I dreamed I was editing a film that never ended

I was in a room with no windows, just endless reels of footage spooling past. Each cut felt like a decision I’d made years ago—some small, some catastrophic—and I kept trying to find the end, but the timeline just folded back on itself. The audio track played a voice I recognized as my own, saying, 'This is how it always was.' When I woke up, the clock said 5:07 a.m., and the city outside smelled like wet concrete and old paper.