An acquaintance on FB was asking does anyone else have The Seminar Dream, and while I don't have one directly comparable, I have the going-to-give-a-talk dreams in which I find I have not got my notes and have to go back for them and then can't find my way back to the venue or at least have difficulty getting hold of transport; or the one in which ( Read more... )

Okay, jetlag = potential sleep issues.
Plus, hotel room turned out to look over a building site which starts up VERY early in the am.*
Plus, last night I developed a migraine, which the wonder drug took long enough to affect that I sent a panic midnight email to the conference organisers to the effect that I might not be present during the opening ( Read more... )

Had one of those dreams last night in which I've left something behind somewhere and have to go back for it.

The place, for reference, was one of those oneiric mashups of a cinema, a shopping mall, and a Tube station.

There is a recurrent motif in my dreams whereby sometimes I am somewhere and then I somehow find myself in a position of having to ( Read more... )

I think I am correct in saying I am not alone in having that archetypal academic anxiety dream (which Carl Jung apparently failed to consider among his studies in archetypes) in which one is somehow managing to miss All the Classes in some university course.

I was having what appeared to be one of these last night - at least, I had missed several ( Read more... )

As heretofore mentioned, yesterday we had samphire as part of our delicious (though I say it as shouldn't) Sunday lunch.

Which has inspired me with a faint yet definite yearning to reread Margaret Drabble's The Needle's Eye - although this was not my first literary encounter with samphire (the gathering of which gets namechecked in King Lear) it ( Read more... )

Seminar went well (I think), which is particularly reassuring when this is pretty much a new area for me - no syphilis, no masturbation, and only a very tangential mention of birth control. Also, no-one did that heart-stopping thing of bringing up in discussion someone working on/producing theoretical insights about the same stuff, of whom one has ( Read more... )

That anxiety dream I have where I'm supposed to be somewhere and doing something (a seminar paper, being at a conference, whatever) and am running late/in the wrong place/etc?

Now in the MEEDJA version in which I find myself doing something else and being elsewhere when I am supposed to be in a live radio discussion about a book.

A book, moreover, ( Read more... )

Anxiety dream last night in which I was about to give a presentation to a visiting group at work and found myself desperately hunting for the memory stick which had the necessary on it (and, of course, time was pressing).

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Last night, or rather, this morning, between partner's alarm going off and mine, had a dream in which I

Visited my grandmother (and was having a bit of a fidget between something I was supposed to be doing for/with her and something else I needed to do), somewhere that was sort of the granny flat of the family house (in which my father now resides ( Read more... )

But I'm doing it anyway.

Long and complicated dream about my office moving and vanishing.

And in the first phase, instead of being inside a building, the offices were along a street, in fact on two different bits of street, which involved running from one to the other trying to find my office and its not being there. In fact at one point all the ( Read more... )