{"id":1534,"date":"2007-06-05T15:23:38","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T15:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/06\/it-was-the-philosophy-final-that-did-it.html"},"modified":"2007-06-05T15:23:38","modified_gmt":"2007-06-05T15:23:38","slug":"it-was-the-philosophy-final-that-did-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/06\/it-was-the-philosophy-final-that-did-it.html","title":{"rendered":"It was the philosophy final that did it"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know, when I was in college, I would finish the semester, go home (across town) and basically sleep for two days. A week with no sleep will have that effect. I guess the first day of summer vacation does that to you…even if it’s kindergarten you’ve just left behind:<\/p>\n

\"sleep\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Of his own free will, this afternoon, collapsed on the couch.<\/p>\n

By the way, 25+ years hence, whenever I have anxiety dreams, they are always <\/em>school dreams. When I was teaching and shortly afterwards, I became the teacher, not the student – and the theme was that it was exam time, I was short on copies of the exams and the copier was broken. But I’m back as a student now, always about to take an exam in a class I didn’t go to. Either accidentally or on purpose. Will I never graduate?!<\/p>\n

Update: <\/u>Well, we have more teacher and student dreams, with musician and mom anxiety dreams added in. (Years ago, when Christopher and David were babies, I would have dreams in which I could hear them crying, but couldn’t get to them. Don’t have that one anymore.). What an interesting collection!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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