December 3, 2011

Reoccurring Dreams/Nightmares

Some high school buds. Go class of 2001!
(Lauren, Valentina, Ann, Melissa, Erin, Meghan, me, Meredith)

I haven't been sleeping well recently. I am not sure if it's stress, our horrible mattress, or these reoccurring dreams I keep having. However, last night was a particularly bad night due to my "traumatic" reoccurring dream.

I have a few reoccurring dreams one being a tidal wave coming to consume me while I am near a beach, and another one is my teeth falling out. However, my most frequent reoccurring dream was the one I had last night, and it seemed like I had it ALL night over and over again because I was really grateful when the morning finally came.

This dream always consists of me at my high school in California. The halls and classrooms are always just as I remember them being. There are always some of my classmates that I attended school with, usually people I haven't thought about since I graduated. Somehow during the dream I realize that I haven't been attending my math class, because I simply forgot, and it's the end of the year. When I finally go to the class I am so embarrassed because the teacher and classmates know that I haven't been attending. The teacher then gives me  a test that I need to take in order to pass the class with all these math problems that I have no idea how to answer, because I haven't been there for any of the instruction. I am then left to figure out the problems which which is very traumatic.


This is when I usually awake from the nightmare, totally anxious and stressed out. I don't know what the dream means or what causes me to have them. I'm sure I could analyze it in a thousand ways and come up with a thousand different reasons. However, all I know is that I am glad I am not in high school and don't have to worry about this dream ever coming true. Apparently, my math classes and high school have scared me for life!

2 comments:

  1. I have a very similar dream sometimes! Mine is that I'm in jr high school and it's toward the end of the semester and I suddenly realize I've totally forgotten about my geometry class - Mr. Gadd's class. I don't know why it's always that one but it is. I freak out and try to figure out how I can possibly make up the work, all the while realizing that it's impossible and I am going to fail. It's the most sickening feeling! Glad I'm not the only one. :)

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  2. I thought you bought a new awesome mattress?!?! What happened? I've never had a dream like that but I had it happen in reality... My psychology 1010 class was a joke so I stopped going. The tests were online and I could teach myself with more time efficiency than the professor so I didn't see the need to go. Monday morning of finals week I thought, "I wonder when my psychology final is?" I logged on and my stomach dropped when I saw that it was due in 15 min. To make matters worse, I had a final to be at in 15 min. I whizzed through 100 questions as fast as I could. Right before 10 I had only answered 70ish questions. Luckily once my 15 min was up I was informed by an angelic pop up box that the test wasn't due at 10am I just had to start it before 10am. Like I said though, I did have a final at 10am. I did my best on the remaining 30 questions and hit submit. I ran and took my next final. When I came back I saw that my score was 2 points lower than what I needed to get an A in the class. Luckily, there was an extra credit assignment that wasn't due until noon. I quickly completed that and escaped psychology 1010 with an A.

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