Fukagawa North Elementary Pupils Dreamed the Same Unknown City — Details Match Window 1's View

Starting around the 2nd of this month, several pupils in a fourth-grade class at Fukagawa North Elementary School began independently telling their homeroom teacher, Mizuki Kondo, 34, that they had had the same dream: an unfamiliar city with a stone-paved hillside street lined with many lanterns. Only one pupil mentioned it at first, but within about a week the number saying "I saw it too" had grown to fourteen. "I assumed it was the kind of contagious idea that spreads through a class, so at first I didn't take it too seriously," Kondo recalled.

On the 9th, the class's art period theme was "a scene from your dream," and of the drawings the fourteen pupils produced independently, nine shared common elements: a hillside slope, stone steps, and a row of lanterns. Laying the nine side by side was when Kondo first felt something was off. "The compositions were all different, but several drawings matched down to the shape of the lantern posts and the position of a bend partway up the steps," she said, and the school relayed the matter to the TDA through its own channels.

The TDA's Dimensional Survey Division cross-checked the nine drawings on the 12th against the accumulated footage and stills from Window 1, "the Lit City," in service since March 2024. Technician Toru Yuzuki, 31, a second-generation Drifter of rabbit-like lineage who handled the comparison, said, "At first I assumed it was an ordinary association with stone-built cityscapes in general." But in a re-check on the 13th, the division confirmed that a distinctive detail in one pupil's drawing — a row of lantern posts where every third one stood slightly taller — matched a specific hillside section recorded in Window 1's past observations. Footage of that particular section has never been used in public viewings or publications and exists only in the division's internal records.

"We can't currently rule out the possibility that the children were exposed to footage of this section through some channel, but we also haven't confirmed any such channel," Yuzuki said, keeping his language careful. "It would be premature to conclude that something was transmitted in the form of a dream." The division is treating the case as outside the scope of its standing position that "there is no evidence the other side is aware of us," and is making no determination either way — stressing that this is separate from the recently revised assessment at Window 5.

In her interviews with the children, Kondo said she always asked whether the dream had been frightening. "Every one of them said it wasn't scary, that it was a beautiful dream, so I didn't press further and made submitting a drawing optional." The school plans to hold a briefing for parents on the 16th, with a TDA representative attending. "My first priority is not to disrupt the children's everyday life," Kondo said.

One of the pupils who drew the scene, age 10, said, "The lights were swaying in the dream, and I felt like someone was walking underneath them, but I couldn't see a face." Another, age 9, laughed and said, "It wasn't scary. I'd like to see it again."

The same hillside street appeared both on the far side of the window room's glass and on a classroom desk. Coincidence, or some faint leak of something — the division isn't rushing to a conclusion, but the moment its technician chose the word "can't rule out," I was reminded again how wide this world is. Leaving the unknown as unknown is, I think, part of this job too.