Dreams: 29.08.2009

I am in the car, driving lesson.

My friend Shane is behind the wheel and Aya and one more girl (I don't remember, Haruka?) are in the back seat as well, me next to Shane. And somehow a driving coach is on board and supervising the driving skills.

We are in a small town with some deserted countryside so the roads and situation are varied.

Shane was very good, but in the very narrow steep down hill he had to pull off to the side because he couldn't pull the brake well, we were all scared if we are falling from the narrow road into the hedge.

A place change:

I am now on the back seat and someone is driving (a lady) I just enjoy the scenery we pass.

It's by the sea and endless field by the sea.

Somehow the scene from the window is very high as if I'm on the up deck of a double decker bus. I spot some wild horses running around, very hairy ones.

The driver tries to U-turn and I say "oh, please stop by if you can so I can take photos of them"

The lady says Ok, so I took my camera out, and find out they are unicorns! I can see the single horn sticking out from their head.

A place change:

I am now walking with my mom in the countryside of Hiroshima, somehow connected from the field I spotted the unicorns.

We walk by the water channel which leads to the sea towards where we are walking.

This is Kure, Hirohsima, where my mom was brought up and I spent some summers here, I was born here too.

My mom walks with confidence as she knows the place so well, I follow her and started to recognize and feel "Ah this is good old Kure" and feel nostalgia. We could smell the salty sea.

A place change:

Now I am at my grand parents house in Kure, my mom prepared dinner and gone out.

There are, Haruka, Aya, my cousin Asako, my grandma from Kure and my other grandma from Osaka (my dad's mom) in the room.

Haruka and Aya are wearing school uniform so my grandmas can see, but I'm not, so I say thanks to them. Haruka's one are from high school in China, Aya's ones are the same I had in my high school.

I put the dishes together so we can all eat at a table.

We start eating, grandma had some special dishes just for them prepared, some beautiful looking fish dishes. I serve them and they enjoy.

I noticed a cooker, a fire, was left on, so I stood and switch off.

Kure grandma is eating "Saba no Nikomi"(stewed mackerel in soya sauce) and she doesn't notice she is spilling the juice on her shoulder as she bites. I took some tissue out and wipe for her discreetly, thinking and knowing she wouldn't like to be treated like a baby or an old woman. She says "oh no I didn't know.. thanks" and keeps eating.

End:

She loved fish and always used to get the freshest fish caught on the same day when we visited her. She could just walk and find a fisherman in the neighborhood. It was such a small town where we used to walk to the sea after dinner and stare at the stars, we could hear the neighboring TV sound of baseball matches, Tofu selling people in bicycle.

I've never lived anywhere what we can call a "countryside" or a "village", so my summer time spent in Kure was so precious and memorable.

I love dreaming and seeing my Kure grandma in my dreams, she passed 12 years ago just after I moved to UK, and ever since that she appears in my dream so much I have to one day present "best supporting actress" award. :)

Dream: 19.08.2009

It's been almost 3 days since I saw this dream, and it's very hazy or I've forgotten! but thought it ought to be written here because it's..... just funny!

I was eating a bowl of stirfry or some sort which is unusual for me to dream about food (things we are content with are not major subjects in dreams in my experiences).
And I see something is moving inside the bowl.
It was a miniature spiderman, size of a key and it climbs out from the bowl and starts climbing onto the wall of the kitchen.
I stare at him and not even surprised, and understand "right, he's a spiderman, so he's ought to ...er..climb, let him."

Portsmouth 15.08.2009

South West trains are doing the £10 day trip deal on their entire lines, so my colleague Zsuzsa tells me, so I booked my friend Judith who can be so spontaneous too and our tickets straight away on friday.

I seem to need to do spontaneous adventures very often and though I love London, I am under my own control in London for what to do and where to go, so I needed to go somewhere I have no control or feeling whatever, so Portsmouth is a random choice.

I even took my swimsuit but had no luck with the sun, it was windy and not warm enough for a dip. so we just sat on pebble beach and drank a nice bottle of Cava.

And as with almost ANY British coast, there's a pier, and amusement place, where we only went in to use the toilet, but of course the toilet is out of service, but we ended up stuck with a 2p coin machine.

I love coin games like good old times, some kids were keen to use the machine we were in, but we don't care, we spent good 50 minutes and £5 on it.

I couldn't believe Judith never has played this game.

I think it is a great fun and when can any 2p gives you this much pleasure and entertainment!? (we were stingy to play 10p version of this game)

Off we walk on Castle Road where we found a blue plate of Peter Sellers who lived here.

Then on Great Southsea Street, I found a pub Dan was recommending me to go, just by chance!

and how grateful I was, it's such a lovely pub! (Hall in the Wall is the name)

At first, people drinking outside were curious about us coming in, it's the air I tend to get when I am outside London and I get looked at and "who are you?! this is our local pub not for lousy tourists, not for foreigners!" kind of atmosphere.

But all was fine. The landlord was very nice, gave us some samples of ales before we sat happily with our Ales in our hands, admiring their wonderful ceiling works of all the ales they served, over 100. (see the pic)

We got tipsy on our way home on the train, but friendly guy at the station insists on giving us a can of beer to enjoy onboard.

Great time to spend outside London sometimes when we just need some new air, I am happy being a tourist in London too, I still remember the buzz of this city of creativity, arts, beautiful shambles, grey cold sky, milky tea, etc from 18 years ago when I decided to live here.

By the way, British coasts are so beautiful you can stare for ages.

This one particularly resembles a bunch of tree patterns.

Dreams: 08.08.2009

I was with my mom traveling.We come to cross the border to enter Georgia, we are little bit scared not to know what to expect and could already feel the air being very different to anywhere we've been to, very grey and heavy air.

We say hi to the border control women officers who were dressed in thick uniform and looked stern. One of the women says "Genki desuka?" (Japanese meaning "How are you?") to us as we passed by, to this my mom went more scared whispering to me "No..they will be spying on us and will get us!" and started walking very fast.

I whisper back "No, lots of people speak a bit of Japanese nowadays and nothing unusual, especially immigration people.." but she didn't listen and her walking turned into running grabbing my arm in her arm so we are now running fast.

There was no one in the sight but dim dark twilight and fields and fields of nothingness.

The only small road we were on became a steep downhill and at this point our speed was so fast I was very scared but couldn't stop like a broken bicycle.

At the top of the speed, we spot a group of wild horses coming towards us running furiously, we would crush, so I hold my mom tight and forced to come off the road before we crush.

We rolled over a few time into the side of the road and feel some parts of my mom breaking like a plastic doll in my arms.