A JAPANESE SUIT OF ARMOR (May 1, 2014)

I dreamt that a man in his mid-twenties, whom I did not know, had made a light frame for my boards, which were arranged in an unusual way. All of them were black and white and placed horizontally, but some of their corners touched. All together, they looked like a Japanese suit of armor. I remember that the board on the chest had horizontal stripes. Touching its upper right corner and above it, there was a board with a swastika motive. Touching its upper left corner and above it, there was a board with a stark geometric motive, but I do not remember which one any longer. An identical arrangement of boards but placed upside down protected the belly and the thighs. The board on the belly was just below the board on the chest. Except for two boards, though, I do not remember how the others looked. All I remember is that the young man, who had wavy blond hair, was standing behind the boards and laughing as someone was photographing him. His head and his limbs were in the right places for the boards to form a formidable suit of armor. His arms and legs were bare. When I woke up in the middle of the night, I was annoyed with myself for not remembering all the boards in the arrangement. It took me quite a while to fall asleep again.