I've been having this dream for several years now...

(Wow, these forums have changed a lot since I was here last!)

Some of the details often change but the main points are always the same. I'm back in high school (I'm 25) and I'm determined to pay more attention than I did and spend less time socializing. My old friends are there and everything goes well until it's time to go to class. Then I realize that I don't have a schedule and I have no idea where to go. Sometimes I go to my first class but then don't know where to go next.

I end up going to the office and asking for a copy of my schedule and I never get it. Sometimes I get it but I can't read it. I eventually give up and go home after remembering that I graduated high school and don't need to be there anymore. I feel both highly relieved by that and very disappointed in myself for not staying.

I should mention that I don't think this dream is really about high school, as I don't have any issues with high school and the way it went. I think it's more about my life now, but since high school is generally an unsure time in one's life, it makes for a good analogy.

Last night it was different for the first time in years. I don't know if the difference has any significance or not - that's why I'm here. It just didn’t seem like it was a detail that was different like it usually is, but it was something of more importance in the dream and nearly changed the outcome (me giving up and going home).

When I walked into the office to get a copy of my schedule, a woman told me there was no schedule. She said I only had to have four classes – the ones I liked best. I understood what she was saying, but when I asked her how I am supposed to know when and where the classes are, it started getting blurry again and I ended up wandering the halls like always, and eventually going home.

I feel like this might have been a breakthrough for me in my dream – like it meant something – but I have no idea what it meant, nor any idea what the dream as a whole means to me or what I’m supposed to learn from it. Like I said, it almost changed the outcome of the dream that has been the same since I've been having it.

So if anyone has any insight, I’d greatly appreciate it. Thanks.

Oh, I just remembered that I have another recurring dream I’ve been having for years also, and it also changed a lot the last time I had it. I won’t get into that now though.

 

id guess that the whole dream has something to do with you figuring out what you want to do in life, most likely referring to a career. the four favorite classes are what you want to do, and the random wandering is not knowing what they are. You asked the school to tell you what they are, but they wouldnt tell you, maybe feeling that you didnt get everything you wanted to out of highschool, which is also shown in you being determined to pay more attention and not socialize.

unless of course you have a career you definitly want to do, and my entire theory is wrong.

 

Hi Purr

welcome back to the forums! Ok here is another thought if you want and maybe you find a sense in it. It is just in what you hear ringing true deeper inside yourself and the wish to act on it with hands, feet and just out of the joy of life.

The high school mirrors your life and the big and small lessons it holds, like a maze of hallways all entangled. It too is about your love for learning progress where you are both the teacher and the student, to become who you are and unfold yourself and as you find healing and closure there is more clarity inside yourself as the greater view unveils. Going home mirrors your passing on and reaching out to the other side. From here you start again. Missing the schedule is part of it. As there is but your own heart in need to be set free beyond any schedule. The lessons are now. The lady in the office helped you to find it.

What you are supposed to learn from ... it shows in what your daily life is never tired to wash ashore to your feet, asking you to act from an intuitive angle and not be afraid of more changes, to find and embrace what truly is yours and trust into your self. And maybe all you may find is that change comes on soft feet yet is persistent, like dreams that are true to you and as persistent, and as free.

There is great beauty in your dreams. Thank you for sharing.

 

Thank you both very much! Very insightful.

 

Interesting to see this is a school type recurrence dream like mine.

Excellent answers to purrs dream but I m still at a total loss with my dream.

I feel sure theres an answer but its weird I dont know what it is , - like Ive been hypnotised and cant remember my surname-metaphorically speaking.
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I think one difference with my dream is that I HAVE to be back at school - weird eh!

Anyways , its v late in England.I'll try and help on Purr's dream tomorrow to my best too.regards all.

 

i like that "no schedules" bit too. and have to aggree that what that says to me, to i think all of us realy, is that learning isn't something that exists only where it is formaly packaged like a schedule of classess but happens all the time all around us wherever we are whatever we are doing.

schools are, or at least ought to be, about so that every generation that comes along doesn't have to keep rediscouvering and reinventing all of the same wheels over and over againg. but mostly i think that is as much as they can give us, or as much as the do.

this is an important and valuable thing and i'm glad i didn't miss out on as much of it as i got. but i think that's really the meat of education and i wished even at the time that a much greater percentage of what i was allowed was actulay that and less of what i considered to be the sugars and starches of idiological indoctrination, masqaraided as such things as history and economics and even literature and the total waiste of my accademic time i considered p.e. (gym) to be.

life's lessons have no commencement exercises and offer no diplomas or degrees, but instead the real rewards of real usefullness, and better yet, we don't have to compete for grades in them, and whatever our pace they are always there to learn from. and as long as we are humble with ourselves and willing to actualy see, we can keep learning more and more from then and long as we continue to live and breathe.

(oddly enough the closest my own dreams ever come to anything like that is exploring the parts of the buildings that were off limits to students during the time i was actualy in school, but which (in often now abondoned facilities), are no longer guarded or even occupied to in any way hinder my doing so)

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