plotdebt

/ˈplɒtˌdɛt/nounVerified New

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An unresolved dream storyline carried into the day, which the waking mind keeps trying to settle.

Plotdebt is the dream exam you never finished, the dream journey you never arrived on. The day inherits the obligation: you find yourself thinking about the suitcase at lunch, composing endings in the shower. The debt is never called in, and never forgiven.

Etym. — plot + debt — the financial metaphor for narrative incompleteness; the -debt family (sleep debt) is live, but this is the narrative ledger, not the sleep one.

Rel. — dreamtenant · nightdraft

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