I had a dream last night that I was Japanese and I had to go into this woods so I could find this woman who had run away or was hidden. I was in the woods but we saw a paper and anyway first in my dream my dad and I had been in this arcade type-place and we were playing games and he sugguested I play this "viewing" game (you can guess what kind) and I did so then I put in all these quarters to watch it. Then I was in Japanan and in the woods and I was with this other person and we had this huge construction board and we were writing messages to the girl, whose name was Andy, and you couldn't see them unless you put them into dark lightso we decided to do that for her and there was a head figure of what she looked like and she was beautiful with long black hair and bangs.

So we went back to find the old man and he was in the woods somewhere and so we came to him and asked him who Andy was and he said he couldn't tell us because it was a secret. Ad then Andy came in and was really mad at us becaise we had tied a string from the place of the clearing where we had written to her to around her doorknob. I denied it, but she said that obviously I had been trying to get into her house.

We were sent back to where the old man's family lived and the old man said how he'd do anything with patents and precisions, because he was a layyer and my mom was there for a second and she laughed because she understood that the old man liked being a lawyer.

The kid of the family said "Yes, I know." and the mom said "Yes, for all of your six years." and the boy said 'No, longer than that, this is my second reincarnation... " and he told about how during the Vietnam war the father had wanted to run off and go to war and fight to save South Dakota and he had gone too. They wore big wolly-like battle suits, kind of made of straw.

They went out to war with a bunch of other men but they were out on the snow and suddenly the old man (who was a young man now) said that the ice was breaking and they had to get away. he grabbed my hand (I was the other guy now) and we tried to get away quietly to avoid mass panic. We got almost out of the way and all the ice started to crack and we had to find a cardboard box to get into, so we wouldn't drown.

We got safely into a refugee camp and we got in there and people were making fun of us because we were Spanish, saying things like "Et tu, Senorita" and things. I guess they had never seen a Japanese person before. A guy said that he would always be seeing racism in America.

We got in and they were rounding us up, and I pointed over to something and said "What is that?!" and the guard looked and I tried to escape but he caught on and then I said "Look at the eclipse! and he looked and the other guy and I escaped, because if we had shipped us to America they would have never let us go back to Japan. We were running, and I remember thinking "I must be out of breath now." but I wasn't because I wasn't actually running, I was looking at them running. They were guys so they could run faster because they worked out.

I was still back at the shelter with the other women. They were cleaning and making preparations for getting back to Japan but not warlike. The old man was there and he decided to not fight and I (who knew the future) wondered if this was how he'd learned to speak English.

I sat with Nathalie and we were writing a letter to Andy (not the girl Andy but Andy her "boyfriend" She mentioned how in the first letter he'd ever written to get he'd said "Maybe I should just praise you because you're such a goddess." (he had written to me too.) She was writing a line, and I woke up.