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Most of my dreams fall into the category of routine sorting and filing \u2013 my subconscious grabs onto something from the waking day and reprocesses it. On rare occasions my dreams are prophetic. I can\u2019t tell you how I know they\u2019re prophetic, but when I have them there\u2019s no doubt what they mean and what I have to do with them.<\/p>\n

And then there are dreams like last night where I have no trouble figuring out where they come from but I struggle to understand what they mean.<\/p>\n

I was in an old part of Chattanooga (where I grew up and lived till I was 33) and I was looking for my book bag. I found it, but the books I wanted weren\u2019t in it. So I started looking for another book bag. A fellow CUUPS member (who\u2019s a college senior) came by and asked if I had finished the reading for the class we were taking. I found another book bag and it didn\u2019t have the right books either. I started panicking, turning over everything looking for the blue book bag I carried as an undergraduate. Cathy told me to stop disturbing the piles of laundry she had sorted on the floor. I found the blue bag and it had the books I needed, but I was afraid it was too late and I\u2019d never get through them before the final exam.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Like many people I still occasionally dream about a test I haven\u2019t studied for. It was probably ten years after I graduated before I stopped having registration nightmares \u2013 I never could get all the classes I needed. I\u2019ve had academic anxiety dreams all my life \u2013 I was never afraid of school, but it was always important to me and I was concerned about doing well. <\/p>\n

There is work I need to do and things I need to learn and they\u2019re not moving as quickly as I\u2019d like. I know I obsess over things. I know I have a full time job, a blog, a house, a church and a CUUPS group. And a wife, who I do like to spend time with and who in the waking world never complains if I disturb her piles of laundry. I know I\u2019ve never been somebody who can go-go-go non-stop.<\/p>\n

But when I see the few large chunks of time I have available disappearing it bothers me. And as this dream shows, it bothers me on several levels. <\/p>\n

What is this dream trying to tell me? I\u2019m certain it\u2019s not just another sorting and filing dream \u2013 it was too vivid, too clear, and too emotional. Like all those academic anxiety dreams, is it telling me that I\u2019m obsessing too much? That I\u2019m looking in the wrong places? That I need to learn what I need to learn now because a real test is coming?<\/p>\n

It could be any of those. Or it could be something I\u2019m not considering yet. I\u2019m going to give it some thought, do some Tarot readings, and do some meditation. And then do some more meditation. <\/p>\n

Sometimes the benefit of divination isn\u2019t in the knowing but in the awareness that something more<\/i> is at work. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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