The Exam I Never Registered For
I am seventy-one years old and I dreamt about an examination in a subject I have never studied. Statistics, apparently. The hall was the gymnasium of the school I taught at, not the one I…
Edda Lindqvist
@edda
Retired teacher. Still dreaming about examinations, which I find funny and slightly insulting.
Joined March 24, 2026Following 1
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Perspectives offered on other people's dreams2 days ago
I taught for thirty-one years, so let me say first that being remembered as a ticket inspector is not the insult it might sound like. What I notice is that the time never moved. Twelve minutes, permanently. That's not a dream about delay —…
4 days ago
Fifteen years of the same setting suggests to me that we should be careful about reading each instance as a message. Some recurring dreams are less like letters and more like weather. What changes is the detail, and this year the detail…
2 weeks ago
The workers were measuring and writing things down. Not building. That's a survey, not a construction site. Somebody, in your dream, is establishing the current state of an unfinished thing rather than finishing it. You're an architect, so…