dream 1/30/2021

 there was some sort of psychic competition. i was accompanying some super confident psychic type with a flat affect; he looked like a little japanese boy in a neat suit, only longer, with deadpan expressions. we wandered through the floor, a mix of tatami rooms with strange flamboyant dividers, to our room. on the way, we passed a whole menagerie of other psychics. i asked, with trepidation, if any of them were evil. "oh yes, most certainly," was the reply. "i wish i were psychic," i commented, "so i could see." for, to me, although the appearances of some made me uneasy, i felt i approached every one with a kind of trusting mien, as though every one of them were a friend to make, simply misunderstood... when we got to our "room," we at first thought that we had the full tatami to ourselves. that was when the room got subdivided by this great blanket, and our psychic friend realized: "oh, that's right, ryunosuke was killed. that's why there is one less space."

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somehow the dream shifted. and instead of it being a psychic competition or something, i and someone else were going for a headache (who is this unidentified someone else? always nondescript, always accompanying?). i'm sorry, we weren't going for a headache, we were going for a haircut. in any case, the person who gave me a haircut, seemingly similar to the deadpan psychic, kept mentioning something about how awesome the leader was. and he mentioned something: "wouldn't you like to be a stylist too? he is very perceptive. don't refuse, he only asks once." and there were other stylists there, this asian woman, and they all agreed. and once, when i was prompted to look into the other room, i saw the two of them, doing this odd handstand, one (the male) pointing his toes up to the roof, while the other (the woman) supported him from below. and at the end (i didn't even notice my haircut, or even really remember it being done), i was given a crumpled foil with a red star on it; and although i had seen a similar red star out front (reminiscent of communist china or something?), this one was a six pointed star. i'm not sure what it was for, maybe some memento, maybe something with actual currency, here in this place.

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something about orange, pink, and yellow... these were the wrong colors, because i was thinking about the kappa.