A tour of Beaks’ nightdream nation

Lead phot by Alicia Nieto Anna Francesca wants to know what you dreamt about last night. No, really. She lays her head down in vehement opposition to that whole there’s-nothing-more-boring-than-other-people’s-dreams take. Dreaming is almost half of your life, the songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and model says – it’s a cornerstone of who you are. “I dream so much that it almost feels like I lay down at night to live my second life. I could go on about this for hours,” she warns me, habitually stretching as if mere chat about dreams (and the almost-40-degree Vienna weather) threatens to induce them. Francesca scribbles down her night moves as soon as she wakes up. When a friend sleeps over, the first words they exchange are, what did you dream about? “To me, dreaming is like a second dimension,” she says, taking thoughtful pauses before offering deliberate explanations. “I read a book about dreams, and they say that you can try to interpret your dreams and do whatever you want, but you will always talk or think about your dreams with your conscious and awake persona.” Sign up to Best Fit's Substack for regular dispatches from the world of pop culture This uncloseable gap, this whi...