The Stuff of My Nightmares

[trinityvixen]

While I might fret death by zombie apocalypse by day, I apparently am greatly afeared of school by night.

In my dream last night, I was sitting near the steps at Columbia and freaking out because I'd missed some major cultures class, forgetting entirely that I had any classes on Mondays and Wednesdays. I was also stressed because I couldn't remember if I'd attended my day-time Tuesdays and Thursdays advanced, advanced math class. No amount of going, "Hey, wait, didn't I already graduate? And don't I have work during the day? And why the hell would Hugh Laurie be teaching my math class?" seemed to dissuade me from panic.

I still suffer some residual feelings of being certain that I am missing something and am going to be penalized for it through onto today. Perhaps that's becauses I've not done my homework. Off I go then.

Comments

[viridian.livejournal.com]

I have those dreams all. the. time. Sometimes I'm back in high school, and despite knowing I've graduated, there's this sense of OMG I'VE MISSED CLASSES FOR THE PAST TEN YEARS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKDASDJASKDAKDKJ!!!!11!1! Then sometimes I'll have the college ones, and I'll still remember I've graduated, but in the dream this is like my second chance to do it right and I'm STILL fucking it up. Granted, I used to have these dreams way more over summer vacation, but I still have them off and on.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I'll still remember I've graduated, but in the dream this is like my second chance to do it right and I'm STILL fucking it up

That's almost exactly the feeling--I've got the logical (possibly half-awake) me going "There's no way you could be back in this school, you've gone past it with your diploma," while the subconscious me is freaking out, "AHHH!!! I WILL BE A FAAAAILURE! I MISSED EVERYTHING!!!"

The saddest thing is that I've had these dreams about being absent from middle school and not even a year ago. It was like I had to work on getting out to where I went to middle school from the city, and the logical side was like, "Wouldn't you have to go to a middle school in the city if you were ACTUALLY in middle school? Also, you already went to high school AND college, dipshit." Laaaaaame.