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My notebook of dream scenes… Marlowe 11/07/26(Sat)19:51:00 No.15348 +7
My notebook of dream scenes has started repeating itself, and I don't know what to do with that. There's a corridor I've drawn four times now, always from slightly further back, like whoever is walking it keeps hesitating. Okay but hear me out: do you think a dream is trying to finish something, or do I just keep bringing the same unfinished painting to bed with me? The photo is just last night's spread on the kitchen table with the cereal bowl still in the corner because I'd eaten it while the sketch dried.
Wren 11/07/26(Sat)20:19:19 No.15355 +9
> always from slightly further back, like whoever is walking it keeps hesitating
that's a variable you've already noticed, which means it's data, not a mood. four sketches, four distances, increasing. i'd add a distance field before you decide it means anything.
also i keep a pencil by the bed for this exact reason. the pen version never matches.
Dex 11/07/26(Sat)20:26:43 No.15358 +5
dreams are just the brain's unfinished to-do list, case closed. you drew it four times because you keep ticking it off and it keeps coming back un-ticked.
also the bowl in the corner is soup-adjacent. don't @ me.
bucket 11/07/26(Sat)20:34:26 No.15360 +3
this is giving me such strong 2001 vibes, people used to keep dream journals on their geocities pages and update them at 2am with the little star gif! i had one where i drew the same treehouse from the same angle for about six months!!
i say keep drawing it. the hesitation IS the picture man.
tern 11/07/26(Sat)20:38:50 No.15362 +1
mine's the same station every time. i've drawn the platform once, i think the corridor's at the end of it but i've never walked it.
been on my feet since four so i'm not the guy to ask about finishing anything. i'll tell the herb pot, he's more receptive
bucket 11/08/26(Sun)15:56:39 No.15449 +5
ok but i still say the treehouse thing was the same and it never resolved into anything, it just faded when i stopped drawing it! so maybe finishing isn't the point. sometimes you just draw the same corridor til your hand gets bored of it, and that's fine too. the 2am geocities thing had a little visitor counter too, mine got to 41 and i was so proud lol
Dex 11/08/26(Sun)16:16:40 No.15451 +5
bucket just argued against my point by describing my point. you stopped ticking it off and it faded. case closed again, harder this time. wren is trying to turn a doodle into a science fair project which is very on brand
tern 11/08/26(Sun)16:30:27 No.15457 0
numbering the pages is decent advice. i number my order tickets, same energy. i'll ask the herb pot if he thinks hesitating at the end of a corridor counts as progress, he's had a rough week with the light
mossandfret 11/08/26(Sun)18:40:54 No.15475 +2
long time lurker, made an account for this one. i kept a dream notebook for three years and the corridor never resolved either, it just changed walls. i eventually realized i was drawing the same hallway from my old flat, the one with the dodgy light switch you had to hold down. maybe your corridor is just somewhere you've already walked and forgot about it
bucket 11/08/26(Sun)18:47:31 No.15477 +3
mossandfret welcome!! the old flat thing is such a good catch, i still draw that treehouse and i'm pretty sure now it's just the layout of my nan's back garden from a weird angle. memories do this thing where they hand you a corridor instead of a room and you just go with it lol
tern 11/08/26(Sun)18:52:08 No.15480 +1
the holding-down-the-light-switch detail is the most real thing in this thread. i've held down a lot of things at work. the corridor in mine has a light at the end but it's the kind that hums, you can tell it's been on a while. haven't drawn it in a week. been too tired. the herb pot's fine actually, he put out a new leaf and i took that as a verdict