Concepts for which there is no word though there should

[schnee]

Usually when I post about words that don't exist but should, I'm talking about specific newly-minted words ("shameless wordcoinery", as it were). This time it's about words that really don't exist at all, i.e. concepts for which there is no word - and for which I don't have one either.

There's two:

• the moment when you wake up from a pleasant

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[picadelphon]

Ah, Too Dream And Remember The Dream, That is the Question.. But is a Dream Really a Dream..?

[schnee]

But is a Dream Really a Dream..?I can't say

[mondhasen]

Interesting! I have vivid, colorful dreams, all of which usually vanish like smoke in the wind upon waking. I would usually tag this ‘remorse’ as longing or pining, but no, there is no one word I use to capture the emotion.

When I think of faded dreams an old song runs through my mind: Bobby Lind’s “Elusive Butterfly.” This is more a love ramble, but the imagery of searching in dreams is powerful, to me.

Saudade Is the only word I found online for the feeling you describe. The article mentions Sehnsucht But the description of that doesn’t really address dreaming.

Aside: YouTube seems to understand emotions better than I, or at least it could second guess my feelings ;o) I played Elusive Butterfly while posting and the related songs it chose to play along with it spanned an incredible range of empty, hollow yearnings associated with my thoughts...

[schnee]

Ah, were that I could say that my dreams are vivid and colorful, too! Usually they aren't - but since they're bad dreams more often than not maybe that's for the better

[mondhasen]

EDIT: here's another song that I've felt is quite fitting in sentiment, Imelda May's Black Tears.

Pretty dark (no pun intended). Dreams can be wonderful escapes, hauntingly beautiful, or unnerving portends, frighteningly tense, in their imagery. I tried writing down dreams for a time, but my morning routine doesn't allow for such musings now.

[schnee]

Dark indeed, but also nice, isn't it?

Yeah, writing down dreams is one of those things that sounds like it would work well but then doesn't actually. I have a notebook and pen next to my bed for just that; it's been unused for years.