wild!! i have never had these dreams about academia. of course, i didn't go to normal school, but i taught plenty and taught under frazzled conditions -- like taking over a course with a weekend to prep, another with two weeks (my first time on my own!) but i haven't had such a dream. i *did* have dreams about not being able to keep up with patrons while waitressing and about punching the cash registers keys with long lines of foot tapping customers staring at me. i have, of course, heard my mentors sitting around sharing such stories. and perhaps i've even heard that they are common to the academic profession.
i am curious, tho. i swear that i've read something about research on for lack of correct term perhaps "occupational-related dreams". i think it may have had something to do with them as an expression of alienation. anyone ever heard of this at all?
kelley