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I have 2 reoccurring dreams. I haven't had these dreams my entire life, but I think I've had them my entire married life. Of course there are details that make every dream different, but the overall themes are the same. What do you suppose they mean?!
Dream 1:
I am traveling somewhere overseas. But my passport.... it's missing. I've left it at home, or it's been left in my checked luggage and it's been loaded on the plane, or I can't remember where I put it. Eventually I seem to find it... but I'm always running around frantically in the airport. Usually the dream involves me being part of a large group of travelers (like a college trip or something) so people are always trying to stall the plane taking off for me. When I do find my passport it says "Lisa Slighter" (which is true... I am actually in the process of getting a new one!). But I happen to bring a copy of my marriage license and I'm trying to explain to the attendant that it's a certified true copy of the license and they should be ok with it. Meanwhile the plane is taking off and when I finally do get through security I'm running outside down the runway trying to stop the plane.....
Dream 2:
I'm back in school. It's typically back at LCA and some of my LCA classmates are in it. However, it seems to always be a college course that I'm taking. 90% of the time it's a history class (by far my least favorite subject), the other 10% of the time it's English (probably my 2nd least favorite subject). The dream picks up in the last week of the semester and I learn that although I had thought I had dropped the class two weeks into semester, the registrar has no record of this and there is nothing they will do for me. Luckily, the class only has 1 thing you are graded on, the final. Somehow I have to pass the final without having any idea what has been going on in the class. I try to go to the class to beg the teacher for mercy, but I can never remember where and when the class meets. Sometimes instead of a final it's a paper that is due that I started working on (like came up with a subject) before I dropped the class, but the paper is due that day and I have nothing written (since I thought I'd dropped the class..... or sometimes it's not that I'd dropped the class it's that I'd just totally forgotten about the writing assignment).
These dreams STRESS ME OUT. I wake up in a sweat because I'm so nervous! I can't say exactly how often I have one of these dreams... probably a total of 4 or 5 times a year (so about every 3 months I have one of these dreams... which is saying a lot since I rarely remember dreams). But what do you suppose they mean?!