Dream Hangover

[sistermagpie]

I had a horrible dream this morning just before I woke up. Not a nightmare but just a bad dream. I can't remember most of it, I guess. The part I do remember, right before I woke up, took place in like a basement sort of office. Or just a basement where there was a desk and an old brown leather office swivel chair. The desk was metal and dark brown and all cluttered. It was in the corner surrounded by lots of wood and broken things like you'd find in an abandoned building. In the drawer there was all this paper and I found some yellow sheets covered in handwriting that wasn't mine. There was like a publisher who was telling me to "write that" what was on the paper and he was going to publish it and I was all like, "But I didn't write this and this has already been written..." and all that.

When I woke up in such despair! Everything was just soooo sad, particularly this one thing I've been working on. I kept waiting for the feeling to go away as dream hangovers hopefully do but it has hung around ALL DAY. I feel hollow and shrill and ugh. I'm really hoping this will result in some sort of idea for something...somewhere...or something.

Comments

[samaranth.livejournal.com]

There are some really interesting - if chilling -images colliding against each other there, magpie.

Such vivid dreams can change you just a bit, they're as real as a waking experience. But it's harder to work it out, because detail slips away so fast.

I hope the sad feelings passed, and that tomorrow morning the despair you felt is gone.

{{{magpie}}}

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

I think I had another one this morning! But I can't remember it.:(

It will go away soon, though. I'll just have to sit through it, annoying as it is.

Basements are never a good sign in any dream I have.:-)

[petitesoeur.livejournal.com]

i hope you have shaken off the creepy feeling you had yesterday -- what a dream -- and even though you only remember fragments i gotta say i think it would make the beginning of a really good scary story or film script. as you know i'm a great believer in turning life into art ;-)

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Thanks--in fact I had another one this morning!>:0

Naturally I talked to my dream psychotherapist P and she gave me a quite positive reading on the dream. Although I think there are some more things to it than she saw...mostly because there were things I woke up thinking about.

This also, happily, led to a nice discussion about how you have to experience bad feelings in order to also experience good ones, which I think you'll agree with.