So sometimes, when I nap during the day, I use a sleep mask and my earpods with sound-blocking and rain/wind noises playing. Today I had an exam at 11, finished at 12, and since I didn’t sleep enough, I put the aforementioned setup and fell asleep.
In the dream, I was living in a new apartment, but it still felt kinda like mine. I went to the supermarket with dad, we spent a long time there, and I bought some snacks or something.
Then I got home and decided to watch something. For some reason, I picked Kanon (probably because of all my research on it before). I started watching it, but everything felt… off. Familiar, but wrong.
It was the scene where Yuichi and Ayu are at that tree. She was telling him about it like it was his first time seeing it, saying it was special to them. Then, out of nowhere, she did some weird magical thing and the tree turned into a kind of mechanical thing. And suddenly, demons appeared and they started fighting them.
I was just sitting thinking “Wait. I don’t remember Kanon being a demon-fighting magic show”.
Looking back now, it’s insane how my brain just fully invented a new episode. After being confused for a while, I noticed I was somehow on season 9 episode 1. (Which, yeah, makes no sense - Kanon only has one season.)
In the dream I thought the site must’ve glitched or something. You know how pirate sites sometimes default to the last season of random shows. So I just went to episode 1, season 1 instead.
I decided to get some snacks, so I went into the kitchen. And on my table, there was a bunch of food. All moldy, rotting. But the thing is, all that food was stuff my mom gave me in real life, exact same things from different times. Except here, none of it was touched. It just sat there, untouched and decaying.
I looked at the snacks I bought earlier and started feeling this huge wave of guilt. That I didn’t eat any of the food she gave me. I just stood there and cried.
I couldn’t really think of watching anything anymore, and in the dream I decided to go to sleep. The layout of the bedroom in dream was identical to mine in reality. Same bed, same everything. I think I fell asleep in the dream, but it was hard to tell because I was already dreaming.
Then I started hearing breathing. Every few seconds - a deep breath.
It scared the hell out of me. For some reason, I thought maybe it was dad, but deep down I knew it wasn’t. Still, I kept pretending to sleep.
Then I started to feel my back really strongly. Like I was hyper-aware of it. I still heard the breathing, and heard the rain sounds (that played irl because of earpods).
And then I felt like I was being… lifted, or pulled up a little. But just slightly, and only through my back.
I tried to open my eyes. I think I did, but everything was still dark. It felt like I was looking at my bed from the opposite angle, like my head was where my feet should be.
And I thought I saw someone above me. Just a silhouette. I wasn’t sure. I was so scared I shut my eyes again and curled up tighter under the blanket.
I kept feeling like someone was touching or moving my back. Just my back.
By then I was half-awake. One of my earpods had fallen out, so I could hear real-life noises from window on one side and the rain sounds on the other. The breathing stopped, but the weird sensation in my back was still there.
I was frozen. Just trying to rationalize it. To stay still and not panic.
Eventually, I opened my eyes again. Still darkness, because of my sleep mask. I slowly got it out and I was finally safe.
Apparently you have to report creation of company to Ukrainian tax service within 60 days, and failure to do so has a penalty of… $20,000. I’m so glad I found out about this early… I started filling the form, but it looks like I need to get EIN first. Which can take anywhere between 2 weeks and several months. Gonna pray it’s gonna be 2 weeks for me.
Have been just doing random things in Photoshop, trying to make pretty graphics. Had to watch a lot of tutorials from 13 years olds published in 2013… It’s peak tho.
Also thinking what widgets should be on my widget site.
Also started watching Chobits.
