Yes, I have them. My favorite one -- if one can have a favorite bad dream
-- is that I was teaching my class out in the middle of the highway, and
the traffic noise was blocking out my lecture. So, finally, all the
students got bored and left -- except for one student who stuck around to
tell me how much she'd enjoyed it. So not such a bad dream! Sometimes I
dream I've missed most of
the semester -- and sometimes I'm teaching math! Horrors!
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, James W. Broaddus wrote:
> 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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