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He did just fine.

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A friend of mine has the recurring "final exam" dream. For him, it's high school French --- starring his actual former teacher and everything. It recurs when he's under particular stress at work. His first year as a lawyer, he had it quite often. If he looked particularly restless in the morning, his wife would ask, "Did you have French again last night?"

He's now in his sixth year as a lawyer. If he's particularly beat down at work, he'll warn his wife before bedtime, "I think I have a French test tonight." He's almost never wrong.

The funny thing is, he's very active in his H.S. alumni association, and regularly sees his old French teacher IRL around campus. No hard feelings.

My work stress dream involves driving in a residential neighborhood in the town where I grew up. My brakes are fading. Everytime I stop at a stop sign, the car slides into the intersection before coming to a stop. It keeps happening, no matter how far in advance I apply the brakes. I keep driving anyway. There must be something in that.

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I completely made up a 30-ish page "family history" paper for a sociology class. Something about my grandfather being blackballed during the red scare. I can't remember what I said he was blackballed from. I was pretty high when I wrote it. The prof (very stereotypical middle-age female sociology type) ate it up. I ran into her on campus the next semester and she encouraged me to consider grad school in sociology. I just laughed, probably because I had a solid head full of shrooms at the time.

Ollie (in high school, I was chased by a wild pig while shroomin') Ramone

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Yup. Sometimes also university French (though I switched to Spanish and various dead languages in university).

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I have brake failure dreams too! Bizarre. Mine are not in any particular location. I think I mostly stopped having them after I realized that all the vague memories of brake failure I had were really memories of dreams and not memories of things that actually happened.

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My freshman year, I resubmitted an English essay I had written for a H.S. English class. It was on the application of Keats's negative capability theory to Dilsey's section of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury.

The prof gave me a better grade than my H.S. teacher did.

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Bambu or Zig Zag.

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Yep.

I've relegated myself to only stating factual observations. I'm too scared to draw any conclusions. :hide:

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The dream about the test you haven't prepared for is textbook "anxiety dream". I have it from time to time, and the relief I feel upon waking is almost overwhelming. Let's say it's just whelming, then. Sometimes, I have to sit and think for a minute and remind myself (after thinking about it for a second) that I'm not in school anymore. I graduated. On time.

Isn't it interesting that the classic anxiety dream would involve an exam you didn't study for? I find it interesting anyway.

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The SO, who is from the islands, can't swim. Freaks me out. Of course I grew up in the NJ suburbs and swim like a fish. We went rafting with friends last summer and I had nightmares about having to explain his drowning death to his family.

Anne
After conducting a very unscientific poll (in my head) of my colored friends, I realize that none of them can swim.

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Fine, but what moron goes on Survivor or the RW/RR challenge not knowing how to swim or without refining their skills. You know there are going to be challenges involving swimming, and you are just impeding your own opportunity for the big $$.

Less (on second hand, maybe I have simply proved that African-Americans are stupider than whitey in the all important Reality TV Intelligence Quotient score) inSF

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It's not paranoia when they really ARE out to get you.

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Mine's snakes. Some random snake will pop out in the middle of the dream and usually I have to wake myself up because I'm so freaked out.

The brake thing happened to me once IRL. Scariest driving I've ever done. Even worse than backing down the icy cliff. Turns out the brake line was completely severed. Put my foot on the break to stop at a red light and the car only decelerated. I ended up putting the car in neutral and pulling up into a driveway in order to stop.

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That's what I was thinking last night. Especially after it was a swimming (well, holding breath underwater) challenge that did him in last year. Funny when the guy said he should really learn to swim and David said, "well it's a little too late now, isn't it." I always think hte same thing when missions involve driving a standard. Hey, people, you know that the challenge will involve this skill, why not learn it beforehand?

Makes for better tv this way though, so who's complaining?

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Who "replaced" you, the Witness Protection Program?