On the days where enough has gone mighty in my midget sliver of our grim share reality to drag up the now - nostalgic emotion of lightheartedness , I ’ll make it a block or two from my apartment before realizing , oh right , the pandemic did n’t terminate , and I blank out a masquerade . I run back , embarrassed and deflated . This happens , on mediocre , once every 10 days .
Evidently , I ’m one of the golden one because the momentary panic of masklessness only make its irritating trivial cameo during my waking hours . Some of you , it seems , have been forget to assume a mask in your goddamn dreams .
Had a stress dreaming that I was back in high school but got in trouble because I bury my mask MAKE IT STOPpic.twitter.com/cKFVIasSSB
Photo: Bryan Menegus/Gizmodo
— Natalia Alamdari ( @nataliaalamdari)September 10 , 2020
Dreams , in the main , are something I experience with extreme infrequency — whether my brain return and then forgets them or they but do n’t occur is nonmaterial to me . No freewheeling risky venture while I ’m sleeping , but no nightmare either ? Net neutral ! Then I start to see some unmeasurable swath of the population experiencing a dream trope this traumatically mundane , and it pushes the needle a petty far towards the positive .
I forgot my mask in this dream so I enclose toilette paper around my case . that was my first masquerade party dream
— bring on the dancing horses ( @inthefade)September 15 , 2020
Last night I woolgather that I drove to a bowling skittle alley without my husband ’s noesis , walked in to find my therapist turn the comeback , realized I left my masquerade party in the car , returned wearing mask , and avoided everyone there . go plausible .
— Jenn R - J ( @jennfel)September 10 , 2020
Had a dreaming where I was in a crowded shopping district needing to buy food when I somehow forgot my mask , so I was freaking out and lashings of people were around me close in my outer space .
Really 2020 , I ’m gon na have nightmares about that ? Jfc
— Rin ( @RinTheYordle)September 14 , 2020
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Of the semi - random sampling of individual tweeting about this experience , some likened it to other stress dreaming tropes ( realizing you ’re wear the wrong dress / no apparel , being back in school , etc.)—another thing that does n’t ever pass off to me and that I desire will stay the instance .
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late I ’ve been having dream of being out in metropolis and suddenly realizing I do n’t have my masquerade party on … I venture , it ’s like the 2020 equivalent of dreaming I forgot to put knickers on .
— Twit.ter ( @meepmorps)September 11 , 2020
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how i know this year has caused some trauma :
last night I had a dream where I was in a public stead where * no one * was wearing a masquerade party , including woolgather me . I woke up sweating and my essence was racing like it was a incubus .
— chel ( @chelseymurphree)September 10 , 2020
Apparently I developed a new nightmare about being in a store without my mask on . I get the same intuitive feeling from it as I do about the forgot a test / major assignment at school day dream that I continue to have even though I have n’t been in school in over 6 years .
— tribblesnbits ( @alliemode_)September 10 , 2020
In a small way , I experience a bit left out , in the same agency everyone seemed to be rewatching The Sopranos and the same time and I had ( and have ) no opinion at all on , say , the engagement between Tony and Carmella in season 4 , a plot of land point I ’m only aware of because I Googled “ best character bow in the treble ” while writing this .
Similarly , Twitter is both connect me to the share witting anxiousness of an apparently declamatory number of people having masquerade party - based dreams , but not really delivering the experience itself . ( One which , again , I still would prefer not to be birth , but in uniquely human contradiction in terms , I palpate left out of nonetheless . ) That ’s partly on me for require it both ways .
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