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A Door after The Door, A Dream in The Dream

at the New Castle, Hrodna(Grodna, Гро́дна) Belarus, photo by HANA

When I opened the door of a WC in Belarus there was another door after a small space to wash your hands. As I opened the second door, I could see the individual cubicles. After I came out of the cubicle, I opened the door to go back to the washing space, where there were three doors, one of which was the exit. Because the three doors were exactly the same white colour without any sign, I couldn’t immediately figure out which door was the exit. I felt like I was trapped in a labyrinth.

I am a curious person and was wondering whether people like doors in Belarus. Some hotel rooms had a second door after the entrance door, even though they were standard rooms, not suites. The small room between the two doors didn’t look necessary to me, it just seemed like a waste of space. It may be for some specific reasons, for example keeping the room warm or making the guest feel more private.

It reminds me of a dream which I had a long time ago in which I was having another dream. I woke up, and I was still in a dream. It has the same construction of Matryoshka dolls.

In my brain, these things are connected to each other and also to another story of ‘A Butterfly Dream’ by Zhuangzi (c. 369 BC — c. 286 BC, a Chinese philosopher), which is one of my favourite stories. One night, the guy, whose name was Chou, had a dream of being transformed into a butterfly and flying happily in the sky. After he awoke, he started wondering whether he was a man who had just dreamt of being a butterfly or he was a butterfly who was then dreaming of being a man.

Every single event in real life and dreams are delicious food for my creativity. I always want to be a storyteller whose audience cannot figure out which part of the story is fiction and which part is non-fiction.

My books are available on Amazon!

Japanese
Belarus
Fiction
Writing
Storytelling
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