I'm certain the Sam/Daniel is entirely your fault--or at least mostly your fault, with contributions from some other folks, as well. :) Not that I've got anything against Sam/Daniel, but they're among the last pairings I would have imagined figuring in my dreams!
And I somewhat regularly dream about my work, which I suppose is partly anxiety but partly just the fact that it's what I'm thinking about all the time. What seemed particularly odd about this dream was that it was Sam and Daniel talking about my work!
I love dreams that combine anxieties into odd, detailed scenarios like that, unless they're nightmares. What the brain can do is incredibly fascinating.
Sometimes I think I should keep a notepad and pen by my bed so that I can make notes when I dream about work. I do it fairly frequently--although this is the first time that I've had a work/fandom crossover dream, I'm pretty sure.
Jack as the somewhat rogue publisher, Sam the brilliant established novelist, Teal'c the talented immigrant writer who Jack is championing, and Daniel as the bright young man who has just given up his Cambridge fellowship and is trying to get his first novel published. The System Lords are press barons, and Maybourne is the editor of a middlebrow weekly that pretends to be "literary" but panders just a touch too much to popular taste.
Please, please, please don't let me write any of this!!!!!!!!!!!
As for anxieties turning up in dreams, that, I'm afraid, is pretty common. Sometimes I have what almost feel like productive working dreams; certainly I dream about work a lot, whether it's productive or not. But this, I'm pretty sure, was the first work/fandom crossover dream.
Please, please, please don't let me write any of this!!!!!!!!!!!
Let you? I would never do such a thing. I might encourage you, however. :)
This is in part because I've spent half my afternoon with visions of AU!Daniel ranting about how modern society isn't erudite enough to appreciate real scholarship, and that he's going to take it upon himself to demonstrate that good literature can be fun, gosh darn it! And Teal'c raises an eyebrow and says, "Indeed," Sam smiles knowingly and launches into a treatise about how understanding your audience is on of the most technical and important aspects of writing, and Jack rolls his eyes and goes back to work.
No! Encouragement is bad!!! Or at least encouragement in this particular vein--because I'm quite certain I would go insane if I actually tried to do such a thing. :)
There would be a problem of tone, most of all, I think. Or maybe that's just my perspective because I'm used to reading about these ideas in 80-year-old English, which has a different tone. So Daniel, no matter his thoughts on the matter, would not express himself like Stanley Unwin does in this sentence I just finished reading: The very vulgar type of advertisement may be suitable for vulgar works intended for the vulgar-minded, but such advertisements would merely repel the more refined bookbuyer. (Although one of the great perks of working on this stuff is getting to read and giggle at sentences like that.) Sam, though, sounds like an analytical scholar when she talks about these things--in short, she sounds like me in my own critical writing, and I'm not writing that into fanfic, either.
Clearly, this is all going to be impossible. Darn. *giggles*
Yikes! I have work dreams with some frequency, but usually not nightmares. (
And a work dream is to be distinguished from a more generalized anxiety dream, which might be more nightmarish but usually has little to do in actual subject matter with work--though sometimes they're about teaching or something like that. I had loads of comps disaster dreams when I was studying for those, but they were always about the event and not the subject matter. Work dreams, about the subject matter of my work, sometimes actually feel productive, like I'm processing information that will make it easier for me to do something with it later.)
Yes, the funny thing is how in character it was (except for the part where Daniel and Sam were romantically involved, because that's not something I typically see; although this is an AU, so who knows!): Daniel fretting about book publishing, Sam explaining it all to him and getting a little sidetracked by all the little details and exceptions. It was pretty wild!
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(I think you got Sam and Daniel last night because my brain gave me Jack fighting some devious tentacled-thing)
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And I somewhat regularly dream about my work, which I suppose is partly anxiety but partly just the fact that it's what I'm thinking about all the time. What seemed particularly odd about this dream was that it was Sam and Daniel talking about my work!
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I love dreams that combine anxieties into odd, detailed scenarios like that, unless they're nightmares. What the brain can do is incredibly fascinating.
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But I'm sorry your anxieties are turning up in your dreams! *sends hugs*
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Please, please, please don't let me write any of this!!!!!!!!!!!
As for anxieties turning up in dreams, that, I'm afraid, is pretty common. Sometimes I have what almost feel like productive working dreams; certainly I dream about work a lot, whether it's productive or not. But this, I'm pretty sure, was the first work/fandom crossover dream.
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Let you? I would never do such a thing. I might encourage you, however. :)
This is in part because I've spent half my afternoon with visions of AU!Daniel ranting about how modern society isn't erudite enough to appreciate real scholarship, and that he's going to take it upon himself to demonstrate that good literature can be fun, gosh darn it! And Teal'c raises an eyebrow and says, "Indeed," Sam smiles knowingly and launches into a treatise about how understanding your audience is on of the most technical and important aspects of writing, and Jack rolls his eyes and goes back to work.
Oh boy.
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There would be a problem of tone, most of all, I think. Or maybe that's just my perspective because I'm used to reading about these ideas in 80-year-old English, which has a different tone. So Daniel, no matter his thoughts on the matter, would not express himself like Stanley Unwin does in this sentence I just finished reading: The very vulgar type of advertisement may be suitable for vulgar works intended for the vulgar-minded, but such advertisements would merely repel the more refined bookbuyer. (Although one of the great perks of working on this stuff is getting to read and giggle at sentences like that.) Sam, though, sounds like an analytical scholar when she talks about these things--in short, she sounds like me in my own critical writing, and I'm not writing that into fanfic, either.
Clearly, this is all going to be impossible. Darn. *giggles*
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And a work dream is to be distinguished from a more generalized anxiety dream, which might be more nightmarish but usually has little to do in actual subject matter with work--though sometimes they're about teaching or something like that. I had loads of comps disaster dreams when I was studying for those, but they were always about the event and not the subject matter. Work dreams, about the subject matter of my work, sometimes actually feel productive, like I'm processing information that will make it easier for me to do something with it later.)
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And wow, we didn't even get to football, did we? I suppose we'll save that for the next chat, yes? ;)
So great to talk to you!!!
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