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Last night I dreamed I kept forgetting to wear my mask in buildings.It is a very common theme of my dreams that I forget something important, and ever since the pandemic started this one has been one of my most common 'forgetting' dreams. I can't think of a single time this has actually happened to me in real life though since I don't even go outside without wearing a mask anymore.

Dreamed I was in an airport of all places (again with entitely made-up layout courtesy the architect of my subconscious), and had lost my backpack and somehow forgotten to wear a mask. And no one else was wearing a mask (just like in real life) and a little kid was coughing right next to me and quite obviously sick and the parent was just fine dragging their sick child around infecting people with who-knows-what. Of course I was quite relieved when I woke up to know it was just one of my "forgot to wear a mask" dreams.

In real life I wear an N95 and faceshield in all public buildings or transit now and don't make trips unless their necessary. I also rarely fly anymore ever since they added the body-scanners. I think there was something about how they phased out the ones that were irradiating people and showing actual body outlines, but the fact that they existed in the first place always undermined my confidence in those. And yes, I know it was a very small amount of radiation and less than you get with flying. That still doesn't make it okay lol. Like, even from a practical perspective, that kind of device should be restricted to medical professionals, not random people. Also believe there were reports that some people were irradiated with higher amounts of radiation either due to device malfunction or operator error. I'll bet some people that happened to will never even know it was done to them for a completely unnecessary check.

Anyway, what we've learned is I'm not a super-trusting person when it comes to either covid or airports, and last night I had a very vivid dream featuring both. Kudos to that subconscious architect though. Excellent building design for my nightmare!

Last night I dreamt I was late to work, which was the boring part, but the reason I was late to work was I had to take food I'd been cooking out of the oven. And one of the foods I was cooking was a pumpkin, except when I cut it open it was actually pumpkin cake and naturally I had to eat some of the pumpkin cake. Then later as I continued on to work I got stuck in an elevator.

But the important part was eating pumpkin cake. Who cares about the rest? I wasn't late to work in real life, just in the dream.

So in my dream last night I was in college again which is quite typical of my dreams but also Pluto and Charon had been moved so that they orbited Earth and at one point I was just randomly floating in space and looking at Charon. Then I was back on Earth in the giant imaginary college building that was also a mall. None of this seemed at all odd to me in the dream.

Had a very vivid dream where I had to navigate through an enormous building while wearing my face mask. I don't remember too much about it, but the visuals just made a strong impression on me. I'm not sure if it was supposed to be a college building or something else, but I get the sense it was some sort of public building, so maybe. My dream architecture almost never resembles real places I've been, so it really went all out with size. I got the sense it was miles long, possibly with tunnels to other buildings. Despite my descriptor of vivid for this dream the only descriptions that come to mind are...grey walls...dim hallways...bright large multilevel rooms with carpet, with some people milling around...me having conversations (about what?) with people (to whom?)...me occassionally opening a door and seeing the forested green outdoors, only to immediately go back inside. So, I remember some aspects strongly, but I feel like I have trouble conveying the essence of it because I don't recall a narrative thread (if there even was one to begin with). It's just that the visuals in certain parts of my dreams sometimes feel sort of chiseled into my memory, hence why I may describe a dream as vivid but also not remember much about it.

I do know my subconscious loves making up buildings though. I had completely different buildings in yesterday's dreams and those I know *were* supposed to be college buildings, though they were instead tall towers shaped like human torsos or hands with amusement park rides inside them and there was no pandemic. Also that one I do remember the narrative thread of. I was a college student again in the dream and trying to pass a class but unable to find the classroom/remember to attend/do the work I needed to do to pass the class. This is an incredibly common dream for me, I guess because of my anxieties about being on time or getting things done, even though I don't generally fail to accomplish either of those things in real life.

My dreams often fade pretty quickly when I wake up, so even if I remember enough to know I had a detailed and involved dream, I often can only say 'that sure was a dream where there were people and something happened'.

Last night I had a dream where someone killed someone else which was part of a larger narrative involving...something, but I don't remember who the people were or what the significance of the murder was.

Had an especially vivid dream last night that I don't remember very well because I didn't write it all down as soon as I woke up, but here's what I recall:

I was on a bus and trying to get somehere. I got off somewhere partway there due to some uncertainty about my destination, and went into a building. Then I realized I wasn't wearing a mask and neither was anyone else, so this suddenly became a Covid anxiety dream lol. But there was also a story to the dream I don't remember that was a lot more important than all this. And the main character was a woman who I can't recall very much about except remembering that the important plot centered around her and that she was very worried about what was going on.

I think maybe some sort of magic was involved? I don't remember for sure, though. And I was basically an unimportant side character that just happened to be around to observe all this going on. I wish I remembered more of this dream. The most visually memorable and comprehensible parts were also some of the most mundane: me trying to ask the bus driver if I should get off at a certain stop, the street I got off at, the escalator in the building, the distressingly unmasked faces inside the building. But who knows about the actual important stuff that was happening?

I am such an annoying side character to not pay enough attention to the actual momentous occurrences in my dream. What was that story about? Can I have some dreams where my dream-self isn't focused on getting dream-Covid? I don't think dream people can give me real plague, and I'd like to remember whatever story my dream was trying to tell.

I had a dream that I went to Europe and I was in Spain and then my dream decided that it didn't need to follow real life geography so Portugal was an island off the coast of Spain and I swam through the ocean to get to Portugal. When I got there I was worried I didn't go through the right process to enter another country but then my subconscious vaguely remembered that Portugal was in the Schengen area even though it failed geography so I was fine.

There was no pandemic in fake Europe, so I stayed in a fancy hotel in Portugal. Very nice, vivid imagery in the dream. Very much enjoyed the sequence of just casually swimming through the ocean to travel between countries.

Had a dream where I kept forgetting to wear my facemask and I was going into movie theatres and libraries. Whatever part of my subconscious constructed that dream was treating it like one of those dreams where one forgets to wear clothes, even though my dream self had the expected anxieties about catching covid.

Anyway, I haven't even been inside a movie theatre or library since March of 2020 since I don't even go inside grocery stores anymore. So this was one of those dreams where I wake up and feel that relief of 'oh, I never actually did that'.

Still wishing for the day I can wake up from one of these kinds of things and go 'oh, we're not in a world-wide pandemic for covid anymore', though. Not sure when that'll happen, since people seem to have this attitude that's it's over just because vaccines exist, even though the most effective vaccines are largely only available to rich countries (who still themselves have huge unvaccinated populations) and the more unvaccinated people there are, the more ability the virus has to mutate into something worse (which has already happened at least once!).

Anyway, as nightmares go, this dream certainly wasn't my worst. I get a little chuckle over my subconscious setting it up like one of those 'embarrassing lack of clothing' dreams. Really didn't even come close to outdoing the reality of the situation.

Sometimes I have these extremely intricate dreams that are just so bizarre that I have trouble putting them down at all simply because it all seemed so cohesive and logical in the dream but in actuality none of it made any sense at all, so I'll have these dreams with incredibly complex plots and high stakes but all I can write down in my dream log is, just, fleeting snatches of images and out-of-context actions. It's just a jumble of images and snippets of conversation and events that I have trouble making any sense of at all. Nevertheless these kinds of dreams can be incredibly vivid so I'll wake up with the memory of some intense imagery and a sense of urgency.

Had a dream that I was going to college again because I was collecting bachelor's degrees and in addition I was in this summer college activity that had absorbed every waking hour of my life and aaaaahhhh...that was kind of a nightmare. Even though the activity was interesting--some sort of class road trip thing? It was actually a pretty dream because there were lots of beaches involved but the idea of college absorbing every waking hour of my life is kind of a fear of mine. It's not really even a fear specific to college. The idea of anything structured specifying my every waking moment always ends up stressing me out.

In the dream of course, there was an unrealistic level of such specification, to the point where I was being admonished for wandering off to explore areas sometimes because I was always supposed to stay with the class and professor at all times to be ready to listen to lectures or work on assignments. But I think the analogy to my very real issues with structure (eg. deadlines) is valid, in that even if I enjoy an activity, I need to not have every aspect and moment of it constrained by societal expectations. This is why I don't set up deadlines for my longform stories and why I'm sparing about things I commit to doing for others. It's interesting because a lot of people I know want more structure, and even I wish certain things in life had more structure when I'm focused on meeting external expectations. I dislike vague instructions when I am expected to meet someone else's expectations. In that case I do want more structure, particularly if I am going to be formally evaluated on the results, like at work or at school. I just don't want to have to think about meeting someone else's expectations every minute of the day, and that's a very real anxiety of mine.

I had a weird dream last night about a guy in a moving go-cart which was also a cardboard box stalking me. This guy wasn't anyone I've ever known or encountered in real life or a character from any fictional work I'm familiar with, just some random person my brain made up. When he got too close I closed the cardboard box on him and this caused him to flee, I think. On his cardboard box go-cart. I'm...not sure what to make of this dream. It was kind of a nightmare I guess, but not nearly the most frightening one I've had and was even less scary to me on waking because of how bizarre it was.

So I just remembered part of last night's dream which involved, among other things, an enormous spider that was about the size of a watermelon that I was simultaneously anxious about and fascinated by. The dream spider was fortunately very similar in behavior to the more shy real-life spiders and just wanted to hang out in a corner or crevice somewhere and mind its own business. It was just very, very large.

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