Japanese listening diary · Day 177

I Woke Up Thinking Thursday Was Saturday

木曜日なのに土曜日だと思い込んでいた
July 2, 2026
About a minuteSlow, natural Japanese
Real JapaneseN5–N3 friendly
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I woke up convinced it was Saturday and started planning the robot vacuum and fresh sheets — until Google Home read out my Thursday appointments and I came back to reality. They say the brain sorts and rewrites memories while you sleep, so mine must have had a big update last night; I wish I could sleep that deeply every day.

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No. 177Tokyo · morning
日本語 — Japanese
ひらがな — Hiragana
けさ、めがさめたあと、わたしはきょうはどようびだから、おそうじろぼっとのせっていんぐをして、しーつのこうかんをして、とおもいながら、いつものとおりぐーぐるほーむに「おはよう」ってこえをかけたんです。そうしたら、びょういんのよやくじかんやうちあわせのよていをつたえてきました。そこで、わたしはわれにかえり、きょうはもくようびだった、とおもいだしたんです。
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Vocabulary ことば

思い込むおもいこむto assume; be convinced
我に返るわれにかえるto come back to reality
記憶きおくmemory
整理せいりorganizing; sorting
更新こうしんupdate; renewal

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