dreamlag
/ˈdriːmˌlæɡ/nounVerified NewAlso in: Traumverzug (Deutsch) · sueñoretraso (Español) · rêvedécalage (Français)
The mood of a dream that survives waking and runs an hour or two behind the day, like jetlag from a country that does not exist.
Dreamlag is why you answer a cheerful question with the grief of a dream funeral nobody attended. The body is at the breakfast table; the affect is still clearing customs somewhere over the night. It lifts by mid-morning, usually, and leaves no paperwork.
Etym. — dream + jetlag (clipped to -lag) — the disorientation of travel applied to the only journey everyone takes nightly; the lag is real, the destination is not.
Rel. — dreambruised
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