Dreamache

Is this a word? Because, if it’s not, I submit that it should be. It would be used to describe that particular sense of longing one feels in the morning following a dream that has taken you some place, with someone, that you’d like to stay for a while longer; it’s that feeling in your chest when you realize it was all just a dream and you never really shared that experience with another person, and that you can’t even talk about it with them, because that would not only ruin the experience you had in the dream (attemping to translate the feeling of a dream into words is always, at best, a huge disappointment), but would also be very strange for them to hear; it’s that slow dulling of emotions throughout the day when you learn - because you have to - to re-accept your life as it is.

Dreamache.

This morning, I have dreamache.