dream_word epitome of incomprehensibility "Biread" means a reading - book, article - that connects to another reading. Except I'm making a crossword puzzle clue for it, so I recruit cheesy_ideas for defining it, such as "A book that likes both boy books and girl books." Except my dream mind didn't consider the non-binary books. In German, books are always non-binary: das Buch, not der Buch or die Buch. 240118 ... e_o_i In a long-ago dream, an elderly woman who was sitting in bed and recalling her homeland. This was supposed to be Russia. Maybe. But I was her and the bed looked an awful lot like mine. There had been some kind of war in the 1960s or 70s, and she/I thought about it with a couple of "Russian" words: "kashvas" were bad memories and "otchkes" were objects that recalled memories, mostly good ones. I don't have any explanation for the first, but the second sounded like the word for glasses in A_Clockwork_Orange (so, Russian-derived) and also something like tchotchkes (doodads in Yiddish). 240119 ... e_o_i And, from ten years ago, a_word_that_isn't_a_word and la_tarte_est_niee. Either by chance, or through the weirdness of memory, my dream mind gave me a French word that my waking mind didn't know (nier, to deny). 240119 ... raze holy crap. add a_word_that_isn't_a_word to the list of things (or dreams) i would have no memory of at all if i hadn't blathed about them once upon a time. and blurzurk *is* a good word for when things go wrong. i need to dust that off more often. 240120 ... raze it was technically more of a half-asleep thought than a dream, but last night i got "iperate". in the context of the brain blip, it seemed to be a fancier form of reduction. 240121 ... raze "windeto" and "exia" are apparently drugs designed to help catalyze sleep. 240205 ... raze i assume a "tillennial" is a millennial in training. 240206 ... raze "incient": like "incipient", but without the pi. 240210 ... raze it was part of a word fill_in puzzle. eight letters. the first five were iiile. the last three i forget. i just remember thinking, "what kind of word is that?" 240217 what's it to you? who go blather from