There are many people who have had experienced sleep paralysis, but we don’t call them "sick." |
But... |
Hmm... there might be only a few people who have experienced what you have. |
Still, I don’t think you should be called "sick" just because of your experiences. |
A lot of things can happen to a person while she’s young and impressionable. |
But I’m scared and I hate this. |
What's so scary about your dream? |
I start to feel that I don't belong. Like I am an unneeded thing. |
You "don't belong"? |
I feel that I am being told to come back because I’m unneeded. |
Come back? Come back where? |
To myself. |
Hmm. This is hard to understand. You want you to come back to yourself? |
I don’t know. But it feels as if there was another myself, touching my body, ripping it apart |
(interrupting) And it’s painful? |
It isn’t painful, but it’s frightening. |
I see. Does this happen when you’re asleep? |
Probably. |
Probably? This happens sometimes when you’re not dreaming? |
I don't know. |
Sometimes it happens when I’m all by myself, and sometimes when I’m talking to my friends. |
Tell me what happens when you’re not alone. This happens when you’re just having conversations? |
Yes. While I’m just talking, it suddenly... |
How do you notice it? Do your friends call out to you? |
Suddenly... |
Is there something that triggers it? |
I was afraid, and I felt better after staying motionless for a while. |
Can you explain what it felt like, or what you saw? Could you draw a picture? |
No, I can’t. |
I see... Oh! |
We have to end. |
I’m sorry, Lain. |
I have to go out and take care of some things today. |
I’m sorry to have to stop right in the middle of a conversation. |
But it’s good for now that you can’t see these things. |
I think that what you experience is probably similar to sleep paralysis. |
I’ll do some research on it until next month. |
That’ll be my homework. |
Your homework will be keeping a diary. |
A diary? |
I want you to write about the things you did during the day, and what you thought about. |
You don’t have to show it to me. |
Just write what you want. |
I used to keep a diary when I was your age. |
But... |
You don't want to? |
It can be really interesting to look back on the things you write in your diary. |
We can be forgetful, so it can help you remember things, too. |
That will cure me? |
Hmm. |
That probably doesn’t have anything to do with it. |
At least it's good for you. |
I’ll explain more carefully next month. |
I don’t mind if you don’t want to keep a diary. |
I went and bought you a diary book, though. |
See? |
It’s cute, isn’t it? |
I found it when I went shopping last week, and I thought it would be a nice present for you. |
Thank you. |
But don’t force yourself. |
You don't have to keep a diary just because I bought you one. |
Feel free to write in the diary if you want to, though. |
Well I guess we’ll wrap it up, then. |
Make sure you’re not forgetting anything. |
I’ll walk out to the gate with you. |