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Jun 27, 2010 16:52

For the 2-3 months leading up to when I left for Japan - 5 years ago next month - I had nightly dreams about the new home I'd never visited. I knew I'd finally settled in when I started to have dreams in which I understood the words around me and didn't have to make apologies to my own subconscious for being a gaijinWhen I returned from Japan - a ( Read more... )

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averagesmartguy June 27 2010, 22:48:48 UTC
I liked this; thanks for sharing. ^_^

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nymphti June 28 2010, 15:02:10 UTC
^_^

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dosboof June 28 2010, 14:27:24 UTC
I think it's pretty awesome that your dreams can have a goal like that. Mine - which are remembered ever more rarely these days - never seem to have any sort of theme lately. Just the standard half-formed thoughts played out in illogical visuals.

And I would try wine jelly. No question.

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nymphti June 28 2010, 20:40:46 UTC
Most of my dreams are quest-type dreams, and many of those happen in rotation. I can't recall any dream that's hasn't had an underlying story line although most of it time it's some crap about escaping somewhere or rescuing someone. I've seen it on TV or in books where people just have images that morph from one into another to create Dali-like dreamscapes, e.g.

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dosboof June 29 2010, 13:02:23 UTC
Ah, Dali. He was nuts before it was cool.

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