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I had a version of my anxiety dream last night.
29 years after sitting my finals and I still wake up in a cold sweat thinking about integration.
What's yours?
My calculus dream or anxiety dream?
I have just been discussing this, I get funny dreams if there are too many covers on the bed.
My top 2 are:
1. running around an airport trying to find a departure gate that doesn't exist or keeps moving.
2. trying to catch or keep hold of my cat, who is running about in a public or dangerous place.
So not much overtime for a psychoanalyst there!
Same - sitting finals, and as in the real life I know I've done loads of work for them and my mind is just a blank. I can visualise the pages of notes that I wrote in lectures - their shape on the page, the equation there, the diagram there......but I can't actually read any of the words.
All I can remember is that the reaction that was named after the researcher that discovered it - is wrongly named because he stole the work from his post-doc. So I write that; maybe I'll get marks for showing at least I turned up and listened in the lecture.
Upon analysis Harry, I think it means that we are worthless human beings, and we know it. HTH 😉
Funny this topic should come up now. I've just woken up from a rather unpleasant dream where someone broke my jaw. I don't remember the person but I do remember that I didn't see them as a friend but I also didn't expect them to do me any harm.
I think it might be work related.
1. running around an airport trying to find a departure gate that doesn’t exist or keeps moving.
2. trying to catch or keep hold of my cat, who is running about in a public or dangerous place.
One would seem to be a derivative of the other.
One would seem to be a derivative of the other.
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Running around my hometown (not where I live now) with my chap out, wearing only a t shirt which is too short to pull down over the fellas, and meeting loads of folk I know.
Not had the dream for a long time now thankfully! 🤣
I still get the 'finals but I've not revised' one.
I actually quite like it now, the relief when you wake up and realise 'hang on... I graduated a decade ago!' is amazing. Mmmmmmmmmmm back to sleep
Realising I haven't started my dissertation/coursework with only weeks to go. As above, it's worth it for the pure relief when I wake up. ☺️
Running around my hometown (not where I live now) with my chap out, wearing only a t shirt which is too short to pull down over the fellas, and meeting loads of folk I know.
Dreams that revisit memories are the best kind.
Realising I haven’t started my dissertation/coursework with only weeks to go. As above, it’s worth it for the pure relief when I wake up. ☺️
Some dreams that revisit memories are the best kind.
I dreamed I was explaining the basics of orbital mechanics to my kids.
Running around my hometown (not where I live now) with my chap out, wearing only a t shirt which is too short to pull down over the fellas, and meeting loads of folk I know.
Not had the dream for a long time now thankfully!
Dream or recovered memory? 🙂
Me and the mrs still get the 'haven't prepared the lesson' one despite not having been in a classroom for years.
I frequently dream that I really need a shit but every toilet I get to is overflowing with turds and paper. The only clean ones I find are in the middle of the office or attached to an outside wall in the street.
I often have dreams in which I'm speaking French.
I'd prefer a dream about a warm oil bath with Sam Fox and Maria Whittaker...
Side effect of taking statins seems to be more vivid dreams, being sent to a clients house to build the engine to their bespoke sports car, with no tools, on their dining table & parts of the engine looked like they'd been under the sea for a decade was quite stressful until I woke up.
Dreams that revisit memories are the best kind.
Na, I don't wear short t shirts.
I dream about trains not going around corners
running around an airport trying to find a departure gate that doesn’t exist or keeps moving
Flight 209 now arriving Gate 8, Gate 9, Gate 10...
I dream about trains not going around corners
Do you mean bends?
You reminded me of a dream I've had a few times. The train that I'm on is on a stretch of track that has a gap in it. Only a metre or so but over a river. All the passengers tense up as the rake chunters towards the hazard. It's squeaky cheeks time for sure!
The college/uni dread dream is bliss compared to the nightmarish dreams I now get since starting sertraline. Most of them are beyond description. Thankfully they've died down a bit, but my god 😨🤯😵💫
Despite having what I consider to be an unusally stressful job for the past decade (propping up the government 😀 ), my stock anxiety dream is still about my German A-level 20 years ago.
I thought it was just me dreaming about A level / uni maths exams. The problem is they get worse as I forget more and more as time goes on. I wonder if the elderly have nightmares every night?
I dream about trains not going around corners
Do you mean bends?
You reminded me of a dream I’ve had a few times. The train that I’m on is on a stretch of track that has a gap in it. Only a metre or so but over a river. All the passengers tense up as the rake chunters towards the hazard. It’s squeaky cheeks time for sure!
I seem to remember being told a long time ago, that the curve of a railway line needs to be twice differentiable. Useful stuff calculus, even if it does produce nightmares at times 😀
I dream about trains not going around corners
Do you mean bends?
You reminded me of a dream I’ve had a few times. The train that I’m on is on a stretch of track that has a gap in it. Only a metre or so but over a river. All the passengers tense up as the rake chunters towards the hazard. It’s squeaky cheeks time for sure!
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Yes, sorry around the bends. What with all the trackside & external carbody furniture. I worry about incorrect gauging.
I seem to remember being told a long time ago, that the curve of a railway line needs to be twice differentiable. Useful stuff calculus, even if it does produce nightmares at times 😀
Yes to a certain extent, but it's not quite as simple as that. You may have for instance a curve with a radius of say 120m which fully develops (i.e. can have two carriages on the curve at the same time) however you will have also a short section before that curve with a larger radius. This is called spiraling and is supposed to prevent sickness due sudden changes in direction. Stuff of nightmares
I have reoccurring dreams that involve my GCSE's or A-Levels.
The dominant theme is that I'm back at school and redoing these exams but coursework is missing.
When I went back to work for the uni I studied at, that opened up an endless well of dreams about not being able to find classes, turning up and everyone else was still 18 and I was in my 30s, sitting down at exams and not being able to read the paper... Good times! Luckily it's not as easy to chuck someone out of a job as it is for a course.
I still get the ‘finals but I’ve not revised’ one.
This is my most common.
Oh, I have an essay to write...I'd better do some reading... it's due tomorrow? but I haven't read anything, I don't know where to start, I wasn't listening in lectures, oh my god I'm going to fail...
And awake.
Remember as a kid I used to have a dream of being chased and not being able to run away.... Like running through sludge or my legs not working.
The only time I wake up now is when dreaming of cruising down a trail and my front wheel washes out.
When I quit the reefer the dreams I had in the following weeks were so vivid and I was able to control where I was going, like in a computer game. Brilliant. Wears off after a while, mind.
Exactly the same. I sat my Civil Engineering finals in 1976 and still sometimes have nightmares about not being prepared for the maths final. In my case it was Laplace Transforms. I failed to see the point of them or how to do them.
Imagine my delight (!!) to discover during my first job after graduation that I needed the bloody things for a bridge deck design I was given. Funnily enough I've never had nightmares about the bridge falling down.
I often dream that my bedroom is flooding and that everything on the floor next to my bed needs to be lifted away from the water - guitar, books, magazines, etc. I'll wake in the morning to find everything is safely dry but raised up on whatever I can find in the dark, although a few weeks ago I smacked my wife in her sleep with my guitar as I was saving it. 🙁
We live 100m up a hill, about 500m from the sea..
Running around my hometown (not where I live now) with my chap out, wearing only a t shirt which is too short to pull down over the fellas, and meeting loads of folk I know.
A few years ago I was waiting at the lights in Govanhill and a guy crossed the road in front of me dressed pretty much like that - shirt, tanktop, socks, shoes. Walking quite briskly, focused on the route ahead with a look on his face like he was hoping he might wake up soon. Quite weird to be awake in someone else's anxiety dream.
Uni finals too, not revising or leaving it right up to the last minute....wake up in a cold sweat, then realise it was all back in 1997, phew. Think my young brain was traumatised by uni, strong words, I know, considering what horrible events others go through during life - but to get a re-occuring dream over the last 24 years?!
Mine is also about remembering I have an exam but I haven't gone to class all year but am fairly sure that actually happened so more of a recurring memory but am not totally sure anymore. I did fail every exam in my first year, got 12% for one exam
No finals dreams for me, but a dream set in the same time period as uni. It is definitely a dream - that I’m back in a relationship with a particularly unpleasant ex, often mixed up with some present day narrative - but it eventually wakes me up with something that mixes dream with flashback. Shudder.
I don't get the same dream, but it's usually something along the lines of an event I have caused that has lead to, or is going lead to, an unfathomably massive and hugely public **** up.
Think, sailing an aircraft carrier up a tiny river, somehow passing low bridges and shallow water, then having to turn around and go back, thus smashing bridges and going aground.
Going aground in a ship off a popular beach in Bournemouth.
Trying and failing to put out a small fire (thence big fire) on a ship in New York harbour.
Failing to secure mooring lines and ship is just drifting out to sea with all crew on the quay
Hang on, there's a theme here isn't there?
Remember as a kid I used to have a dream of being chased and not being able to run away…. Like running through sludge or my legs not working.
I sometimes still get a running away dream but rather than running in sludge, I'm sort of floating, like a no gravity world so my legs float up behind me and I can't get them onto the ground. And I have to run with my arms, to pull me along. I don't know what's chasing me - it's never caught me because clearly I'm quite good at floaty runny arm running.
Somewhat bizarrely, last night my dream encompassed both of @hels scenarios. I was trying to get on a plane, with my cat, who kept escaping 🤦 lost him on the bus transfer to the plane...
Overflowing/filthy toilets and desperately needing to go, also loos with no doors.