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Author: Peter <peter@minskio.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:10:39 +0100
Old, old dreams
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diff --git a/content/dreams/aiona-archipelago.md b/content/dreams/aiona-archipelago.md
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+---
+title: Aiona archipelago
+dream: dated
+date: 2023-11-26
+---
+
+I was working away from home watching, sat in a hotel watching a TV show about a Greek island called Aiona (which definitely wasn't me misremembering [Iona](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iona)).
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+This islands geography was unique as it had a large dammed reservoir filled via a tall waterfall at one side of the island, and the capital city on the island was on a collection of islands above the water line of the reservoir itself. The water level in the dam was also able to be changed for special events if more or less land were needed and people would use gondolas to get around when the water level was increased.
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+The island also produced a special kind of oil that was collected from the surface of the water and was produced by plant-like animals that floated lazily on top of the water like lilies. You could disturb this oil sheen and watch the iridescence play on the water before settling again.
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+In the city, there were white stone towers with smaller rooms suspended from them on wrought iron metal arms that had loungers in them that people would use to sunbathe
diff --git a/content/dreams/alien-casino.md b/content/dreams/alien-casino.md
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+---
+title: Alien casino
+dream: dated
+date: 2026-09-27
+---
+
+I was in an alien casino type space station orbiting a planet, the aesthetic of the place was very [Golden Saucer](https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Gold_Saucer_(Final_Fantasy_VII)).
+
+I was with a group of maybe 15 other people and we were given cash and some incredibly vague instructions about going off world and just having fun. The money was supplied in the same denomination order as Monopoly without 500s and a few loose coins.
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+We were also warned to stay away from two specific races of aliens as they were like space gangsters.
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+As we wandered around the casino there was also a kind of Pokémon style bounty collection program where you could catch wildlife on planets with a kind of Half-Life-esque anti gravity glove and drag them back to a kind of bathtub for submission which gave what you captured less mass and reduced its size. One member of our group upon seeing a roulette wheel put everything on black on their first spin and it landed on red, immediately bankrupting them.
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+We were also given pairs of glasses that has multiple functions like pausing time, slowing down time and reversing or speeding up playback but with no instructions. There were buttons recessed in the frames of the glasses and I'd figured out which combination turned them on which I traded for the knowledge of how to get off the space station lifts-like teleporters. You had to submit a fare in coins then input destinations using buttons with alien glyphs on them similar to Stargate. Return travel once at your destination was free.
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+Back at the animal collection/Pokémon machine a guy had tried to submit a member of one of the mobster races and ended up being submitted as a sample himself.
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+There was also a trivia machine where you bet, then competed with millions of other people who bet the same amount but the attrition rate was super high. You could choose when to pull out and I'd started making some money on the thing by playing it safe.
diff --git a/content/dreams/demon-hunters.md b/content/dreams/demon-hunters.md
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+---
+title: Demon hunters
+dream: dated
+date: 2023-11-09
+---
+
+I was with a group of 4 people driving around the UK in a minivan hunting demons which was a fairly normal thing to do.
+
+We'd visited Warwick castle during the day but I'd struggled to take photos of it as whenever I tried using the camera app on my phone, the zoom level was set incredibly high and I was able to see the wooden interior of the castle.
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+Some demons were enormous and would wander around the countryside leaving blooming flowers in their wake and not really harming anyone so they were just left alone. Demons were also able to physically alter and damage you quite easily.
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+Our demon hunting escapades were being funded by a groovy 70's music producer type who happened to be a demon himself but we weren't aware of this at the time. The rationale behind his funding our hunting was that if we managed to defeat enough demons in the world he'd eventually become stronger as the source of all demon power was shared between all living demons.
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+In the evening we stopped in Newcastle at a kebab shop to order some food when we were attacked by minions of the music producer. The group of us were all crushed to a couple centimetres thick but still alive so we were unable to move.
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+We were saved by a mother and daughter group of demon hunters who were both quite naive and hadn't yet killed any demons.
diff --git a/content/dreams/office-move.md b/content/dreams/office-move.md
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+---
+title: Office move
+dream: dated
+date: 2023-11-07
+---
+
+I was working for my old company <!-- CB --> along with most of their staff, we were in the process of moving offices and needed to be out of the old premises before the new one was ready. Due to the time constraints we were going with mobile broadband, and passthrough on all phones.
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+I arrived at the new site and was unable to get upstairs as the staircase was entirely missing, just a large hole in the building which meant I had to awkwardly scramble to climb between the floors.
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+There was supposed to be an older fat guy working with us who was apparently amazing at his job, however he hadn't turned up as one of the bosses <!-- SC --> had spread a lie about the worker admitting he accidentally killed a child while drunk.
diff --git a/content/dreams/pink-breakfast.md b/content/dreams/pink-breakfast.md
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+---
+title: Pink breakfast
+dream: dated
+date: 2023-08-08
+---
+
+I woke up one morning at my friend's old, old, old house <!-- JH -->. There was a group of about 4 of us feeling groggy after an evening of drinking when he asked us if we fancied something to eat for breakfast.
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+I was rifling through his cupboards and there were row upon row of mysterious pink tubs of processed looking food with Asian labels as that's what his new girlfriend liked.
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+I was trying to wrangle together a bit of a fry up but struggling as all four of us were indepentantly clattering around the kitchen grabbing our own sets of ingredients
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+At one point my chavvy weed smoking neighbour was also there blocking our access to the bread bin. He moved out of the way and we all pounced on the bin, but all that was inside were more pink packages with Asian wriging on them with pink slices of bread inside.
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+I took two slices of the bread and tried frying them in a pan deep filled with filthy dark oil. They initially sank in the bubbling oil but after a minute or so floated to the surface looking like regular fried bread.
