Morning of April 7, 1971. Wednesday.
In real life I had shown a young female teacher, after class, my "How and Why Wonder Book of the Moon". When she asked "Can I have this?" I thought she meant that she wanted to borrow it for a short time for another class so I said "yes". Unfortunately, I never saw the book again (so I guess she thought it was a gift). I did not ask her about it and I did not tell either of my parents about the event. (I did have most of the "How and Why Wonder Books" of the time period). I was not angry. I just felt rather strange about the situation. I thought perhaps that I would get it back at the end of the school year but did not. I was always quite passive in the presence of public authority, not because I liked, "appreciated", or trusted authority in any way - in fact, it was the opposite and I was passive because I saw most such people as unpredictable, unintelligent, and unaware (and likely dangerous at the drop of a hat) except for perhaps a few teachers during my school years, but even then, I strongly sensed their shortcomings and overall incompetence given the circumstances, which often frustrated me but I remained quiet.
During this time, I thought of the book being returned on "Moon Day". I had "worked out" that this was the day relating to the moon and had a false memory that the moon was always full on a Monday.
The main in-dream theme that recurred here for a few weeks was the idea that people only got married on Wednesdays. It became "Wedding Day", the "long form" of "Wed Day". In reality, I never did learn how to "mentally say" Wednesday. If I do attempt to actually think of Wednesday as Wednesday, it comes out wrong due to the bizarre and atypical spelling of the word. This stems from earlier years where I never once said (mentally) anything other than WED NEZ DAY. This is why I so quickly learned to spell it (even over incorrectly spelling "what" as "hwat", "when" as "hwen", and so on when four years old). To this day, I mentally think "Wed nez day" when I want to write it, knowing the "z" is actually an "s" and then write Wednesday...I wonder if other people do this.
