Here are mine:
1. It's time to start church where I lead music and I can't find any of my music charts. I have no idea where the other musicians are and I am running painfully late. Oh yeah, and I am in my underwear.
2. I am in college and it's the first week of class and things are going well. For some reason in the dream I get catapulted to finals week and it occurs to me that I have skipped class all semester and have to show up to take the final.
3. It's opening night of the school play and I have a leading role but have totally slacked on learning my lines and have no clue what to say.
Does this mean I have issues with preparation? Probably. Do you have similar dreams?
What are your reoccurring bad dreams?
11 comments:
Didn't #1 actually happen at Parkview once?
I get #2 occasionally, and not necessarily when i've been studying or thinking about studying that day.
While in college I experienced the latter half of #2 on a number of occasions (in dream form, not in reality, thankfully).
I have the same dream about missing a whole semester of classes, with one extra issue to stress about: I also can't remember what any of my classes are, what time they start, or where to find them. Yikes! I also have a separate dream where my teeth are loose and then fall out. It usually takes me a few minutes to realize everything is ok after I wake up.
That Congress passes a multi-billion dollar spending bill, without even reading it first. Oh,... wait.... that's already happened! My nightmare has become reality.
I am so thankful I serve the sovereign Lord of all!!!!
Tom
#1, except with sermon notes instead of musical charts, and fully clothed instead of in underwear.
#2 fairly frequently ... and it usually has to do with a foreign language class.
Plus a recently recurring nightmare where I'm running from and trying to gun down people who are trying to gun me down.
Unless those have been realities, it's less likely that they mean you have issues with preparation as much as with self-doubt. Many of my nightmares are self-doubt ones.
The weird one that recurred (few of my nightmares recur) was getting ready to start marching band rehearsal (as drum major) and realizing that none of my whistles worked.
#1 I have frequently, except, as a pastor, it's either getting up to preach in my own church, or at a church I'm just visiting for no apparent reason and finding that I've not prepared at all. Very frightening!
#2 is also one I have all too often, usually with some class, like sociology (I had the most dull and boring sociology class in college).
Joseph! Where's Joseph when you need him? Somebody get me Daniel on the line! I must know what these dreams mean!
Skipper, that one about college skipping from day one to finals is recurring...probably at least twice a year. Speaks more to my being an over-educated twit than anything else, I reckon. t
Mine is funny when I'm awake, scary when I'm asleep. I am baricaded in an abandoned log cabin that is in an open field. Coming from every direction are thousands of Vikings (cool hats and animals skin clothes and all) that are trying to kill or harm me in some way. But, I have my trusty little derringer which I am using to pick them off one by one. They have never reached me before I have awakened...good thing because I would probably die if they actually reached me. Ha!
I totally use to have those very same types of dreams. I remember all the time at Willow where I'd dream I showed up for sound check prior to services and was totally unprepared - hadn't pulled any music, didn't know who was in the band, on and on. Rory Noland used to have dreams that he'd show up for Christmas eve services (the big week long event we did) and realized he'd forgotten to contact or hire any musicians for the RS or orchestra! I think this runs in the blood/mind of anyone responsible for week after week putting a production together that goes before a lot of people. I think it typifies the stress that we really work under of just getting everything prepared and together - which is often as you know a no small feat. Let alone everything else that comes with it.
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