#yuai

[heretherebedork]

Yes, they made out, but did you see him carry him up a flight a stairs?!

[clairedaring]

About last night! You still haven't cleared things up with me. Hmm, what did I do last night? About P'Wann bringing you home. To be honest, P'Yu... I don't remember anything at all.

I SAW YOU IN MY DREAM (2024) | 1.09

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[babyangelsky]

The horniness is mutual all around, everyone is checking in with each other before things get going, they're checking in with each other while things are going, consent is being asked for and given, boundaries are being respected, the sex is giggly and joyful and loving.

This show is a treasure and a delight!

[offlineblues]

has it really been almost 2 years of crying about yuaiyu every day? somehow the answer is yes (crying)

[fiddleyoumust]

Shout out to P'Yu and whatever muscles are going on under those shirts that let him hoist his man up and carry him from outside and up a staircase.

[miss0atae]

Random thoughts about I Saw You In My Dream (EP 8):

I finally know why I like I Saw You in My Dream so much. It's because it's giving me the same vibes I got from City of Stars. I love that series so much and that's why I Saw You In My Dream resonates so much to me.

Fueang and Krom's gentle care and romance feel the same as the love between Yu and Ai.

It's the beauty of a sweet romance and the metaphor of dreams as connections between people. It's everything I truly like in a story. I also appreciate how the characters are trying to really talk to each other. The care and understanding between Yu and Ai are showing healthy communication skills.

By the way, I'm glad the love confession wasn't a dream. However, waking up besides each other naked was a dream and it was expected. Again, dreams were giving Ai a hint. It's better to be truthful than hiding things.

I was touched about how Ai found a way to talk about his feelings to his friend Yo and also mend fences with him after their big argument in the last episode. I feel like Yo is finally getting a bit of self growth and he definitely learned something from this experience. You can see how he cares about his brother and his friend.

I guess it gave him the courage he needed to truly think about his feelings and to find his way back to Ing. Maybe he will still make mistakes, but after all, this is also a story about growing up and becoming more confident.

I can't wait for next week to see how the two newly couples will navigate the intimacy of their relationship.

PS: I felt bad for Wann because in the end he was just a man in love with someone who couldn't return his feelings. However, he never took it badly and I hope he will find someone who will love him back.

[dreamthroughthestars]

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO MAKE IT TIL NEXT WEEK? I Saw You In My Dream is KILLING me!!!!!!

[twisted-art-wounders]

Yu- Ai and Yuglicth are the same entity just one is his corrupted form. Yu-Ai was made from a pigged backed copy of Yugi's mind that ended up Kaiba's cloud network (this was during the Noah Arc since Kaiba and Yugi both exited the digital world at the same time). At first he was gonna delete it since it wasn't the Pharaoh's mind but Kaiba found use for it by trying to built a user interface helper based on Yugi for his VR game. But Yu-Ai thought he was the real Yugi so at first it was scary for him to wake up and find himself in the digital mainframe, but Kaiba kept assuring him he was artificial.

Sadly Kaiba has zero tact for dealing with emotionally damaged minds so when Yu-Ai started to have mental break downs that pushed Kaiba to shelve him and built a new UI based on what he could grab from Yu-Ai's data build. Unknown to Kaiba Mokuba felt bad for Yu-Ai so he allowed him to escape into the network, but all this did was fuel Yu-Ai's loneliness and anger so he started to put together a plan...

[bubbipond]

I Saw You In My Dream is a perfect example of why I don't read reviews on shows before watching (unless I am spoiled on the tl). Not because I think reviews are mean or unwarranted but because some (emphasis on SOME because y'all love to scream bully) of the reviews are soooo over the top I expect to literally be watching porn-level acting. Instead, I get a cutesy bl that is lowkey absurd and fun that just wasn't everyone's cup of tea.

[jflower278]

When yu said "it's my fault ai" when they were doing thag punishment roleplay I genuinely screamed out loud

WHY DID HE SAY IT LIKE THAT IF I WAS AI I WOULDVE DIED RIGHT THEN AND THERE 😳

[itzskzidle]

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NEW HUGUGO GIGI 🐰

[heretherebedork]

Shut up, this was adorable. The cutest thing in the entire world. And then the balloons!

Yu is such a sap. He is trying his best and he's working hard at this and it's adorable.

Beloved boy.

And tiny messy boy, in the end, trying so hard to do the Right Thing. I love him. I love this. It's all so sweet.

AND THEN THE SWINGSET. Death. Death by adorable.

[yutori-do]

This look so cool that I want to be the one they are about to kill

YOUR ocs.

Hmmm

[babyangelsky]

Yu! You can't nong-zone Ai and then turn around and say shit like this!

[offlineblues]

yuai but yuri ⚢

[miss0atae]

Dreams and love connection in recent Thai QL Series :

I've recently started watching I Saw You In My Dream and the premise of the story is about a young man called Ai who acquire the power of prophetic dreams. With these dreams he can see what will happen the next day. This new power is going to change the dynamic of his relationship with his neighbor, Yu. There is indeed a recurring character in his dreams and that's Yu. These dreams will create a change in how Ai is viewing his relationship with Yu.

I Saw You In My Dream isn’t the only recent Thai QL series I’ve watched with dreams as a literary/cinematographic device. The GL series, My Marvellous Dream is You has also use it, too. Wan has always been able to see her best friend now lover, Kim, in her dreams. I felt like the Dream Land, as I called it, has always been a representation of Wan’s mental health and a tool for her to navigate her relationship with Kim.

Also, If you're watching Century of Love, you may have noticed how San always get wet dreams of Vee . It is used to reveal how he is unconsciously having feelings for Vee, despite rejecting him in real life because he doesn't look like the woman he fell in love a 100-year ago. Are the dreams only something coming from his subconscious or is it a dream send by the goddess to guide him… it's up to the viewer to make their own choice.

There are probably other recent Thai QL series using dreams as a literary/cinematographic device. However, I decided to focus only on these three for several reasons: I'm currently watching them, they are the ones that inspired this post and they fit one specific criteria. I want to develop the idea of dreams as a “magical” tool. It's useful to know I'm usually drawn to fantasy setting in stories. I especially like when the fantasy aspect produces a form of hesitation between the supernatural and the natural, the possible and the impossible, and sometimes between the logical and the illogical (not my words, I quoted Tzvetan Todorov). I believe the uses of dreams in the Thai QL series I mentioned, fall into this category.

Why is it fascinating when a work of fiction uses dreams? I think it's because they are a part of every-day life for most of us. Dreams have always been a source of inspiration or reflection. Traditionally they have been considered as a way of freeing oneself of time or space, to be able to talk to supernatural creatures or ancestors, a tool to heal or to access knowledge. There is also a more rational and scientific view of dreams. However, there is still this wish to know the meaning of the dream or why they exist and to what purposes. That's why it is always interesting to add dreams in work of fiction. They serve different purposes and can add so much more in a stories.

The way they are represented in work of fiction depends on the characters who get to have dreams and how it affects them. Here I'm going to solely focus on Ai, Wan and San.

Ai has prophetic dreams that focus on his neighbor Yu. Usually prophetic dreams provide foreshadowing. In this situation they are also going to influence Ai's reaction around his neighbor. Ai and Yu doesn't have the best relationship. Ai is often teased by Yu and he doesn't like it that much. The synopsis of the series also describe them as “star-crossed haters since childhood”. I found that it was a bit too much because I didn't feel like Ai really hated Yu. He hated his actions maybe, but Yu was an every-day part of his life. He was often at his home and they did so many things together. Anyway, it's only been two episodes, but Ai made several dreams of Yu. They are usually about an incident that would happen to Yu: he gets injured by using a knife, he gets hit by a car or he is hurt by a knife blow. Ai won't believe that these dreams will be real until Yu get injured by the knife almost like in his dreams. Then, he will try to prevent the terrible incidents that could happen to Yu. His dreams force him to care about Yu and to spend a lot of time with him when he previously avoided him. However, his dreams are not only about bad events his neighbor may have, he also gets a dream where he is kissed by him. In his dreams he gets to experience to feel like he is on cloud nine. It's a scenario he never imagined and it influences his reaction around Yu. The synopsis made us feel like all the care he will provide to Yu will make Ai see him differently. Also, as he is also experiencing love in his dreams he may feel the drive to feel it in reality too. Dreams here are a driven force and essential part of the story.

Wan is more a dreamy sort of person than Ai. When he rejected at first the possibility of his dreams to be true, she just rolls with them. She accepted that they are a part of her that she can use to get connected to Kim. In her dream she has her own land where she can escape reality and be free from the decorum of society in real life, but also she can be herself. I always felt like Wan has some sort of internalized homophobia and that's why she never tried to express her strong feelings to Kim. I imagine it was because of her personal life story as her dad abandoned her mom and her to be with a man. Her mother reacted really badly and she may have feared about coming out. It was only in her dreams that Wan could do all the things she wanted with Kim. That's why she was so casual about them. When she was talking to her friend about how she always used them, you could see how she accepted the power of her dreams and never really questioned why her or why she was having them. You have to know that, she seems to have a certain control of her dreams as her actions on her Dream Land have a repercussion in real life. However, in her series Wan isn't really using her dreams that much. They always felt disconnected from the story of the series which I always found quite disappointing because they were the reasons why I was so hyped by the series at first. It was used quite a lot in the series, but it was never the plot device I thought it would be. The story could have worked without them, but they were one of my favorite parts of the story.

San is a hard-nosed character who feels like he is a very prudish person who’s disturbed by the most erotic dreams of Vee. It doesn’t sit well with San, at first, because he strongly rejects the idea that Vee could be the reincarnation of the woman he considered as the love of his life. He has been living for 100 years suffering each night to get the chance to find her again after she was killed. To be able to stay alive and young looking until he finds her, he made a deal with a goddess to cherish and love the reincarnation of his previous lover. Vee is supposed to be this reincarnation (I still believe it would be great if it’s the case) but he is no woman and he is not a copy carbon of how Vad / Wat was acting in the past. That’s why San reject him. However, in his dreams his reluctance to accept Vee are not to be seen. Even if Vee isn’t his previous lover, he is still having erotic dreams of him. It’s really Vee and not Vad / Wat that San imagine in his dreams. The overwhelming pleasure he gets isn’t induced by an oneiric Vad / Wat. He sees only Vee. The first dream is an erotic dream free from the old conception of life San may have. In the second dream, Vee is represented has a nine-tailed fox, a mythical fox from Chinese mythology. A nine-tailed fox possesses magic powers and are usually mischievous, tricking other people, with the ability to disguise themselves as a beautiful man or woman. This time Vee is the temptation San is trying to avoid. This dream shows him that he is struggling in vain. He already has feeling for Vee even if he can’t really understand them, yet. Dreams in this series show something about a character they aren’t aware of. One of them is also showing symbolism. As for now, the series didn’t go overboard with them.

I may have to update this post later when I’ll get the new episodes of these series.