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[deckardcanine]

Not only have my school-related nightmares increased in frequency since graduation, but they're getting more insidious. In last night's dream, I sensed that I had signed up for college courses in math and Spanish but not attended in months. Part of me figured that this was just another one of those dreams, but then another part of me yelled, "No! This is too real! Too familiar! You really have forgotten two of your courses in your effort to fulfill others and are bound to fail!" Only when I awoke did I remember that (1) I haven't been enrolled at a school since May 2004 and (2) I never even considered any math or Spanish courses in college. (Funny, tho: Math was my second best subject in elementary school, and Spanish was my best in junior high.) Also, the only time I stopped attending a class, I did it on purpose.

What may be more strange is that I recall nothing special about my environment in my dream. Seems to me I was just walking outside when the thought invaded my head. Nothing around me even suggested a school, let alone missing particular classes. It's as if some neural devil were picking on my flaky tendencies just for kicks.

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[nefaria.livejournal.com]

College math is the best kind, you get to put all the high school pieces together to solve some awesome problems. I was able to calculate the speed of the tip of the shadow of the Washington Monument at 2:00PM on the first day of spring (it worked out to about 900 feet per hour, if I remember correctly). Post-graduate math was considerably less fun, unfortunately; that's when the objects I was working with became incomprehensible to me, and I started to sink.

I have the skipped-classes-all-semester dream a lot too, I hear it's quite common. I wonder what Freud thought its meaning was.

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

Alas, while I got a 5 on my AP calculus exam (and no others), math wasn't half the fun it used to be for me. But looking for numeric patterns is still a good way to pass the time when I have no book or anything on hand.

I wonder what Freud thought its meaning was.

"The courses represent intercourse. The patient is apprehensive about the sexual opportunities that he is missing."

[thatcatgirl.livejournal.com]

Ahahahahahaha! Sounds like Freud.

I've had the "haven't attended class all quarter/semester" ones too, sometimes combined with "and I don't have any idea where they are, aaaaaaaah!".

Back to school dreams

[akktri.livejournal.com]

I think dreams are how your brain deals with losing outmoded thought processes and old routines you no longer need. Your school schedule, for example. I have had many dreams about being late for class, like I was supposed to attend a third class and I have been neglecting it for an entire semester, and am probably failing it. I figure this has something to do with some learning my brain has decided to dump, or perhaps a worry that I should go back to college.

Re: Back to school dreams

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

I think most dreams are more pointless than that. It's your mind working without the solid borders of consciousness, so just about anything goes. My dreams need not have anything to do with my real past, present, or future.