You know you are a Japanese dork when....
I do have a daily level of slightly strange and dorky that I keep, but some days this is higher then others. It's one thing to be trying to work on my Japanese because I will be thrown into the middle of the country in a few months, but it's another entirely to start dreaming about practicing Japanese.
This morning I found myself in the middle of a dream, in some strange world that smushed together an European-feeling city and Avatar characters. At one point I was working in a bakery (???) and was standing outside closing up for the evening, when I noticed a bunch of Japanese tourists in the back taking pictures and generally being excited. Very confused, I waited for them to leave--and then found myself struggling to communicate why walking around the back of the store after it had been closed, even though they could somehow get in easily, wasn't part of the store's policy.
I think this is a combination of listening to NHK broadcasts when I wake up in the morning, and finding really nifty Avatar cosplay last night shortly before I went to bed. (This is also why if I read something very disturbing before I go to sleep, I search out something happy and fluffy to read after, so that my easily influenced brain doesn't get any smart ideas.) I'm not sure if this is a good sign for me surviving in Japan (..that I could brokenly explain things to old Japanese ladies in my subconscious) or not...
This morning I found myself in the middle of a dream, in some strange world that smushed together an European-feeling city and Avatar characters. At one point I was working in a bakery (???) and was standing outside closing up for the evening, when I noticed a bunch of Japanese tourists in the back taking pictures and generally being excited. Very confused, I waited for them to leave--and then found myself struggling to communicate why walking around the back of the store after it had been closed, even though they could somehow get in easily, wasn't part of the store's policy.
I think this is a combination of listening to NHK broadcasts when I wake up in the morning, and finding really nifty Avatar cosplay last night shortly before I went to bed. (This is also why if I read something very disturbing before I go to sleep, I search out something happy and fluffy to read after, so that my easily influenced brain doesn't get any smart ideas.) I'm not sure if this is a good sign for me surviving in Japan (..that I could brokenly explain things to old Japanese ladies in my subconscious) or not...