dream analysis will only get you so far

[auntiemeesh]

I've been having an unusual number of school anxiety dreams. A week or so ago, it was that I'd just moved back home for some reason, and Mom was making me register with the local school district so I could go to high school in the fall. I kept complaining that I was 37 years old and really shouldn't be in high school but she didn't seem to think that was a valid argument.

Then a couple of days ago, I had one of those 'forgot to go to class all semester' type of dreams. I was actually in class, but I hadn't gone for something like the past month, I couldn't remember anything I'd learned in the class or even really what it was about. And then the professor came around the room individually collecting homework, which of course I didn't have done since I hadn't even been to class in a month. I had to tell him I'd forgotten it, and make up some excuse and he was looking at me with very knowing eyes. Tres embarrassing.

I don't really remember last nights' dreams, but I have the distinct feeling there was a school anxiety element in there somewhere. Could be because I have stuff at work that was supposed to be done by the end of February, still not done. Could be because I haven't done my taxes yet (what, don't look at me like that, I still have more than two weeks, I'm early still, by my reckoning). Could just be a weird brain acting weird. Who knows.

I had several hours of Rock Band fun last night. Made it across the water to San Francisco and hired myself some Roadies. I'm getting a lot better on the medium difficulty level, but one or two of the hardest songs have long strings of wicked fast note streams, and I can't play them. I have no idea how to catch all the notes, so I'll be practicing that a lot over the weekend. Just for fun, I tried playing some of the easiest songs on the hard setting. Oh, what a disaster. There are five fret buttons to hit with four fingers. Suffice to say that all I managed was to randomly mash my fingers on the buttons and hit not a single note. Oh yeah, I am a rock star!

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[eve11]

re: dreams, you might appreciate last week's XKCD comic.

Re: Rock Band, I find myself harkening back to my old piano lessons and fingering when I have to incorporate the fifth fret. I have to make this decision of, "do I move my whole hand up" or "do I just extend my pinky?" Invariably, there are times when my hand gets so lost on the frets that I've failed out before I can figure out how to "reset" things.

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

I've finally gotten used to the smaller fret buttons at the neck of the guitar, but even there, my pinky finger isn't really long enough to just stretch the distance. It barely sits comfortably on the blue fret. I have to learn how to keep one finger anchored at all times so that I don't lose my place. I've been finding that even with the blue fret, I have to lift the other fingers up in order to press the pinky down and then sometimes I get lined up wrong if I'm not careful.

*curses at tiny fingers*

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

re: XKCD - that is exactly how my dreams go, lol. Aren't they delightful?

[ani-no-mouse.livejournal.com]

I suspect its the ongoing career transition thing. But who knows. Our brains do weird things when we aren't awake to sort of keep them in line!

It's interesting to me that people who completed high school and have the papers to prove it have those "have to go back to high school" dreams. I thought it was just me with my weird, incomplete, educational history.

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

I think everyone I know has that sort of dream on occasion, in one form or another.