July 6, 2005

• I just woke up from the weirdest dream EVER.

  
  

  I was on some kind of worldwide youth trip, and we were in Tokyo, where we had some city wide scavenger hunt.  It was a really long dream of a bunch of kids running around Tokyo doing random tasks, kind of an amazing race kind of thing, but the one that woke me up was thus:

  
  

  We all ran up to this temple looking place, into a serene Japanese garden courtyard.  In it there was a section of stylized wooden wall, about 8 feet high and 20 feet long, with holes in it above dishes in the dirt around the wall.  In these dishes were leeches, and on the leeches were monks, and on the monks’ faces were goat heads from goats on the other side of the holes.  The necks were cut open so their guts were totally covering the monks faces, smothering them.  While we saw this, we had it explained to us that this was an ancient Japanese relaxation tradition.  You lay with a leech attached to your supriliac (right above your hip bone) being smothered by these goats, then from atop the wall a jet of water is issued (I don’t remember from where, I think monks were dumping it) that strikes the partially severed goat head and knocks it off, and clears your face of the guts and the mud.  We all had to do it.  I was pretty freaked out, of course.  We all ran up to the wall, and saw these little dishes with these “leeches” in them.  These were not like any leeches I’d ever seen but I thought nothing of it.  They were flat, green, round or elongated things with one to several round eye things floating in their mass, and a wide eel-like mouth opening and closing, waiting to bite on.  These things were like 8 inches across at least, with a mouth to match.  This is relaxing?  I asked a monk which eel/leech he would choose and he pointed to a very round one with one eye, next to a not so pretty one which he said to poke in the eyes to get it to go away.  I laid down and was very scared, I felt it biting on but it didn’t hurt at all, and then out of the hole came the guts.  My face was covered and I couldn’t breathe or see at all… I just waited for the water but it never came.  30 seconds or so later I ripped the guts off in fear of suffocation and the water hit me in the face.

  
  

  And that’s when I woke up!  Haha I’m sure it was a lot crazier actually LIVING that.  Those leech things had a lot to do with me seeing War of the Worlds late last night, I’m sure, which, by the way, is an AWESOME movie.  VERY scary!

  
  

  Today I’m going to Columbine (yes the HS where people got shot) probably with Tom the Swiss.  Should be fun!

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