Seasons

I still dream from time to time that I'm doing so poorly in my classes that they send me back to elementary school to start over. I can trace that dream back to when my 4th grade teacher pulled me aside and angrily held up some unsatisfactory art project and threatened me saying, "I'm going to send you back to kindergarten to learn how to cut!"

What's really bad is that it's community college, which is where you go (at least in America) when you want to go to college (university) but need to brush up on some college prep subjects. I went to regular college later. In the dream, I haven't learned the basics in history (learned from the past).

My new job requires me to cook, look stuff up in the courthouse, and drive a stick shift. I have cooked before (though not nearly enough for it to come to me automatically), but the rest is new. It's a little embarrassing, because I could have learned a long time ago.

Congrats on the new job BD.

A few times I have had the dream that I graduated from college when I find out that I missed something in high school and I have to go back to high school. Odd.

We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.

Well, with your interest in bots, Butterfly Dream, perhaps you should get into artificial intelligence.

Is your name a reference to the story about the ancient Chinese Philosopher Chuang-tsu, who said, "Last night I dreamed that I was a butterfly; or is it that I am now a butterfly, dreaming that I am a man?"

Yes, Irina.

I don't think I have the patience to do this for a living, even if it were possible. I barely have the patience for AI Script.

And here I was thinking that in america community college was where you went when you weren't rich... silly me.

That, too, Greylin, or if you want to get a two-year degree or certificate of some kind. At least that's how it was where I went.

I'm not rich. I relied heavily on need-based financial aid....and student loans.

I agree w/ you Irina that dream interpetation should be done in an object to metaphor-of-self-aspect relationship- but I also think that these metaphors are entirely personal. EX: someone who grew up next to the ocean will have a set of metaphors for it that are vastly different than someone who grew up in Kansas. This applies to the micro details as well. Due to this in order to get reeally valuable interpetations one REALLY must know ones self.

karmapd: drawing a distinction between dirty and sensual is really subjective though. Perfect EX: I dont like porn, but I wouldnt consider Playboy to be porn, Id call that nude photography. I suppose the line is drawn depending on your exposure.

I dream of people I love but somehow have lost contact with quite often. When I think about it, it's always about people I didn't have the chance to stay in touch with, so they're kind of 'stolen' from me in one way or another. Those dreams always leave me feeling very sad and almost heart-broken when I wake up.

I think it's pretty easy to understand the 'meaning' of those dreams.

Sure, many dreams will have a thrust that is fairly obvious, but by understanding the metaphors of the minutia you could probably zero in on very specific instances in your past that made you feel this way- perhaps even in lights that you had never realized consciously before