“close your eyes n try to dream/clear your mind and do your best/to try and wash the palette clean”

[larryhammer]

New standards in anxiety dreams: I am once again back in college and realize, late in the term, I’ve forgotten to attend/study for some of my classes and I’m not even sure where those lectures are, with the new recurring element of I’m a single parent without childcare.

On the one hand, I’m surprised it took so long for that last element to show up. On the other paw, Not Helpful, dream-brain. Not Helpful At All.

---L.

Subject quote from We Belong, Pat Benatar.

Comments

[cmcmck]

Like two nights ago when I was in a car that crashed through a wall and into a river where I had to rescue the driver who couldn't swim!

[larryhammer]

That does not sound like a helpful dream at all.

[oracne]

AGH.

[larryhammer]

I KNOW RITE?

[swan_tower]

Oh, ugh.

My anxiety dreams are all about high school classes. STILL. IT'S BEEN OVER TWENTY YEARS SINCE I GRADUATED, BRAIN. Why couldn't it be college classes? Or grad school?

[larryhammer]

It's usually undergrad for me, sometimes grad school, almost always with a sense of returning to it. There's sometimes an element of "where the heck is my apartment???" as well.

I'm actually surprised I don't get more high school dreams. The one time that I walked past my high school, after I moved away from my hometown, I had a visceral NOPE NOPE NOPE reaction of almost PTSD levels.

[swan_tower]

Whereas I was not traumatized by high school! I got through it remarkably unscathed, and have no particular nasty memories of it. And yet, that's where my subconscious keeps going when it wants to freak out for no good reason.

[larryhammer]

I wasn't particularly traumatized either, or so I thought. I was consciously biding my time till I could escape, but didn't feel particularly oppressed. And yet, when I returned ...

[sartorias]

UGGGGGH!

[larryhammer]

THIS.

[klwilliams]

I used to have a recurring dream where I was back at my college but about to start a new major. That was generally a sign that I was about to/needed to change jobs. The last time I had that dream I was at college but doing some other kind of adventure. I miss the dreams that told me I needed to leave my current job, though. :-)

[larryhammer]

I can understand that.