What would Freud say?

I had planned on writing my next blog post about some of my unusual habits, but because dreams are so interesting and easy to forget, I thought it would be best to write about it as soon as possible. I don't usually have many dreams, although I have as of late. What I found particularly interesting about this dream was the main location; parking lot A at my college, the University of New Hampshire (UNH). Lot A is where I typically park, which made sense for the first section of the dream, but had no connection with the other two parts. It's possible it was just easier for my mind to use one setting, even if it didn't entirely make sense.

The first part of the dream requires some description of the area surrounding Lot A. There are multiple ways to enter Lot A, but for most people they enter from two ways. The first way is the method I take; heading toward the central campus area on Main Street you take a left turn onto Loop Road, then a slight right at the first turn onto Mast Road, and then go straight until you reach a stop sign. From there you turn left onto Gables Way with the parking lot on the right. The second approach is when you're driving away from the central campus you take a slight right off Main Street onto Mast Road going down a curved hill and then take a slight right onto Gables Way with the parking lot again on the right. It's important to note that the end of curved hill is parallel to the stop sign. I always take the first approach because I enter towards the central campus.

The first part of the dream involved something to do with me and possibly other people counting the number of cars that entered the parking lot from the second method I mentioned. The road downhill is one way, but for some reason I recall there being lanes going both ways. The only other detail I remember is when a truck went up the hill from the stop sign, other people and I noticed this mistake, which signifies it had returned to being one way. The next part of my dream involved some schoolmates from junior high and elementary school playing basketball near the stop sign. Everyone there including me seemed to look the same as we did back then; there was even one person I haven't seen since sixth grade. Whenever I had the ball thrown at me I was unable to catch it and after several failed attempts I admitted that I “sucked”. The third part of the dream had me located in the actual parking lot at my current age, although much larger then I am. I think I was wearing the black wind jacket I wore in Junior High. As I was facing a van a large, rather unattractive woman came out and accused me of harassing her son at school, who was standing to my right. Her son looked like any other kid; short, thin, brown hair, likely around age seven. The woman was very aggressive and actually started pushing me. I asked her how I could be harassing her son at school, seeing that I'm around 20 years old and go to school here. She had been told that the boy harassing her son was named Wyatt. I pointed out the possibility that it was a different Wyatt.

I almost forgot the fourth part of my dream until I started writing this. It involved a class I'm assuming was in high school since some of the people I had played basketball earlier were there but older. We sat at a long white table with the teacher at the front, who was around 40 years old, had a large upper body, bald and African American. I mention this because New Hampshire has one of the smallest state percentages of African Americans in the United States. I've actually never had a teacher who was African American, although I know there was one at my high school. The class involved learning life skills, like being responsible and taking care of one's self. Everyone detested the class; I felt it was a waste of time. The teacher informed us it was requirement and made it clear he was going to be quite strict. At one point I stood up and left, but came back. That's when the dream ended. WWFS?

The rest of my day wasn't as interesting; I found out today that the research assistant position I was trying to obtain had already been filled, which is a bummer. Coincidently, an email was sent to all students informing us that this summer online courses will be offered. I figure if I take an online course along with the other two classes I already plan on taking, I will be on track to graduate in spring of 2011! Later on I was pretty much forced into having lunch with a few people. Originally it was just a casual invitation, but before 11:30 I was called by the person who had invited me and was ordered to come. It wasn't too bad and actually kind of nice to eat lunch with other people for once. The downside was I had planned on going to the yoga class my school offers at noon on Wednesdays, since I haven't been able to go to for the past month because of school work and other higher priority tasks. While I can go to the Friday class instead, I couldn't go to the gym because I had not brought shorts or an extra t-shirt. I thought about exercising at home, but I'll just work out twice as long tomorrow at the gym. For dinner tonight I had a delicious tofu shake that consisted of strawberry tofu, orange juice and banana. I was blown away with how good it was.