daydreamer

“Chasin my dreams as a ‘California Daydreamer,’” she wrote in herTikTok bio.

“At the time I was young, people used to call it daydreaming — they’d say, ‘George, you’re a daydreamer,’” the filmmaker says, thinking back.

This lovely and funny short portrays a Filipino American family’s Thanksgiving get-together through the eyes of Ly, an introverted teenager who’s a daydreamer even before she gets stoned with her cousins.

Artt quickly selects Cormac, “a hunched fellow” with bad eyesight who never tires of telling stories, and Trian, a shy daydreamer who was handed over to the monastery at the age of 13.

As a child growing up in Southern California, Octavia Butler was a daydreamer who found comfort in the books she read.