Don't get me wrong, learning is important, but I don't have tons of fond memories of great learning opportunities in school.

  • half_giraffe [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    I haven't been in a classroom in years and so far the most lasting consequence from high school and college are the semi-weekly stress dreams where I'm desperately late for a final in a class I've never been in. And according to basically every other older adult, this literally never stops happening.

    Real healthy education system you got there :agony-deep:

      • CrimsonSage [any]
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        4 years ago

        I usually end up standing up and screaming at the prof in those exact dreams.

    • BillyMays [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Oh god… why do I still get those? Like yo you just decided to not go to class for your final? Why would you do that?

      • half_giraffe [comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        My rational human brain: Hopefully I wake up tomorrow well rested.

        My lizard brain during sleep: This is the perfect time to remind them about an impossible, imagined traumatic incident.

      • GrandAyatollaLenin [he/him,comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        I had a professor who told me the teacher equivalent of these dreams:

        One day, towards the end of the semester, you find out there's a course you're supposed to have been teaching this whole time. You rush to the classroom, and all the students are there, waiting patiently. You now have a semesters worth of content to teach in one lecture.

    • CrimsonSage [any]
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      4 years ago

      Decades later I still have final exam stress dreams.