prolog
1.
Uncomfortable cohabitation
2.
Mysterious Transfer Student
3.
A ridiculous dream
4.
Suspicious Album
5.
Concerns revealed
6.
Another dream
7.
A tangled relationship
8.
The Girl Who Walks in Dreams
9.
Mom's Secret
10.
The power of superpowers
11.
hideout
12.
sad reunion
13.
Last gift
14.
Misunderstanding cleared up
15.
The person I really want to meet
16.
When your wish comes true

□ Uncover the truth through the awakening of the dreamer!

“Okay, let’s say I have that ability, like you said.
"But why did I develop such superpowers? And all of a sudden? I've never been bitten by a strange spider, nor have I undergone any special training." "Well, I guess I'll have to slowly unravel that mystery from now on." - Page 103

This book is a lively and touching story about a second-year middle school girl, Saebyeol, who suddenly gains superpowers one day.
Of course, if you look at it that way, that superpower isn't that great.
Because you are dreaming the same dreams that other people are dreaming.
But wouldn't it be fun if that dream were dreamed by someone you know? That's how the book begins.


It's not like I knew from the beginning that Saebyeol was dreaming of other people.
The girl I met in my dream looked exactly like me, but she was wearing my old school uniform, so I wondered if she was my doppelganger, and I just wondered why I kept having dreams about things I didn't know about.
However, a transfer student named Yeon-Hwi, who loves mysteries, arrives, and as she confides her worries to him, Saebyeol begins to realize her own abilities.
Yeon-hwi listens very seriously to Sae-byeol's worries, which might be ignored or made funny if told to others, and their friendship deepens.


Saebyeol's dream ability that I learned about thanks to Yeonhui.
Saebyeol discovers that the dream she is having is someone else's dream.
So whose dream is this? Saebyeol discovers that it's her mother's, long-hidden dream, and she yearns to help heal her mother's long-held wounds.
However, since it is not possible to have the dreams you want just because you want them, and dreams do not show you the truth in chronological order, it is not easy for Saebyeol to know the truth about her mother's dreams.
Saebyeol must deduce the truth through the fragmented dreams she has.
By following the clues she sees in her dreams and the stories of people she meets in reality, Saebyeol learns about her mother's pain.
The junior novel, "The Girl Who Walks Dreams," is a mystery novel that depicts the process of a dreamer struggling to restore family love and friendship.

□ Wounds heal in the truth remembered!

“There must be a reason why you suddenly developed this ability.
I wonder if you can help solve the problem that has been plaguing your mother all her life.
In short, you become your mother's superhero." - Page 178

In "The Girl Who Walks Dreams," Saebyeol keeps dreaming of her mother from her high school days.
Why does Saebyeol keep dreaming of her mother? Or rather, why does Saebyeol's mother keep dreaming of her high school days? This book explores the reasons from Saebyeol's perspective, revealing the truth behind the events.
The truth of that day and old wounds.
And Saebyeol sets out to find a way to heal her wounds with her dream powers.
The misunderstandings and conflicts about the mother are resolved in it, and it is touching.
"The Girl Who Walks Dreams" colorfully depicts the various emotions that adolescent girls struggle with during puberty, such as conflicts with their mother, guilt over a sick younger sibling, conflicts between friendships and long-time friends, and curiosity about the opposite sex.
Among them, the most important one is the social disaster that my mother experienced 30 years ago.


All we can do is remember together and share our hearts.
- From the author's note

Author Baek Hye-young, who wrote this book, says, “In the end, what we can do is to remember together and share our hearts,” and talks about the forgotten incidents and victims of that time.
Remembering social disasters is important not only to ensure that such disasters never happen again, but also to comfort and support those who have suffered great pain, such as the families and friends of the victims.

When you suddenly experience a major event, many emotions become tangled and cannot be properly resolved, and as time passes, you end up suppressing those emotions and hurts.
However, if you are unable to properly express your emotions and suppress them, those emotions will become distorted and explode in strange ways in different situations and with different people.
It is also natural to be unhappy when you are suppressing your emotions.


In the case of Saebyeol's mother and Heeyeon's mother, who were victims, time passed without properly looking into the incident.
So, Saebyeol's mother lived like a sinner for 30 long years, from 1994 until now.
Memories not only allow them to revisit the events and commemorate the victims, but also provide an opportunity for survivors to examine and embrace their own emotions, gradually shaking off the misfortune.


□ The social violence committed without thought must stop!

Saebyeol, who was already devastated by seeing Eunbyeol unable to wake up, was further hurt by the countless words floating around the internet at the time.
And it was unfair.
My brother wanted to scream that our mother was not that kind of person.
- Pages 200-201

In "The Girl Who Walks Dreams," there are two incidents that hurt Saebyeol's family.
One is the social disaster that occurred in 1994, and the other is the Eunbyeol amusement ride accident.
In both accidents, the victims and their families were completely blameless.
And yet, whenever such incidents occur, people inadvertently, and sometimes deliberately, stand behind a curtain of anonymity, mocking, hurting, and even blaming the victims and their families.

“Why did you go there?”, “Why are you blaming society when you just wanted to have fun?”, “If you had kept your eyes open, you could have avoided it. What were you doing?”, “What was the person next to you doing that caused such a big problem?”, etc.

We see these words and writings in news comments or community bulletin boards whenever a social disaster or major accident occurs.
In places where actual responsibility should be placed, they only talk about legal and financial matters, and not only do they not provide emotional empathy or healing, but they also drive the issue into social conflict.
If that happens, the victims and their families will have no choice but to keep quiet, beat their chests, and hold their breath.


This book criticizes the fact that a society that should truly commemorate the victims and embrace the wounded instead commits violence.
The scars left on Saebyeol's family by the netizens' comments at the time of Eunbyeol's accident.
And Heeyeon's mother shows Saebyeol's mother things she did in the past, and makes us reflect on our own behavior.