Dear Jim--Oh yes. At least we are the teachers in the dream. For a long
time I was the student. Many years ago Harvard Magazine ran a letter from
somebody who had such dreams and apparently ten thousand men of Harvard,
or some such number, wrote in to say they had the same problem. Our
profession runs on anxiety. Maybe it's an archtype, though. My mother told
me, also many years ago, that she dreamed she was Joan of Arc at the seige
of Orleans and didn't know how to ride a horse. Maybe the human race runs
on anxiety. Anne Prescott.
> This posting is not related either to Sidney or Spenser, other than
> Scudamour clearly had an anxiety dream and Redcrosse's dream can be read
> as
> such.
>
> My question is whether one who is afflicted with classroom anxiety dreams
> can ever look forward to a time when one is free of them.
>
> I have been retired for 10 years now and I had one last night. I dreamed
> that a semester had bgun, and I had neglected to meet my classes (I never
> did that). I was supposed to teach a Shakespeare play the next hour but I
> hadn't re-read the play, and when I looked at my copy of the text it
> didn't
> seem to be a play at all.
>
> I was, of course, extremely relieved when I awoke.
>
> Has anyone continued to have such dreams longer than a decade?
>
> Jim Broaddus
>
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