Last night it happened again.
I get called in to the principal's office. No, I'm not in trouble. The school is short on teachers. They know it's last minute, but they would really love it if I would take the last available position. Please? Okay, I say. When does school start? Next week, they say. My heart starts beating a little faster.
I go and talk to the department chair. What classes am I going to teach? Geometry. Great. I haven't taught geometry since I was a student teacher, and the textbooks are new. I go to talk to my mentor teacher. She taught geometry last year. I ask to borrow her outlines and lesson plans so I can start to prepare. What lesson plans? she asks. I sigh.
I start to make a mental list of everything I need to do: find my classroom, put up my bulletin boards, write a disclosure document, make thousands of photocopies. . . I start to panic. Then suddenly I remember that I am a mother and I have to figure out what I am going to do with my child since I spontaneously agreed to teach again!
The dream sometimes ends here. Or, it will take me all the way to the first day of school where I realize that I am still dreadfully unprepared. I wonder how long these "nightmares" will continue. I used to have them all summer long when I actually was a teacher, and I sort of figured that they would end when I "retired." Hmm. I guess I will take this one over the recurring dream I had when I was little. No, it did not have E.T. in it, but it did have those freaky green pig-looking creatures from Star Wars. I will spare you the details.
Do you have any recurring dreams?
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Yes! It's always at closing for the library and the people that are in the library won't leave and more people keep coming in. I am always yelling at the people to leave, but they ignore me. About 1/2 the time I threaten to call the police, but never end up calling them. I have talked with several of my co-workers and we all basically have this same dream! I actually just had this dream the other night, and I'm not sure what brings it on, but I have this same dream every month or so.
I definitely do--and it deals with a math class as well. Except I am a student and either I realize I haven't done a single assignment the entire semester and know I'm going to fail, or my teacher hands me my progress report and it shows I have zeros in everything.
I get it so often that I'll wake up and tell Adrian, "I had my math dream again" and he laughs at me. :)
Yes, except I'm a student, in junior high, in math class. Mr. Burke's Algebra II class, to be exact. It's the last day of the semester, and I realize I haven't been attending class or turned in any assignments the entire time. I start opening the book and doing exercises as fast as I can, or I shuffle through my backpack full of random papers, thinking that my assignments have to be in there somewhere. It never occurs to me to go up to Mr. Burke and tell him what happened, negotiate, beg for mercy, etc.
I haven't had a recurring dream since I was young. It included the Nazi's invading Paris (Idaho). I had to hide under my bed as I watched their boots come into my room looking for me. It was terrifying. I'm glad I don't have it anymore.
Come to think of it, I sometimes have a recurring element in my dreams. There is this house that sometimes features in my dreams. It is only a fictional one, yet I recognize it each time it appears.
My dream is that I'm in school and I've lost my class schedule and through the whole dream I keep going to the wrong class at the wrong time. I think I have this dream b/c it was a real fear every time I moved to a new school.
I have also had several dreams where I'm not married to Mike, but I love him so much and think we do need to get married, there are several variations on the theme. Sometimes I have all my kids and I realized we haven't been married and I'm living in sin, or I realize that if I don't get married to Mike soon, I'd better move on because I'm wasting my life otherwise. Always there is a huge sense of loss, and I realize how much I love Mike. I have no idea why I have THOSE dreams.
I've had Jodie, Alisa and Shell's dreams over and over, along with sometimes having kids I'm trying to figure out how to get babysat, or think "why do I have kids if I'm a junior in high school?" And I often have marriage confusion about Brian as well. It's funny we all have the same sort of subconscious things to work out.
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