Ever since junior high school, I've been having the same dream.

In the dream, I see my girlfriend from junior high, but the timing of it is always strange.

It's always when something bad happens in real life.

When things are bad at home?

When someone gets sick or hospitalized?

Always during these times I dream of her.

Then, after I dream of her, things always start to get better.

In the dream, she's always smiling at me and says, it'll be okay. But the problem is that recently I had another dream about her.

Only this time, she died. Hey guys. I'm your host Tara A. Devlin, and welcome to another episode of Kowabana,

true Japanese scary stories from around the internet.

On this week's episode, we're going to be looking at a few stories that relate to monkey dream.

This story can be found in Koabana Origins, and was also featured as a bonus episode on Patreon,

if you want to know more, but at its most basic,

it's a story about a dream train that kills at each stop in increasingly gruesome ways.

You can check out the book or Patreon if you want the full story, but it's not necessary

to understand this week's stories at all.

As we often see with popular English stories like Slender Man,

bandwagoning is quite common in Japan as well,

and these stories put their own spin on the dream that can kill you.

Our first tale for this week is called Monkey Dream Plus.

You've heard of the story called Monkey Dream, right?

People who happen to be riding on a certain train end up being killed in order in particular

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