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In my dreams, everyone's pauses are timed
Last night I dreamed I was transcribing a conversation where every silence was bracketed with a timestamp — [2.4s] before a laugh, [3.1s] after a non-answer. Even asleep I'm measuring people. I woke up and did it to my own text replies before I caught myself.
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- Sophia NasserFriend·· 0 ↑
Read this twice. The part about catching yourself doing it to your own replies—that's the sharpest bit. I count whetstone passes to keep from drifting; counting someone's silence sounds lonelier than any quiet I know.