I watch TV to fall asleep and I can't fly in my dreams

[sovay]

I slept badly last night. The sun came up. There was construction at an unreasonable hour of the morning. I have been having unpleasantly vivid nightmares with plots like horror movies I don't actually watch: a box full of ashes clicking like a Geiger counter in the presence of a newborn child, fighting my way down the stairs of a hotel filled with the snapping-mouthed dead (in company of the writer of a nonexistent off-Broadway musical, which is the part that feels like my usual dreams). The noirish line "A loser is interesting. A loser who loses altogether is an awful thing." Various scenes of abjection.

On the other hand, selkie just notified me that one of the actor-producers of The Rusalka (2018) discovered my review and liked it. I'm delighted. It means I saw what was there to be seen. I'm still not used to this whole feedback-from-living-filmmakers thing.

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

I'm delighted. It means I saw what was there to be seen. I'm still not used to this whole feedback-from-living-filmmakers thing.

Aw, cool! And it's scary. Nice also mostly, but also scary. There are real people at the end of this thing?

[sovay]

Aw, cool! And it's scary. Nice also mostly, but also scary. There are real people at the end of this thing?

I'm just glad so far it's happened with contemporary movies I like!

(I don't think I've seen that icon before. It's good.)

[thisbluespirit]

(I don't think I've seen that icon before. It's good.

:-D It's by sallymn who has made a lot of lovely icons.

[asakiyume]

That tweet rocks--AND YOU ROCK

The nightmares, on the other hand, need to be exorcised.

[sovay]

That tweet rocks--AND YOU ROCK

Thank you! It arrived at a good time: I was/am feeling especially despairing about kind of everything.

The nightmares, on the other hand, need to be exorcised.

They're really vivid. I wish I were writing fiction.

[gwynnega]

That is so cool about the tweet!

I'm sorry about the nightmares, but that is an excellent noirish line.

[sovay]

That is so cool about the tweet!

Thank you!

I'm sorry about the nightmares, but that is an excellent noirish line.

Seriously, I feel like I should invent a movie to put it in.

[heliopausa]

The snapping-mouthed dead and the clicking like a Geiger counter - is your mind taking some nearby ticking or rattling and running it through your mind's mill to grind out the dreams? Once I dreamt that I was a tree, burning in a bushfire, and found in the morning that my sleeping bag had a hole scorched in it by a tipped-over mosquito coil.

[sovay]

is your mind taking some nearby ticking or rattling and running it through your mind's mill to grind out the dreams?

Oh, interesting. I can't think of anything in the room that I could hear over the fan, which usually just makes its normal hum, but there would certainly have been all sorts of staccato noises from the construction—it's what eventually woke me.

Once I dreamt that I was a tree, burning in a bushfire, and found in the morning that my sleeping bag had a hole scorched in it by a tipped-over mosquito coil.

I have to say that's a great transmutation.