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Sometimes I have dreams about making highlight videos. I also have dreams about looking at box-scores. This is a sure sign of some deeper psychological issues that I refuse to address. At the very least, my brain has been fundamentally rewired by my operation of this channel for nearly a decade. I probably dream about DownToBuck more than I dream about women.
Part of the problem is that I often look at box-scores right before I go to bed. I know that the recommendation is generally to stop using anything with a screen roughly thirty minutes before going to sleep, but I don’t listen to that recommendation. I peruse box-scores right up until bedtime and maybe even a little bit past bedtime. And last night, before dropping off to sleep, I saw that Edmond Sumner had twenty-two points, which I figured was a career high for him (close enough; it ties a career high).
Then I dreamed that I was preparing to make this highlight video, but, upon closer inspection of the box-score, it was revealed that Sumner only made two field goals while scoring his 22 points. The dream ended before a resolution was reached, and when I woke up, the first thing I did was bring up the Pacers-Pistons box-score to see what had really transpired. In real life, Sumner made nine buckets, and, consequently, this highlight video was edited and uploaded.
I mean, there is a precedent for not making a highlight video of a career-high if the performance isn’t satisfying enough. Darius Bazley recently scored 26, but he shot 9-of-25 from the field and 1-of-8 from three, so I didn’t make the video. If Edmond Sumner had theoretically went 2-of-16 from the field and made eighteen free throws, that’s the sort of video I would definitely refuse to make. Hopefully my dream self also would have refused to make it, although maybe my psyche wants to torment me with nightmares where I make agonizingly pointless highlight videos. That’s exactly the kind of thing my ruined psyche would do to me. I am fundamentally broken.