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[quote author=garvin link=topic=9773.msg86968#msg86968 date=1396391875]
I don't disagree with anything anybody said in this thread. But I'll add one thing: About 10 or 12 years ago, I had a nightmare in which I opened my letter from the Admissions Office to find a rejection. I woke up wanting to vomit, as I did every time the dream recurred over the next few months. I'm sure a shrink would tell me that my sense of self is waaaaaaaaay too wrapped up in where I went to school. But there it is.

I have no idea why the dreams started, nor why they stopped. But they gave me a painful sympathy for those who want to go to Stanford and are rejected.

As an adult long after graduation, I had recurring nightmares about it being the 8th or 9th week of the quarter. Finals were coming up imminently, but I hadn't done the reading, I hadn't written the papers, I hadn't done the homework, and in some courses I hadn't even attended class for weeks - so I didn't even know what I had missed or how far behind I was.  ???  Thankfully, I always woke up before I had to solve that dilemma.  :P

I have an idea why the dreams started  ;), but thankfully those awful dreams stopped many years ago.  ;D
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Just turned 40 and I still have these (and have had them for years).  Mine usually manifest themselves as me waking up in something resembling my senior year bed, mid-semester, thinking that there was a midterm that day and realizing that I hadn't even looked at the syllabus for that class, let alone gone.  I don't even know where on campus this class takes place.  These always come when there is added work stress in my life.  Good news is that I haven't had them for a while. 

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[quote author=garvin link=topic=9773.msg86968#msg86968 date=1396391875]
I don't disagree with anything anybody said in this thread. But I'll add one thing: About 10 or 12 years ago, I had a nightmare in which I opened my letter from the Admissions Office to find a rejection. I woke up wanting to vomit, as I did every time the dream recurred over the next few months. I'm sure a shrink would tell me that my sense of self is waaaaaaaaay too wrapped up in where I went to school. But there it is.

I have no idea why the dreams started, nor why they stopped. But they gave me a painful sympathy for those who want to go to Stanford and are rejected.

As an adult long after graduation, I had recurring nightmares about it being the 8th or 9th week of the quarter. Finals were coming up imminently, but I hadn't done the reading, I hadn't written the papers, I hadn't done the homework, and in some courses I hadn't even attended class for weeks - so I didn't even know what I had missed or how far behind I was.  ???  Thankfully, I always woke up before I had to solve that dilemma.  :P

I have an idea why the dreams started  ;), but thankfully those awful dreams stopped many years ago.  ;D
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Just turned 40 and I still have these (and have had them for years).  Mine usually manifest themselves as me waking up in something resembling my senior year bed, mid-semester, thinking that there was a midterm that day and realizing that I hadn't even looked at the syllabus for that class, let alone gone.  I don't even know where on campus this class takes place.  These always come when there is added work stress in my life.  Good news is that I haven't had them for a while.