dreamhomesickness

/ˈdriːmˌhəʊmsɪknəs/nounVerified New

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The ache for a place that only existed in a dream — homesickness for a home with no address.

Dreamhomesickness is the specific grief of the dream house: the room with the wrong windows that felt more like home than any actual room. The sufferer cannot return, cannot describe it accurately, and cannot stop missing it. The real estate of the night has no market and no evictions, only waking.

Etym. — dream + homesickness — the emotion noun applied to its impossible object; homesickness is exactly the ache for a place, and the dream place qualifies.

Rel. — dreamorphan · sleepletter · dreamgeography

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