I have the familiar college class one on occasion.
Either I:
attended the first couple of classes and then actively figured I could skate by with minimal effort and ended up not ever going again and here comes the final and I’m totally unprepared
or
just totally forgot I registered and never went and it’s too late to drop the class and and here comes the final and I’m totally unprepared
Interestingly enough, in my dream it’s always a French class. I didn’t even take French in college. I took Latin for three semesters and made A’s each time.
Millenium Force is an absolutely gorgeous coaster, probably my favorite because the ride is so smooth. It took me forever to get up the courage to ride the Magnum (until then it was the monster coaster of the park), and when I finally did, I loved it so much I went straight to the MF afterward. I haven’t done Top Thrill Dragster in part because the ‘‘thrill’’ seems to be focused on being super up high.
I’m also partial to the Raptor and the Gemini. The Gemini is certainly one of the most fun coasters, a big wooden beast with two separate trains that often run parallel so you can reach out and touch the hands of riders in the other train. The Raptor has your legs kicking free and plenty of loops, but it is more smooth than a lot of older inverted coasters.
It’s been years since I’ve been on a coaster; I’m pretty sure my bones would shatter, but there is no experience in the world like Cedar Point. I predict you will have a fantastic vacation.
I haven’t seen anyone mention the “re-married the Ex in a fit of sympathy and now I want out of it” dream. I wonder if it will stop now that he’s dead?
I’ve had several variations of the exam day dream where I forgot to go to class that semester probably dozens of times. Last night, however, it was exam day, and I was fully prepared for the test, and I showed up on time, clothed, and aced the exam. As I walked out of the exam room I was wearing my graduation gown.
This was a first for me, and I woke up feeling very odd and pleased with myself.
So I guess I’m the only one with the dream that the house is on fire but surrounded by lions and I have to choose what to do?
It’s funny that my school dreams are never about tests. It’s always an English course where I didn’t read the book or go to class and it’s the night before a paper is due and I am desperately trying to read the book and write an entire paper overnight. I did have one interesting one where it was some kind of design/shop class and I had one night to find supplies and build a piece of furniture. Do you know how hard it is to find good quality wood in the middle of the night?
I dream/dreamt recently I was on a typical freeway, California, but recently earthquaked, so a stub of such freeway, and alone, without a car, and yelling to no one [ no one in hearing distance ] to normalize the situation to allow me to have a night’s rest. And considering where I was during that dream, quite the ‘like real life’ situation with a few minor/major caveats to elaborate on.
I’m not sure it’s a stress dream, but I used to have a variant of the naked dream in which I would be going about my business, running errands or perhaps in a school-type situation, and I would be stark raving nude but totally OK with it and relaxed, and nobody else would be particularly shocked or bothered by it. It’s as if “nothing” was simply another available choice of what to wear. Then suddenly I’d realize, OMG I’m naked! But even then it was only about the same as stopping by the house to pick up a jacket, rather than a panic situation.
Fairly often I’ve dreamed I was lost in an airport terminal, or on my way to the airport, and almost certain to miss my flight. I don’t travel much IRL so it’s odd.
School dream variant #1: Often, that it is finals week and not only am I late to the classroom but also I haven’t even been attending the class all term.
School dream variant #2: I’m notified that, due to a clerical error, I was allowed to graduate from high school without having completed all the requirements. My university degrees will become void if I don’t return and take the missed classes. On one occasion when I had this dream, I had to go back to elementary school.
This reminds me of another one that I’ve had several times. I’m driving on various freeways, but some of them are extremely steep, like on a roller coaster.
Flooding. Usually when I am overwhelmed by stuff in daily life. Sparingly have a high school dream as well where I am struggling to pass a class to graduate. Had the flooding one more times than I care to remember. Seems I always find a boat or ground or something in it though.
My nightmare [not sure if you consider it a stress dream?] is being out to dinner or some other social occasion with my physically abusive ex and <in the dream> knowing we are getting back together.
I haven’t had a school/naked stress dream in years though I have had the loose teeth/falling out teeth dream, I think I might get that about once a year, generally shortly before my annual dentist trip. I also get these weird mouth dreams, I have been chewing gum, and I can’t spit it out, I need to reach in and physically sort of dig it out with my fingers, and usually I am in some sort of social/professional situation where doing so would be gauche. I do get ‘stress’ dreams when I need to wake up and pee - I am somewhere and need to find a bathroom to pee, but either there doesn’t seem to be one, or there is something preventing me from having privacy [like the door can’t be locked, or people keep walking in on me, stuff like that] I also have mystery room [?] dreams - I am usually walking through an apartment or house that I will be moving into shortly [typically renting] and trying to decide which bedroom I want, and many times it turns out that it has a really neat attic, or barn, or basement with lots of neat little nooks and crannies to explore. I think that one comes from spending from 5 years old to 10 years old living in a rambling Queen Anne Victorian house with interesting nooks and crannies, and a really neat carriage house with hayloft, 3 stalls and a box, with a tack room. Really lots of fun to explore =)
Oh, and I occasionally get injury from attack dreams - variously shot or stabbed in one or both legs [I consider those probably come from my being physically handicapped. I also get sad dreams where I am dancing. I can’t dance any more and I would love to be able to dance still.]
The car going missing or being stolen or turning to crap is a constant. It is about losing control of your direction and movement.
The naked one, or your clothing suddenly being gone. Yeah, about being exposed. I tend to wake myself up or change the game on those these days. If it happens more than once in the same dream, I usually become very aware that I’m dreaming.
Of course, the other day I dreamt - all night long - of people from my past abusing my trust or mistreating me. With me becoming angrier and angrier as the night progressed, and of course, that doesn’t help, because people who are treating you poorly in the first place are only too happy to jump on your subsequent anger as an excuse for why they’re mistreating you. :smack:
The ones I remember seem to be more primal–being pursued relentlessly by [something] ; falling from a great height; being unable to accomplish some physical task.
Most common for me is driving at night, terribly lost with no signs to guide me. Also the phone dialing (or punching now that we don’t dial anymore) one. And occasionally the teeth one.
But I guess I am sort of lucky, because the dreams I have when I’m REALLY stressed can be achingly beautiful landscapes, so lovely that I remember them for years and envision being back in them. One particularly great one was sitting on the porch of my house in Micronesia watching the sunset (something I had done in real life a lot when we lived there). But in my dream, there was a beautiful river flowing by right in front of the steps, and the sunset blazed with a honey-colored intensity that no real sunset on earth could ever have. A flock of birds - some pink, some turquoise, some yellow, and some pastel green - were flying lazily above the river.
Waking up to the real life stressor is no fun when I have dreams like that. I want to go back to sleep.
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We’re looking forward to it. Top Thrill Dragster will probably give me nightmares as it goes 120mph, accelerates to that top speed in 3.8 seconds (!!!) due to it’s hydraulic propulsion system, and climbs to a peak height of 420 feet, then plummets at an almost 90 degree angle straight down. Yikes!
It’s been a long time, but I used to have occasional “flood” dreams. Usually they would involve a beach in some way, with me walking around and trapped by a high tide. Or, I’d be walking or standing a few yards inland of PCH, and surf is easily reaching the area where I’m standing–in water up to my knees.
In addition to the school, naked, and lost dreams, I have ones where I kill somebody early in the dream and the rest of the dream is basically me thinking “GOT DAMN have I ever ruined my life! I am going to miss my family like a mofo when I’m in jail!”
Usually the killing is totally justifiable self-defense, but due to a sense of guilt and shame I don’t believe that I can convince a LEO or jury that this is the case.
Reading this thread, I’ve noticed that shame and guilt seem to be common threads in a lot of stress dreams.
