So about dreams?

[abu nuwas]

I have a few recurring dreams:

3. I'm back in university. It's coming up on term paper/finals time. I realize that I've only been attending 3 of the 5 classes I registered for -- I've never been to the other two, didn't remember I was supposed to be going, don't know what time they meet, don't even have the syllabus. I have a choice: I can accept the fail and focus on the other 3 classes that I'm doing well in, or I can split my efforts -- show up to the class and face the professor who I've surely angered by blowing off the class, sit in a classroom I've never been in with people I've never met, and try as hard as I can to do a decent paper and final. Maybe, somehow, I can pull off a D. But, then I won't be able to keep up with the other 3 classes.

I have this one all the time.  Sometimes it's at uni, sometimes it's at high school.  The weird thing is, in the high school ones I know I've already done my finals and graduated but for some reason I have to go back and do it all over, but only for the exams -- and since it's 20 years since I learned all that stuff, I think my brain really hates me.

I had similar ones for years. I actually graduated at uni in Arabic, with optional Hebrew. In the dream, I would be about to enter to take my Finals, when it would dawn on me like a bolt from the blue, that I had completely missed my Latin classes since starting three years beforehand. The only part Latin played in my studies, in fact, was that some German scholar had put to-gether a ''Delectus Carminum Arabicorum'' with Arabic-Latin vocab, and the occasional note. But woke sweating for years!