# My nightmare maker needs to get more creative **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 29, 2012, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nightmare-maker-needs-to-get-more-creative/623460 "2012-05-29T17:51:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2012, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nightmare-maker-needs-to-get-more-creative/623460/1 "2012-05-29T17:51:01Z")
Last night I dreamed, as I often have before, that I had a twenty-five page research paper due at the end of the semester only weeks away, and I hadn’t even started it yet and I was swamped with half a dozen other projects, and just no time to work on anything. Usually, that’s enough to jolt me awake in a cold sweat, but I guess I’ve just gone through it too many times. I said to myself (in my dream), “Wait, a minute. I’m not even _in_ school. I graduated a long time ago. Screw this research paper, I’m having a beer.” So good luck scaring me subconscious! Your big gun (i.e., school) is now dead to me. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2012, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nightmare-maker-needs-to-get-more-creative/623460/2 "2012-05-29T18:49:30Z")
Heh…a recurring one of mine from years ago. I’m the leading man in a play…usually a famous play, like _Death of a Salesman_, which is a part I’ve long wanted to play. I get to the theater for opening night, I’m doing makeup and getting ready for the show…and the Stage Manager informs me that I am still the leading man, but the play has been changed. We are now doing _Hamlet_ (or some other play, this part varies). She hands me a script and says I have an hour before curtain…