2007年12月？日夢:
在一間屋子裡，看到小玉只有三、四歲大，手裡拿著一把各種不同大小的餅乾在吃。
我對在裡面忙著的Pip說，奇怪！小玉應該有四十多了，怎麼才這麼大？
我從小玉手裡取了一塊餅乾，用牙齒咬住又伸過去遞給小玉。小玉用她的小嘴接過餅乾。咦~我還真碰到她的嘴唇呢，是真的！我對Pip說。
我走出門外逢人就問，今年是幾幾年？我想搞清楚為什麼小玉變小了。別人以為我不正常。於是我對人們說，對不起我剛生了一場病，失去了記憶，請告訴我今年是幾幾年？日子是往前挪了還是往後挪了？得到的是2190、4080、4080年等等不一樣的答案。
我又進入一間大屋子，裡面有很多二十左右的年輕人。我問他們同樣的問題，我告訴他們也許我曾經歷了一場車禍，失去了記憶。我記得的年代是1944年。我請求他們每個人分別各自在紙上也寫年月日。他們也驚訝地表示不信，結果他們還是幾個人一堆交頭接耳，交給我的紙片上還是不同的日期。我就想，找出相同的，多的就是了，找到了2張紙上都寫了4080，跟我在沒進屋時的一個答案一樣。年代的部分是數字，但月份和日期就是我不認得的簡單了的漢字。
原來你們長得跟我們的年代一個樣子，頭也差不多大小。我對他們說，同時用手比劃著。如果說今年是4080年的話，我應該有三千多歲了？怎麼我一點兒都不顯老呢？！
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The Three-Thousand-Year-Old Traveler in the Year 4080
Inside a room, I saw Xiao Yu, but she was only three or four years old, holding a handful of biscuits of various sizes and eating them.
I turned to Pip, who was busily working nearby, and said in bewilderment, "How strange! Xiao Yu should be in her forties by now. Why is she so tiny?"
I gently took a piece of biscuit from Xiao Yu’s hand, held it between my own teeth, and leaned over to offer it back to her. Xiao Yu leaned in with her tiny mouth to take the biscuit. Wow~ I actually felt the physical touch of her lips. 'It’s real!' I exclaimed to Pip.
I walked outside, asking every person I met, "What year is it this year?" I was desperate to figure out why Xiao Yu had shrunk. People looked at me as if I were insane. So, I lied and told them, "I’m so sorry, I’ve just recovered from a severe illness and lost my memory. Please tell me, what year is it? Is time moving forward or backward?" The answers I received were entirely inconsistent: 2190, 4080, 4080, and so on.
I then entered a massive hall filled with about a hundred young people in their twenties. I asked them the same question, explaining that I might have been in a car accident and lost my memory. "The era I remember is 1944," I told them. I requested that each of them write down the year, month, and day on a piece of paper. They looked at me with astonished disbelief, but eventually, they huddled together in small groups, whispering amongst themselves before handing me slips of paper—each still bearing completely different dates. I thought to myself: If I find the ones that match, whichever number appears the most must be the correct one. Sure enough, I found two slips that both read "4080," matching an answer I had received before entering the hall. The year portion consisted of regular numerals, but the month and day were written in simplified, strange characters that I couldn't recognize.
"So, you all look exactly like the people from my era, and your heads are about the same size too," I said to them, gesturing with my hands. "If this really is the year 4080, then I must be over three thousand years old? How is it that I don't look old at all?!"
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