Cat Eye forum

I had a very long dream about an dark-web forum site which was apparently used by virtually everyone in Taiwan but which I had just discovered. When you signed up, you were given a unique user ID, which was a very long numerical string (20-some digits). You could associate any number of different usernames with this ID, which was kept secret, and could then post under different names in different forums, and no one outside of the three-letter agencies would know they were all the same person. This was perceived by the users to be a very important security feature.

I spent most of the dream on my laptop in my former home in what is now part of Hell Hollow Wilderness Area in northeastern Ohio, hacking into the site without the required numerical ID and trying to navigate the dizzying number of different forums. I was trying to gain access to a particular forum known as Cat Eye, which was very difficult to get into and which I had reason to believe was the hub of a Book of Mormon-style "secret combination."

Although the dream went on for hours, I don't remember much detail beyond that. It got rather bogged down in the minutiae of how the forums and the IDs worked, and I don't believe I ever succeeded in breaking into Cat Eye.

At one point, I took a break from the computer and went into my parents' barn. I found that my black cat Scipio was living there and realized that I had forgotten about that and hadn't been feeding him. He seemed as healthy as ever, though, so I figured he had been living on rats.

I also took a couple of breaks to do some hiking in the Hollow itself. I thought I glimpsed a few hyaenodonts through the trees (an old fear of mine when I used to hike those woods as a child), but otherwise nothing noteworthy occurred.

inb4 Bill makes the obvious link between Cat Eye and this:

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This was another dice experiment -- Minor Arcana only, so the Tower, which would otherwise be my first guess, is ruled out. Here are my ranked predictions:

1. Page of Swords (11 or 539): Traditionally associated with spying. Its poker counterpart is a one-eyed Jack.

2. Queen of Wands (847 or 45): A black cat, the only cat in the deck.

3. Five of Pentacles (6): Wanting in but being shut out.

4. King of Pentacles (15): The only one-eyed king in its poker form. As a child, I used to have nightmares about a monstrous man with a single eye in the form of a pentacle.

5. Seven of Swords (28 or 275): Another "sneaky" card.

6. Two of Cups (99): Another feline, red like the Eye of Sauron.

I will check the dice and post the answer later today.

Update: I've just remembered something I should add before I check the dice. As I sat at my laptop in the dream, above me on the wall was a replica of Facsimile 2 (a hypocephalus, representing the eye of Ra or Horus) made on a varnished wooden disc with a wood-burning tool. This is something my parents own in real life, but the way it was emphasized in the dream may be relevant in connection with Cat Eye (the Egyptians famously saw cats as divine) and the suit of Pentacles.

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Update (1:00 p.m.): I rolled 165, the same roll I got for "Pumping iron into a sword." Last time, I thought the Two of Wands was a better fit than the Two of Swords, and I think the same this time. I'm going to go ahead and declare Wands the high suit for Seven Eleven purposes. The Two of Wands suggests that the correct way to spy on the Cat Eye crew is not by hacking into their forum on the dark web but by using the Blue Green Crystal Ball.