Dreamed I was translating a book with no words in it

I'm sitting at my desk with a manuscript that's all margins and white space, and I keep finding the words I need hiding in the gaps between pages — except every time I reach for one, it's a small animal that runs off before I can write it down. I wake up and think oh, that's just my job, and then I can't go back to sleep because I'm not sure it's a joke anymore.