I had a familiar dream recently. It was near the end of the semester in my
dream and I had not attended many of my calculus classes. I knew I would fail and I was desperately searching
for a way out of this mess. As I woke
from my dream, I realized that I had nothing to fear from calculus. I had graduated in spite of it and would
never have to pass calculus again. But
it got me to thinking, "What triggered that dream?" My friend confessed to having similar dreams,
along with the ever popular "locked outside naked" dream and the
ubiquitous "running from something horrible" dream.
I came to the conclusion that a basic emotion was at the
root of it, that fear or anxiety that could have been triggered by any number
of possible sources, real or imagined, was being expressed in that dream. It was my sleeping brain's way of making
sense out of the basic emotion of fear that was firing while I slept. Read more ....
