I have a dream that drives me nuts...

I have a recurring dream that drives me nuts...

It happens about once a month. I'm usually back in college for some reason. The premise of the dream is this: I have five classes to take, but I only have time for four, but I fail to do anything about the fifth class.

Throughout the dream, I usually find out that I'm still enrolled in the fifth class and I haven't dropped it yet! I'm cruising along in my classes when I happen to look at my schedule somewhere near the end of the first part of the semester. There on the page, is my forgotten class! I go to the class and find that I'm hopelessly behind. I have papers that are weeks overdue, tests to take and lots of reading to do. It seems like an impossible task, but it doesn't stop. It also doesn't get better, it gets way worse. I start to crumble under the stress to the point where I stop going to class. I just accept it. I give up. I fail.

It's a hard dream to take because I haven't been to college in about 8 years. In fact, I wasn't taking full-time classes since I was an undergrad. I shouldn't be having dreams about keeping up with schoolwork, but I am.

I wake up freaked out and come to my senses when I see that I'm in my own bed. I'm sure someone could say that maybe I have a lot of things to worry about in my life and that I worry that I won't catch up with them, that I'm going to miss them. I could buy that, but the dream involves me forgetting something... Weird.