how hard it is to imagine the sadness it is to loose such valuable books.

Well, the lava problem has not been solved yet so together we marched towards the volcanic canyon. We saw the lava wave incoming together with some small lava monsters. I somehow summoned the rock monsters to rise up and aid us in our fight. They awoke and emerged from the rocks at the slope. They sat down hard on the road as the lava creatures tried to pass. The impact from their seat causes the ground below them melt into molten rocks and burned those lava creatures. And then the molten rocks underneath quickly dried back into solid rock along with nearby lava. They did this repeatedly until the lava diminishes. Dream over.

The Submarine

Woke up at 10am. Had this unusual dream. So here it goes.

There was this submarine that emerged out of the water with its entrance hatch wide open. I secretly entered the submarine, or perhaps I was captured. I cannot really remember which one though. Anyway, I was in the submarine already where I watched through the roof window we slowly submerged into the water.

In another scene, I remember watching through the window, seeing a group of men swimming in the waters. They were naked except for the undies. Maybe they are doing some underwater training. One of them swam towards me and pointed at me. I seem to understood that he is the captain of the submarine and he wanted his officers to capture me. So the officers in the submarine tried to capture me.

I cannot remember being captured but I was stuck in the submarine like a prisoner. The submarine ventured out into the sea where they released a drone to survey the islands. I also get to see the bird's eye view from the drone's camera. It flew over several islands which are covered with large forest trees. The drone did flew close to one of the islands and flew close above the canopy getting a closer view.

In another scene, the submarine emerged in the middle of an oil palm plantation. Weird huh? I got some time outside getting some fresh air.

I cannot remember more details of the submarine dream so let's move on to the next dreams.

There is a short scene I remembered where I was standing in a lonely part of town. It was close to evening. I was standing beside a road looking at a small building opposite the road. A car slowly drove into the road from the right hand side. It was an ordinary car but I noticed it had something on it's side mirror (right side). I looked at the car and my eyes followed it move. In my mind I was thinking that the small rectangular dark object on the side mirror may be a camera. As I look at the car drove past me and drove right at a turn nearby, I saw that the object is just an extra side mirror but it's a very wide convex mirror, magnifying the driver's face real big.

In the last scene, I was on a jetty at some beach. There were tall trees planted alongside the jetty. I have an axe in my hand. Somehow I feel that the trees are valuable so I have this desire of cutting one down. I grabbed my axe firmly and swung it at a tree hard. The first cut was deep. I did not knew that I was this strong. There were some friends there watching me. I hit the tree hard several times and then I gave it a final push. It came crashing down and so is my dream. I cannot remember what happened after that.

Saving my Friend as a Girl and Spiderman

I woke up at 9 am and 11am. Had several dreams.

In one of my dreams, I think I am in Antarctica, but deep underground with a few friends. I think about 3 of us. It was the north pole so I know that it was going to get really cold. We were digging underground to reach the surface and the ground icy water is slowly rising. We quickly dug a medium-sized tunnel up the thick layer of blue and white ice mixed with snow.

Upon reaching the surface, we realized that it was dark. It seems that we are in a strange cave. We walked and exited through a small entrance. When we looked back, we were face to face with a huge blue whale. Looks like we dug right into the whale carcass, and exited through its mouth.

We then ventured into the nearest town. While walking in the town streets, I saw a food market building with several small stalls at the open ground floor. They are displaying the kuihs (Malaysian small cakes) that they are selling. So I excused myself from my friends to went in there alone. I quickly walked around to survey the foods. There are a lot of sticky rice cakes and other kinds of kuih but to my displeasement, I could not find my favorite tapioca cake. One of the stall owners went away, she was rushing to somewhere leaving her stall with the foods behind. Later on when I looked back at the stall, it was empty, the foods were gone.

In next scene, may be another story. I was following my friend, a girl. Not sure whether she is new or a friend since childhood. She went to the back of a building and I followed her, I was holding some boring -looking adults' dresses in my hands. There is one particular red one which I remember well. She went into the ladies washroom to get dressed, I followed her in but stopped right outside the entrance. There were girls coming out from the room and are looking at me with confusion so I hesitated to go in and I told my friend I will get changed in the boy's room then. However, I was thinking that if I got changed and went the men's room as a girl, that is equally embarrassing.

Wait.. wait... this may be too weird for you right?
Dreams exploit our inner desire. Although I am a boy, deep inside of me there is a part of me which wanted to be a girl but I have been supressing this side. But in my dreams, it came out again.

In the next scene, my friend was with a boy, a friend of her's in a room. Then, kidnappers came and tied them both up and carried them away in broad daylight. There are about 4 of them, walked out into the streets.

I need to save them quickly and somehow I got dressed up in a spiderman suit to save them. Unfortunately, I lack of the spider silk powers Spiderman has. Instead, I have the power of hiding in the shadows. Weird huh?

So I crept in closer and closer to them from the shadows but somehow they spotted me and shot me. I kind of failed so I reset the time, making the time go back to when my friends were just been kidnapped. I tried to get closer to them but got shot again. I turned back time again and again just to be spotted and shot at again. I was thinking that they have such super awareness sensitivity that they can detect where I am hiding at.

I thought really hard and finally I decided to turn back time for the final time. I went back, way back to a much earlier time where I made my friend stop doing something which could attract the kidnappers' interest. I cannot remember what I really did but I managed to save them this time. The kidnapping did not happen later on.

There is one scene where I remember making friends with this girl under two different identity. I was her friend for several years now but she did not know that I secretly dress up as a girl and made friends with her as well. Sometimes I am afraid that she might suspect we are the same person because whenever my feminine self was with her, my true self do not show up.

Well, then. Time for a different dream.
I was in a house that is about to collapse. The house was shaking and the structure is getting weak. Everyone quickly packed their things that they are trying to save. I was there rushing looking for my belongings too. We then got out safely before the house crashed down. Although I did not actually dreamed the part about the house collapsing.

We were finally outside the building when a police officer drove by. My friend asked me to disturb the cop and somehow I listened to him. I told the police that there is something suspicious around the building area up a slope. So he followed me up the slope. I think the building up the small slope seems to be the home we escaped from just now.  

So up here, the cop could not find anything suspicious so I apologize and said that I may have mistakenly seen it. So he spend some time there before returning back while I was standing on a cliff enjoying the view from up here.

I dreamt about digging underground as I have been playing Terraria a lot. The market is because I have been looking at photos of local markets recently. The movie Edge Of Tomorrow I just watched also influence me making me dream about repeating time.

And that is all. Goodnight. Dream well.

Kuching, the Mysterious Land

Woke up dreaming halfway, it was about 7am. I slept again and presumed my dream until I finally woke up again at 9.

So I was thinking about my former classmates from my private Chinese high school when I read about them in my facebook home wall. I was looking down at them seeing how they end up today. Little did I knew, I dreamed about them in my first dream. So here it is -

I was in a classroom. Seems like my old classroom back in high school. I was in a middle of an exam. Seems like I have to write an essay in Mandarin. Oh Man! Mandarin is my weakest language!

So I barely wrote anything. I was getting really uncomfortable so I move around in the classroom and I was scolded reprimanded my my teacher (my old math teacher). I gave her some excuse which I cannot remember well. I felt really uncomfortable getting back into high school as this was a worse part of my life.

Let's move on to the second dream, the main one.

I was in Kuching, the capital city of Sarawak. Seems like I was travelling there with my friends who accompanied me to Lahad Datu a month ago. I cannot remember how many of us are there exactly. I think about 5 of us.

We were in a building, a government building. It was having an exhibition on something. Not sure it is about an animal or a board game. I was happy to be invited together with my friends under the leadership of Shave, one of us.

He was recently invited to organize a workshop in a school in Singapore so maybe that it why I dreamed about him.

It was about afternoon when we walked on a pedestrian bridge to get across the road to reach a small hotel. We stopped in the middle of the bridge to look at the view of the city from up here. I remember crossing this bridge the last time I visited Kuching alone. Which isn't true in real life. I saw two familiar government buildings which have some large beautiful architectural designs. Which I have never seen in Kuching before. 

The buildings reminds me of these buildings in the photo which I have been to. Although the mosque-like building in my dream has a lot of golden arch-like structures outside the windows as decorations. 

I also saw a large bus on the road. It is under the TransTedar transporation company. It has the same black and red color theme of the company buses except that the bus design is different. It was a very strange bus with a unique design. Just imagine that there is this large bus which is very wide so it has more seats inside it. The roof is actually transparent as it is made out of glass but there are some steel bands in between to reinforce its strength. So I can basically see the inside of the bus from up here. However, the bus seems to be empty.

Looks something like this bus

We continued our walk to reach the hotel which is just nearby. The next scene is at the hotel. The hotel is just one small building connected to other shops. It is a simple concrete hotel only about 5 storey tall. It looks white or grey in color too.

It was late at night. I think already past midnight. We were kind of hungry so we went found out that the restaurant is not closed yet, maybe it is even newly opened. We saw that there are a lot of fresh food in there so we looked for a long family wooden table against the wall at the back of the restaurant. It is a very small Malay food restaurant, almost as large as a big sitting room.

We all sat down and realize one of us is missing. One of the girls was not here. We were worried because it can be very dangerous at night where evilness comes out. Her friend told us she was going out to the forest across the road (she named the forest something like 'mystical forest' but I cannot remember well).

We were really worried because that forest is a very dangerous place. Why on Earth she would go there alone in the middle of the night!? I told them I will be going to the forest to look for her.

Before entering the forest, I received a vision. I had a vision of a man with a beak or a crocodile snout in the forest. So I dressed up like a shaman, wearing something over my mouth, making it look like a beak. I crossed the pedestrian bridge again and got to the other side. It was a small forest land where I found a gigantic long boulder with a large gap underneath something like a cave.

I walked into the cave and saw a lot of spirits / ghosts, all dressed colorfully with style. Seems like they are having a party. I cannot remember how I found my friend in there but I do remember that she looks like a ghost, with long hair running down and probably in a trance or sleepwalk. I escorted her out like a shaman. I walked behind her and lead her to the direction back. Nobody seems to suspect me. And I think we have come to the end of the dream.