I have very weirdly realistic dreams where it could be real life, except it's not.

less small talk
and more real talk.

I don't want to dream anymore, I want my life to be real!

realize what you are not doing and dare to do what you are not doing. What distinctive thing are you not doing?

The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.

In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.