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I've been having some strange dreams recently. I just woke up to one about a mucade. (A poisonous centipede like creature in Japan.) Except in my dream it was a mucade-alligator. This thing was greenish on top, and had yellow legs and belly just like a mucade, but was seriously the shape of an alligator. I was camping somewhere with a friend; she must have been Japanese because she knew all about mucade. When we spotted it we were on a raised platform where the tents and bathrooms were. It's only about a 3 foot jump, but kept bugs and creatures away.

Silly me, I wanted to take a picture of it so I raced to my bag and got it. I think foreigners in Japan are always trying to show how big the bugs are, and I needed proof of this thing! As I came back the mucade-alligator was running into the woods. I zoomed my camera and took lots of pictures, but it kept ducking behind trees so I couldn't get a good one.

I was using the flash and eventually the mucade-alligator got irritated and started running toward me. It jumped the 3-foot barrier and chased me into the bathroom. Of course the stalls in my dream-bathroom had no doors so I was balancing on the toilet as it snapped at me. Everyone heard the mucade sounds (kind of a rattlesnake sound in my dream) so I'm sure someone was running to help me.

I'll never know if I was actually saved because I woke up them.

As I write about this I'm remembering other things from my dream. Before the mucade-alligator I was teaching adult English and taking people on boat rides. We played a really successful game of Shiritori with a long line of students. They were competitive and fierce. It must have been an English camp in the woods, but everyone had really good English. We had to take everyone out on two row boats on a rough ocean. I can't remember anything else, but it was a good dream.

Last night I had a dream about copies. Making copies. How boring is that. I have nothing better to dream about than copies. My mother says I have a boring life.

I've been waking up without an alarm recently. Actually 5:30 a.m. on Friday morning. I guess my body had had enough sleep because I had taken a nap for an hour at school. It's easier to remember to dream your dreams when you've woken up on your own, I think.