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It's such a common dream! I wonder how school-themed stress dreams would have manifested for people who lived before what we would recognize as "modern" educati

• duckmysick 4y ago
  We could look at old journals. Maybe people who kept them wrote down their dreams. Here's one from the early 20th century: https://nautil.us/read-the-lost-dream-journal-of-the-man-who-discovered-neurons-235589/ https://nautil.us/read-the-lost-dream-journal-of-the-man-who... There were indeed dreaming of school: > I am an assistant professor. Suddenly I receive express orders from the dean to teach osteology at the very last minute. Anxiety, anguish * * * when going over the bones in my memory. I enumerate those of the hand: scaphoids, capitate, and I did not know any more. Meanwhile the class awaits me, the students yell. I ask to myself how I will lecture about bones if I have almost forgotten them? Growing anguish and I awaken with a sense of well-being, upon realizing that I am not a professor, I am old and no one is directing me.