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Dream

6:07am JST Friday 14 January 2005

Had a new job that was in Texas, but not quite the same. I came to work and had forgotten my badge, but I knew I'd be able to talk my way in, even though I was new.

Wende was there, arranging a party that she had planned while she was away. She was proud of me and even gave me a platonic smooch on the lips, but with a dramatic pucker and definitely no tongue. She was drawing a map on the chalk board and couldn't quite remember the order of all the streets in the neighborhood, so I offered to look them up online; the map I had in my book wasn't detailed enough, and there were many computers on the array of tables in the room.

Flying shinkansen dream

8:22am JST Friday 14 January 2005

I needed to go to a train station on a shinkansen line, but I hadn't been to the station in a while so I didn't remember its namee, but I remembered it was south of where I was at the time and I thought it was the second such station. I told the girl "south" in english and ni ban me in Japanese (second).

She gave me the ticket and I got on the train just in time and then it started going the wrong direction. Or I had gotten on the wrong train. I was stuck, but I was ahead of schedule, so I figured I could just enjoy the ride

I looked around my car (I was alone in it) and found there was a waterbed and other beds, but I figured they would cost more if I used them. So I just sat on the edge of the bed and looked out through the front of the train, and I felt nervous when other shinkansens were manuevering so close to ours, looking like they were going to crash. They didn't but then something even scarier happened, as our train went off its tracks! But it kept traveling. The announcer announced (In English) that due to the snow storm, there were a lot of tracks we couldn't use. The workers were clearing this section as we went across it; they were mowing grass and using candles to melt snow and all kinds of stuff. As we were approaching a guy who had been shoveling snow into a runway of sorts, he placed a rocket on it just in time to launch it before we careened through. I could hear the rocket hitting the side of the shinkansen. It was scary but fun.

From Dan
to rob

If I didn't know you Rob, I'd swear you were a
marijuana smoker, good shit nonetheless

'they were mowing grass and using candles to melt snow
and all kinds of stuff'

Mate. candles. lol

Your fucking crazy

Dan

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Live the Dream.......

Gateway data

6:25am JST Friday 14 January 2005

CD/track             Wave III / Freedom 6: First Stage Separation
body position        flat on back with legs bent
CD player            Panasonic SL-CT510
headphones           Audio-Technica ATH-T3
ambient temperature  17 C
clothing             socks, red flannel pants, GAP hoodie, Hitomi-knit cap
working nostril(s)   left
emotional state      calm
physical             tight back muscles, still a bit sleepy
head                 fine
stomach              fine
pain/soreness        middle left back pain
phone/door	     off/locked
time allowed	     1.5 hours
ambient light	     almost none
ambient noise	     gas heater fan
date/time            6:27am JST Friday 14 January 2005
location	     Millenium House, room 20

8:40am

I stayed awake for all of this (except the very very end as he was tellingus to wakeup) and though I didn't feel myself really out of my body, I felt some tuggings in various directions. back away from my body and flowing out through my head .. those two I was more able to visualize slash nearly feel.

I have a theory that these two were more effective because they were near the end of the exercise, like by then I had a chance to get more into the required mode of awareness.

I didn't get up at the end to write this, but I think I remembered it well enough. It's not like "I'll write this dream down later" and then forget it completely.

rooftop

1:07am JST Saturday 15 January 2005

I invited Ikumi to explore the apartment building across the street. Its front door was no blocked with a gate; this is our big chance, I thought. The front door was not blocked because all the doors in the building were locked. Crud.

Peering around a bit, I noticed a ladder to the roof.

This is me kinda lodged inside the opening with a ladder to the roof.

Truly, it took me several minutes to convince myself (and Ikumi) that it would be okay for me to climb onto the roof for a quick picture. And truly, I wanted to slide down the slide looking thing, but we guessed it *might* not be designed for people to slide down. If I broke it, that would be a bit expensive.

I climbed onto the roof and she got pictures from the ground. With careful zooming, I can see my face (I was wearing all black) above the bottom end of the steps.