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reading books at bookstore
I was at the bookstore wanting to find story books to read The bookstore feels Chiwah but premium version with collab with eslite bookstore. There was a starbucks and several cafes nearby but I didn’t bother with it. I was here for the books. I found this pile of books with a similar illustrator designing the cover – it reminded me of the cover of one of the books I used to have – Pax
So I was browsing through the pile Turned out there was a series number on the side of the book I was searching for the first book in the series because I want to start from the first one obviously But I can’t find it But instead I found a pre-packaged set of books. From book 1 to book 13. I checked the price. One book was like $140? but all books costs $270 in total So I took the pre-packaged set
I also stood by the shelf to read a book in another pile. It’s more of a mental health related book. I think it’s about PTSD. And in the content page seems the writer illustrated different symptoms of ptsd by sharing various people’s stories about it. I forgot the actual content. I just remembered in the dream I was very engrossed in the book.
I remember during reading, Mum walked by and was searching for good books too. But somehow in the dream she walked up to me and scolded me, and then walked away. I forgot what she scolded me for. Ah! She wanted to buy one of the books in the $140 pile. But she couldn’t find the one she wanted. So she was irritated. And somehow she released her anger onto me. And I told her I got the whole set, but seems she wouldn’t listen in the heat of things so I didn’t bother to repeat. I just let her scold me while I was reading the PTSD book.
becoming a successful lion
Setting was primary school.
Somehow I converted from a herbivore into a lion. And I was the boss of all the lions here at primary school. But since I didn’t have experience in catching prey, I followed what other lions were doing. They were standing by the fence. So I stood there too. There were two wired fences between us and a small grassland (the size of a playground) I recalled in my herbivore days these grass must be very yummy. But now we were waiting for our prey to appear.
After a while, a shepherd brought several sheep with him. We have to wait till the fence had automatically fallen before we could catch them.
The fence fell! Some ran out. Since it was like part of the fence falling instead of the one in front of me, I was slightly late. But I ran and caught with much accuracy. I caught two sheep and began munching on them. Many didn’t catch and there were little sheep and many lions so obviously many lions were still starving. But they would stay and wait for any possible new sheeps coming.
Anyways after eating I’d like to have more so I returned to the grassland. But there weren’t new sheep. And I wasn’t that hungry after eating two so I returned to the lower open playground, where we would have our morning assembly soon.
While I was walking, a little herbivore was chatting with me. She’s asking me if I’ll introduce more workers in the tuck shop because there was none. I apologised and asked her if she got whatever snack or drink she wanted now, she said no because there was no staff. I said I’ll find people and figure it out, because currently most were lions but we need herbivores to deliver these jobs. (Because lions may treat this job as a way to catch and eat herbivores since only herbivores need to use the tuck shop- only herbivores eat snacks. So we can’t recruit lions.)
Anyways I thanked her for telling me and I left. I actually wanted to walk around to look for more prey but most people have lined up, and the host was also almost ready (those hosts were humans. They’re the only humans in the school- not counting shepherd) so I returned to my class queue. I was a bit embarrassed because I turned into a lion. But seems my surrounding classmates didn’t really mind. And for some reason those around me were still herbivores. But in many further away classes they’re all lions.
Dream ended.
(Also the sheep taste like 巴東牛肉 i had yesterday night) (LMAO)
(side note: when i was small (before/ during kindergarten), I wasn’t sure if it’s because I kept watching animal world, i sometimes have dreams where I was an animal in the wild. These several dreams were rather vivid so it stuck with me. (0. Had some imagination if I’m some sort of dumb amoeba and algae) 1. I was a mountain goat, and I couldn’t escape from a tiger. It bit me on the thigh and I died 2. I became a tiger but I got killed by lions for some reason 3. I was a lion but alone and old and frail and I got killed by an elephant 4. I am an elephant and I got shot by poachers to get my ivory The dreams always ended when I wss dying. And these dreams appear between months/ years (didn’t reappear) but in this specific order lol Damn and then sometimes I wonder is this why I’m a human now And I sometimes do those random “psychological quizzes” testing what you are in your previous life and I was an animal lol. There were some other options like some identity from space or whatever but nah I’m an animal) I believe it’s just wild imagination but it’s interesting to bring it up
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