I've been having a lot of dreams about moving house, which I think is a straightforward allegory for wanting to be not in the current situation but literally anywhere else.
One unemployment anxiety dream: I dreamed that everyone at the newspaper I worked for got laid off because they were moving operations to Boston where labor was cheaper. We were all outraged because of course you can't properly do local news from hundreds of miles away. I asked an older woman how she always managed to land on her feet and find a new job quickly, and she said, "Find out what people need and be that, meet that need." I've never been good at that, but I decided to try.
And one political anxiety dream: I dreamed there was a protest going past our house, and I gave the raised fist salute from our window as some white queer people went by with big flags for queer identities that I didn't recognize, including one that was a gradient of teal stripes. But they thought I was too white to do the raised fist and TP'd our house, and I went down to try to talk to them but couldn't find any of the people who did it. Some people did talk to me but I couldn't understand what they were saying because everything was too noisy. (A friend says this is a dream about being middle-aged and worried that I don't understand the Kids These Days and they don't respect me. Probably true. But it feels more like it's about wishing I could be doing more than just standing in my window saluting the people out in the streets, and judging myself for staying home.)
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One unemployment anxiety dream: I dreamed that everyone at the newspaper I worked for got laid off because they were moving operations to Boston where labor was cheaper. We were all outraged because of course you can't properly do local news from hundreds of miles away. I asked an older woman how she always managed to land on her feet and find a new job quickly, and she said, "Find out what people need and be that, meet that need." I've never been good at that, but I decided to try.
And one political anxiety dream: I dreamed there was a protest going past our house, and I gave the raised fist salute from our window as some white queer people went by with big flags for queer identities that I didn't recognize, including one that was a gradient of teal stripes. But they thought I was too white to do the raised fist and TP'd our house, and I went down to try to talk to them but couldn't find any of the people who did it. Some people did talk to me but I couldn't understand what they were saying because everything was too noisy. (A friend says this is a dream about being middle-aged and worried that I don't understand the Kids These Days and they don't respect me. Probably true. But it feels more like it's about wishing I could be doing more than just standing in my window saluting the people out in the streets, and judging myself for staying home.)