dream and buyu

My dream this morning was quite long and involved. Me and a bunch of other people gained super powers from these sketchy experiments in ghettos that altered the space surrounding these experiments (a good way to discover them was to accidentally stick your hand through a wall where they were happening). I ended up coordinating a bunch of these powerful people as we tried to discover who was behind the experiments and shut them down since the resulting powers weren't always living-friendly. This was kinda a post-apocalyptic world too cause I remember running down city streets with wolves running right next to us. My power was that I was telepathic, enhanced toughness, and the phasing through matter ability that all of us had to a greater or lesser degree. We were running an op trying to get into this cordoned off, ruined area to stop this one experiment. I couldn't go in because I was too well known, so instead I 'convinced' this unassuming looking scientist to go and he got through fine with me guiding him. Meanwhile, I had two of my men (who were those guys from the Hawaii Five-O reboot whose names I don't know because I've never seen the show and I expect they only made it in my dreams cause I saw them on tumblr before I went to sleep) distract the opposing forces by getting captured, tied to a pole, and tortured while wise-cracking until I gave the all clear and they wiped the floor with them. Scientist guy turned off the experiment by sticking his hand through the roof which gave him the phasing power we all had and he was heading out of there when I woke up.

Bujinkan was extra long yesterday because we're losing our main teacher which is sad because he's the only guy who outranks me here. The training was interesting with cross blocks and various take downs, then doing the same thing with knives and hung bo. We switched at every new technique so when I switched to this one guy who isn't usually there, I wasn't really expecting anything other than judging the other guy's level to see if he needed any help or if I could relax or even if he could help me. He hadn't caught some of it so I walked him through it. Then it was demonstrated again, we go back to training and the guy just starts trying to whip through the technique in such a way that every time he did, my fist connected with his head (not hard because I'm nice). So every time, I'd stop and tell him to wait for the second punch. Three times in a row he didn't listen, and then he stops and goes, "Look, I only get here once every two months so let me do what I want." I stared at him and considered my options. Jack's way I would have punched him as hard as I could in the head to show that he was doing it wrong. I could have just let him do it wrong until we switched partners (because any respect I had for him had just been lost - maybe in other martial arts you don't help your training partner but buyu has a strong tradition of doing so and it's how you get better. Not that your training partner is always right, but most of the time they are, and ignoring them is pretty much like saying, 'I'm not going to do this part of the training.') So my third option was standing nearby in the form of an extra person who was watching the nearby pair train, and I switched out with him so I would neither have to hurt the idiot, or encourage the guy's bad habits. He thanked me for my patience after the class, but I really have no idea what that means so yeah.