Thread: Dreams

I have recurring themes. One has to do with being asked to do more and more. Another has to do with being unprepared. mmmmm maybe those are flip sides of the same dream.

I started taking a medication a couple of years ago for my migraines and I have not had a dreamless night sense. I don't know which is worse -- the migraines or never feeling rested . . .

I have recurring teacher dreams. They usually involve having to teach high school mathematics. I teach Kindergarten in real life--high school mathematics gives me hives. The dream usually involves me trying to find my classroom, not having keys, having to go back to the office in the labyrinth that is a high school, the children are always much larger than I (I'm not a short woman in real life) and when I get in the class, I find that it's NOT math, it's physics and the kids won't listen to me. These dreams usually happen 2 or 3 weeks before school starts. sigh I guess I can expect one any day now.

Judas H. Preist on a crutch! That reminds me! I dream about once or twice a year I'm teaching HIGH SCHOOL and always glad to wake up and knowing it's just a dream! I also have a dream a couple times a year I'm back in high school, but can't find my locker, and once I do, I can't remember my locker combination!

Most of the friends I had in high school - who are still friends - don't look back on high school very fondly. For most of them, it was a real s**t time in life. For me, it was more of a waste of time as well as a s**t time. I think that's one of the reasons I went into education and probably the largest factor as to why God in his grand plan delegated to me by and large jobs with kids - and now adults - who also see or seen high school in the same vein. I can relate, you know?

CSW

Not really me. I have a hard time remembering my dreams, unless I am short on sleep and then I have vivid dreams and remember them for a few days.

Mom, on the other hand, is the queen of recurring dreams over the years. She had many, many dreams of eating at the same corner diner with the family while I was growing up. She would usually leave her purse there. Same thing of leaving the purse at the same diner. She then had one dream where she got a phone call from the next door shoe store, (where I always loved riding the rocking horse while Dad tried on Florsheim shoes). For what ever dreaming reason, they had a huge pile of her purses in their stock room from the diner next store. 8O Very strange.

Dreams are not logical, so we do not try to explain them. She would have been called in real life to please come and get her purse. If she did that repeatedly, I am sure the staff would all know to be on the lookout that she would take her purse with upon leaving the restaurant.

Mom did have her collection of purses, and they would be quite big. When preparing for vacations, she would usually buy a new megapurse to hold everything needed. Monty Hall would have been proud of her.

We did go on quite a few wild goose chases looking for a few of her items at home. She would usually end up looking for her house key or coin purse. That is amusing in itself as she never really owned a lot or had much around to clutter up the place. We would find her items in the freezer, bread box, and medicine cabinet, so those would be one of the first places we would look.

This provides me hope. Mom will be 86 next month and still remembers a lot of things. She tells things over again to repeat herself. Then again, she doesn't have as much to talk about in her daily life as before. She is the one in assisted living that some souls come to and ask for her to show them where their room is.

Strange - I had one of my common dreams again last night, and it has to do with flying. They are always different, but variations of the same theme because I'VE NEVER FLOW! I'm either on the plane ready to lift off, in the air, or landing. Last night's dream was a real cluster - probably what I get for watching the movie "Signs" before I crashed.

On, additionally, my 20 year old daughter, who's getting ready to move to Denver to work at a Christian missions training facility, threw a big going away bash complete with live bands who are friends of hers, and a lot of those kids were in the dream. Seems many of my dreams are predicated on what stimuli I had before going to bed.

Maybe tonight, I'll watch a movie with Linda Blair and Jodi Foster, and.......................he he he!!!!

CSW

I used to have dreams when I was a kid that I could fly. I'm not talking about flying in some sort of device, just flying all by my lonesome. I always LOVED those dreams. The feeling is of unmitigated freedom.

Those dreams seemed to stop right around the age of responsibility (sigh).

I don't have many dreams that I remember now. Usually, when I dream it's because I am not completely prepared for something that is in the near future and my "dream" is a nightmare of all the things that go wrong when I'm not ready for work!

Stan, good luck with that dream chanelling... Let us know if it works (in all sorts of vague terminology and hilarious puns).

Oh hell yea Mary, I still have those! I gave up drinking for real for real, but the most vivid dreams of flying I ever had were after getting trashed and sleeping it off (not a very fond memory, actually). It is a neat dream, actually. I also have dreams of being under water, swimming for long lengths of time, very akin to the flying dreams.

I sleep like the dead, er, a baby, like a new born baby (movie quote). I really do! I think that's why I dreams so frequently and vividly. Sometimes I wake up laughing like a fool, usually as a result of dreaming about something someone said (I have some friends and family members who are gut-busting funny with the most origional wits I've ever seen). Sometimes I'll laugh all day about the dream!

Never a dull moment in the REM sleep mind of CSW!

CSW

Originally Posted by GreenBunny

I have recurring teacher dreams. They usually involve having to teach high school mathematics...when I get in the class, I find that it's NOT math, it's physics and the kids won't listen to me.

I had a similar dream that I am supposed to teach chemistry? and it is physics, and I had no idea what I am supposed to teach as I don't get physics, and I ask the kids for a textbook so I try to make some sense of the lesson, and after two or three sentences (which last for a long time) the bell is already ringing for the end of class (in these "incompetence" dreams kids are usually well behaved but kinda bored and sleepy, and the class goes slowly as molasses).

Then there were other dreams that I am a student and I am supposed to take a math or chemistry test and when I get there it is actually a physics test, and I freak out because I know I never studied that, but somehow I know some answers and I write down some completely weird formulas which are supposedly good.

Oh my physics nightmares... in real life in HS sophomore year I was supposed to take some difficult test at the end of the year to see if I could get a final grade of B (I was hanging between a C+ and a B-), and when I got there all the other kids in same position gave up so I was the only one there, and teacher decided to give me that B for effort. For a month into the summer vacation I would wake up sweating, uttering words "today I must take the physics test" because the "circuit of completing the task" was not closed in my brain.

I have two types of dreams. One type is full on nightmares which totally render me helpless. I hate those. But am working through them

Lately the dreams I have been having are all about loosing control of my classes at school.

I've been having recurring theme dreams about being in a computer game, one of those RPG ones where you have to go through the different levels and fight the boss before the next level etc. I dream that I am taking my students on a school trip through this RPG world and (apart from fighting the creatures etc) the aim of the game is to manage to keep your class together while moving through the RPG world.

It's kinda a stupid dream because I know about the teacher:student ratios etc . It is also very funny because I know I am dreaming and as it gets more ridiculous I end up waking myself up berating myself for being silly, though still keen to keep earning points! Hee hee