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Recurring Dream Theme #3 (and actually, the most common of them): Screwing up in school in some fashion, usually by utterly forgetting (on a continuing basis, not just once) to go to one or more classes, or by wandering around the school campus being unable to find my way.
Last night had a very odd twist on it, although one that has precedent in waking life. In the dream it was that I had failed to properly write an essay on something in astronomy class (more on that later - it was one weird astronomy class), in the fashion of having totally misinterpreted the assignment. Now, this is sort of what happened for the first essay in my actual ASTR 132 class at CSUS. The teacher gave me a second chance on it, however, since he figured I knew what I was doing as far as the subject matter (true - I got an A on the rewrite) and that I had just managed to misunderstand the basic nature of what he wanted us to do. (He had wanted an interpretive kind of essay and I had basically written a list of results.)
In the dream, though, the teacher was doing nothing of the sort, and at one point while we argued over whether I had or hadn't known enough about something (something to do with my writing style?) in advance, he actually said "Fuck you!" and sort of *humphed* into a chair, chin on folded arms. Odd in itself, but the really bizarre bit was that he was Hubert Farnsworth (old professor guy from Futurama), and he was a cartoon character while everyone else was "live action". As far as the class, the thing I remember most was that it involved seeing... basically the whole universe... while inside some kind of holodeck thing. Sort of like the Total Perspective Vortex from the Hitchhiker's series, except that it didn't rip your brain out, throw it on the floor and stomp on it. But the stars weren't all like you'd expect to see them, all in galaxies and everything... they were arranged mostly in rows that stretched off into the forever. It was odd.
Last night had a very odd twist on it, although one that has precedent in waking life. In the dream it was that I had failed to properly write an essay on something in astronomy class (more on that later - it was one weird astronomy class), in the fashion of having totally misinterpreted the assignment. Now, this is sort of what happened for the first essay in my actual ASTR 132 class at CSUS. The teacher gave me a second chance on it, however, since he figured I knew what I was doing as far as the subject matter (true - I got an A on the rewrite) and that I had just managed to misunderstand the basic nature of what he wanted us to do. (He had wanted an interpretive kind of essay and I had basically written a list of results.)
In the dream, though, the teacher was doing nothing of the sort, and at one point while we argued over whether I had or hadn't known enough about something (something to do with my writing style?) in advance, he actually said "Fuck you!" and sort of *humphed* into a chair, chin on folded arms. Odd in itself, but the really bizarre bit was that he was Hubert Farnsworth (old professor guy from Futurama), and he was a cartoon character while everyone else was "live action". As far as the class, the thing I remember most was that it involved seeing... basically the whole universe... while inside some kind of holodeck thing. Sort of like the Total Perspective Vortex from the Hitchhiker's series, except that it didn't rip your brain out, throw it on the floor and stomp on it. But the stars weren't all like you'd expect to see them, all in galaxies and everything... they were arranged mostly in rows that stretched off into the forever. It was odd.
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Date: Oct. 24th, 2003 04:18 am (UTC)From:no subject
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