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Dream

9:08am JST Tuesday 14 December 2004

I was in China, inline skating in a park, whee at 9am, other skaters would come and skate somewhere around the city. I had been to Oak Forest Automotive to get my bicycle wheel fixed, which they apparently did, but then when I checked it, I saw that they had carelessly burned a hole in the rim and through some of the spokes with a quick blast of a cutting torch.

I noticed this only after I had taken the wheel (it was a spare that I had in my backpack) and gone skating around. Once it came time to ride TJ Bike again (with his two wheels intact), I noticed the third wheel had the cutting torch burn in it. So I knew I had to go back to their shop, but I wasn't sure how I'd be able to prove the accident happened there.

I saw a guy on a park bench that was also skating, and I went over to talk to him, but I woke up before we could talk.

Gateway data1

10:19am JST Tuesday 14 December 2004

CD/track             Wave I / Discovery 2: Introduction to Focus 10
body position        flat on back with right leg bent
CD player            Panasonic SL-CT510
headphones           Sony earphones with noise cancelation off
ambient temperature  20 C
clothing             red flannel pants, white T-shirt, knit cap
working nostril(s)   left more than right
emotional state      calm
physical             tight back muscles
head                 fine
stomach              a tad hungry
pain/soreness        
phone/door	     off/locked
time allowed	     1 hour
ambient light	     daylight through curtains
ambient noise	     construction noise outside my window
date/time            10:26am JST Tuesday 14 December 2004
location	     Millenium House, room 20

Remained awake for most of it, but then found that I had fallen asleep when he was saying wake up; I don't really remember the last portion of the exercise. The construction noise outside made me wonder if I would be successful or not.

11:35am

Ah - I just remembered this: About 5 or 8 minutes into the exercise, I felt/imagined/dreamt that I was moving my arm. The sensation didn't have any vibrational quality that I've associated with OBE, but a sensation was there. I can possibly write it off as a dream feeling. It was very brief.

Gateway data2

1:21pm JST Tuesday 14 December 2004

CD/track             Wave I / Discovery 2: Introduction to Focus 10
body position        flat on back with right leg bent
CD player            Panasonic SL-CT510
headphones           Sony earphones with noise cancelation off
ambient temperature  20 C
clothing             red flannel pants, black sweatpants, white T-shirt, SWD YRUU hoodie, knit cap
working nostril(s)   right
emotional state      calm, wide awake
physical             tight back muscles
head                 fine
stomach              happy
pain/soreness        
phone/door	     off/locked
time allowed	     38 minutes
ambient light	     daylight through curtains
ambient noise	     construction noise outside my window
date/time            1:23pm JST Tuesday 14 December 2004
location	     Millenium House, room 20

2:00pm

Fell asleep during that, but made it longer. Just before he introduced Focus 10, I could have sworn someone knocked on my door. I woke up (I had been sleeping), and said, "yeah," like I am in here; what do you want?, but never heard a response. If someone didn't knock on my door, wow.

I had a dream about ultimate frisbee, and tried to catch a disc at one point. That reminded me that I had a big body spasm during my previous Focus 10 thing today.

Genki people

1:10pm JST Tuesday 14 December 2004

Caesar (sp) from Spain and Erik (sp) from Norway have just arrived in Millenium House in the past 24 - 48 hours. They seem to be rooming together. This morning Marta (born in Argentina, but considers herself) from Spain and her boyfriend(?) Hikaru were over to see Caesar and Erik. Marta and Caesar were chattering at light speed in Spanish and English for a while. Caesar was like, "oh, can everyone here understand Spanish?" and switched to English. Erik told us about his 9 hour stay in customs getting boxes of stuff sent over. Sunglasses, hats, keychains.. all kinds of cheapy crap that one could buy (and in this case, sell) at a sporting event.

Their high-end genkiness eclipsed even Jen. (but would have matched Carla.)

They vanished off to get coffee, after repacking but leaving the boxes in the common room.

Work

9:54am JST Wednesday 15 December 2004

No nightmares at work. Kyoko chose me for two lessons, and said it was really difficult to find my lessons available online. Aw, I'm touched!

study

9:56am JST Wednesday 15 December 2004

Hitomi met me at Motosumiyoshi and we rode Mimi Bike to Saizeria and she helped me study for 1.75 hours. Good stuff.