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lise
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response 26 of 62:
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Dec 6 06:49 UTC 1998 |
Keesan, that's usually the exact form of my dream! All of a sudden
it's the end of the quarter and there's a class I should have been
going to all this time.
Glad my post got such response; I thought my anxiety was abnormal!
re 24: that sounds terrible. But they're over now, right?
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remmers
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response 27 of 62:
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Dec 6 11:08 UTC 1998 |
Re resp:26 and related - I also have had recurring dreams about
forgetting a class I signed up for, and not being prepared for the final
exam. In recent years, sometimes the dream takes the form of not being
prepared for a class I'm about to *teach*. The lecture is supposed to
begin in half an hour, and I don't even know anything about the subject
matter. Scary! (I'm a teacher by profession.)
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keesan
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response 28 of 62:
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Dec 6 18:40 UTC 1998 |
Does anyone dream about being lost in the woods or the city?
re 27, sometimes I wondered whether a few of my teachers knew anything about
the subject matter or had prepared the lecture. I recall one particular class
in which the two instructors would get up there and argue fine points with
each other. This was supposed to be an introductory anthro course, and it
is the only class in which I skipped most of the lectures (so did the other
students). The 'lectures' had no relation to readings or exams.
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bookworm
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response 29 of 62:
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Dec 7 04:09 UTC 1998 |
Yeah, pretty much.
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lise
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response 30 of 62:
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Dec 7 09:30 UTC 1998 |
good, Julie. :)
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font
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response 31 of 62:
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Dec 8 17:39 UTC 1998 |
My dreams seemed to be in leaky, unkempt bathrooms. I would get lost in these
maze-like bathrooms, and be chased by this redheaded girl...
(It *sounds* hilarious, but in the dreams it's terrifying)
Dunno... :-)
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gypsi
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response 32 of 62:
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Dec 8 17:59 UTC 1998 |
Being chased in a dream is *always* terrifying.
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lumen
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response 33 of 62:
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Dec 8 19:54 UTC 1998 |
no, it sounds creepy, Vanessa..
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orinoco
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response 34 of 62:
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Dec 8 22:15 UTC 1998 |
I can actually picture the sort of dream in which a bathroom could be
terrifying. It wouldn't take that much embellishment...
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keesan
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response 35 of 62:
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Dec 9 04:13 UTC 1998 |
Jim thinks he has had dreams of locker rooms, and bathrooms connecting with
them and storage rooms, and getting lost in a maze. But he woke up in the
middle of the dream and had to go to the bathroom. Does anyone else find that
bathroom dreams are stimulated by an urge to go?
When he was a kid he used to have a recurring dream, before he could
drive a car, of being too short to reach the brake pedal. (In my dreams I
could not figure out which pedal was the brake pedal). He had to keep
steering and avoiding things because the car would not stop. He never
crashed. He also had a falling dream, but that dream never occurred again
after he fell out of the bunk bed and hit his head on the dresser. He escaped
from the dream. He was really young when he slept in the top bunk, 6 or
younger. He used to have to wake up in order to stop the falling dream. It
seemed like he had the dream at least once a week.
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gypsi
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response 36 of 62:
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Dec 9 05:29 UTC 1998 |
If I have to go to the bathroom in a dream, I always wake up with
the urge to go. I've had lots of dreams about driving, but I'm
usually the passenger. This is odd since I'm *rarely* the passenger
IRL. I ride in someone's car about once a month. As for falling,
I've never had that dream. I have many dreams where I'm flying, but
I land safely. I wish I could have wings IRL, though...it would be
cool. =)
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lise
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response 37 of 62:
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Dec 9 09:18 UTC 1998 |
hey, sarah, you made me sing another song!
<kari is singing "i am the passenger and i ride and i ride">
re 36: that's funny sarah, because I often have dreams that I am flying
and can't land! They are *very* realistic. I try everything possible
to land, but keep going higher. (fear of death maybe?)
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mta
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response 38 of 62:
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Dec 9 18:28 UTC 1998 |
I used to have the "car" dream Jim describes -- behind the wheel of the car
and can't reach the break and so have to keep driving to avoid hitting things.
I had that dream well into my thirties, usually when my life was "out of
control" in some way.
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keesan
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response 39 of 62:
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Dec 9 20:20 UTC 1998 |
I never drive, and I have still had that dream (got a license once purely for
identification purposes). Cars are scary things.
In my flying dreams I just have to think about it and I can fly higher,
no need to flap wings or kick flippers. How do other people fly?
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gypsi
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response 40 of 62:
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Dec 9 20:59 UTC 1998 |
Actually my response (and now Misti's) put "Behind the Wheel" in my
head. =)
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void
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response 41 of 62:
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Dec 9 22:27 UTC 1998 |
it's probably not an actual phobia, but i detest crowds. it's
something which seems to wax and wane; sometimes i'll go out no matter
what and enjoy myself thoroughly, and sometimes it almost takes an act
of congress to get me to leave my apartment for any reason other than to
go to work, or some other absolutely necessary task. i don't have any
sort of panic reaction when i'm in a crowd, i simply suffer from growing
impatience or anger at people who can't seem to move along as if they
actually have something to do, to the point where i frequently have to
restrain myself from physically shoving them aside.
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orinoco
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response 42 of 62:
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Dec 10 01:09 UTC 1998 |
keesan - I had that car dream once, only I was too short to see over the
dashboard, much less reach the pedals. I never would've guessed it was a
common one, though.
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bookworm
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response 43 of 62:
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Dec 10 04:34 UTC 1998 |
sounds like a phobia to me, void. I don't know for sure, though. What do
the rest of you think? Paul?
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gypsi
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response 44 of 62:
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Dec 10 06:45 UTC 1998 |
If I say excuse me more than twice, I push them out of my way
(gently) with my backpack as an excuse. Trisha (beeswing) has a
great name for the herds of people at the mall -- "cow people". =)
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lise
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response 45 of 62:
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Dec 10 10:27 UTC 1998 |
But then, when you're there, you're one of them. Maybe that's my real
fear. It's not so much that they (crowds) just scare me, but that I
realize my insignificance or potential similarities - which is
frightening! and I really hate being in a small place with people.
breathing the same air as a bunch of strangers gives me the creeps!
irrational, i know...
Oh, when I dream about flying it just happens. I'll be walking along
and the wind will pick me up - no wings or cliff jumping, at first i
like it (pleasant surprise) but when I can't land it becomes scary.
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font
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response 46 of 62:
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Dec 10 16:54 UTC 1998 |
Re#41: Know the feeling! I've mastered (nearly) the art of "mad dash"
where I can slip between the crowds and hustle like I wanna. I don't like
it, but hey, it beats slogging behind someone with an "adorable" poodle
and all the gawkers who *must* stand around and coo like it was
a baby. <blech> I'm not much for malls, frankly. I tend to be
very disapointed every time I go. (and not just of the clientel!)
I often feel as if someone is going to shout "stop thief!" only
because I'm not meandering around aimlessly as if windowshopping
was my only life...but actually moving quickly to my destination!
Though, I'm one of those people who *must* socialize once in a while,
because I tend to stay home, feel sorry for myself, and get extremely
depressed. (esp. in the winter...trapped in the house makes me very
unhappy) I'd freely admit me having a fear of being alone...I don't
like going places unless someone is with me. It's something I'd
like to change.
Re Dreaming:
I used to have falling dreams, set as me ca. around 4 years old,
crawling up a gravely hill, up to my mom, but I keep falling back, untill I
can't see her anymore and I disapear in darkness and cold.
Others where just the sensation of falling, as if falling into an endless
space...I'd feel a jolt of impact,and an inability to breate, then I'd wake
up terrified. I had the flying dream too...very pleasnt flying between
the clouds...never had wings either. Wish I'd had the last one more often!
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gypsi
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response 47 of 62:
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Dec 10 22:03 UTC 1998 |
I stay away from malls at all costs. I am not a cow person while
there since I walk very quickly and don't crowd the center of the
aisles. I'm a speed demon.
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void
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response 48 of 62:
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Dec 10 22:26 UTC 1998 |
/rotfl at the term "cow people." i'm not sure my dislike of crowds
is an actual phobia. i think it has more to do with my general dislike
of shopping. unlike many (most?) cowfolk, when i go to a store it's
because i have already decided what i want and where i'm going to buy
it. anything or anyone which hinders my mission to get what i'm after
and depart needs to be gotten out of the way as quickly as possible,
because i *don't* have all day to peruse the wonder that is briarwood
(or meijer, or k-mart, or funcoland, or whatever). i even do most of my
grocery shopping at bizarre hours so i can get in and out with a minimum
of bother.
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gypsi
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response 49 of 62:
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Dec 11 06:54 UTC 1998 |
I power shop (power walking combined with knowing exactly what
you're buying and where it is located). =) It drives my
friends nuts.
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brown
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response 50 of 62:
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Dec 12 02:54 UTC 1998 |
ditto sarah
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