Dream Weirdness. I know that many have had the recurring dream in some form

Nov 14, 2025, 7:35 AM

of being back at college, registering for a class, and then forgetting about it, involving some scenario where the final exam is all or nothing. I had it for years, with good reason. One semester at Clemson, right at the start of exam week, while I was in the communal shower in Johnstone F4, someone broke into my room, stole all my textbooks, and sold them to the bookstore before I could get there and find them.

I caught H.ELL trying to borrow books from others to study, as all were prepping for the same exams. It was a truly traumatic experience. But that is not what this post is about.

The weird dream from last night is another recurring one. In this one, it is always some version of starting out to go somewhere and do something, and the further into the dream you get, the further away from that objective you are. This time it was to go and play a round of golf. I get there, and find out the course no longer accepts cash. I look in my wallet, and all my plastic is gone, debit AND credit cards.

About that time, a former coworker from the chemical plant materializes, and goes over to a bank kiosk, which just happens to be in the wall of the golf pro shop. They give HIM $50 cash, which somehow the course accepts from him to pay for my round. I get in the golf cart, and suddenly realize my clubs are not in my truck.

By the time I go back home, retrieve the clubs, and get back, my group has gone off way awhile ago. I suddenly find myself in a wooded area in the golf cart, driving aimlessly trying to get back to the course. Then, that area turns into an old auto graveyard, still overgrown with weeds, but I recognize it, and at least know how to get out (A different variant of the same dream, that I also have had many times). About the time I burst out the doors of the junkyard, immediately back onto the golf course, I run into another former coworker from the chemical plant, who says he can play nine holes with me.

But this coworked DIED about twenty years ago, and I tell him so. He says, "Yeah, but I can still play golf." Probably taunting me for the fact that I CAN'T play it anymore. That is when I woke up.

Sometimes some portion of these dreams is brought on by stories in the news. I think the money part of this one was probably brought on by reading the story that the guvmint is no longer going to produce pennies, the first step in going completely cashless. I do not like these dreams. I do not like Green Eggs and Ham, I do not like them, Sam I Am.

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APM happens to have a sidebar clinical interest in dreams.

The first one you describe was called by Freud "the examination dream" and its common elements are pretty much what you describe. I have it sometimes too. I have heard variations on it such as a woman with 4 kids who forgot to nurse one of her children when they were a baby.

The second is also fairly common.

Basic Freudian explanations of dream number 1 is that you have in fact, in the real world, left something out or missed something or are in danger of doing so. Dream number 2 is a classic wish-fulfillment dream. Freud described as a little boy on a hike with his parents, but on the hike he doesn't get to the top of the mountain.

https://www.encyclopedia.com/psychology/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/examination-dreams

Dream Weirdness. I know that many have had the recurring dream in some form

Must have started using a cpap machine recently?

Re: Must have started using a cpap machine recently?

Things sure have changed over the years.

When you woke up

I have the golf dream a lot, not being able to get to the 1st tee

Paging Dr. Freud! (And APM)...

We had a receptionist who like to interpret dreams. I never dream a recurring

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