by Callie Gray

Created on: May 23, 2008   Last Updated: May 28, 2008

Psychologists define a dream as a sequence of images, emotions and thoughts passing through a sleeping person's mind during REM sleep. They can be vivid, emotional and bizarre. Over the past week and a half I have kept record of my dreams in a dream journal, however over the next mornings I could only recollect four.
After writing out my dreams, they seem so scattered and random, not at all as they seemed in my head, it seems impossible to describe them, but here are my attempts.

In the first dream I recorded I lived in a dorm like place that resembled my middle school, Barret. I went to find my teacher because I had a test the next day and I needed help on some of the material. I went to look in the auditorium for her for some reason and evidently "Susical" was playing, so I took a seat. Michael Kirsch was really good and animated singing along side Ben Affleck. Finally, after waiting for a break so not to interrupt the show, I got up to leave and saw that my friend Perry was leaving at the same time so I exchanged hellos with him. I started back for my room and was worried because I was late, past curfew and thought that I was going to be in trouble with the other older girls who I guessed served as like advisors who also lived in my room. They were medical students, and Ellen Hale, one of my friend's older sister, was one of them. I ended up not studying for my test with Emily who was really dressed up in a sequin dress and Tracy who was wearing God knows what, something really flowy that looked a lot like rags. In the end I failed the test.

This dream was all over the place, and here are the only explanations I can give: I had a test the next day so obviously this dream represents my anxiety for it. "Susical" is a play at my school that was showing at the time and I had really wanted to see it, and Michael Kirsch is a student involved in the plays but I don't think this one, as for Ben Affleck, I have no idea why he was in it. The only other element of this dream I can somewhat explain is that Tracy often dresses in a "hippie" I guess you could say, manner so that could represent the rags.

The next dream I remembered was just as weird: One winter day my Dad was mad at me for some reason, but it was a really warm day. My Dad begged me to go on the boat even though I had other things to do, but I did because I wanted to make him not mad at me. I got on our houseboat and then ended up jumping from ours to another and hit my head on the railing of the other ladies

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