I dreamt we were all in a classroom at desks and Prof. Tougaw was at the top of the classroom standing at the blackboard teaching. We seemed to be working on our web projects and talking about the conference, so sometimes I was looking at a computer screen on my desk and other times that was gone and there were papers in front of me. I was complaining to someone near me about what we were supposed to do. The person is vague now but it seemed the class was a mixture of you guys and girls that were in my high school class. Prof. Tougaw made an announcement that two extra people may be called upon at the conference to present their papers during the actual event. I was protesting loudly that it wasn't fair and he said lets try it now and I was up. At first I was still giving out but then I calmed down when I figured out I could do the piece I had already written and fudge in some extra bits, which I said and Prof Tougaw said that was fine. I was up the top of the class also at this stage and there were a group of people in the middle of the classroom all talking amoung themselves. I said "they are deciding to change the class to Sundays" and Prof. Tougaw just laughed. A female professor in her thirties, serious looking (no-one I know) came into the class room and brushed past myself and Prof. at the top of the glass so that we got pushed forward and she stood at the podium in the corner of the classroom and didn't say anything. We all seemed to take it as normal enough and that it was time to leave so everyone started leaving the classroom to go somewhere else. I was back at my desk with the computer on it and I was trying to finish something, so then I was the last one out.
Not sure how it shifted but then I was in a small hut, wooden, like an outhouse (without the toilet inside!). I could not get out but I wasn't panicking. This all happened really fast but as I was trying to get out the hut was first in a car park and then it moved to a country lane because everytime I tried the door of the hut, it would "step" forward. I could see out and there were two men and a small child ahead of me. One man just happened to have a metal hook so he was able to open the door for me and let me out. They said it was the boy who told them I needed help. I bent down to thank the little boy and he was really small. I shook his tiny hand and asked him his name and he said "Peter". I told him mine and said thanks and then I was watching him walk away when I woke up.
Comments (8)
Hi. Reading your dream with Prof. Tougaw in it reminded me of one that I had with him in it, but not as extensive as yours. I love the bit about the hut/outhouse.
Posted by Sonomas | May 14, 2007 3:36 PM
Posted on May 14, 2007 15:36
An outhouse--what a perfect metpahor for the class!!! ....I keed, I keed, to quote Triumph the comic-insult dog. Seriously, I've had school centered dreams where the surreal seemed to be ordinary as well. (Think the film Waking Life). None lately, for some strange reason, but I've had them nonetheless. Your dream is cool as long as the Sunday thing doesn't come true...lol
Posted by Optimus2g | May 14, 2007 4:51 PM
Posted on May 14, 2007 16:51
What very strange condensation! I find it interesting that many of us, including myself, has had Professor Tougaw in our dreams. Hmmm...
Posted by english teacher | May 16, 2007 4:56 PM
Posted on May 16, 2007 16:56
Wow, what a funny anxiety dream. I admit I was definitely nervous enough about the conference to have had a few anxiety dreams myself. (But since I actually had to present my paper, I just dreamt that I was doing that!)
Posted by Searching Buddha | May 22, 2007 11:06 AM
Posted on May 22, 2007 11:06
I laugh everytime I read a Prof. Tougaw dream, but I think yours is the funniest one so far. I think these dreams show how much we think about this class. And I agree with Searching Buddha that this dream is definitely showing some anxiety. Love the picture. :)
Posted by vitaminc | May 23, 2007 5:24 PM
Posted on May 23, 2007 17:24
I think the theme in your dreams is being trapped: trapped in an outhouse, trapped into doing a presentation that you don't want to do, the female professor pushing against you, etc. But despite being pushed into something or being placed into a position you don't want to be in, you take it in stride and don't panic.
Posted by Lily Briscoe | May 25, 2007 2:20 AM
Posted on May 25, 2007 02:20
I see this as a dream that is clearly emotionally driven. I don't know which emotion it may be, perhaps anxiety, but the fact that the classmates were semblances of high school acquaintances is not strange at all, because a blackboard and the entire classroom environment is most strongly linked to high school usually.
Posted by Mind's Torque Wrench | May 25, 2007 12:04 PM
Posted on May 25, 2007 12:04
I see this as a dream that is clearly emotionally driven. I don't know which emotion it may be, perhaps anxiety, but the fact that the classmates were semblances of high school acquaintances is not strange at all, because a blackboard and the entire classroom environment is most strongly linked to high school usually.
Posted by Mind's Torque Wrench | May 25, 2007 12:06 PM
Posted on May 25, 2007 12:06