Lady of My Dreams

I married the lady of my Dreams - true story

Lady of My Dreams

         I often spend time reminiscing about the fairy tale romance that is my true love story. I will always remember the special date that I met my fate and ended my lonely life when I met and married the love of my life, the lady of my dreams.


         The dreams started when I was a senior at Berkeley High School in 1974. About a month before I graduated, I fell asleep in a physics class after lunch and had my first dream:

         A beautiful Asian woman was standing next to me, talking in a strange language. She was stunning—the most beautiful girl I had ever seen. She was in her early twenties, with long black hair and piercing black eyes. She had the look of royalty. She looked at me, mesmerizing me, hypnotizing me, putting a love spell on me, her mojo working overtime, “sparks flew from heart to heart and then she disappeared, beaming out of my dream-like in Star Trek.

         I fell out of my chair screaming, “Who are you?” She did not answer.

         I knew that someday she would be mine; it was my karma fate at work, my destiny.

         About a month went by, and then I started having the dream repeatedly. Always the same pattern. Early morning, she would stand next to me talking. I would ask who she was, and she would disappear. She was the most beautiful, alluring woman I had ever seen. I was struck speechless every time I had the “dream,” as I started calling it.

         I had the dream every month for eight years, during which I went to college and served in the Peace Corps. When I joined the Peace Corps, I had to decide whether to go to Korea or Thailand. The night before I had to submit my decision, I had the dream again, and she made me sure that I knew she was in Korea waiting for me.

         All she said was when I asked again as always who are you? Where are you?”

         “I am in Korea”

         After the Peace Corps, I still hadn’t met my honey, my dream woman. I got a job working for the U.S. Army as an instructor and stayed in Korea. I kept having the dream until I had the very last one in early September, late in the summer of 1984. She was standing next to me, speaking to me in Korean, but I finally understood her. She said,

          “Don’t worry, my darling, my honey, my love, we will be together soon.”

         Why was that the last time I had the dream?

          Because the very next night, the girl in my dream got off the bus in front of me. She went on to the base with an acquaintance of mine, a fellow teacher, and they went to see a movie. I saw her and found the courage to speak with her.

         We exchanged phone numbers and agreed to meet that weekend.

         The next night, she was waiting for me as I entered the Army base to teach a class. She told me she was a college senior and she had something to tell me. I signed her on to the base and left her at the library to study while I taught, and then we went out for coffee after class.

         She told me she was madly in love with me and that I was the man for her. I told her not to worry, as I felt the same.

         That weekend, we met on Saturday and Sunday and hung out all day. That Sunday night, I told her I had a surprise for Valentine Day.

         We went to a café and had dinner, and then over coffee, and red chocolates I proposed to her, promising to always be her man, if she would have me. She smiled, gave me a hug and kissed my cheek, and said,

         “Yes”.

         That was the best night of my life, I was so filled with excitement as I looked at this creature I adored. She fulfilled all my hopes.


         Her mother did not want her to marry a foreigner. One day, about a month after we met, she invited me to meet her parents. I brought a bottle of Jack Daniels for her father and drank the entire bottle with him. He approved of me, but her mother still had reservations.

         After a Buddhist priest told her my future wife and I were a perfect astrological combination, she agreed, and we planned our wedding.

         The wedding was a media sensation in South Korea. My wife explained it to me years later. At the time, I was overwhelmed just by the fact that we were getting married and I didn’t fully understand how unusual this was.

         My wife was of the old royal clan, distant relatives to the former kings of Korea. In the clan’s history, only two people had ever married foreigners: my wife, and Rhee Syngman, who was the first President of South Korea. My father, who was a former Undersecretary of Labor, came out for the wedding, which fueled even more media interest.

         Our marriage defied the stereotypical Korean-foreign marriage where the women married some hapless GI just to escape poverty and immigrate to the U.S. We were the first foreign/Korean couple to get married at a Korean Army base. Over 1,000 people came to the wedding, and my father was interviewed on the morning news programs.

         This all happened forty three years ago, and I am still married to the girl in my dreams. Now in my dreams, she watches over me when we are apart

Slightly edited version of previously published story, published in “Dreams and the Unexplainable” by the Chicken Soup for the Soul publishers.


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