<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Ban Gozawa on Gromet's Plaza Archive</title><link>/authors/ban-gozawa/</link><description>Recent content in Ban Gozawa on Gromet's Plaza Archive</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="/authors/ban-gozawa/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Sticky Dream</title><link>/stories/2015/09/19/sticky-dream/</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2015/09/19/sticky-dream/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I’ve always found dreams to be an interesting thing. They creep up on you when you least expect them, whether it be in the dead of night or the clear of day. You never know what they’ll be about, who they’ll be about, or even if they’ll involve you at all. To me, the most interesting thing about dreams is the ambiguity; the blur between fantasy and real life. Some dreams can be so detached from reality it’s obvious at first glance, but it feels so real, you start to believe that it is until you wake up and realize things are the same as they’ve always been. The rare cases where the ambiguity seeps over into those waking moments, making you wonder if your dream was real all along, even if you don’t care if it was… Those are my favorite kinds of ambiguous dreams. I should know. I’ve experienced one of those very dreams myself. In fact, that dream was, to this day, the best dream I’ve ever had.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Sticky Dream</title><link>/stories/2015/09/19/sticky-dream/</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2015/09/19/sticky-dream/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I’ve always found dreams to be an interesting thing. They creep up on you when you least expect them, whether it be in the dead of night or the clear of day. You never know what they’ll be about, who they’ll be about, or even if they’ll involve you at all. To me, the most interesting thing about dreams is the ambiguity; the blur between fantasy and real life. Some dreams can be so detached from reality it’s obvious at first glance, but it feels so real, you start to believe that it is until you wake up and realize things are the same as they’ve always been. The rare cases where the ambiguity seeps over into those waking moments, making you wonder if your dream was real all along, even if you don’t care if it was… Those are my favorite kinds of ambiguous dreams. I should know. I’ve experienced one of those very dreams myself. In fact, that dream was, to this day, the best dream I’ve ever had.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>