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I just had to write this dream down for remembrance.

Disclaimer: This post will make absolutely no sense if you’re not a Pokémon GO player.

Last night, I dreamt that my boyfriend and I were playing Pokémon GO. (Nothing different from real life, since we do this every weekend.)

Another new generation of pokémon was just released and Yamper (this pokémon that looks like a corgi) was one of them. Now, my boyfriend and I are huge corgi fanatics so obviously we were going around catching all the Yampers we could find.

Chasing corgis aside, the Pokémon GO gameplay had a huge twist from what it is currently.

Because I was a fan of Megumin, this character from the anime Konosuba, Megumin strangely materialized in my dream as a pokémon that can be caught in Pokémon GO. Once evolved, it turns into Megumax. (HAHAHA, my brain churns out puns even in my dreams.)

But here’s the catch – it cannot be evolved directly.

Instead, you had to hunt for bluetooth gadgets that are hidden in real world locations (via partnerships with commercial places) in order to evolve Megumin. I’m not even talking about augmented reality/location tracking anymore, but actual physical gadgets.

It’s literally a treasure hunting game in the physical space.

So my boyfriend and I were running around a mall, hunting high and low for these mysterious bluetooth gadgets. We went from store to store, looking underneath shelves and scouring all corners. (If this was real life, we would have looked so suspicious that the mall will call the police on us, haha.)

Eventually, we found the gadgets at the bottom of a basket filled with chocolates.

Somehow, the Pokémon GO app will pick up the signal from the gadget and the “evolve” button will magically appear.

Very happy, we both were.

Somehow, evolving Megumin and Yamper were one of the requirements to level up from 40 to 41 so we leveled up automatically. And I was musing to my boyfriend about how I was stuck at level 39 for 1.5 years, whereas it took me only 2 months to level up to 41.

But wow, isn’t this game mechanic so cool? It becomes an urban reality kind of game, or an upgraded treasure hunt where the entire world has become the playground. And nope, no amount of location spoofing will be able to help you here.

Then, my boyfriend (in real life) mused “those gadgets are going to get stolen”.

Oh, right.

Reality hits.

So many possible problems with this game set-up. Those gadgets have to be chained up. Oh, and crowd control. We’re still in a pandemic after all.

Dang.

After that, I longed to go back to sleep so that I could return to that dream, where pandemics and shitty humans did not exist.