dreambruised
/ˈdriːmˌbruːzd/adjectiveVerified NewAlso in: traumgebläut (Deutsch) · sueñocontundido (Español) · rêvecontus (Français)
Emotionally bruised by a dream's events — tender in a place the day cannot find.
The dreambruised person winces at nothing, is short with the innocent, and cannot explain why the morning hurts. The bruise is real — the grief of the dream funeral, the shame of the dream exam — but its cause is inadmissible, and the tenderness lasts until the mood clears customs.
Etym. — dream + bruised — the injury metaphor for the dream's emotional residue; bruised is exactly the state of being tender from a blow that is not visible.
Rel. — dreamlag · dreamtaxed
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