oloriel | Is a year's first dream especially important?

I actually spoke Japanese in my dream this night. Spoke, not thought; and while there were Japanese people speaking Japanese as well, I have no idea whether they spoke actual correct Japanese. If so, I am very grumpy because the voices do not speak Japanese in my head when I am awake. Not helpful. But I spoke Japanese anyway.

At any rate, I dreamt of the host family this night (although the house that was theirs in the dream wasn't their RL house, it was at least twice as big). It was New Year's (OMG no wai!), and there were well-wishers dropping by all the time. Then there were visitors (dressed like the actors from some jidai-geki), and they wanted to get into one particular room, the "middle room" upstairs (which doesn't exist in the real house). Except that the key was missing, so they searched for it like mad.

I did not know that they wanted to get into that room, or what the search was about. I had, however, found a key...

Eventually I ran into my host-mother, and she saw that I had the key and told me everybody was looking for it, and I explained that I'd just found it myself. And that was the extent of my Japanese.

I don't remember whether there was anything after that; I think not, I must have woken up.

But I'm still kind of excited that I, you know, spoke Japanese. While dreaming. That's a step in the right direction, isn't it?

And, of course, I'm slightly nervous. Doors and keys are so obviously relevant dream symbols that I must assume the dream is trying to tell me something. Even if I fail at realising what.

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In other news, I somehow find this a wonderful New Year's comic: