Dream
Jennifer
I tend to have nightmares about school especially in the week before school starts in the fall, a day or two before every vacation ends, and on long weekends. This is from before the end of our last vacation.
I was in my classroom (which was a lecture-hall), and I didnÃt have much for my students to do, so they were somewhat rowdy. I kept thinking of additional things which we could do together, but each involved leaving the room for a minute to get something. Each time I returned there were more students in the room, being even rowdier. I didnÃt know anyoneÃs name, but finally realized the reason I didnÃt was some of them werenÃt my students. The final time this happened, one of the drop-ins was smoking a cigarette, holding it with a test-tube holder. I remembered that I could call the office for help, so I did. The secretary who answered yelled at me for leaving the classroom.
I woke up, and I couldnÃt remember what my situation is. I knew I was home, in bed, that I do teach school, and even that the secretary had in fact retired a few years ago, but I couldnÃt figure anything else out. I knew that the feeling of not being able to remember studentsà names is real, so I figured the way to go would be to pull up a visual memory of my classroom. It took a while, but I finally could remember where my windows are.
Classes went ok yesterday, but students were somewhat rowdy and I wasnÃt quite organized enough with what I wanted them to do.
“I tend to have nightmares about school … in the week before school starts in the fall, a day or two before every vacation ends, and on long weekends.”
I’d have to find another line of work or a more powerful sleeping pill. I mean, once in a while is tolerable, but that is ridiculous.
Comment by michael — March 1, 2005 @ 7:23 pm
Ah ha, so they were rowdy, and you were not as prepared as you would want to be, and it wasn’t a dream; it was a preview.
But I don’t think it’s fair to have these dreams on long weekends. That makes long weekends almost as harrowing as short weekends.
Comment by dreamreviewer — March 1, 2005 @ 7:27 pm
That’d be the icing on this crappy cake, to have dreams like that……. Guess it’s just a variation on the naked-in-public dream, but the carryover’s sobering.
Comment by bedridden — March 1, 2005 @ 7:50 pm
Let’s just say that while some people have to stretch to figure out how their dreams relate to reality, I don’t have that problem with school dreams. (Except for the smoking.)
Comment by jennifer — March 1, 2005 @ 8:29 pm
I’ve been out of school for nigh onto 4 decades, but the only nightmares I have (infrequent) are school related. I’m with Mike. If I had dreams like that all the time, I’d get a new job, like working with spiders, or testing Ebola vaccines.
Comment by rakkity — March 2, 2005 @ 11:08 am