Allyssa Burgett
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I'm just out of high school, graduated in spring. I was enlisted in the US Army, but was discharged from training due to an injury; I can re-enlist in the spring. I'm not in college, because I was going to wait until next year, when my training was completed. I have a job, will have another in the spring. Vehicle's in the shop, but I have one. I'm still living at home with my dad, and we moved into our own apartment in October (BIG DEAL, you have no idea). I have a dog for the first time in four years.
The reason I'm explaining this is to, mostly, just show where I'm at in my life. I understand that dreams often have a lot to do with the real world, so in order to hope for any resolution, I wanted to be thorough.
In the dream, I'm in a school; when I first came home from training after my discharged, it was a hospital at first, but as the dream progressed it was a school. Sometimes the school is one I don't know, sometimes it's a combination of schools I remember (like one moment it'll be my high school, then an elementary school). I'm always running late for class, even though the hallways are still crowded, like I'm in a lunch crowd. But I don't know what time it is, or where I'm supposed to be. I don't know my schedule sometimes, or the classrooms have moved, or the hallways just don't make any sense, and no one can or will help me. So I keep looking, keep trying to get to class, until I wake up.
Usually, these dreams happened in the first couple of weeks of the summer; I'd feel like I'd overslept, like I was late for class, so I'd be rushing out of the house. My teachers wouldn't be right (i.e. I went to English with my Math teacher), but that didn't stick out to me until after waking.
I had these a lot when I first came back from the Army, but then they stopped for a while. They've started back up here lately, only now I'm in an older building, it looks like a library in my home town, or an old university. I'm panicking, because I want to be where I'm supposed to be, but I can't figure out where I'm supposed to be. It doesn't make any sense, and then I wake up.
From what I've read, dreams about school usually reflect a dissatisfaction with one's academic past, like one didn't do as well as one could have. I don't think this is the case with my dreams. My performance wasn't stellar, but I got by. I think the focus isn't on the school, but rather the lost feeling.
I've always felt more at home when I was in school, so feeling lost at school is an odd idea for me. The people I am and always have been closest with are those I've met at school. I won't say I come from a bad home, but it was a little more than broken. School was where I existed. I was happy.
Thoughts? Ideas? Reflections?
The reason I'm explaining this is to, mostly, just show where I'm at in my life. I understand that dreams often have a lot to do with the real world, so in order to hope for any resolution, I wanted to be thorough.
In the dream, I'm in a school; when I first came home from training after my discharged, it was a hospital at first, but as the dream progressed it was a school. Sometimes the school is one I don't know, sometimes it's a combination of schools I remember (like one moment it'll be my high school, then an elementary school). I'm always running late for class, even though the hallways are still crowded, like I'm in a lunch crowd. But I don't know what time it is, or where I'm supposed to be. I don't know my schedule sometimes, or the classrooms have moved, or the hallways just don't make any sense, and no one can or will help me. So I keep looking, keep trying to get to class, until I wake up.
Usually, these dreams happened in the first couple of weeks of the summer; I'd feel like I'd overslept, like I was late for class, so I'd be rushing out of the house. My teachers wouldn't be right (i.e. I went to English with my Math teacher), but that didn't stick out to me until after waking.
I had these a lot when I first came back from the Army, but then they stopped for a while. They've started back up here lately, only now I'm in an older building, it looks like a library in my home town, or an old university. I'm panicking, because I want to be where I'm supposed to be, but I can't figure out where I'm supposed to be. It doesn't make any sense, and then I wake up.
From what I've read, dreams about school usually reflect a dissatisfaction with one's academic past, like one didn't do as well as one could have. I don't think this is the case with my dreams. My performance wasn't stellar, but I got by. I think the focus isn't on the school, but rather the lost feeling.
I've always felt more at home when I was in school, so feeling lost at school is an odd idea for me. The people I am and always have been closest with are those I've met at school. I won't say I come from a bad home, but it was a little more than broken. School was where I existed. I was happy.
Thoughts? Ideas? Reflections?