Stress
I used to get what I called "residual stress dreams" when I was in school. I would never have weird, frustrating nightmares during exams... but over my summer holidays, I would have recurring dreams in which I showed up to my Physics final without a formula sheet, or found out that I was signed up for an advanced French class I'd never attended. These continued right up until after I left University, only then it changed to finding out I was missing courses and couldn't graduate. Usually, instead of just sitting down to write the dreaded exam I was doomed to fail, I would instead spend the entire time I was dreaming running around trying to find the right person/administrator to talk to to get out of writing the dreaded exam I was doomed to fail.
Well, it looks like my brain is up to its old tricks, only this time, it's not happening after the fact. I'm having real-time stress dreams... about the wedding. Note that I am definitely not taking these as a sign of any sort of impending doom, nor do I think the wedding will be a problem. Most of the dreams are completely ridiculous, like a seamstress forgetting to do my alterations until I am already at the church, or me showing up and having forgotten to make the programs. (I figure it is only a matter of time before I have one in which a bureacrat from Queen's shows up to tell me that I need one last credit, and that the exam that I have to take unless I want to lose my job is scheduled for May 26th.) However, they are annoying, and I do catch myself asking "What am I forgetting?".
Comments
I had the same sort of dreams during our wedding preparations... Not to worry. Your dress is here (I will be sending it to you overnight tomorrow (saturday), it is perfect & looks gorgeous and is the size they said it would be, you've got the venue and food and invites taken care of, and your dear Mom, Dad, sister, brother-in-law, and neice will all be arriving on schedule. And I mean, really, what more do you need? ;-) Oh wait... how's the groom? Healthy? And his bachelor party is going to be well before the wedding ceremony, correct? And does Dexter like his new fancy dress collar or will he put up a last minute fuss? Better test that out :-)
Posted by: heather at April 13, 2007 06:04 PM
I get this constantly, but for me it is the same dream over and over all night...and sometimes they are stupid and not even related to the issuein my life...recently I had a re-occuring dream about hitting a double take-out in oylmpic curling...cause that is something I have to deal with on a daily basis!
Let me know what I can do to help!
Posted by: Tracy at April 13, 2007 09:12 PM
My post school dreams of not being able to find my locker to get my books in time for class were replaced by the "bear dreams" - you know, the one where I shoot at a family of grizzlies until I get them really upset and they chase me and corner me in a cabin which they then start to tear apart. After retirement, they changed to post-army dreams where I am participating in all sorts of activities and situations which just never happened in real life. The worst were the school ones, by far.
Posted by: Dad at April 18, 2007 12:20 PM