MALWARE MAYHEM 2

Hi everyone :D  I'm a little early for once with my weekly entry!  Anyway, this one revisits a little annoying bug from a previous dream (Malware Mayhem).  Thankfully this one wasn't as mind bending and was only for part of the dream, but it was still annoying, lol.  Enjoy!

*Old Dream - April 7, 2018

 

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I don't know how it got infected again, but when the virus took effect I was on a Word-like program typing something and then the words got jumbled together and none of the commands worked.  The screen got pixelated and blocky with blues, greens and black until finally settling on red.  That's how I knew it was the same virus as before.... 

My sister was with me at the time when the virus took over and instead of helping, she hindered my attempts to fix it.  When I was using the keyboard to put the computer into safe mode she kept typing stuff too and when I asked what she's doing, she said she really needed to pay her bills.  And I was like, "What the heck!?  My computer's infected, you shouldn't be doing anything personal at this time!".  But she still kept trying to type over what I was inputting so I couldn't restart my computer :|

Away from the headache of a virus now, in another part of my dream, I had to investigate an old, run-down building.  There were tall greyish, armoured monsters guarding the doors to each room, and they all had spears.  They looked kind of like the monsters in the game "Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice".

I could have snuck by some but figured it'd be better to fight and clear them out instead.  But before doing that I had to find a weapon.  Lucky enough I found a spear!  But when I started fighting, it turned into a fishing pole :|  

The monsters laughed and mocked me for choosing such a flimsy weapon so I ended up using other things around the room like buckets and concrete blocks instead.  It got the fight done, but took a while (must have been the pent up rage from seeing the virus again, yes?  Lol).  

I explored other rooms too but I don't remember too much before waking up.  

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I don't know about you guys, but dreaming about computer viruses are the worst :(  I'm already very tech-adverse, I don't need more reasons to be afraid of breaking or wreaking my devices somehow :|  And thank you all for reading!

DISSOCIATION

Hi everyone :D  I wasn't sure whether to post this dream or not since it was pretty weird and confusing.  But I figured since it got me thinking and feeling deep thoughts, maybe others might feel the same way about emotional situations in their lives

 

*Old Dream - August 27, 2017

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I found out an old friend had passed away.  The strange thing was that the friend (or a copy) of said friend was still alive...?  Supposedly it was his "brother" who passed away.  I put "brother" in brackets because he didn't have a brother in real life (at least not when I knew him).

Even more strange was that I felt someone else's presence in the body; his sister's :O  However, whenever my friend spoke, it was the "brother's" side.  Talk about confusing :|

It was a very mentally taxing and saddening experience and I got really mopey since the news was so sudden and unexpected.  Not only that, no one had told me directly; I only overheard a passing comment from someone else.  It felt so unreal that was how I found out :(

I spent most of the dream talking to my friend ("brother" side) and how the situation made me feel.  He also did the same.  

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Thanks for reading!  Yeah, I'm not sure what to make of this dream, or what it was trying to convey to me.  I just know I felt very emotional back then, and I wish now that I remembered who it was about...

MALWARE MAYHEM

Hi everyone, have you ever had one of those dreams where it was hard to distinguish between real life and dreaming?  Well, this one was quite the rollercoaster while I was dreaming that both my computer and iPod got infected with malware, and it was so annoying  :|

 

*Old Dream - April 25, 2017

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When trying to use my computer, I noticed all the desktop icons changed and the background wallpaper changed to a reddish brown gradient.  It sort of had the feeling of "inevitable doom"/"being in Hell" :|  

As for my iPod, I dreamt it was the next morning and grabbed the device from under my bed like I do in real life, but when I turned on the screen all my icons were gone and there were some new ones in their place.  

The iPod background also changed to a reddish brown, kind of like the computer screen, but there were My Little Pony ponies in the background too (that was unexpected!).  I remember seeing at least three ponies; a blue one (standing), a purple one (standing), and a white one (in a sleeping position with its head resting on the front legs).

I freaked out and told my husband about it.  He found it amusing, but knew it was a big problem.  I also told him about the computer and it seemed like he knew what needed to be done. 

Then I "woke up" again, and thought, "phew!", just a dream.  I grabbed for my iPod as usual, but it was the same pony image as before :(  .... This time, I was prepared and said to myself "it's just a dream, this is not real".

Then I "woke up" yet again, and of course I grabbed for my iPod to confirm it was just a bad dream, but to my sad discovery, the pony background was still there!  Same image and icons; I even tried connecting to the internet, but I couldn't type in any website as the letters didn't register properly (because of the malware).  

I couldn't believe my eyes :O  Was this for real?!  I was starting to believe it really happened, and I told my husband again and showed him how it's all ponies when I try to do anything on my iPod.  

I also showed him the computer which was still infected.  He kept asking me about the sites I went to and I told him I didn't visit any weird sites and that I had no idea how it could have happened.  He was skeptical, but had no choice but to believe me since I'm a really paranoid person and wouldn't visit strange sites except maybe by accident.

Then, once again, I "woke up".  This time I made sure to check for "realness".  Like touching the bed, and walls, and anything I could get my hands on.  Everything felt good to me and my thoughts seemed normal.  I was relieved to be finally "awake", so I grabbed for my iPod and to my horror, there were ponies everywhere! :O  

Then I saw my husband, and asked him if I had told him anything about my iPod recently and he said "no, what about it?".  So with that, I really believed it was indeed real life and accepted the fact that I would have to factory reset my iPod and computer (as I figured it'd still be infected too) :(

Then I woke up, for real, for real.  I almost didn't want to check my iPod in case it really was infected :|

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I did not enjoy all those false awakenings at all since I was repeatedly faced with infected devices (one of my worst nightmares).  I've had to factory reset my computer at least three times in the past, and it never gets any easier to deal with :| 

Thank you all for reading and may all your devices stay safe from malicious intentions!

DON'T LET GO!

 Hi everyone :D  

This one is a bit long, and may get confusing at a point, but hopefully I explained things enough to make sense, lol.  Also to note, I am more of a viewer  rather than participant of this dream until close to end.

 

*Old Dream - February 5, 2017

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A friend and I was watching a TV show about 2 police officers; one was a woman and the other was a man.  They went to a financial agency to discuss borrowing a large sum of money which got approved.

In the next scene the policeman who borrowed money was frantically telling his colleagues that he saw on the news that the policewoman got shot through the head.  A colleague of the policewoman was devastated and wished she never referred the money loaning place.  Then she started wondering whether the policewoman could have survived.  Since the bullet went through from below the eye and out the back of the head on the right side.

Next scene showed the policewoman lying on a wooden floor in handcuffs but alive and without any bullet wounds.  There was also an unknown man beside her who was also in handcuffs.

Both of them started waking up and orienting themselves.  The policewoman and the man introduced themselves to each other and started chatting.  The policewoman told the man that she is a cop but that she wanted to start a new life away from the crime and danger so she faked her own death and hired people to "bury" her.  The man sympathized with her story.

Then one of the hired guys came in and took the handcuffs off saying they were on for safety purposes during transportation away from their hometowns since they were in coffin boxes.  Both the policewoman and man got up and started following the hired guy to talk to the boss who was supposed to give them instructions on how to proceed.

When they got to the boss's room all the hired guys seemed really friendly and thorough; dusting off wood chips from the policewoman and the man.  

Then the boss started talking to them saying he understood why they chose to run from their circumstances, but really in his mind, they were just abandoning responsibilities without the willingness to face consequences.  

At that point the boss motions to the hirelings and they started putting the handcuffs back on the policewoman and man and they were dragged out of the room. 

Next, we see the two of them in a room hanging for their life by the skin of their teeth, literally!  Because they were being hung above a very deep well full of alligators and the only thing between them and falling to their deaths was a piece of rope they were biting on.  However, that wasn't even the worst part.  

The worst part was that their lives also depended on three strangers who were above them being hung upside down by their legs, and they were the ones holding onto the lifeline rope for the bottom two with their teeth! 

** Describing the scene again in a different way in case it didn't make sense. Imagine two people standing upright looking up and above them there are three people upside down looking down and all of them are holding onto a single piece of rope between their teeth, while the top three are hanging by their legs.  Now remove a circular section of the floor and add a water with a bunch of alligators at the bottom of a very tall drop (I hope that helped for visualization and sense making, lol) **

Now back to it... 

Fortunately for the bottom two all of the people on the top wanted everyone to survive so none of them ever let go.  But how were they gonna get out of the situation?  

Time passed and they devised a plan; to swing the bottom two people to one of the the sides of the well so they can get on top of the ledge.  Seemed like a risky plan but somehow it managed to work, the bottom two got out and helped the top three.  Then all of a sudden light music starts playing and I (as the viewer watching the show) recognized it as the Peter Pan theme.  

Animated characters then floated out of the well and said they will help the five people escape the place.  Then they all float away and the episode ends.

And then I "woke up" to realize I fell asleep watching the TV show and thought how silly the ending was in my dream, but then moments later, the show did end the exact same way like in my dream :| 

My friend told me that while I was asleep, I hummed the Peter Pan theme and she thought it was funny until she saw how the show ended.  I told her about my dream and she thought it was really weird how it matched the show.  Then I noticed how late it was getting and told her I needed to head home.

I hopped onto a bus and then I woke up for real.  

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Thanks for reading!  The boss's way of hanging the people over the well was quite something, no?  Sometimes I wonder if I was a criminal mastermind in a past life, lol.

  

HOME SWEET HOME?

Hi everyone :D  This one might be a bit of a confusing read, but hopefully it makes sense enough, lol.  

 

*Old Dream - November 20 2016

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I travelled to an unknown location and there was a big house.  I had to stay there for a while.  My father and sister were also in the home along with some unrelated kids.  In the beginning things were okay even tough I always had a weird feeling about the place.  

Later on strange things started to happen and it turned out there were ghosts (small haunted dolls) that were making mischief and I had to get rid of them.  I managed to talk a few of them into leaving the house but there were two that had to be put into a mini fridge to stop their antics.  One of the ghosts didn't like being in the fridge though and pleaded to be let go, it threatened that things would get worse if I left it in there.  

At first things were good, but then things got really strange.  One night my sister was talking to me and had to go to the washroom.  When I was walking up the stairs with her to the washroom I saw another copy of my sister standing in the washroom already using the sink :O  

My sister that I was walking with didn't seem phased, maybe she didn't notice and just did her business and left the washroom.  So I left the area too, and then to my right coming down the stairs from the third floor, another copy of my sister.  And then just a little ahead of me standing inside a room; a third copy of my sister :O  

All of the copies of my sister looked at me when passing by, but they never looked at each other as if they couldn't even see one another.  It felt like I was seeing my sister from different dimensions all at once.  It was a very strange feeling, and I wanted to get out of the house, but before that I wanted to check the ghosts were still in the fridge.  When I opened the fridge only one of the ghosts were there :O  The one that was gone popped up behind me and asked if I wanted to leave the house (with multi-sisters), I said yes, I want it back to normal.  

I closed my eyes for a quick second, and after opening them, I saw I was in the same house, but everything was different, like furniture, people, wallpaper.  There was a mom and her two kids, and when I started talking to the mom, it was as if I had known her a long time because she was really friendly and not afraid of me.  

She told me of her kids' obsession with robot toys and said they had a gigantic collection.  She even let me open all the closet doors and draws to see the robots which were mostly transformers.  I was thinking my husband would have been in heaven to see that collection, lol.

After looking at all the robots I had to leave the house since it wasn't my place anymore and when I left I realized it wasn't the same year I was living in before.  It was some time in the past, maybe 1960's, 70's (I saw the date somewhere but can't remember exactly where).  

After roaming around the streets for sometime I bumped into some "friends" (pretty much some teens that knew me but I didn't know them).  We hung out for a while talking about things like school and what to do next.  It was a nice time, but I knew I had to find a way back to my real home and that was when I woke up.

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Being in the house with multiple copies of my sister was one of the weirdest dream experiences ever.  But exploring the drawers with all the toys was one of the funnest, lol.

What would you guys do if you saw multiple versions of someone you know all at the same time?

THE MAGIC WITHIN

Hi everyone :D  I really enjoyed this fun fantasy adventure dream.  It was a nice break from the usual, lol.  Hope you enjoy too!

 

*Old Dream - September 19 2016

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I was an anime character that had magical powers and whenever I used the magic, a gem stone would appear on my forehead.  The gem was the main source of my powers and was removable while it was out (a fact that will be relevant later on).  I was travelling with at least one other person who was the main male character (I don't remember what skills he had or even his name, lol).

We came upon a town that was being attacked by monsters so we (me and the main character) decided to protect the people.  The monsters ran away pretty soon after the fight started.  The town's people wanted to thank us by allowing us to stay and enjoy their hospitality free of charge (even when buying supplies! :D)

However, the town was ruled by a "Queen" who wasn't as nice or thankful.  She said since I was an "outsider" I had to leave my powers with her while on their grounds.  Though in reality it was because of a couple of reasons:

1. The "Queen's" personality wasn't the best nor sincere so her magical powers weren't as strong as mine and she felt threatened.

2.  There was a male character (not the main male), who the "Princess" wanted to make into her Prince, but he was seen talking to me and so she got jealous.

I wanted to stay for a while and my travel companion also wanted to explore a bit so I gave my gem up for holding.  The one thing she didn't know was that if I used enough of my own energy I was still able to use magic even without the gem, but it would just take a lot out of me. 

When night came, there was another monster attack on the town and I (without the gem) used protective magic on the people to shield them.  The "Queen", not thinking about anyone else just ran and hid to protect herself even though she had magic powers too.  She even saw the monster about to deal a deadly hit to the main male character and still did nothing :|  Thankfully I used my magic to shield him and he was able to finish the off the monster (phew!).

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Magical powers are always fun to play with, yes?  Although I used mostly protective spells it was still a fun time and it's always nice helping people :D

As you may have noticed, I kept using quotation marks around the words relating to royalty ("Queen", "Princess").  That was because I didn't feel they were fulfilling their roles properly so I didn't dub them so, even though the dream did, lol.

And as always, thanks for reading! :D 

PLAY TO MEET

Hi everyone!  Sorry for such delays, this month had been so busy :O  Anyway, continuing on with the gaming theme (like the previous entry), I headed into another gaming competition, and met another guy, lol.  Enjoy!

 

*Old Dream - May 17 2016

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There was a big gaming competition going on and I met a guy named Rob while attending the event.  His gamertag was "Muttle something", I couldn't remember the second part.  I learned that he was a small time gamer until he got really good and became one of the top-ranking players worldwide.  

The game itself was rounds-based and was very random in terms of what was needed to win each time.  In short, every round had it's own objective.  

Eg.  One round was to grab a special item and keep it in your possession the longest.  Another round dealt with words and sentencing, and you had to keep judges entertained.  

The player's HUD display would start as a four-sided diamond shape then change into a hexagon after ranking up enough.  I found that really neat!  

I played the game quite a bit too, but wasn't as hardcore even though I was good enough get first place during some rounds. There were also competitions where scores were tallied after a set of rounds (like 10 rounds) and you only scored a point if you won the round.  

Rob and I didn't know each other too well, but we sat beside each other during the competition and talked between rounds and helped each other out (even though he was already top-ranking, lol).  He also wanted to hangout after the current round, and I said yes :) 

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Thanks for reading! :D  Gaming dreams are always fun, lol.  Sometimes I wonder if any of the game mechanics I've dreamed about have become reality?  Especially since there've been so much advancement in technology and programming.