Today’s post is brought to you by last night’s dream. It’s not every day that I wake up with a topic and a title ready-to-go, and after an unintended Substack hiatus it’d be foolish not to go with it.
(Well…the dream happened about a month ago now, and this post has been half sat in my drafts since then, but that sentence didn’t flow quite as well…)
It feels a little ironic that I was at my most stationary when my brain delivered this type of information to me. But maybe that was the point - I obviously took notice.
“Press the button if you have something to share” - I was sat in a circle with other creatives, with the leader of the group sat to my left instructing everyone to begin.
Within a matter of seconds I’d reached my hand out to press the circular plastic button in the middle of the room, as though we were all on some 90’s gameshow and I’d found the answer first. Except I hadn’t, and there were definitely no prizes up for grabs. There was something I wanted to say. A feeling I needed to share.
It didn’t take long before my words fizzled into pauses and erms, and I found myself finishing sooner than I thought. The room had begun to feel empty, causing me to halt my words and retreat back into my seat. Any enthusiasm I began with had completely disappeared.
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