Projectionist Dreams/Nightmares

[Mark DeCew]

I've been showing "The Odyssey" in 70mm for 51 days straight now and had my first projection nightmare of the run: The image on the screen looked out of focus during a show, but as I tried to adjust with the knob in front, what I saw through the port glass was a picture-in-picture which changed size and position no matter which way I turned it. Panic was setting in, as the auditorium was full and the movie far into the runtime. I knew even in my dream state that "this is impossible." Then I woke up alone in the hotel room, quite unsettled as I readied to leave for the 13 hour day ahead.
Have you had dreams, either pleasant of frightening, involving your time as a projectionist?

[Ryan Gallagher]

Is this like the projectionists equivalent to it being claimed to be nearly impossible to read or write coherently within a dream?

Focus knob just makes what should be impossible worse? Maybe someone threw one of those weird vintage adjustable anamorphics onto your dream projector?