Quick Note

[lydamorehouse]

...cuz I'm trying to write.

Had one of my "you forgot to go to the convention" dreams last night. I have a LOT of reoccurring dreams. My mind seems a bit lazy, honestly. I reuse set peices, houses, and other dream scenery. But I have this particular dream often, and it goes like this: I'm at a convention party late in the evening, Sunday, the last day of the con. I realize two things: 1) I never registered and 2) when I go find registration, I get the list of panels that I completely missed. Usually, there is one that is just about to end, and I spend the rest of the dream trying to figure out where in the hotel the room is that this panel is supposed to be.

This is really just a riff on my "you have one more class in high school / college to take / teach and it's a month into the semester, you can't find your locker, class list, class room, etc."

I actually took an on-line course on dreams, and I was disappointed in the information about reoccurring dreams (there was almost none). I have a zillion of them, and when I poll people I know many people have similar ones.

Anyway, back to work!

Comments

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I've had the con dreams. The class/test dreams. Another one I have, and that I have heard other people talk about, is the contact lens dream, in which I am faced with having to insert a lens the size of a coffee cup saucer in my eye. A couple of times, I do manage to get it in--I hold it to my eye, and it just wraps itself around, which is weird.

[la-luna-llena.livejournal.com]

I have had one where I accidentally take my eyes out a few times. They are still connected to my head, but could I mess them up getting them back in?

[la-luna-llena.livejournal.com]

and I recently had this "had to turn in one last paper dream"

[naomikritzer]

I have the "you forgot to ever go to this one class" dream occasionally still, and I used to have a regular round of the "you're in a play and it's opening night! only you never rehearsed, don't know your lines, or your character, or even what play it is" one.

My most frequent recurrent dream of recent years involves a trip for which I am grossly unprepared. Usually I'm about to travel internationally, and it's time to go to the airport and I realize I never packed a bag. I then get to the airport and realize I don't have my passport, though occasionally I make it all the way onto the airplane and into the air before discovering I forgot it. I think this one is a metaphor for parenting anxieties, actually.

[naomikritzer]

Oh, another frequent motif in my dreams is forgetting my glasses. This is totally my subconscious slacking off. There's something I want to look at, and my brain doesn't feel like assembling it for me, so "oh, bummer! you don't have your glasses so it's all a blur!" I practically sleep with my damn glasses on; I did once lose my glasses (in a river, while camping) but I have never in my life forgotten them. I'd be more likely to forget all my clothes (and yes, I've had that dream, too.)

[(Anonymous)]

I quite regularly have that con dream myself. 2ce this week so far, even.

[maevele.livejournal.com]

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[agentxpndble.livejournal.com]

OMG, I have convention dreams like that ALL THE TIME! They suck - I wake up exhausted and depressed.

[bookzombie.livejournal.com]

I get a similar recurring dream: in mine I'm at a con (usually WisCon for some reason) and end up spending the whole con in my room or going out into town (which is never Madison despite it being WisCon!) So I don't see any friends, don't go to any panels and worst of all, I never go into the dealers' room! Well, it seems the worst thing in the dream, anyway...

[bookzombie.livejournal.com]

Oh, and my other main recurring dream (which I have a dozen times or more a year) is that I'm going back to university again - sometimes merged with the one where I've got an exam coming up and I'd forgotten to go to any of the classes. I think my subconscious is trying to tell me something!

And I almost always have the 'going on stage for opening night and no-one knows the words' anxiety dream a few days before the start of a show (although for some weird reason I had this dream about 'The Pajama Game' a couple of days after the show finished.)

[lydamorehouse]

I have the theatre dream, too, only with a twist. I'm the understudy and it's opening night and I have to step in for the lead. And somehow I never studied under and am frantically reading the script (ususally some inpentitrable Shakepeare or some such) and trying to figure out how to conceal the monster thing under my costume.

Sometimes I even make it on stage, and am trying to figure out what I'm supposed to be saying, doing, and listening frantically for my cue line.

That one is stressful.