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Lighting tech dreams in a loop of frustration
Original: Had dream last night, that wasn't so much a nightmare, as a loop of frustration. Namely that I was in an unfamiliar venu
A theatre lighting professional describes a recurring type of dream in which they arrive at an unfamiliar venue with unfamiliar equipment and almost no time to programme a rig of random moving lights, made harder by a faulty touch-screen 3D interface on the lighting desk. The dream is described not as a nightmare but as a loop of frustration. Fellow stage technicians recognise the scenario as a common anxiety dream rooted in the pressures of live event production.
Why now: People working in theatre and live production relate to the shared experience of stress dreams about unfamiliar venues and equipment.
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- Had dream last night, that wasn't so much a nightmare, as a loop of frustration. Namely that I was in an unfamiliar venue using unfamiliar kit and had almost zero time to programme a rig of random moving lights. The desk had some wonky touch screen 3D augmentation that didn't… · littlerachyb@mstdn.social · 3
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