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(1.6MB, 1680x2240) Reverse Saw another touhou dream some time ago.
So, I was in my childhood home, which was a flat on the 8th floor of a block house.
In the yard, we had a metallic tennis table, which I remember being used for it's intended purpose maybe the total of 10 times in my life: younger children usually used it for climbing/sitting on, and the older children used it for holding the alcohol.
To the west from the table was a utility building, like a substation or some such.
My room had a bird feeder on it, and as the birds had a sort of hierarchy in there, the neighbouring windowsills in all directions often were occupied by the birds waiting for their turn. And if the window in that neighbouring room was opened vertically, in the ventilation mode or whatever, some birds would perch on top of it, and look into the room until someone moved. Although, in my dream, the windows opened to the outside, and not the inside, as they did irl, but whatever.
So, I was standing in the room adjacent to mine, just looking out of the window, when I saw a girl sitting on the table. I immediately recognized her: black skirt, white blouse, black hair, tokin hat, was that the fucking Aya Shameimaru?
She had a crow (or more like a jackdaw) sitting on her hand, and it looked like she was telling it something. Then the crow took off, and headed towards my window, which was open on the ventilation.
So, the windows also had toning film on them, because we don't have air conditioning in the third world, and because of that I'm pretty sure you couldn't see anything from the outside without the lights on. So, the crow couldn't see me until the very moment it went in for the landing on the top of the window frame; at which point we could see eye to eye through the gap, barely more than 10 cm between us. I could see its eye expression going "oh shit", as it cawed from the fright, and scrammed for the forest.
When I looked back to the table, Aya was gone.
So, I started desperately panning my eyes across the landscape to see where she went, until I noticed a hint of her white blouse between the foliage of the nearby forest. As I strained my eyes to see her, her silhouette became clearer, kind of how if you stare into the patterns on a carpet long enough, your eyes relax, and you start seeing things in the pattern. And conversely, when I blinked or moved my eyes at all, even without taking them off her, I lost my concentration, and she quickly merged with the landscape again. So, I was standing there unblinking, straining my eyes to the limit just to see her. She was peeking from behind a tree, not like leaning, but like just standing behind it with the left side of her body concealed. She was standing completely unmoving, and staring back at me with a serious expression. I'm pretty sure she couldn't see me through the film, but I felt that she could see me without sight or something once she was aware I was there. Eventually, my eyes started twitching from the strain and drying out, and with each twitch her visage melted into the landscape until she was completely gone.
I looked around once more, and once again saw her sitting on the table. Previously she sat parallel to the length of the table, and thus perpendicular to me, but now she was turned to the window, hugging her knees, and looking directly at me from behind them with an uncertain expression. This time I could see her clearly without focusing.
I still couldn't believe my eyes, so I called my mother over to see if she could see her too. The instant I did, she began to disappear again, as if my sight was flowing around her, my eyes refusing to focus on her. I could barely see her by the time mom came over, and of course, she couldn't see anything.
I thanked her, and went to my room, still unsure, whether my spiritual sense finally developed from all the touhou porn I trained it on, or if I simply caught the schizo for the exact same reason. I was thinking of a way to communicate with Aya, tell her that she doesn't have to hide herself from me, and that her crow friends (as well as herself) are welcome on my windowsills and in my bird feeder at any time with any luck she could eventually bring the better crowgirl along.
I figured, I would write her a letter, and then cut out a maple leaf from some red cardboard, and glue it onto the envelope as a seal so that she knows the letter is addressed to her, and possible appreciates me going the extra mile to decorate it. The problem was - I didn't have coloured cardboard, glue, envelope, or scissors. I wasn't even sure if I had a working pen, although I somehow knew that I did have at least a pencil and a stack of A4 sheets. And also, I wasn't sure what and how to write, everything that came to my head was immediately rejected as 'retarded attempts at being funny'. And also, I didn't know how to deliver it to her: I was planning to put it onto the windowsill, expecting her to either fly over and quickly snatch it, or send a crow to retrieve it for her. But if I just put it on a windowsill, it could fall off, or someone could see a letter on the windowsill, and take it before she could get to it; if I put the letter into the bird feeder it would get dirty, and I didn't know if they would dare come there.
As I was pondering all that, I looked out of the window once more, and saw a monkey sitting on the roof of the utility building, watching something on a smartphone (that I for some reason knew it stole from somebody). It completely distracted me from Aya, so I went out to retrieve that phone.
Because of dream logic, the building was just the right height to where if I climbed onto some junk under it, I could jump just high enough to grab onto the ledge, and pull myself up. There I just came held out my hand to the monkey, and told it something like "okay, buddy, that's enough, give it back". And it just handed it to me without any fuss, jumped off the roof, and disappeared into the forest.
Don't know what that part of the dream was about, but now I was standing on the roof with a stolen phone I got from a monkey. I figured, I had to return it somehow, maybe get it to the police, or try to look up its owner myself. But before that I lost to my own monkey-brain, and got distracted by the phone just like the monkey before me. The phone had open something like a nitter feed, but it was all just videos that were also autoplaying as you scrolled past them. I guess it was my brain's interpretation of zoomer social networks like vine and tiktok. Anyway, I was curious what the owner of the phone was watching before getting his phone stolen, and secretly hoping to find some diamond in the rough incredible webm. So, I plopped onto the stomach and began scrolling through funny videos. I don't remember the videos themselves, the dream could have gone into the third person for a second there, so I don't know if I even saw them, but I did know that they all sucked ass. But I kept swiping through them anyway, eventually just scrolling the timeline as fast as I can to see how fast I can make it go, and how far it goes.
A few moments in, I heard the slapping of tiny feet to the left of me, and looking there, I got the same feeling of my eyesight refusing to focus. So I tried to make a friendly expression, patted the ground before me, and said something like "Don't worry, I'm nice, we can watch the videos together if you want" (even the dream me thought that came out dumb). But, apparently, it was reassuring enough for the nothingness before me, because my eyes focused again, and little Sukuna stepped towards me.
I patted the ground between me and the phone, once again inviting her to join me, and she gladly climbed in and lied down on her stomach, copying me. We watched through the videos together. She gave a loud, hearty laugh to each one of them, and with her sincerity being infectious, soon enough I too began somewhat enjoying them.
Then I looked over the edge of the roof, and saw Aya again. She was looking at us kind of expectantly, so I instantly assumed she wants to join in too. So, I left the phone in Sukuna's hands, and went to give her a hand. I held my hand out for her, but she didn't take it, and just continued looking at me kind of questioningly. Probably because that's not what she wanted, but my dream self was having none of that. I jumped down, and picked her up by the thighs, giving her like a piggyback, but on a single shoulder, don't know if there's a better description. The dream me didn't even think about feeling her up: just helping the lady (who is a flying crow-youkai) up (onto the roof that's normally a crow fight-club, basically). He's a true gentleman, that was the first thing I thought of when going through the dream after waking up.