I sometimes dream about a magical day, a day that's not recorded in time, when you’d wake up and look at what day it is in your cell phone or calendar and it would not say Monday, Tuesday or whatever. Instead it would say “Today is a gap between days. It’s not called anything. Just some extra time left over the years that's been pooled into an extra day. Do what you want with it." It's like a surprise, unplanned holiday - had we known about this “extra” day earlier, we would've already planned something for it or someone else would have planned out something for us. It’s a hidden day that's not been dictated by office hours or any other chores and responsibilities like all the other days of the week. So instead of rushing into that dull monotony of your life where you mechanically do the same things everyday, out of both compulsion and habit, and just letting it all pass you by - you could take a break; stop and think about what you're doing, whether you're going where you actually want to be headed.
Or, you could also do something totally different. A gap day is a special day - like a wild card, or like that secret level you get to play in a computer game when you've collected all the rubies or got 3 stars on all the levels – just for fun, to play more of the game, to enjoy it more, without worrying about winning or losing it. A gap day allows you to be your most uninhibited self because it's a secret - it's not recorded in time or anyone's memory, except yours. So forget about making a head start on a pending chore, because hey, you'd probably already planned to do it the next or some other day. Do something random and fun. You could wear your clothes inside out or go out in pajamas and your shabbiest t-shirt and no one would say a thing (or they might, but who cares, they’d forget tomorrow anyways). You could stand in the middle of a mall and yell “I'm a Martian!” or sing the national anthem in a different tune and curtsy everyone you meet. You could confront someone, vent out your feelings in absolute honesty and get away with it. People would forget the words you said so they won’t be hurt or affected by them.
It would be like a very real, day-long dream, in which you’re fully conscious; and when you wake up, you haven’t overslept like you thought you did, but would just be at the beginning of your next, usual, “normal” day, fully fresh from a day’s doing of whatever you liked and whatever you wanted. But I didn't want it to be a dream-like scenario where everyone would do things the way we want them to and not the way they actually would - we'd be lost in a labyrinth of our own desires which, sometimes dangerously, might never be enough. No, a gap day is just about freedom - to think, or to not think, to not be under pressure, and do just anything you had felt like doing but you didn't, out of fear of being judged.
I wonder if there is a skeptical crowd out there that would say you just need a little effort and courage, to do all these things on an ordinary day. Well, I don't think you can do any of them without changing something - without doing some permanent damage. *sigh* There's too much magic involved in expecting a gap day to happen. At least I'm allowed to dream about it.