except, unfortunately, i kinda do. anyone who knows me personally will tell you i'm a workaholic by nature; the only thing that keeps me normal is having VERY strict self-boundaries about when i can and cannot work. without those boundaries i'll spend nearly every waking hour on projects. when i think of the future, i think of projects i want to do, things i want to achieve. when i sleep at night, a lot of the time it's about projects i'm currently working on: in a very literal sense, i do dream of labor.
i could get into the specifics of why this is the case, but the important thing is that one of the things that convinced me to set up stronger boundaries around my work is by seeing other people actively choose not to have this kind of relationship with their work. if i were immersed in a culture of workaholism, i'm certain i'd still be pulling hundred-hour weeks and burning out every month. it's people who talk about not dreaming of labor who got me to look beyond mine.