Dream Characters

May 4th

Jennifer Scarlet, a female interviewer that starts working as an investigative journalist. She begins by interviewing her favorite actor, an eccentric man, in his lovely home alongside her more experienced co-host, a seasoned journalist in his late 30's or early 40's. The camera crew had to guide her on where to sit to best fit herself into the camera's line of sight because she was doing a horrible job. She seemed uncomfortable sitting near her idol and her co-cost, which often led her to sit off-camera or far from the others. Despite all of this, she is later allowed to interview someone even greater than her idol, and she will do it without a co-host. Despite her lack of skill, she is requested to interview the immortal assassin known as Singbit/Singbite. He chose her specifically, and she decided to take the job. As I began to cross into the waking world, the dream became jumbled up with my waking thoughts; together, the two began to tell the story of Singbit/Singbite. This immortal assassin would use music as his primary tool of destruction throughout the length of his work. It seemed he could carefully kill those he had targeted that had heard his voice. The catch is that he had to sing live for it to work; I saw no implications of this gift working through recording devices.

This dream was surprising because it spoke of Jennifer's hopes, dreams, and personal heroes. She reached for her dreams regardless of her practical abilities to pursue them, and even though she had a lot to learn, she was doing well for herself and doing amazing things. It's really nice when someone takes a chance on you.

May 6th

I was playing a video game with some friends. The game was straightforward with two hunters and

several players. The game takes place in a school at night, an ancient underground mine, and other

locations. Specifically, in the school location, one hunter plays as a teacher trying to catch and throw

other students out of the school. Meanwhile, in the shadows, another player comes around hunting all

other players, the teacher included. The shadow has the ability to change shape and travels along the

walls like a shadow. They can apprehend other players by striking at their shadows directly. Their only

weaknesses are well-lit rooms, halls, and other such areas. In different maps are different human

opponents; for example, in the mine, one character plays as a cannibal that hunts down and kills other

players, all the while dodging the shadow player. I would totally play this game if somebody decided to

develop it. I wouldn't even be mad. I simply wrote this dream because I enjoyed playing the game with

my friends from the dream. They really made this dream something enjoyable.

May 13th

This next dream followed a young man who had begun developing special abilities. One is the ability to sense danger, while the other ability allowed him to vastly increase the speed at which he could process a situation and react. When under extreme stress, this gift begins to manifest as the ability to process at such extreme speeds that time appears to stop. The young man lived in an old abandoned-looking hotel with serious apocalyptic world vibes. Despite all appearances, the world had not ended, but his might as well have. Thanks to his ability, the world appeared frozen, giving him ample time to take in the scene before him but little time to react. All the while, a bullet steadily approached a figure on the opposite side of the room; it was his mother. Everything stood still and dark as he tried to figure out how he should respond to change the outcome to no avail. Minutes became hours, hours became days, days became weeks, weeks would become months, and months would then total a full three years, the bullet edging imperceptibly closer the entire time. Try as he might, there was no way for him to intercept that bullet. All he could do was look into the eyes of his mother for as long as he could until the inevitable finally happened.

These dreams were short and interesting to write about. It is so fascinating that one might have such a short dream in a single night, and in an hour, one could have an incredibly long dream. Time seems to work differently in the world of dreams; the closest thing to this time dilation I have ever experienced in the waking world was directly connected with a deep dive into a daydream. In daydreams, time seems to move in odd ways as if one were truly asleep.