Friday

[nightdog_barks]

Cloudy and much cooler (54) although it doesn't really feel cooler, perhaps because there's no wind. Don't know yet if I'll go out today -- there's certainly plenty I can do here.

Had an anxiety dream -- this time it was the discovery that I had several library books, overdue from my college days. The fine added up to $700, and I was trying desperately to figure out if I could somehow secretly return them. Heh.

And that calls for more coffee.

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[mer-duff.livejournal.com]

It's snowing here! Big flakes that look like someone ripped open a down pillow and shook it over the city. This is getting ridiculous. It's not supposed to snow in Vancouver at the end of March. Fortunately it doesn't appear to be sticking, as I have wine drinking to do tonight in the suburbs...

I hate anxiety dreams like that. Every now and then I have vivid dreams in which I have an exam or an essay due for a course and I panic because I haven't gone to single class, and even when I wake up it takes me a while to remember that it's been nearly two decades since I was last in school...

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

That's the kind of snow we had here this year -- huge, wet, fluffy flakes.

Mmmmm ... wine drinking. ;-)

... and even when I wake up it takes me a while to remember that it's been nearly two decades since I was last in school...

*nods* Exactly. For some reason, these academic-anxiety dreams often seem to be more real than other anxiety dreams (being chased, falling, etc.) and so they linger for a while after awakening. Not fun.

[elynittria.livejournal.com]

For some reason, these academic-anxiety dreams often seem to be more real than other anxiety dreams

Obviously, school scars people for life. They'll have to add a special category to the DSM-IV for academic-related anxiety. (Assuming, of course, it doesn't already exist!)

[mer-duff.livejournal.com]

Heh - apparently piano lessons did the same for me. I think I told this story in Memoryfest, but I used to have vivid nightmares about Franz Liszt lurking outside my bedroom window (probably to take me to task about not practicing). I think it was because the portrait of him in my piano book was quite ferocious - a similar one is up in the bandroom my concert band rehearses and it still gives me the creeps!

(edited to add userpic of terrifying Franz Liszt - though this isn't the picture)

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

YIKES! Mer, that is a terrifying picture! It's no wonder you used to have nightmares!

Hee!

[elynittria.livejournal.com]

Hee! That's the first time I've ever heard of piano-induced panic. I must admit, Liszt does look rather formidable. I'm surprised I never had any Beethoven nightmares as a kid—there was a bust of Beethoven on our piano, and he seemed to be in a terrible mood. Tchaikovsky, on the other hand, looked quite mellow.