So, I turned up in Japan again. That happens from time to time when I am dreaming. I will just start in Japan and I have to ask myself, "why on Earth am I in Japan?" It has happened so long that I actually get a reasonable response now. "Well, it doesn't have to be Japan, but you want to go abroad". I thanked myself resentfully and panned out to a map of Asia. I popped into Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand and other locations and talked a little bit about the merits of going back to each of them, however, whenever I ducked into them, I would have a dream loop that would run over each of them.

I popped into Taiwan and I saw Eric again, the guy I went on a date with from my gym in Busan. He was having trouble at work and decided not to renew there. Instead he took a trip to Taiwan. My other friend had been in Busan for three months and had been traditionally screwed over by her hagwon. She took off to Taiwan as well. I panned through a generic China scene and wondered if this were how Taiwan was like or if I was sampling from the mainland. Sample from mainland: see northern china, my old Chinese teacher and pan through all the Chinese I know (luckily short).

I popped into South Korea. I have a briefly montage of Busan, start to focus on the fuzzy faces of my friends, "No! We are NOT going to go through all of that". My subconscious slumps of disgruntled and we pan out.

I pop into Thailand.. and review everything that happened there as well as a couple of daydreams I have had off the coast.

"But wait a second, what am I going tell my dad?" I ask.

My dad appears. He is looking for an old friend of his. We eventually find him in an old abandoned theme park, at least I assume that's what it was because his old friend (who was a friend who was old, not a friend he knew for a long time), had made his home inside the Ferris wheel. He invited up to come up and the Ferris wheel turns into a tree and we climb up amongst the lanterns. He talks to my dad about his future and gives him very insightful wisdom about enjoying the life he has instead of wishing for a life he doesn't have. We hop onto a roller-coaster and I ask the old friend what he thought about my going abroad again. My dad says that he would be fine with that and the old friend says that I should do that kind of stuff while I'm still young.

Three more dreams, I wake up and forget about the whole thing... until now. What a long dream.

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