Jennifer jokes about dreams...at least, I think she's joking. The link above is in her "Bad Joke" category.
Pretty much ever since I've been going to school, I've had a school-related nightmare.
My first bad dream was when I was in elementary school in Hawaii. In Hawaii, I went through kindergarten, first, and most of second grade, and one year, I dreamt I went to school naked...except in that first dream, I was naked except for white gloves. I don't remember exactly what grade it was, but I remember the white gloves in the dream. I had the same basic dream once a year, until sometime in junior high, when my yearly bad dream changed to...
...forgetting my locker combination. Not as traumatic as showing up for school el nud-o but still. There was usually something deathly important in my locker, though. The forgotten locker combination continued thru high school.
In college, my dream changed...duh. No lockers, and because I'm taking a welding class this semester, I had it just a few weeks ago. In this dream, I dream I've got a full-blown class schedule and more than halfway thru the semester--too late to drop a class--I discover I've forgotten about a class. Maybe I went to the first one and completely forgot about it since, maybe I just never went to it at all, but it's too late to drop it without it affecting my GPA (3.6-something, but I'm not bragging) and my membership in Phi Theta Kappa is, for all practical purposes, history.
I'm proud of my high GPA and PTK membership (as well I should be) and this dream has me waking up in cold sweats.
College also introduced a new wrinkle: My once-a-semester anxiety attack. Once I went into shock after a Digital Logic Circuit Analysis lab, once I threw up in the student union playing a video game. Then once, when I was taking a class for fun (advanced algebra as a refresher, because I was planning to take calculus the next semester), I went to the emergency room instead of class because I thought I was having a heart attack.
I'm still waiting for that anxiety attack. Hopefully I'll turn off the acetyline or the arc welder before it gets bad.
Posted by Victor at Marzo 21, 2005 09:50 PMThe Great White dream was actually the day before that post...the T-Rex was a few weeks ago. And I haven't seen Jaws or Jurassic Park lately, so go figure.
Posted by: Jennifer at Marzo 22, 2005 06:10 PMOh my God I have had the same dreams. Naked dream. check. Losing locker combo. check. Forgetting a class check. check now throw in getting lost on campus and being in high school at 30 and those are my nightmares. (Not a dream to me). I haven't had one lately. But when I do. I wake up crying. What the hell did highschool do to me?
Posted by: Tiffani at Marzo 23, 2005 10:31 AM