This morning I woke up from another one of those dreaded teacher dreams. The bell rang, but I couldn't find my schedule. Kids started coming in the room. I was trying to tell by the way they looked which class it was. Of course, in my dream there are four or five doors to my room, so the students are not coming in and sitting down, they just keep going in one door and out the other. They aren't even looking at me. I try to speak, but I have no voice. My lesson plan book is blank, not a word on it, even though I know I wrote them. My teacher friend next door lets me look at her papers. I realize that I have to teach five classes in a row without a break. That makes me furious because my room is so far from the restroom. Who would schedule me like that? (My real schedule is nothing like that.)
As the day goes on, my room fills up with water. Yes, water. I do not know why, it just does. The students are swimming around and I cannot get them to pay attention. My boss comes in and wants to know just what in the Sam Hill I am allowing to happen. I try explain to him that I cannot stop the water from coming in, and ask him to help me, but my mouth is completely full of bubble gum. He gets on his radio and calls the cops. The police show up and start arresting kids for swimming without permission. While this is going on, a little girl brings me a litter of puppies that were just born that need to be cleaned up. They are struggling to breathe, so I stop what I am doing and start trying to save the puppies.
I have often wondered, do other professionals dream the same weird stuff? Do dentists dream that they cannot pull out a tooth? Do football players dream that they keep dropping the ball? Do nurses dream that they cannot get a needle through someone's skin? These are things that perplex me.
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