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I was attending some special class that required us students to remove most of our clothing and go into some sort of wet tiled room. I knew they were trying to pass this off as something respectable like an onsen [a Japanese bathhouse built around a naturally hot spring of water] but it really looked like an American public bathroom. I wandered outside uninterested. Walking across campus on a sunny day, I was suddenly greeted and surprised by Wunpenn, an English major who had been in a few of my classes in previous semesters. She clearly knew me, but it took me a moment to recognize her; her skin looked noticeably tanned and her eyes were squinting a bit. I simply could not recall her name, but I knew that it was unconventional and began with a W. I insisted that she never tell me, that I would eventually remember it. A friend was with her, and the two of them convinced me to skip a class to spend time with them. On a grassy plain, I did some gravity-defying acrobatic maneuvers based on a handstand. I eventually ended up floating down onto my back, and I declared to the two impressed girls, "this is how I go to sleep." I was still in my boxers and t-shirt from that bath class, so I excused myself and got my clothes back on. As I returned wearing my trench coat, Wunpenn's friend said she wanted to cut off the bottom half of my coat. I was still struggling to remember Wunpenn's name as we went to various places on campus. She felt familiar enough to me to warrant touching her arm in conversation and even occasionally her upper back.
(Later, I awoke in reality and almost instantly remembered her name. I then dozed back off and managed to continue a remnant of this dream.)
I ran around trying to find her again since I now knew her name. I found her in an elevator, and I ran up to her, putting my hands on her upper arms, and my face close to hers, and I simply uttered her name slowly and clearly. She did not have the explosive reaction of delight I was hoping for, which made me nervous that I had it mispronounced or wrong altogether. She merely stood there half-smiling.