[Magdalen] Dream On.

[Marilyn Cepeda]

I still dream now and then about realizing that the term is nearly over and
I have forgotten to go to a class I am registered
for. I must now take the final never having been to the class or read any
of the materials. Never had it happen in real life.

Marilyn
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 7:35 PM Georgia DuBose <gdubose at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've had the dream about not studying for the final, but it actually
> happened. I had the date confused for my American history final. I
> still managed a B when I showed up unprepared.
>
> For European Intellectual History, I came to class to discover that
> the final project for the course was also due a week earlier than I
> thought. Fortunately, I had come 45 minutes earlier to sit around and
> chat with the crowd that took that course. Everyone was putting their
> papers together. I was quite upset. However, I had my calligraphy pens
> and good paper with me, and I sat outside the class and wrote a
> sonnet, more or less in the style of Dryden, whom we had discussed in
> the class as representative of the Enlightenment, along with Pope. I
> tossed in a few Enlightenment catchphrases, and dedicated it to
> "Phyllida." I re-wrote it in calligraphy, and handed it in. I got an
> A-.
>
> I did this sort of thing 3 times in college. (I was a decent,
> sometimes inspired, but very badly organized student.) I wrote a paper
> for Medieval English Literature, with Mac Gatch (whom Don Boyd may
> remember) the night before it was due. He gave me a B+ for writing
> style, and a D- for content, averaging it to a C, and told me that my
> glibness would be my downfall. I think he was probably easier on me
> than he should have been because I used to babysit for him and
> Georgie.
>
> Anyway, I have had quite a few of those dreams, and you can see why.
>
> Georgia
>
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Eleanor Braun <eleanor.braun at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I read once that your #2 dream (final exam for course not studied) is one
> > of the most common dreams ever.  I've had it a few times.  In the dream,
> > I'm a senior in high school, and have been suffering from senioritis, and
> > suddenly discover a final is scheduled.  That didn't happen in real life,
> > but I've still had the dream.  It seems like a stand-in for anxiety,
> > especially from not being prepared for something coming up in life.
> >
> > Eleanor
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> > magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I had one of those theme dreams last night.  There are three  themes
> >> that pop up in such dreams a couple or more times per year, and I
> >> seem to remember them the next day.
> >>
> >> Themes:
> >>
> >> (1)  I am back in the Upper Midwest at the clinic (now part of  the
> >> Mayo Clinic System), and involved in the usual almost Byzantine
> >> politics that go on in such a place (last night's dream).
> >>
> >> (2)  I'm in college, sometimes as an undergraduate, and other  times
> >> in medical school, and I realize I need to take a final exam in a
> course
> >> I've not studied, and not attended.  This is so strange because I  have
> >> never had such a situation.
> >>
> >> (3)  I've been reactivated into the US Army Medical Corps, and sent
> back
> >> to the 97th General Army Hospital, Frankfurt/M, Germany.
> >>
> >> Oddly, at least yet, I'm not having any dreams set into the 30-odd
> years
> >> I worked at the local VAMC.  Maybe that will come later?
> >>
> >> In any case, I wake up from these dreams before things really get
> dicey.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> David Strang.
> >>
>
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Marilyn (Owens, Palmero) Cepeda
Mobile, Alabama