It's been a while since I've written down my dreams. I think I had two particularly memorable ones last night.

The first dream was about me flying. Well, it really was more like swimming, but in air instead of water. So basically you could move more quickly through air because the medium's so much thinner than water, but your maneuverability was much poorer just because air is so much thinner than water. Anyway, I was in an urban city, with high rise apartments, though not as high as in Singapore, and with more space in between buildings. There was also haze, unfortunately. Anyway I can't really remember the storyline but I was always being disturbed by someone when I wanted to fly in a particular direction because 'she' lived there. I don't even know who that 'she' is but I know it's a young(er) girl I know and which I have met before in the dream. Anyway I kept flying over to that place and in the middle of the dream I sort of forgot how to fly. Like how I could swim up for a bit and then sink back down. So I resorted to climbing the walls of the building, which was dusty and grimy and everything. That failed too because the building walls protruded out making it very hard to grasp the next higher ledges. I was having sweaty palms even knowing I could fly, and I'm having sweaty palms just remembering the dream now. So then I decided to hold my breath (and gather air in my lungs), and make full breaststroke motions and somehow they propelled me really high and able to fly again. I thought it was really nice how the body could predict motions and movements; the physics of our interaction with the environment, just by estimating with a similar experience that I have gone through before. Predicting the physics of flying in air instead of water. I mean, to calculate all these out in physics and engineering equations and model estimations would be crazily tedious, and this just goes to show how much processing power our minds have. Pretty amazing that God made us this way huh?

My second dream was at my place. As I was walking out of my house, two guys came over and started installing air-cons outside each house unit. So I'm like extremely bewildered by that action but once he finished installing all the air-cons, he turned them all on and it was really cool outside. So my dad, my brother, and me started discussing about the air-cons and found out it was a government initiative, and that it was somehow energy efficient and could be kept on for a long time. So that was just cool, metaphorically and literally (in my dream) of course. Well this dream pretty much unraveled my inner child. As a kid I'd always love to dream and imagine things that were pretty outrageous. What if there were air-cons in the public open areas and they functioned so well we would all feel cool. What if I could own an entire level in a HDB? I would transform it into a palace and make sure the walkways are clean enough to walk barefoot up to the lifts. I was pushing the boundaries of my imagination into wild and interesting dreams that would not have taken place in real life. And this is certainly one of the manifestations of these little childlike desires that I have.

I still want to own an entire level of a HDB though, knowing that it is such a unique and outrageous concept. Also, I didn't dream of ebola so yeah. || posted by Kuan Hui