Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Yelling at Teachers
The dream last night was unsettling. There I was at some sort of elementary school presentation for my sister, which I only know for certain because there were other younger kids and their parent there. As far as I can remember I had just come there from a soccer game. The teacher kept doing things that agitated me: she sat at her computer while the kids ran wild, and she kept misusing popular phrases and slang in a way that made my ears just screech with pain. I finally snapped and launched into a tirade about how she was a terrible person, with little provocation directly toward me. Afterward I stormed out of the classroom with all the parents awkwardly watching. It certainly felt in no way good, and looking back on the dream I can still feel the anger and rage that I felt. It is strange that a dream would be composed of such a confined incident. As it as not a lucid dream, I did not recognize that I was dreaming, I barely remember how I arrived at the school, and have no idea where I was headed afterward. As far as I can tell, my subconscious placed this provocation there only to make me angry. But perhaps this is a sneaky attempt at temperament. If our dreams are lectures that our mind concocts on how to survive the waking world, then there might be some sort of reasoning here. Next time I am enraged and want to start chewing someone out, my mind will remind me of both how bad it feels afterward and how bad I am at doing it. Perhaps this dream somehow served the purpose of giving me an experience that is more geared toward how my subconscious would like me to act. As it is, sometimes the best teacher is experience.
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Soccer seems to be a theme in my dreams, if there are any more I might have a post combining what this image could mean. There is a little bit on analysis on this one already so let's just go specifically to the images in the dream. Teachers and elementary schools are obviously associated with learning. Her poor use of the English language leads to the belief that she is either trying to hard or is just dumb. Basically, the combined message is that I believe that the primary school system is in a state of degradation and is committing an injustice towards children (which I do not believe at all).
ReplyDeleteConversely my mother is a teacher so perhaps this is due to some misguided anger toward her, and if my sister was involved is that my subconsciousness saying that I believe she was a bad mother? Again, not things that I actually believe at all, just my dreams messing with me.