Cherry Blossom Adventures

I dream in English and Japanese. As far as I know no other languages have appeared. I still remember the first dream I had where everything was in Japanese. It was set in Japan and some friends were in it and it was all in Japanese. The best thing about my dreams in Japanese is that my Japanese is always perfect, and I always understand everything that is going on. Something I am still striving for in real life. I would say, of the dreams I remember, 60% are in English while the other 40% are in Japanese. Sometimes my non-English speaking friends speak perfect English in my dreams…Shumpei loves it when I tell him he spoke English in my dreams. Sometimes my dreams are based in Australia, but with all the people from my Japan life, which is a bit strange but I guess that is what dreams are. Strange.

I used to have a dream analysis book but I guess it is in Australia somewhere. It never made a whole lot of sense to me. Does anyone follow this seriously? What do you think, should I analyze my dreams?

I am also a restless sleeper. While I sleep fine, the people around me, namely Shumpei, have to deal with sleep talking, sleep moaning, moving around, futon stealing and kicking. Apparently I went through a patch of been a good sleeper, despite the sleep talking (also which is apparently in English and Japanese…or sometimes a weird mix so I have heard) but in the last week I have been quite difficult. I blame it on the change of the seasons…I apparently steal the futon (doona!) but I don`t use it to cover myself up, I just hug it. So Shumpei freezes. When I say I sleep talk too, I mean I really sleep talk. I have full on conversations really loudly with actions and everything (IE moving my hand around in front of my face to indicate things apparently!)

Anyone that has slept in a bed with me, or watched me sleep know how difficult I can be. I guess cos so many people comment on it that it must be true. Apparently I don`t snore though…so at least I have one good thing going for me! I also don`t sleep walk…although my father and brother have both been prone to get up in the middle of the night and have a walk around. Maybe that is the next stage of my sleep oddities!!!

Anyone else out there a strange sleeper? Do you have any cures? I have asked Shumpei to film me next time i get really vocal as I think it would make for interesting blog material!!

Update: Take last nights dream for example. It was in Japanese mainly, with some english. It was set in Australia, mainly around a christmas party at my old work (I used to work in a bar/cafe at manly!) and we had hired it out to have our party there. Thing was it was all people from my life in Japan that were there…and my old boss could somehow speak Japanese. Well he was speaking English to me, but Japanese to my Japanese friends. Is this not strange?? It was a good dream though, hell of a christmas party!

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