|
|
| yanqui 2003-04-24, 9:51 am |
| I tend to have anxiety dreams, like the night before every UAB term started I would have the same dream of going to take a final exam for a class I had signed up for but forgotten to attend.
Last night (or actually early this morning) I dreamed I took the A+ exams (both of them together) and before I could find out how I did on them the alarm went off. | |
| gr33nd4yg1rl 2003-04-24, 10:30 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by yanqui
I tend to have anxiety dreams, like the night before every UAB term started I would have the same dream of going to take a final exam for a class I had signed up for but forgotten to attend.
Last night (or actually early this morning) I dreamed I took the A+ exams (both of them together) and before I could find out how I did on them the alarm went off.
that is a weird one | |
| yanqui 2003-04-24, 10:36 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by gr33nd4yg1rl
that is a weird one
I think it shows that it's becoming reality to me, because it's the first dream I've had about this. I sometimes get similar dreams when I'm undertaking something important, and it's always pretty close to the onset of the event.
I kind of freak out during this studying process, because I start to overload on information, and then I have to back off and take little nibbles of what I've exposed my brain to. (I have to be really careful how I phrase this stuff, don't I?) Anyway, in smaller doses it makes sense when inserted into the big picture, then I make progress again. It WILL happen! and SOON. | |
| DaPunisher 2003-04-24, 11:18 am |
| yanqui,
Have you ever considered a Lobotomy? Stops the dreams and any other thought pattern thereafter  | |
| yanqui 2003-04-24, 11:20 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by DaPunisher
yanqui,
Have you ever considered a Lobotomy? Stops the dreams and any other thought pattern thereafter
Man--So many people think along the same lines! You would not believe how many times a lobotomy has been suggested--that, and shock therapy.  | |
| thecomeons 2003-04-24, 6:06 pm |
| you need to cut down the number of hours you study | |
| prezbedard 2003-04-24, 6:19 pm |
| You need to sit back and take a break. | |
| Tech Ranger 2003-04-24, 7:36 pm |
| Become a peace loving environmentalist who struggles for gay rights. | |
| onoski 2003-04-25, 1:55 am |
| That's says a lot about you Tech Ranger. Too sad as I hope indeed you're just kidding. | |
| Tech Ranger 2003-04-25, 6:46 am |
| Why are you getting upset? I didn't suggest he become a feminist? | |
| yanqui 2003-04-25, 8:33 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by Tech Ranger
Why are you getting upset? I didn't suggest he become a feminist?
Hmmmm...funny. (S)he already is a feminist. That is, I already believe that if I'm doing as well as a man at a particular job, he shouldn't make more money or get more benefits or perqs than I.
Anyway, I really only get about half an hour to an hour of study time in a day--during lunch, maybe a couple of minutes here and there if something comes up that I can research quickly, and maybe a few minutes at home. I have kids at home ranging from 15 years to 19 months; quiet study time is a few years off. HOpefully by the time I'm preparing for mcse. | |
| Helen of Troy 2003-04-27, 5:28 am |
| I will analyze this for you. In these sorts of dreams you are working through your exam nerves as you yourself stated. The problem here is that you physically wake up before you get the results for the tests. In that sense there is incompletion because what you are trying to get at is the consequences of failure if you do not pass the tests. But what truly are the consequences? Try and work out these issues and consider them in terms of the relations of people and events around you. In that manner you may conclude that the effect of not passing the A+ exams is not so drastic after all and this may help reduce the pre-exam *anxiety* dreams. Exercises that imaginatively consider the consequences of both failure and success may include a short consideration of a couple a minutes a day: you could write down a list on a sheet of paper with two such headings and write a few paragraphs under each and then try to consider them together. Hope that helps. | |
| enforcer 2003-04-27, 7:48 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by yanqui
I tend to have anxiety dreams, like the night before every UAB term started I would have the same dream of going to take a final exam for a class I had signed up for but forgotten to attend.
Last night (or actually early this morning) I dreamed I took the A+ exams (both of them together) and before I could find out how I did on them the alarm went off.
sounds like you've got a similar problem to Mary.
to find Mary click here | |
| Tech Ranger 2003-04-27, 7:49 am |
| More Dr. Helen after a word from Kellogs. | |
| yanqui 2003-04-28, 8:29 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by Helen of Troy
Hope that helps.
It does--It's funny, I don't really consider the consequences of failure to be "drastic," just not exactly cost-effective to the goal, and extremely disappointing. But there's a lot to what you say about working through the cause of the anxiety. When it comes to education, the education itself is of inestimable value, but when the future builds on the present, getting the present right is very important, and when I'm diverting financial resources from other activities that my family could be enjoying, it's very important to me that I not waste the money. I also know that I'm pretty good at test-taking, and that the only thing I really have to worry about is knowing what I need to know to do the job, and then I'll know what I need to know to pass the exam. Thanks for your suggestion. | |
| Redstar 2003-04-29, 12:02 am |
| That's nothing, after already getting through college and passing A+. I now dream I am back in college still studying all this. What's really weird is the other night I was back in college but forgot where my class was and so I'm late. So, here I am searching the campus, trying to find my class when this tornado starts coming and so I run away from that and dream ends.
Weird dream! | |
| yanqui 2003-04-29, 8:15 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by Redstar
That's nothing, after already getting through college and passing A+. I now dream I am back in college still studying all this. What's really weird is the other night I was back in college but forgot where my class was and so I'm late. So, here I am searching the campus, trying to find my class when this tornado starts coming and so I run away from that and dream ends.
Weird dream!
Hmmmm....Helen of Troy, what do you make of that? Is he late for an appointment with academe? | |
| Helen of Troy 2003-04-30, 9:13 am |
| Sure!  Why the Hell not!
DREAM ANALYSIS #2
Look for example at the choice of icon Redstar is using. Do you see the obvious similiarities between the picture of the galaxy in the icon and the tornado in the dream? The most clear-cut similiarity is of course the circular and/or spiraling motion of these two physical phenomena. In this dream, amnesia of sorts has been provoked which is in itself an unconcious dream of sorts. This is not so much on the superficial level of the inability to find a classroom but rather represents a quest for personal integration into the world of people and events. To find the classroom is hardly a difficulty in real life - simply an exercise in well-worn repetition. There must be something going on here which takes on a deeper and more significant meaning; yet somehow all the more elusive as the tornado literally removes the dreamer wholesale out of the Garden of Eden or into the world of employment literally meant. |
|
|
|