nightdraft
/ˈnaɪtˌdrɑːft/nounVerified NewAlso in: Nachtentwurf (Deutsch) · nocheborrador (Español) · nuitbrouillon (Français)
A dream understood as the mind's unfinished draft of a thought it could not complete while awake.
The nightdraft is the argument rehearsed, the apology composed, the decision simulated. It is rarely publishable — the prose is surreal, the characters are composites — but the revision marks are real, and some of them survive into the morning's final version.
Etym. — night + draft — the writing-process metaphor for dream cognition; the night is the drafting desk.
Rel. — plotdebt · dreamquarry
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