Unfavorite Dream

By Wreybies · Dec 23, 2008 · 450 · 2
  1. Of the many, many recurring dreams I have, this is by far my unfavorite.

    It has a mirriad different forms but always there is one thing that is unchanging. The dream occurs on the day I (don't) graduate from High School.

    Last night I dreamed that I was getting ready to go out. I lived in a city style Brownstone and I was looking for clothes to put on. I suddenly realize that today is graduation. There are assignments pending, and all kind of things get in the way of me getting out of the house and on to school. At many points during the dream the more sensible part of brain tells me that I have already graduated from High School long ago. I also know in my dream that I have graduated from the Defense Language Institute and from the University of Florida. But dreams make no sense and so still I am panicked that I won't graduate from High School. All sorts of people from many different parts of my life wander in and out of the dream and more and more obstacles get in my way and I never make it to school.

    I know full well what this dream is about. It's about failure or a sense of failure. Alongside guilt, jealousy, and envy, I can't think of a more ugly feeling. That's why it is my unfavorite dream. :(

    Why do I have this dream so often?

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  1. Jack
    I think your brain is telling you to not fail anymore... or perhaps your "brain" is trying to deliver a message to you? I think its odd how dreams occur like that. My dreams are related to the future, sometimes I see myself in a couple month doing something and when the time period comes by, I get a de ja vu or a flash back. I'm like "What? I thought I've already done this before". I don't know... its pretty creepy how dreams behave like that. :confused:
    Jack, Dec 23, 2008
  2. Eoz Eanj
    In psychology, there's like two main beliefs explaining dreams

    One is that they're just products of the firing of random neural pathways

    The other is that they're the result of surpressed emotions and values

    From my own experience I think I'm more persuaded by the second explanation

    perhaps you (even if only preconscious) really value success and you're thus highly emotionally attached to feeling successful and perhaps then graduating for you was a really solid, well remembered example of feeling/being successful and therefore explains the fear that comes from being out of control of that success... illustrated in your dream by not graduating
    Eoz Eanj, Dec 23, 2008
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