airport and contacts

I was at the airport. I can't remember where I was going - Just overseas, somewhere. There were many people with me; people I knew, but you know how in a dream, you can never seem to remember the people there with you? And even if you do, the people are from unlikely combinations, such as your primary school friend with your uni friends, combinations that will never occur in real life.

I was having some sort of pre-trip checklist check, and as usual I had some fear that I would forget to bring something. I remember the worse case of this was when I first entered SISPEC in army (after BMT), and I forgot to bring my PT shoes -_-

Anyway, so I was running through my mental checklist of things that I would need.. everything seemed to be in place.. then i realised something

I FORGOT TO BRING MY SPECTACLES.

Ok firstly I know this is a highly unlikely, if not downright impossible scenario. Like how can I walk out of house without wearing specs right. But it's a dream !! And anything happens. And you know how dreams are sometimes blurry and you can't seem clearly? I think that was how I realized!

(On a side note, does wearing spectacles when you go to sleep make dreams clearer? haha)

So there wasn't enough time to go home and get them so I was panicking and asking around. HOW HOW. No spectacles cannot go overseas sia! cannot see! So the plan was to go get a pair of spectacles.

And somehow there was an optician at the airport! haha. since when have right. But yea, in my dream airport, there was an optician. Or are they called optometrists? aiya, shop that sells spectacles k.

And I know how spectacles are supposed to take a few days to make, but it's a dream! So can make instant one ok. So i went into the shop and asked to make a pair of specs. and i remember it was some girl at the counter who chatted with me for awhile and i was telling her about my dilemma and how i needed specs IMMEDIATELY.

However, there was some problem... I can't remember what, it's all hazy now (haha get it. hazy. cos i can't see clearly) But they couldn't get my specs done for me!! Oh no how!! flight leaving soon!!

Then suddenly, I don't know why, but the counter girl went to the back and pulled out a box of CONTACT LENS and said 'here for you'. She just gave it to me! I dont know why! Like I think she was sympathizing with my dilemma and so took pity on me. Didn't even ask me to pay.

And so, I left the country with a box of contact lens. which i've never tried wearing before in my life.

Yup that's it.

ancient lore, falling glass, and spy chase

This was such an exciting bizarre dream that the moment I woke up I just pulled out my handphone and started typing it into a message so that I wouldn't forget it. There are of course things that are quite hazy, but I will try to recollect as much as I can!

vomiting on ties, my angmoh BF and cabs

Ok this is quite a doozy, a long 3 parter! It involves vomiting on ties, my angmoh BF (yes, bf = boyfriend. yes i did type boyfriend), and cabs.

never ending P

I was in some toilet/bathroom/shower area. Those kind of big public ones, communal kind. Maybe it was at a swimming pool? Or maybe it is those in hall, or in an army camp.. or something to that effect.

And I had no clothes with me.

Damn sian can! I always have this kind of stupid dream like my shorts are missing and I'm like covering my privates. But ok la this one wasn't like that, I was in the shower area so I guess walking around naked isn't that big a deal.
But of course I wasn't like parading around proudly like some psycho la! I was like shit where are my clothes.

I wasn't sure what I was doing.. I was trying to get back to my room i think. Hmm, if I had a room maybe I was in a hall? -shrugs. So I saw guys come in and out, and they didn't exactly stare at me.. i mean, naked people in a toilet isn't THAT uncommon. And if you stare you'll seem gay. so. yea.

You know how in a dream, you sometimes feel like a helpless spectator? Like you have no control over the things that are happening? I somehow felt that way! It's like, I just felt the helpless feeling as I was stuck in that bathroom and noone could help me and I couldn't leave because I had no clothes.

One of my NS friends, Edmund came in, and he went to the sink and brushed his teeth or something. I went over and chatted with him and then he left - and horror of horrors - I only realised AFTER he left that I should have asked him for clothes! I mean, surely he would have some clothes or something if he lived in hall too.


Then came a part that is a common recurrence in all my dreams - I went to the toilet cubicle to pee.

But you know how when you need to pee (in real life) and you have pee stuck in you, no matter how much you pee in the dream, THE FEELING NEVER GOES AWAY! Because you still need to pee ma, and peeing in the dream does nothing to relieve the pee in your real body.

You know how shit annoying is that! Can you imagine feeling really urgent, then you finally reach a toilet, then you pee... AND YOU STILL FEEL URGENT. omg. repeat x 100 AND YOU STILL FEEL URGENT.

Damn sian can! And some people are actually able to think 'oh I am dreaming' and maybe can force themselves to wake up somehow but I can almost never do that! I think i've only done it like 0.5% of the time before. So I'm caught in the neverending cycle of peeing-with-no-effect-of-relief until my body clock decides to wake me up.

Ok I had a second dream and i tried to remember it but I forgot it now. It's hard to remember dreams! Try it!

alan > weiqin

The first part of the dream is very blurry and I'm not sure what the circumstances were. But basically me, Johnsebastian and teehao approached some building. Then we split up, and I went with Teehao while john entered the main entrance.

Then something happened and I got split up from Teehao.. then I couldn't find anyone! So I was panicking and walking all over the place. Then finally I saw John again and we grouped up and..

Ya I can't remember anything else. I didn't even remember this dream until later on, but i did remember the next dream

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Me and Weiqin have a tuition kid. Yes, I have no idea why two of us share one tuition kid.. maybe the tuition kid damn stupid so need to have two tutors. Or he's damn violent and I'm there as her bodyguard. -shrugs

Ok before I continue, some background context so you understand why this dream was odd - weiqin is my friend from JC and she's very very smart. She's excellent at math and physics and i occasionally ask her some questions posed to me by my tuition kids. She's just a very smart girl la ok.

Ok so me and weiqin go for our first tuition session with this special kid who needs 2 tutors at once. To be honest I can't really remember if it's a guy or girl but I -think- it's a guy. So we'll assume he's a he.

So the first question he posed us was a Math one, and I can't remember exactly what it was, it was something like

Show that
9^2 + 25^5 = 3^4 + 5^10

Ok i'm not even sure if this is mathematically correct but it was something to do with indices! Like you know those must change the base. It wasn't like super easy but also not super complicated. Just challenging enough to make you think for a second.

And guess what - weiqin couldn't solve it!! It's like, both of us were stumped and we were like redfaced and like ohshitfirsttuitionclassandwecan'tdothefirstquestionmystudentposes.
(on a random note, my first tuition session with my sec3 kid was also like that. just, mental block over what a 'rational number' was)
(which, fyi, is a number which has a defined value, or a value that can be expressed as a quotient - i.e. 0.5, 1/7, etc. irrational numbers are like sqrt2, sqrt7, etc)
(not bad ah can learn math by reading my blog)

ANYWAY. Yea we were stumped and the kid was like tapping his foot like ok, why are BOTH my tutors so dumb. damn sian. But then I suddenly reached enlightenment and I was like 'I KNOW!!!' and I felt the inner triumph that I solved it and weiqin couldn't (haha) and I started explaining to the kid.

Then I recall I wasn't very clear and I kept using the word 'right' (e.g. so right, you look at the base first. then right, you do this. then right... etc) and it began to annoy even myself. But yea that was about where the dream 'ended'. Or i stopped to remember things after this point.

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So, Freudian proponents will interpret this as my unconscious repressed desire to surpass weiqin in intelligence and actually do something she can't? hahahahah. hilarious. I doubt I'll ever do so though she's too smart. Well, at least I know more digits of pi than her. I think.

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kidnapped

Hello! Since this is the first entry here I will do a short explanation of what this is about. Subsequent entries will just dive straight into it.

Well, I am able to remember many of my dreams (We all have 5 dreams on average every night, it's just how much we can remember. They may not seem like 5, but that's because they seem to connect seamlessly.. yada yada) and many of them are certainly quite bizarre and interesting. I just thought it'll be fun to pen them down.

Ok, without any further adue, my dream from last night:
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I was somewhere overseas - USA? Europe? I don't know. It was a foreign land where English was spoken because I seemed to understand the language.. perhaps Chinese too! Oh yes, there was Chinese. I'm not quite sure where now. But definitely, overseas.

So basically, I was kidnapped. By some secret Russian gang. Ok maybe not a secret Russian gang but there were angmohs with big bodies and they were scary looking. Sounds like a typical russian stereotype isn't it!?

I was kidnapped with some other people I knew.. I can't remember who now. We were walking through a corridor.. then we suddenly decided to escape! I was in the front of the pack and we rounded a corner, and then suddenly one of those big burly men was in front of me. I skidded to a halt, turned around, and realised all my friends had disappeared!

**(this double asterisk symbolizes a break in my dream where I can't remember what happened.. maybe it is the next dream)

I was running. I didn't know where I was going but I was running. I could feel the big strong men running behind me and trying to catch me. Yes, I could feel it. That doesn't make much sense but I could just feel them coming, by my gut instinct I think. So I didn't look back, and just kept running.

I rounded a corner into a relatively crowded street, and like all good runaway spies, I stopped running and quickly fell into a walking pace. This of course lets me blend into the crowd much better as compared to a crazy headless chicken dashing around. I brisk walked to the furthest point possible, resisted the strong urge to turn back.

**

I was in some multistorey carpark. I hid behind a pillar and I peered down and saw the Mafia-looking guys walking around looking for me. Wait what? They are Mafia now? Mafia = Italians right. So what are Russian gangs called. Hmm.

When they weren't looking I burst off towards some shops. I was looking for a police station! So that I could tell them about my plight. I recall it was quite late, like after midnight. And in my dream world, most police stations operated on office hours or something, and only the main ones stay open.

Or at least that was the logic I operated on as I searched.. I have no idea why the shops were still open if the police stations were closed. So I asked the shopkeepers if they knew where the nearest police stations were, but the first few directed me to the police stations that were closed ><
And at the same time, I was very conscious that the Russian gangs were still hunting for me. So I was trying my best to be inconspicuous.

Finally a nice Chinese shopkeeper gave me directions to a main police station (those that opened 24/7) so I ran in that direction. As i was going up some stairs (?? don't ask me why.. maybe the police station on second floor?) I ran past 2 policemen patrolling (think those noob NSFs who patrol at MRTs now with that grey beret...) and I was probably too panicky to register the fact till i passed them then i was like OMG POLICE!

I did a double take and stopped them, and asked them HELPPP. So I said something like 'help, I was kidnapped, and I escaped, they are coming for me now'

They were pleasantly surprised (like whoopie some excitement) and brought me to their boss who was some lady policeman. oh wow did i just say lady policeman. POLICEWOMAN i mean. I remember the patrolpoliceman said something like 'hoo chief, we got something good for you' because the chief appeared to be going out for a meal or something (Yes i know it's like past midnight ... maybe supper? Aiya dreams don't make sense what) and was abit irritated at being disturbed.

So i repeated my story to the police chief and she was instantly amused and interested. They didn't seem very worried that Russian gangs may swoop in and kill me right there but just wanted to hear the whole story

**

YUP that's it. Sorry haha no proper ending. That's how dreams are like, no head no tail. If i was some uber famous blogger I would ask my readers to come up with an intro and an ending haha. Oh well. That's it for now goodnight!