Traveler of Earth

12.01.2023 Because now I can consciously determine my dreams before sleep, sometimes when I don’t come up with anything specific topic to learn in lucid dreams, I will try to give some creative instructions to my subconsciousness, like: “Let’s run a virus scan and do some regular cleanup!” to help me release thoughts and emotions. After falling asleep yesterday, I found myself in New York, constantly walking between museums like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim, and others. Well, this is New York, the museums are everywhere and close to each other. Also, since it’s a dream, it’s convenient to dash around with a mix of places. During this trip, I carried a large, thick history book on my left shoulder, a backpack on my back, with my right hand holding a thermos, and a laptop on my left hand. It was heavy because, in my dreams, the sensations are just like in reality. Yet, I am proud of myself, see, I am eager to learn even in a dream!!! I am still collecting information and taking notes.

While traveling in Helsinki, I wore only a few clothes. Though the weather looked like it was going to snow, I wore only a short-sleeved T-shirt and a cotton maxi skirt. I put on Bluetooth headphones, using them as ear warmers. As the saying goes in Taiwan: “children have fire asses,” implying that children, with their higher body temperature, aren’t bothered much by the cold. Indeed, when my inner child emerges, I forget the cold. Fenno experienced an annoying week. He fought with Linia last week and didn’t know how to reconcile yet. His mom urged him to go to the park to play with friends. “Linia said sorry, right? Everyone must miss you! Just go to the park!” Fenno’s mom encouraged. “I don’t want to go; the park is so boring!” Fenno sat on the steps at the doorway, his face reddened by the cold wind. He couldn’t help but cover his face with both hands as if trying to hide from anybody. “You’re lying! If you don’t like it, why do you sit in the doorway every day?” his mom teased. “Mom, leave me alone! I just don’t want to go to!”

11.20.2023 Multiverse traveling isn’t always easy, especially when “I” exists strongly. Descartes “Cogito, ergo sum”, I think, therefore I am, is rather arrogant. When “I” is not present, the universe can unfold and flow into us smoothly. Every time the me from the distant terminal shouts, “Think quickly and hard, speak!!! hurry up, ask! Think about the problem and go get an answer!” I only become far distant from those beautiful worlds. I am, once again, abruptly and quickly recalled to back the dark terminal. “Have you calmed down?” The unfamiliar middle-aged man in front of me is happily eating a burrito. Despite its meager fillings, he enjoys it thoroughly, looking at me with curious and caring eyes. Where am I? Am I still “here”? I examine my body, and feel the hands, realizing that I am touching the low shrubs in the courtyard for a while. A bit prickly and rough, the leaves and stems are moist with dew, just like many of the archives I possess describe. But it’s just a low shrub, and yet I’ve been touching it for quite a while.