#oneaday Day 1084: The rabbit hole

You know you're down the VTuber rabbit hole when you have dreams about them. To be fair, I've only had two VTuber dreams to date, but they were both oddly vivid and memorable as opposed to those dreams that sort of dissipate the moment you wake up, however much you enjoyed them at the time.

The first one I had was a good few months back, and it involved IRyS from Hololive. For one reason or another, I was hanging out in her bedroom while she was getting ready — she was sort of half-dressed (she didn't have any shoes on, but she did have most of her outfit on, and she hadn't "done her hair") and talking to me while she was wandering around getting ready. I sadly don't remember the specifics of the conversation she was having with me, but I do recall that it was some sort of helpful life advice.

In other words, there was nothing romantic or sexual about the encounter at all; I was just hanging out in her room as if she was a friend of mine, and she was advising me on something that had been bothering me. I wish I could remember what as it could have actually been important.

Regardless of any deeper meaning, it was interesting to see her in "3D" as a "real" person. And I don't mean I saw the performer behind the IRyS avatar, I mean IRyS was real, but still looked like IRyS. And it didn't feel weird. This is perhaps helped by the fact that IRyS is one of the Hololive VTubers who is designed with a little more realism to her facial proportions than some of the others, but still. It was interesting and nice.

The other VTuber dream I had was the other night, and it was absolutely baffling because it felt like several different unrelated scenes were overlapping and somehow interacting with one another.

The main thrust of what was going on was that I was exploring some sort of dungeon or castle in the Neverwinter Nights engine, and just engaging in combat with a group of foes. The battle began, and things weren't going all that well — our healer went down fast. At the same time, sort of overlaid on top of proceedings (so I could see through and still see "Neverwinter Nights") was a sort of… I'm not sure how to describe it. Like a party, I guess? Specifically, like the kind of party you see at big awards ceremonies: lots of people sitting around round tables, mingling with one another. Except all the people at the party were VTubers. I think. Most of them sort of blended into the background as ill-defined grey figures.

I called out to the party for a healer, and, without acknowledging me directly, Finana Ryugu from Nijisanji stood up from her table and wandered over to the next table over, where Uruha Rushia from Hololive was sitting. Without saying a word, Rushia stood up and — there's no easy way to say this, so I'm just going to say it — took out her erect penis. Finana promptly grasped hold of Rushia's implement and began manipulating it, at which point it took on an oddly unnatural sort of… gleam, I guess you'd call it, almost like a polished orb. And as this happened, light began to emanate from their… uh… union, and those of us involved in the battle felt healing energy flowing into us, and we were able to fight on.

I awoke just as Finana and Rushia completed their ritual, relieved to discover that I had not inadvertently had my own ritual in my sleep in the process. But that certainly was a weird one — possibly second only to the dream where I was unable to have sex with someone on the London Underground because I didn't have the sheet music.

The subconscious is a funny place.