La Alaskeña

Anybody else have recurring dreams?

I graduated from high school a semester early. It didn’t do me a whole lot of good because here I am seven years later, still college degree-less (but so close!). Anyway, I believe this, the graduating early, is what has led to the recurring dream that has haunted me for the last seven years: the you-didn’t-actually-graduate dream.

Sometimes the administrators added up my credits wrong. Sometimes it’s that I skipped a class and now I have to go back and finish it. Sometimes I’m taking courses that I wished I’d taken. Sometimes I go back to my alma mater, Dimond, and sometimes it’s another random high school. Sometimes it’s 2003 and sometimes it’s now. Sometimes I’m just supposed to take a test. Sometimes I just inexplicably find myself in high school again. There are myriad variations of the dream, but the constant theme is that I didn’t actually graduate, and I have to go back to high school.

Last night I dreamt that I was back at Dimond. Despite the whole having-gone-to-college thing, I was back and finishing up high school. And I’d skipped two classes the whole semester. Oops. This is also quite common in my dreams: I can’t be bothered with high school (having already done it) so I skip most of it. This leads to problems.

Ok, psych majors: WHAT IS GOING ON? Why does my subconscious keep sending me back to high school? I’m sure a part of it has to do with graduating early, but I DID finish high school! Cap, gown, diploma, etc. Obviously my subconscious is trying to tell me something and I am not getting it at all, so I’m putting it out there for the Internets to work on.

Also: I know what you’re thinking: La Alaskeña sold out. And yeah, I did. I’ve got six mouths to feed (eight, if we count the humans) so it would be lovely if I could make a bit of money doing something I do anyway.