When I get stressed I start to have stressful dreams. I typically have one of the following dreams:
Usually I dream that I am late for a class and I am running through the halls of a building, that seems to be a maze, and I can't find the classroom. Second, I dream that I am running late for a class but also realize I have never actually shown up for the class before and will not get credit or won't be able to pass the exam. I really wish I could wake myself up by saying, "Emily! Don't be an idiot...you don't go to school anymore!" That would save me a lot of stress in my sleep. Sometimes I also dream more directly about my current job. That typically involves trying to solve equations that have no solution, or trying to put together excel sheets and presentations that don't make any sense. Yeah, I have serious issues.
Sometimes I'd just like to get a peaceful night's sleep with no thought at all! Please tell me I am not alone.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Dreams
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Oh, my goodness, you are SO not alone, and your blog post makes ME feel better!
I end up having stressful dreams that I'm back in school. Usually it's college, and I look at my class schedule and realize I don't have the books or I haven't gone to class or I haven't done the work in weeks. So it connects to dream number two that you listed! Sometimes I do dream that I'm back in high school; at that point I'm usually trying to find my locker or my classes or trying to park to get to class!
How funny that I've been out of school totally for 9 years, and yet I still have those nightmares! I wake up and realize that I'm SO glad I am not in school anymore!
I never have stress dreams. All my dreams are perfectly sane and normal.
Except for those ones where I'm on the playground of Lloyd Mann Elementary and I have no shoes. Or the ones where I'm in college and the building has bizarre phantom staircases and I can't get to class, but then it turns out class is a concert and I'm trying to take notes from the songs, but I can't understand them. Or the ones where there are cheetahs burrowed in the ground that come out and circle around me menacingly. Or the ones where George W. Bush lives across the street and I'm the only one who knows.
Other than that they are all perfectly normal.
And I also have ones where I'm hitting things.
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