Weird Tag

Thick scaly scabs, oozing pus, and extreme ageing – author Viola Levy investigates what the subconscious is attempting to tell us The opposite night I dreamt my skin was encrusted in thick scaly scabs. Not the conventional kind, more just like the ‘greyscale’ that plagued Jorah Mormont in Game of Thrones. Within the dream, I picked away at them and dark pigmentation marks appeared underneath, everlasting. “No amount of SkinCeuticals Retinol 1.0% was going to shift that lot,” my dream-self thought (which made me realise I’ve been writing about beauty for far too long). In real life, I’ve recently broken out in mild rosacea since hitting my 30s and while I’ve been looking into...