Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for January 16, 2022

Boring?

Which one are you Arlo, what is the dream and what is real?

Why? What’s wrong with calling it a dream? That sort of thing is what the word means.

A disturbing phantasm?

It’s your dream. Call it what you like.

F’n nightmare?

Sisyphean

What about dreamt but not a dream?

In a vivid dream, you are experiencing the events, even boring leaf raking. With any luck for your bed partner, your motions should be suppressed.

Hey, you could have dreamt you were raking the yard in the nude.

Arlo, the dictionary guys are watching if you ever come up with an answer.

Does anyone know anything about Jimmy?

There is, one could be visions (as in what you’ll be doing in 9 months) or memories.

Who rakes their yard? We have used mulching lawn mowers forever, chopping up leaves and grass and turning them into mulch is the only way to cut grass. OTOH, instead of the obsession with cutting grass you could just turn your yard into a meadow, never cut grass or kill weeds, just let it grow. Altho if you live within an HOA you will never be able to do that.

So I dreamt I was at work again. Brrr!!

When a dream keeps looping for what seems like hours, it’s always turned out I was getting sick.

How about nightmare?

Too much pepperoni before bedtime.

how about a nightmare… just thought I’d help.

Do people still put on robes when they get up in the morning?

“To die, to sleep -

To sleep, perchance to dream -ay, there’s the rub,

For in this sleep of death what dreams may come…”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

I agree with Arlo. There should be a specific word for dreams about working. I am retired and still dream I’m at work on a project, but not being paid because I’m retired. My suggestions are, REAMD, or MAERD, because those word sound similar to mired and reamed.

There is: Nightmare

haydream

You nightmared???

Flashback?

Choremare? Honey-do-mare? Raking leaves ain’t no pipe dream, that’s for sure.

Arlo reminded me that I should order a copy of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Yeah I get it. I’ve been retired 5 years and I “dream” of work most nights.

I recall being about five or six and hearing my grandmother say that she was exhausted because she spent the night dreaming she was cleaning the house.

I am very prone to major nightmares. Last night’s was a doozy. I envy people who sleep deep enough to not wake up in time to remember their dreams. They were worse in the past – I hope I am not headed there again.

A dream within a dream is interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcCknHQnZ2M

Arlo, check the yard. Maybe you were sleepwalking!

Nightmare?

Depends on what it was you were raking, on/off the yard.