Not only naked, but your school is on FIRE too.
Teaching August 30th. 2007, 10:33pmYou are late to school. You run into the building straight to your class. In your haste you throw open the door to the room where you are about to take a test. Everyone in the classroom laughs at you. Only then do you realize, you are naked.
You wake up. It’s only a dream!
Who hasn’t had this sort of experience? I remember a particularly vivid dream where I was incorrectly registered for a class, and I only found out about it on the day of the final. I had to show up and pass the test, otherwise I would fail the course and wouldn’t be able to graduate. This was months after I was out of college and was living in Korea. Even after I got my degree I was having the “can’t graduate” nightmare. I think this is a normal sort of experience.
Today, my upper level students were answering questions about clothing and style. One of the questions was, “Have you ever had a dream about being in a public place without clothes.”
None of my students would admit they ever had any sort of dream that involved their clothing in any way. I told them I had the “naked to a test” dream before. Even with that sort of, “It’s okay” sort of coaxing, no one would admit to anything of the sort.
I’m not surprised. It was hard enough for most of them to admit where they shopped for clothes, or what they liked to wear. Middle school students are particularly vicious about fellow students lack of confidence. I’m sure if they started to talk about clothes they liked to wear, or styles they enjoyed, someone would mock them for it. It’s much easier to keep a distance from the subject and just laugh at the silly foreign teacher.
I loathe middle school students.
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August 30th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
None of my adult students ever admitted to having this dream either. I’ve always wondered if it’s a cultural thing.
August 31st, 2007 at 12:47 am
Perhaps it’s just Western insecurities…
August 31st, 2007 at 8:31 pm
My wife has also completely denied having this dream. She said if she had it she never remembered it, but I don’t think it’s the kind of dream people forget. It might just be a cultural thing, or they might have their own school/clothing related dreams we don’t share significance with.