Ancient device but radioactive

Finished watching Blood-C (a rather messed up anime but imho exceptionally well made) last night, then had a weird dream which seemed unrelated.

At some point in the dream I was aware of being in 3 places at once. On one hand I was at the summerhouse and worried that I had left the cat alone throughout the weekend. On the other hand I was at home right next to the cat. Thirdly, I was at someplace foreign.

I had joined a group of friends to a meeting at someone else's place. One of them had brought along a guy who was into ancient technology. He took out a couple of plates and placed them on the table. He then explained the sequence of how it was used. The gray / silver plate was to be put on the table first, and then a red / ruby plate on top. The red plate would start spinning slowly. After a bit, the red plate would be taken off and put back. After that, the red plate would start spinning faster and faster, until eventually it would supposedly lift off the base plate and do something good / which makes people feel good. He said it had been really difficult to locate this thing. I think my sister was also there, she touched the red plate, placed it on the gray plate, the red plate started spinning, she took the red plate off and it dropped to the floor. The plate did not break, for I think it was more metallic than ceramic.

For me the whole demonstration and how casually the guy handled these things raised a few alarm bells and I wanted to check if the plates were radioactive. Somehow in that dream my phone had a Geiger counter app (doesn't make any sense now that I think about it) but I wasn't sure whether it measured actual values or just showed random numbers. Also, my phone crashed on my attempts. Anyway, got it working eventually and confirmed my suspicions that these plates really should not be handled without proper care, and definitely not brought to a random friends get-together where most of them wouldn't even know the dangers. I tried to locate the guy who had brought the plates but he was missing. I felt uneasy about me and others having been so close to the plates and that they were still there on the table. After a bit, I called the emergency line and told them about the situation. Soon a group of people showed up to take a look at these plates. While they were supposed to have been professionals, one of them touched one of the plates without any protection. Another one from that group told him not to, and then pointed his Geiger counter at it. I could not hear any clicks, nor did I get to see the display. So, I asked him how much it was, and he casually said that it should definitely be handled with care but to me it seemed that he wasn't overly worried about the radiation exposure.

Anyway, the people were evacuated and the group of guys (specialists?) left for a moment. In the meantime the guy who had brought the plates returned. He looked much younger. While I tried to tell him to take the plates before the group has returned (if he cares about the plates), he just ignored me and went back up there. The group followed him right after. I thought I followed the people who were evacuated but lost my way. I took some stairs up to some place and found that it looked like a dead-end. As I looked around, I saw the guy with the plates climbing a ladder which took him higher.

Sometime later a girl came and told / showed me something more about the guy with the plates. She told me that he had trained properly to handle these things. I saw a clip of the guy trying to exercise while shivering in pain. He had lost his eyes which had burned into charcoal. Even more weird, she told me that my aunt had liked the guy. I was shown a clip with aunt's voice in the background, and the guy and a dog in the foreground, in a shallow stream. I thought I recognized the dog but as I looked closer, I realized that I did not. The dog looked like a reincarnation of a sad girl.

All in all, a very weird dream. On one hand it shows to me that I have changed - the old me would have just observed the situation and would not have tested the plates nor called the emergency line. However, I'm not entirely convinced that it was a good idea to do so, for I may have overreacted and stirred up more trouble than necessary. Especially with the rational thinking in a dream where things are not supposed to be making any sense.

Strawberries

Recently I've been rather tired due to the accumulated unsleep and a bit of internal distress. The distress had appeared with vibrations in the lower chakras and a bit of anxiety. After a bit of venting, the distress faded, the vibrations ascended upward and some heat was released.

Hmm .. apparently I never posted about it, but it was maybe a couple of months ago that I skipped yoga because of panic attacks three days in a row. Experienced sharp pains in different parts of the body, together with an intense upward flow of energy, waves of heat and buzzing. As usual at times like these, I kept seeing golden concentric rings shrinking in front of my eyes. It was difficult to think straight and I couldn't sleep due to the intensity. The dizziness and sudden feelings of nausea and being disoriented stayed until recently. Sometimes it still occurs when I get more tired, but I haven't really felt like falling over anymore. I used to think that Kundalini stuff was more of a male thing, but apparently it also occurs to women. A friend also had a similar experience a couple of weeks ago.

Took a nap yesterday but kept myself afloat between the waters of consciousness and unconsciousness. Ate and slept after the cat woke me. Decided to go to the office today, despite the fact that I had marked the day as remote work. Felt like watering the plants at the garden after work.

By the end of the workday, aunt-in-law had messaged that someone was selling sprouts at the parking lot next to the garden. Good opportunity, for mom had wanted cucumbers and tomatoes. There were no cucumbers but bought some tomatoes and ... strawberries caught my attention. There weren't many of them left but none had been planned on mom's map of the garden. I decided that it was extra effort and I already had an infinite amount of extra work for each day anyway.

Just after I had put aside my tomatoes, aunt-in-law called, "I'm feeling too tired to come today, hopefully they still have some tomatoes left tomorrow. Oh, do they have strawberries?" So, still bought strawberries, too, after all.

Found a Deilephila elpenor on the field .. and a lot of mosquitoes, obviously.

Knife

Took a butter knife and heard something fall against the sink and then to the floor. Looked back and one of the sharp knives had fallen into the floor where my foot had been just a moment ago. The tip of the knife was still slightly stuck in the laminate.

And I had been thinking whether or not to take a sharper knife right away, too .. for the cheese.

Mildly haunty hotel room

Me and my colleague reached Denmark and got our hotel rooms. My colleague got a room just across the elevator, whereas I ended up at the last room (224) at the end of a maze.

The first time I entered the room, closed the door behind me and glanced around the room,
I heard a clank from one of the windows. All windows were closed but one of the windows had hooks for keeping the windows open. I think one of the hooks must have jumped or something, which made the sound.

As I worked a bit on my laptop, it felt as if someone were observing me.
By the end of the day the feeling faded and it felt as if I might get along with whatever or whoever might have been there. I was not very worried because usually I've gotten along with non-physical entities. However, the feeling of presence came back at night and I kept having nightmares. Moreover, what I found mildly weird was how I would feel itching at random places (including inside the mouth) throughout the night. I guess the itching in the mouth like that was the most weird thing I've woken up to. Since I had taken the shower before bed, at first I wondered if there might have been something in the water or shower gel which made my skin itch like that.

The dreams were mostly about a group of people who tried all sorts of means to attack my house which was just across the inner yard. As nothing seemed to be working, they started upgrading their house. They built a fortress with tracks for moving cannons around and what not. I looked at it, a bit puzzled and a bit concerned. At first I had just tried my best to ignore whatever they were doing there, but eventually I returned an attack of theirs and to my surprise, the guy who attacked, died. The dream ended on a sad note.

I got annoyed of the whole thing, checked the clock (it was a couple of hours before the morning alarm), and decided to try and hug the entity and make up with them. After some hugging, I wondered if there might've been something which they had been wanting to show or tell me. So I lowered the shields and listened. Bam, half of my head started ringing and they found a memory of the living room at home. Not very cooperative after all, I thought, and just cleansed the room with energy.

There were no problems since then. No more presences, no more feeling observed, and finally proper sleep.

Quite mild but still the most haunty I've encountered, thus far.

Colleague had to remove the painting on the wall in her room because it creeped her out. In my room the painting was not that bad, but still a bit psycho.

Blizzard

Also somewhat interesting .. the next day after our arrival there was a heavy snowfall which culminated with very strong winds and hail by the evening. I think as we went out of town, the snowfall followed us there, and as we returned to Copenhagen, the snowfall returned there. Locals said it was very rare for the weather to behave like that.

Electricity glitches

Somehow there have been a lot of electricity glitches today. All of them so brief that the UPSes simply click without beeping, that the lights flicker and fridge stutters. Today this has happened for maybe 20 times or something? I don't recall it happening this frequently before.

Any-yay, will travel tomorrow and see whether the issues travel with me.

Busy times

The times are still rather busy and it's difficult to keep everything in mind and keep track of things. Last week I agreed to a presentation for a group of school teachers but I forgot that I was expected to confirm the date, time, and provide the title.

Yesterday at some point I felt like doing nothing, so I browsed a local newspaper online. There was an article about air quality, which, apparently had been written by the same professor who had asked for the presentation. Had I not stumbled on that article, I would not have remembered to search and reply to that e-mail, either. =/

Dream: Fall phasing

Last night I had a dream where I became self-aware in a tall building. Looking out of the window, I saw another tall building next to it. While I was not on the top floor, it was still fairly high up. It was a large room with multiple windows and a concrete floor. Judging by the architecture, it seemed soviet but much more modern.

I had to get to lower floors and decided to phase through the floor and become solid again before reaching the floor below. This was something which I had not tried before. As everything seemed so vivid, I was afraid of getting hurt and hesitated a bit. Eventually I phased through the floor and fell on a cloud-like structure with a wooden frame, hanging from the ceiling on the floor below. Took a moment to overcome the fear again, and descended further, floor by floor. Ended up in all sorts of different rooms and some of them had people who saw me land through their ceiling and were a bit shocked by that.

Towards the end of the dream I also flew around a bit but that I'm more used to.