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// A Quite Normal Day of Summer 
// Story: These Dreams of Mine 
// by Little-Miss-Minty 
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	My first dream in Equestria was a success! It was short, but wonderful. Ponyville and the ponies were all so beautiful in their own, special way. It seemed like walking in the world's most gorgeous fanart, but, like, multiplied by a thousand. You know, just for the heck of it, I'll say that it was far more than twenty-percent cooler than anything I've experienced in my waking life. I'm certain that I will never forget that first dream in Equestria. It was a truly amazing experience. 

However, amazing as it was, I was craving another dream the next night. I wanted a little more than just getting lost in Ponyville, eating delicious sweets at Sugarcube Corner, or watching Twilight get pranked. Even if I absolutely loved the cuteness of my very slice-of-life dream the previous night, I wanted something a little more adventurous.  

Instead of planning out the majority of my dream, I decided that I'd just set the stage and let my mind take it from there. After all, I hadn't planned the most exciting parts of my other dream: getting lost in Ponyville and Rainbow Dash's prank. Those things weren't in the original plans. I liked this idea of living an adventure in-the-moment, doing everything in a compulsive, desire-based mindset, and seeing the results. After all, this was just a dream and I can practically reset dreams anytime that I wish.

Thinking about this, I began to ponder what characters I wanted in this first adventure dream, and what I actually wanted the adventure to be. I decided that I wanted the entire Mane 6, the Cutie Mark Crusaders, Spike, and the princesses to have large roles, and I wanted Queen Chrysalis and the changelings to be the antagonists. Other than that, though, I didn't plan much more out. I was so excited for the upcoming night!





However there was still most of the day in front of me. By the time I woke up, got ready, and planned the parts of the dream, it was only about 10:00 AM. Since it was summertime, my brother and I don't go to camp, and my parents had to go to work, Zack and I were home alone most of the day. At 10:00, my brother had finally woken up, but he didn't eat breakfast until about 10:30. Boy, is summer our favorite season.

There was nothing much I needed to do around the house. You see, in the summer before leaving for work, my mom always makes a chore list of things we need to do before we go anything leisurely. My one chore that day was to water the various plants around the house, and I happily and quickly did so while humming "Winter Wrap-Up."

Zack, on the other hand, had a few things to do. He had to empty the dishwasher of last night's dishes, go around the house and empty all of the small trashcans into a trash bag, and tidy up his room. With a grunt, he started his chores, and with a smile, I ran up to my room.

I sat down at my desk and powered on my laptop. Today was going to be a fun-filled day of reading and writing pony fanfiction! Ooh, I love fanfiction days like this, and over the summer, I try to savor them as much as possible. It's hard getting a day devoted to fanfiction over the school year, but the summer? It's normally four or five days a week!

This, everyone, is why summer is my favorite season.

At around 1:00 PM, I began to get hungry. I went downstairs and made myself a grape jelly sandwich. I've never really liked peanut butter very much.

After sitting down at the table, eating, and finishing my sandwich, I grabbed a cheese stick and decided to visit my brother.

Occasionally gnawing on the cheese, I found Zack in the living room playing one of his favorite video games on the PlayBox U or whatever. I said a "Hello!" and he grumbled one back, too focused on his game to be focused on me. Finishing my cheese stick, I left. Let me tell you, if my brother had a pony best friend, it would be Button Mash. Zack loves his video games.

I threw the cheese's wrapper out and headed back upstairs to my fanfiction. I was reading a particularly interesting one about Vinyl Scratch and Octavia, and was happy to return to it.

After an afternoon of fanfiction-reading, my parents came home. My mother is a secretary for a CEO of a large company, and my father is an accountant. In fact, they met each other by working in the same company. However, both of my parents have since moved workplaces. They both work in the business world, but I certainly don't want to. I hope to become a professional author; I love writing so much! My brother, though, doesn't really know what he wants to do, yet. But he has a while, and honestly, I don't know what kind of job he'd be interested in, either. See, he likes math, so maybe he'll follow in my father's footsteps and become an accountant. Or maybe, since he likes his video games so much, he'll become a video game designer or something. Who knows?

The evening went slowly. I shouldn't have planned out my dream so early in the day because once I finished the Octavia and Vinyl fanfic, I didn't have much else to read. Nothing on the homepage attracted my attention, and I was caught up on all of the stories I'd been tracking. I didn't have any ideas to write a fanfiction, and didn't have any work-in-progress stories to write, either. My fanfiction day had been spent reading. I was very bored, and my boredom certainly didn't seem to help my anticipation to dream my adventure dream.

However, though, the sun slowly set and the evening turned to twilight, which turned to dusk, which melted into the night. It was an absolutely gorgeous night. The tons of stars were twinkling in a blue-black abyss. The moon was full and low in the sky. I know that Princess Luna would be proud of a night like that one; it was so beautiful.

I waited for about an hour, so it was close to 10:00 PM. I got ready for bed and repeated the process from last night. I read over my few plans several times, and meditated for quite a long time, just like the previous night. When I began to get sleepy, I snuggled into bed and soon I found myself drifting off. In mere moments, I'd be a unicorn living in the adorable Ponyville. The adorable Ponyville that was about to be attacked by changelings...