Audience that never laughed but listened

Last night I dreamed I was on stage in a room with no chairs. People stood in a semicircle, all of them watching, not one of them smiling. I kept doing my set, each joke landing like a pebble in a well, and somehow that felt more real than any laugh I've ever gotten. Woke up weirdly calm, like my subconscious finally got what I've been chasing all these years.