When this happened I was about 10 or 11. We lived together, one big family: my parents lived downstairs with me and my grandparents upstairs. I spent a lot of time upstairs talking to my grandparents, as my parents were busy working. Once I had a weird dream. I dreamt that I was going over a hanging bridge which was strung over a rocky canyon with some other people I don’t know. I had never in my life seen such a bridge or a canyon. So I remember I was surprised even in my dream. Far underneath me there was a river. The bridge was made out of ropes to hold at and little planks which were tied with ropes too. I decided to cross it. When I almost reached the other bank the bridge burst. I managed to hold on to the rope and get to the bank. It was very difficult, and all the other people who were with me perished. They fell into the canyon, and I woke up, went upstairs and told it to my grandparents. Upstairs was the only TV in the house. Granddad had bought it and there we all sat together watching it in the evenings.
That day we sat together to watch a film. We didn’t have many channels. All the films we saw were from the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service and were old. At least my age. They also repeated films often, but that film I have not seen before. It was about a dancer and I think it was set somewhere in South America. The girl was about to go over a bridge and suddenly I recognized that was the bridge from my dream! She was the last to go on the bridge which was over a rocky canyon. All the other people had gone on the bridge already, walking it and she was the last one to step on it. Suddenly bridge broke, all the people fell into the canyon but she could make it back, as she held on the rope.
This was so strange. I remember everything in details, even now, many years later. I don’t know the films name, alas, and never saw it again.
Seung-Hyun Park
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