it's just a dream not your brain REMINDING you of failure. otherwise what is the polka dotted rhino that you talked to while six foot tall daffodils danced by about????
and if it helps, just last night THE old flame was there in MY dreams again....the old him...well technically the 20 years ago younger him....def not the real live today that i haven't seen in over five years him!
my mother, long deceased, shows up in my dreams a lot too - just there, still just as annoying! and my 2nd ex husband who i have absolutely zero lingering feelings for!!!
i guess they are all my brain's version of SNL!