Not even in my dreams
I’m not sure if there’s any explanation, but my dreams have gotten rather vivid recently. Normally, I don’t remember most of them, but some of the ones I’ve been having lately hang around after I’ve woken up.
Like the passport dream.
When this one started I was in some sort of immigration courtroom in Australia. I was before the bench of some judge in a powdered wig, and he was giving me all kinds of grief about my passport. I’m not sure if I gave it to him or if somebody else did, but he had it and kept muttering about how “this just won’t do.” I had no idea what he was going on about, since I had everything in it that I needed. I asked him to show it to me so I could see what he was talking about. When he handed it back, it was blank. And it wasn’t just that I didn’t have any entry stamps.
The entire thing was blank.
It was the regular US passport paper, with all the state seals on it, but there were no markings anywhere inside it. No stamps, no info, no picture!
Nothing.
I knew this was bullshit as my passport has all kinds of stuff in it. So I did what anybody else would do in this situation.
I started screaming in the courtroom.
I called him a thief (yet managed to refrain from using any profanity) and demanded my real passport back. He tried to call for the guards, but they just looked at him. (I wondered if maybe he’d tried this sort of thing before.) After a minute or so of my yelling at him, he gave up and handed back my real passport. Satisfied, I left the court.
I’ve no idea if there’s any meaning to that dream or not.
I tried to figure out why he might have found more value in a used passport than a blank one, but I can’t. A genuine passport that’s never been used would probably be worth something. It’d be much easier to forge onto than one that’s been used. Okay, so mine’s got lots of stamps which would give it some authenticity, but still. I just don’t get it.
But it did remind me – my visa’s due for renewal soon, so I’d best get that taken care of.
Because I doubt I’d get out of any immigration hassles in Japan just by raising my voice. ^.^