I'm a tourist in China. I'm staying in a backalley hostel area of an old part of town. Everything is lucky red. The double storied buildings have those roofs that are that iconic curving shape at the ends and are made with red tiles. The road is made of packed dirt. You know, like really stereotypical China. I'm trying to film a Kung Fu movie in the alley for some reason. I'm wearing a red type of kung-fu style suit, I have a friend who is helping me. I'm tied to a wheelchair on the roof I roll backwards off the roof and fall back first into the alley, kicking up the dusty streets. I get myself up, this friend of mine is there helping untie me from the wheelchair. All these Chinese people have gathered and are watching me with interest. They began laughing and pointing at my suit, I laugh with them and ask what is so funny. In black Chinese characters on my red kung fu suit is a saying. They point to it and I ask what it means, they say it says: "Why can't an apple be made out of an apple?". Apparently this was part of my Kung Fu movie idea. We are sitting in the street after with various backpackers and sharing jokes together. Later I meet a girl and we walk around. I point to some kind of large bronze communal pot in the street and say "How do I make a loop?" (not a soup, a loop apparently). She says "get it started and then other people add things." I say "like the oil and the spices, and a few ingredients?", she agrees. We walk along, for some reason collecting fallen leaves and making piles as we go. Later, I'm in an underground section and there are many strange things, very dingy dark corridors. A kind of tourist section, there is a food court. Instead of walking around thr busy mall, I jump over things and climb over tables and interior wall fixtures. I'm trying to get back to where I was before. I end up taking the longest route back through this series of dark very tight corridors that seem very dirty and all-around unhygenic. I make it back and the alley I was on in the beginning is long, and packed with people and tourist shops, I wander down towards the familiar alley I remember from the beginning at the bottom of the lane.

Somehow I'm dreaming of myself as a hard drug user. I am wandering around an old area of town with brick buildings, and I'm searching for hard drugs to use. I end up going to a community centre for drug addicts, like you would see in downtown Vancouver. There are many people who are presumably homeless/addicts around, minding themselves, playing board games, eating food. I talk to one of the nurses and end up breaking down crying, I ask for anything, like methadone, dilaudid (by the way, I've never used opiates extensively) I'm crying in front of everyone in this nurses lap, and they give me their sympathy. Next part of the dream, we are in a park, and discussing my treatment. The nurse hands me a prescription written for a medication called "Serafil".

Saying i have rugby shoes with sturdy cleats and i dont need football shoes as i won’t be kicking. George says something about how getting tackled in rugby is the hardest i say yeah no kidding . I am then listening to music and judging to see what is good or not. I feel stressed to pick the hardest one. The guy at the end picks one with lots of sound effects alike and phone ringing instead of the coolest hip hop song and is laughing.

There is a triadic process of how to keep the journal. It goes: Dream Journal, Unpacking, Conceptualization. The Dream Journal The dream journal is just an empirical log of your dreams. One way that it differs from how you might intuitively do this on your own is that you are trying to give space to things which you don't assign meaning to right away. Write down the environment, the objects, how one thing passes to the next in the best way that you can. When you are writing down your dreams, do not worry about interpretting them, concern yourself only with writing down as much as possible. You might have first impressions, but save that for the second step. Unpacking Unpacking, brainstorming, or free-association, is when we highlight different parts of the dream, and we give ourselves room to speak whatever comes up for us, starting from the object, word, or situation in the dream. This is the place for your first impressions. In addition to your initial ideas of what your dream relates to, you can highlight things that repeat, things that are opposites or oppositions including self and other, as well as distortions, to highlight and free-associate in relation to. As you do this, different concepts start to emerge. Conceptualization Different concepts will start to emerge that you can think about in relation to how your dreams frame them. You can also get feedback from others regarding the concepts that emerge. Conceptualization is not simply an interpretation of your dream, but a thinking-through of major currents within the dream that you are reflexively producing. By thinking through concepts that you are reflexively aestheticizing through the process of dreaming, you can go deeper both into your personal psyche and into the world itself. This world-level nature of the concept is the Absolute Concept, something which transcends your personal experience and contributes to rationality for people in general, which is why I believe groups are especially helpful to think with! Everyone brings their unique perspective to help each other understand key world currents.