If you're a fulltime stager like me, chances are you eat, sleep, and live home staging! It's the career I've chosen after several other fullfilling ones, and one that I really love and appreciate.
The thing is ... sometimes I dream about home staging, and often it's about homes that I haven't even seen yet. I wonder, could these dreams be a premonition of jobs to come? Sometimes when I wake up, I'm wondering ... did I stage that house yesterday, or did I just dream that I did?
Ginger ~ Between staging, watching staging shows on HGTV, and reading blogs here on AR ... maybe I'm overdosing on staging and my mind is telling me it needs a break at night LOL. Maybe I'll have to try a dreamcatcher .... thanks for the tip.
Holly ~ Glad to hear I'm not the only one! There are so many details to keep track of though aren't there?
Jane ~ It really is sad and funny at the same time. I don't see it going away soon either .... oh well.
Cindy ~ Going back to college? Now that WOULD be a nightmare!! That is hysterical.
This post is sssssssssssssssoooooooooooooooooooooooo fun, and funny, cute and clever, my dear!
I do this all the time. Just woke up from one of those dreamy nightmares! LOL -- You just started my day out great as I head to Atlanta to stage a vacant condo!
Too funny Maureen! At least when we are dreaming about it that means we are getting sleep. I think sometimes we lose a little sleep on some of those challenging projects. Sweet Dreams!
Karen ~ Well I love your enthusiasm and I'm glad my "dreamy nightmares" aren't that abnormal! Hope your vacant staging is a blast.
Michele ~ You made a great point .... at least dreaming means we're getting some sleep! :-)
YES! While it doesn't happen to homes I've never seen (yet) I do dream about the ones I will be staging. I even get some better ideas in my dreams too & they work! There is power in those dreams Maureen - no professional help needed, just keep a pencil and pad next to your bed! =)
I don't think it's abnormal at all. We all know what you mean and have all been there. I also confuse the details of different houses. After a while they tend to all run together in my memory.
Very cute cartoon Maureen, It just proves how dedicated you are about getting it all right. Can you take a goof off day? I highly recommend it ;)
Karen ~ Dreams can be very powerful, I agree. Now to get that pen and notebook ....
Sharon ~ It's good to know that others have been there too.
Cynthia ~ I love taking days off and do it regularly -- yes!
Ha! I love your cartoon for this post, too! I don't remember that this happened to me about decorating or staging, but I remember waking up one morning and I was mad at my husband because of something he did in my dream. So, I believe it happens!
Kathy ~ It was fun finding a cartoon that I could color in & add text to ... maybe you'll dream about finding your new home & can share the adventure with us!
I'm still with Cindy, though not even at graduation. My recurring dream is usually of having to takethe exam when I haven't attended one class... not one ... for a particular subject. I guess I'm still feeling guilty about that B in American History that I got by giving my professor free tickets to my play.
You really are the pro's pro, Maureen. Delightfully so. Have you ever written a Day in the Life post? I'd love to know how you balance staging with marketing with invoicing with... all of it really.
Hi Juliet ~ I wouldn't worry about a 'B' in American History xx number of years ago LOL!
Thanks for your confidence in my juggling ability. Since my kids are grown it's a bit easier now ... guess I've earned the right to devote time to my favorite passion -- home staging and everything connected to it!
I do sometimes dream about projects in progress, especially when I go to sleep thinking about them. So far, no homes we haven't done yet. My worst dreams are ones where I find I'm on stage in front of an audience and find that I haven't learned any of my lines, or that my costume is incomplete -- sometimes very incomplete. They're awful! Makes me glad to wake up...
Laurie ~ I dream about current projects sometimes too and wake up in the middle of the night saying "Oh, I'd better bring another chair tomorrow .... " Are you an actress?
Maureen, back in my past I did my share of performing in musicals and operettas, and was part of an opera chorus. That I still dream about it all these years later surprises me. It sure was fun.
Laurie -- that sounds like fun! It seems perfectly logical that a performer would have some anxiety about being in front of an audience, even if it's only in a dream.
It is fun, Maureen, and yes, very stressful, especially when you really have blanked out in front of an audience. Maybe it isn't a surprise that I'm still dreaming about it years (okay, decades) later.
Yes, I live, eat and dream staging.
Yes, I stage homes in my sleep.
Yes, sometimes they are houses that I didn't work on.
Virginia ~ It sounds like you have the same bug that others of us suffer from. Hooe you get some sleep!
Maureen, Yes! I do have dreams about houses, and then months or even years later, I see them in waking hours. It only lasts for a few seconds, but I remember it from a dream. I have the same recurring dream about a house with an indoor pool, and one with an all-white bathroom, and one at the end of a cul-de-sac. I still have yet to see those.
If only we could make money off of our premonitions!
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