Pages from hell
January 31st, 2005 at 10:29am |
For the last two nights, I’ve been dreaming about designing pages, and how I have huge holes to fill, but no copy, and it’s way past deadline.
I hate those sort of dreams. I haven’t had page dreams in a while, but I usually have them when I’m stressed, or haven’t had enough sleep, or something. Or sometimes when I’ve gone straight to bed after work. Which I essentially did last night. After a quick stop to IHOP, anyway.
What makes them worse is that if I drift just slightly awake I’m still trying to figure out how to do those pages. And therefore trapped deeper in page hell.
Posted in I must be dreaming
This sounds exactly like the plot to THE SHINING.
Watch out, Heather!
I think most people have these kinds of nightmares in which their work day seems to have never really ended, but has carried over into their dreaming life. I don’t have these nightmares so much anymore, probably because I am very happy at my work, but when I held routine, dull jobs during college I would have nightmares like that.
I get the sense that no one sees the connection between mel’s dream and THE SHINING. Allow me to elaborate: Think of the empty huge space of the resort. And then think of all of Jack’s writing. When I watch the film, it seems to be entirely about all of these hugs gaps or spaces that threaten to overwhelm the family, unless they can make sense of it, fill those gaps, through writing.
Ok, I perhaps understand better. Kind of. My open spaces are not the same as his open spaces, however. Though I can’t seem to get anything to work, or get anything done.