{"id":757,"date":"2020-09-19T12:15:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T19:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=757"},"modified":"2020-09-19T12:15:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T19:15:44","slug":"life-work-stress-dreams-with-movie-sequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2020\/09\/19\/life-work-stress-dreams-with-movie-sequences\/","title":{"rendered":"Life: work-stress dreams with movie sequences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/aeg-IMG_7002-background-bar-1024x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/aeg-IMG_7002-background-bar-1024x300.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/aeg-IMG_7002-background-bar-300x88.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/aeg-IMG_7002-background-bar-768x225.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/aeg-IMG_7002-background-bar.jpeg 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that, now that I get more REM sleep (due to pandemic-related changes to my schedule), whatever I watch before bed can influence my dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, I recently watched a kung fu movie, and then had a work themed dream that somehow combined a debate about a project with a martial arts sequence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, that was more interesting than the underlying work issue.  By far.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, I&#8217;ve been watching <em>Lovecraft Country<\/em>, and yes, that led to a dream sequence this morning in which I was talking about contract management as a white man who needed to avoid [something], and a pale woman with black hair had her eyes go pale [possibly from <em>Train to Busan<\/em>],  turned into a mist, and then transformed into a flexible, red lid for a coffin-like box for me (as a man) to conceal myself, and&#8230;  I have no idea what that means.  But it was an impressive special effect! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve learned that, now that I get more REM sleep (due to pandemic-related changes to my schedule), whatever I watch before bed can influence my dreams. Yes, I recently watched a kung fu movie, and then had a work themed dream that somehow combined a debate about a project with a martial arts sequence. Yes, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2020\/09\/19\/life-work-stress-dreams-with-movie-sequences\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Life: work-stress dreams with movie sequences&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[136,59],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-dreams","tag-pandemic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":758,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions\/758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}