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11:17:2005 Entry: "Ann : DREAM: Registration Time"

DREAM: Registration Time

An obnoxious dream with the reocurring subtext of: "You still have about a year more to go in graduate school, and it's time to register for some classes." I've been out of grad school for over 12 years, and I got the "academic" (6 credits of art history and 3 credits of an outside course over 300 level, doesn't matter what) courses out of the way within the first two years to leave the rest of the time (2 additional years...some people who don't have to work outside jobs do it in 3 years total) free for the 51 or however many required studio credits...I forgot the exact number. But in this reocurring dream, I still have several courses of academic classes that I'll be taking my last year, which is a very bad plan because as a studio artist you need that time to work on your MFA exhibition. It almost seems like it's more of a dream about undergraduate school considering the heavy academic course emphasis, but it's also distinctly based in Madison. One of the classes I still needed to take was a semester of Italian (I always wanted to take Italian at CSU but it always conflicted with my work schedule) and a math course. They don't require math courses at the graduate level for a humanities major!

In this particular dream, however, I was at my parent's house, and I was walking over to the junior high schoool down the street from their house. I also remember being mad and kicking and breaking some chair they had outside. I also was late for class, a class that I hadn't been attending regularly. I think it was math.

BTW, I think 6 credits of art history and 3 credits of any 300-level or higher course you choose in any department other than art is a VERY modest request for art students in the MFA program. For my outside credit I took Greek and Roman Mythology and got an A. It was a good course. The UW is FILLED with courses that sound very intersting that I wish I would've had the time or money to take. Too many people, however, seemed to gripe at that very reasonable request...all they wanted is studio credits. I do have to question the ability of someone who wants to go on and teach at a college level and is unwilling to take one three-credit course to fulfill the curriculum obligation. Not that I have time to take courses now, but I'm not exactly enrolling in a degree program at this point either.

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"a class that I hadn't been attending regularly"

UGH! This is typical for me when I have a school dream. Late for a class I have a test in that I haven't been to because I couldn't find it! How do I know there's a test?

I hate those dreams.

Posted by Dawn @ 11:17:2005:07:07 PM CST

I have those dreams a lot too! Must be a common anxiety dream of a lot of people.

Or I'll dream that I haven't attended a course at all and it's already many weeks into the semester, and I'm hoping that if I just don't show up at all they'll automatically drop me from the class and attribute it to a clerical error, rather than penalizing me academically.

I mean, why didn't I just drop the class from the start (which I have done a few times once I realize I can't deal with the heavy course load)? I've never lingered in this limbo IRL, so why do I dream it?

Posted by Ann @ 11:17:2005:07:53 PM CST

I think this is one of the most common reoccurring dream themes. 27 years after HS graduation I still dream that it's the end of the semester, time for the Big Test, and not only have I never attented the class, I don't even know where the room is!

Another similar theme is that I'm in orchestra again - expected to play my instrument - and I have barely picked an instrument up (except to goof around) in all these years. I can't even read music anymore!

Posted by greenthumb @ 11:17:2005:08:45 PM CST

Here's another one: I look at my course schedule and realize there was a class I forgot to attend, but it's too late to start at that point as it's several weeks into the semester. Yeah, I think I have the dreams where I can't find the room too. Or you're in the building, and for some reason you just can't get to the classroom as you're constantly being waylayed by something or other...kind of like Ulysses in Homer's Odyssey trying to get home from the Trojan war.

I wonder why this is such a common dream theme for lots of people...people who haven't been in school for years and are not going back? Seems like when I was actually enrolled in school, I didn't have dreams like that, but during my working/non school years is when I have them. Odd.

Posted by Ann @ 11:17:2005:09:27 PM CST

I guess I'm fortunate to never have class dreams, but I do have work dreams once and a while. For better or worse I'll be working for some time to come and this will provide me with plenty of dream materials.

As the old saying goes for classes: 'wild horses couldn't drage me there!' and I'm way beyond burn out for going to school. I'm very glad I'm not having any of those hidious class dreams.

Posted by Stan @ 11:17:2005:10:04 PM CST

You never have school/class/test anxiety dreams Stan? Ever? Is this more of a female dream?

I've been having some "work" dreams lately too, i.e., from my time at Depressions, even though I'm no longer there and haven't been there for a long time.

Posted by Ann @ 11:17:2005:10:08 PM CST

I think I'm not having any school dreams because it's completely out of my system. I've become so disinterested in school (I still believe that education is very important to all people) I couldn't even take a class in a subject I'm interested in like Cacti.

I think my final few years at the UW were so grim that I've had to work through the experience with drepression rather than dreaming. Maybe if I start having school dreams it will mean that I'm beginning to come to terms with the experiences.

Until them I'll be working through post graduation with the hard core methods for the mentaly tough. No psychs please... I'll work through my issues with some depression, but finding acceptance, letting go of resentment and standing my ground.

Writing also is a very productive way to deal with difficult thing, so I'm starting to write what we discussed earlier. My 17 Years as an Unauthorized Jew. This will have to include my years at the UW, as well as much before and after.

Maybe I will have dreams about classes someday, and it will be a sign of healing - I hope this doesn't sound too New Age like or something ickey and fluffy. I think dreams do work for our mental health on some level.

Posted by Stan @ 11:17:2005:10:23 PM CST

I know this is schadenfreude but just remember the hells the profs are going through, you know about Sasquatch and Son (hey, that sounds like a bad TV sitcom...large apemen who own a junkyard) and Dan the alkie and that whole story Skyler (sp?) told us about what happened at the UW. Maybe that'll help you feel better in a karmic retribution sort of way.

Posted by Ann @ 11:17:2005:10:32 PM CST

I don't see anything on a level of 'retribution' - maybe all things are a matter of karmic balancing.

Posted by Stan @ 11:17:2005:10:36 PM CST

OK, karmic *balancing*, whatever.

Didn't mean to make it sound like a wrathful Judeo-Christian God thing, because you know I'm not like that.

Posted by Ann @ 11:17:2005:10:39 PM CST

Mine are usually high school dreams, but of buidlings I have never been in. There have been two schools in different recurring school dreams that really stick out. I can remember the layout so well in waking! But in the dreams I am always lost and am trying to find my way around! Off topic, but I also dream my grandparents live in this awesome house they have never lived in. It has tons of bathrooms- I know the whole layout. Wierd.

Stan, good luck on your issue dealing! Just trying to deal is a start, but I wouldn't wish a school dream on anyone! ;) But if you want, maybe we should send them your way!

Work dreams suck too, esp ones about places I've actually worked. The building is usually different though.

Posted by Dawn @ 11:17:2005:10:50 PM CST

Dawn, I have similar reocurring dreams where I know the "layout" but in my case it isn't buildings but an entire town or region. It's the town I used to live in, except it is different in the dream version. But I've dreamt about the dream version so much that I could literally map it out based on the real-life version of the city.

I have lots of house dreams too.

Posted by Ann @ 11:18:2005:09:19 AM CST

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