This was a weird and messy dream. I'm not sure that I can remember 100% the order that things happened and a lot happened. The beginning of the dream is pretty fuzzy.

For some reason, I'd moved to Japan to work. I think this must have been a short term arrangement as I remember thinking of Yu Lee and Link waiting for me back home.

In my dream I'm living in Tokyo, and I've been to my new job once or maybe twice already. I don't remember anything about my job, but I feel that my first day(s) of work were boring and that I am not very interested in the work at all. The main thing that sticks in my mind is the commute to and from work on foot: that the city seems to be infinite, like you could just keep walking in any direction and never find your way out of it. The walk to and from work was mostly uneventful, but I was a little overwhelmed by the scale of the place.

I am living in a house share with some other English people. I don't remember much about my house mates, but I remember one of them had a Japanese friend, and my other housemate was saying "konichiwa" to the Japanese person and practically bragging that they know a single word of Japanese. I thought to myself that I really needed to start taking Japanese lessons.

On my way home from work one day, I'm walking through a particularly crowded area with people everywhere. Someone approaches me and asks if they can see my bag. My bag was practically empty so I think "why not?" and hand it over to them. They then hand it back and try to sell me something but I say that I'm not interested and continue on my way.

A little while later someone bumps into me with quite some force, and a few moments later I realise that they've somehow managed to steal my money out of my wallet.

When I get home I talk to my housemates about how I was pick-pocketed, and we realise that when I handed over my bag, I was being targeted and the thieves were working out where I kept my money. I say to my housemates that I was annoyed, and I'd lost about £250, but I was also glad that I only had half of my money on me at the time as it could have been much worse.

Next I am heading out to a piano lesson. This is my first lesson, and there are 2 other students in the lesson with me. I remember thinking that it would probably be a lot more useful to learn Japanese instead of piano.

The teacher hands us a music book and asks us to turn to a certain page and play a melody. The music notation in the book is weird and kind of squashed, and although the piece is simple I realise that I cannot play it at all. When it comes to my turn to play it I tell the teacher "no" and then explain that it's too difficult for our first piece and that she should have started us on something easier.

The teacher leaves the room and I talk to the other students (who are also English). I tell them that I think this teacher is an idiot and not very good at teaching, and one of the other students says that he thinks the teacher is not an idiot and is actually very intelligent. I say that I didn't really mean that she was an idiot, and was just bad at her job.

The teacher comes back and shows us two images of different places in Japan. One of them is an orchard, and the other is an island with lots of chairs and sun beds. All of a sudden we're all on a small boat, floating down a river, and on one side of the river is an orchard, very similar to the one in the photo, and on the other side is the exact same "island" we'd seen before.

We get off the boat and the teacher apologises that the orchard is not exactly like the one in the picture. We walk up to one of the trees and she picks a strange fruit from it. She hands a segment of the fruit to me, and it's covered in a leathery skin which I peel back and eat the flesh from inside. In the centre of segment of fruit is a large hard pip, with a tiny hole in one end. I can see that the pip is filled with soft, white flesh, but have no way of opening it.

I say to the others that I bet the inside of the pip tastes like lychee, but that you shouldn't eat the inside of seeds as they can be toxic.

We get back on the boat, and suddenly notice that there is a fire. One of the trees is on fire, and as we are watching, the fire spreads to more and more trees. All of a sudden a group of half naked, short people with red skin run out from round the corner. One of the people in the boat explains to me that there is a disease which turns them red and make them lose their minds, and that it is highly contagious. He then remarks how weird it is that on one side of the boat is the peaceful island resort which seems like some kind of paradise, and on the other side is "literal hell on earth."

We started to hastily leave as the "zombie" people chased us. The excitement got too much and I woke up.