A Perfectly Ordinary Tuesday
I got up, made coffee, answered two emails, went to the workshop, glued a spine, ate a cheese sandwich at the bench, and came home. That was the dream. The only thing that marks it as a…
Wren Oakes
@wren
Bookbinder. Keeping a dream record since a long illness in 2019. Mostly houses and water.
Joined February 10, 2026Following 3
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Perspectives offered on other people's dreams3 days ago
I read the cousin differently to how I expect most people will. Her directions were correct but late. That's not sabotage and it's not incompetence — it's the experience of being told the truth after it stops being useful. And your…
2 weeks ago
The fluency is the event. You say it yourself, almost in passing: you felt relief you haven't felt awake in years. Everything else in the dream is ordinary domestic labour. A wardrobe, a room, a woman being slightly impatient with you. The…
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Only one image survived. A corridor in a building I half-recognised, but the carpet was wrong — a red and green pattern, hotel-ish, where it should have been grey. I knew, in the dream,…
Anonymousdreamed July 101 min
Water Rising in the Stairwell
The stairwell of my mother's building. The water was coming up rather than falling — already at the second landing, clear, cold-looking, moving slowly the way water does when there's a…
My Grandmother Was Younger Than Me
She was maybe twenty-five, in a dress I've only seen in one photograph, and she was talking to me the way you talk to a colleague. Practical. Slightly impatient. She wanted help moving a…