What have you been dreaming about?

[ThisGuyRiteHere]

I dreamt that I tried out for American Idol.

[cloudless_climes]

Seriously? Dreams? I'm totally jealous.

 

I can't even sleep properly, let alone dream...unless you count the inevitable hallucinations I'll acquire after a few more days of nonsleep. Those should be interesting.

[amlobo]

I had the worst one yet, as far as how anxiety-inducing it was.  Last night, I dreamed that I woke up and checked my email, and I had THREE acceptances!  LOL.  And, of course, all from my top choices.  Then, I actually woke up, and I had to run and check my email juuuust to be sure.  It was just all junk, of course!  

[Faraday]

Still no admissions dreams, although I did have my very first zombie dream the other night. I think my brain was too tired to make much of it unfortunately. I was sleeping in my bead when I woke up to the sound of a helicopter. I looked out my window and a small group of zombies was walking to my front door. The military helicopter overhead spun up its 30mm cannon and took out the zombies but some of the bullets also tore into my house, barely missing me.

 

I went and took cover under me bed (what a coward lol) while I waited for the helicopter to fly away. Around the same time the helicopter shot some canisters into my house (tear gas style) and a green gas came out. The gas had some kind of microorganism in it (think babel fish from HHGTG) which bonded to me brain. This gave me some special kind of vision so I could see the bad microorganisms causing the zombies. Unfortunately a bunch of them came up the stairs and under my door. One got into my brain and plucked something (I had an image of a small capacitor being ripped out), everything froze like my brain died and the dream ended. It was too bad because I thought things were just starting to get good!

[child of 2]

I never remember my dreams, but I do remember a dream where I was at a science poster presentation. I walked in, and realized I was wearing only a T-shirt. On top of that, I was getting a huge erection, which I tried to cover with my t-shirt, but the shirt was too small... Then I woke up, and went back to sleep almost instantly.

[apotheosis]

Dreamt of jumping up on the table during my thesis seminar and doing this dance.

 

 

I guess I should be thankful to my brain for converting all that reading on orientalism to glamorous Europop?

Edited January 24, 2013 by apotheosis

[Allouette]

Had the creepiest dream about child ghost/zombies bleeding from the eyeballs last night. Pro-tip: don't fall asleep with Criminal Minds playing in the background. 

In other news, Apotheosis, that dance is FABULOUS and I really hope your dream was premonitory because that would make any thesis seminar oodles more interesting.

[practical cat]

I had the most boring of application related dreams last night. I dreamt that I felt like one of my LOR writers was being mean to me. I say "felt like" because I, even within the dream, could not point to anything specific that she had done.

I'm also having really intense and dramatic spy/action-adventure/murder dreams that are a pretty clear manifestation of the stress I'm not letting myself feel during waking hours but all of the dreams that are explicitly about admissions are really impressively dull.

[happygreengrass]

I've had that same dream about randomly find out I'm enrolled in some course at the end of the semester. 

Make me three (or four or five, depending on how long this thread goes...).  And the best part of the dream?  My 6 figure student loan debt is suddenly due in full because of said forgotten class.... o_0

[child of 2]

Make me three (or four or five, depending on how long this thread goes...).  And the best part of the dream?  My 6 figure student loan debt is suddenly due in full because of said forgotten class.... o_0

 

Same here, although that was back when I was still in school. I've had at least two dreams where I realize half way through a semester that I'm enrolled in a class I totally forgot about. I thought my GPA was F-ed.

[Quigley]

Same here, although that was back when I was still in school. I've had at least two dreams where I realize half way through a semester that I'm enrolled in a class I totally forgot about. I thought my GPA was F-ed.

 

I've had that dream at least a few times!  

 

Last night, I dreamt that I was invited to an interview dinner with the admissions committee and the professors named in my SOP for one of my top choice schools.  Only my mom somehow ended up at the dinner and kept interrupting and trying to answer their questions for me.  It took me a few seconds after waking up to realize it hadn't actually happened!

Edited January 28, 2013 by Quigley

[sansao]

Same here, although that was back when I was still in school. I've had at least two dreams where I realize half way through a semester that I'm enrolled in a class I totally forgot about. I thought my GPA was F-ed.

I hate that dream so much.

[Willows]

Same here, although that was back when I was still in school. I've had at least two dreams where I realize half way through a semester that I'm enrolled in a class I totally forgot about. I thought my GPA was F-ed.

 

I've had this one. Although I dream I'm back in UG when it occurs. Hah, even worse.

 

 

My latest "grad dream" is first being interviewed then being accepted into a university where I didn't even apply.

[sansao]

I've had this one. Although I dream I'm back in UG when it occurs. Hah, even worse.

Exactly. It's always that I suddenly might not graduate. You would think that after that much effort, my brain would accept that I have a degree and let me also have peace, lol.

[Allouette]

I had the best/worst dream ever, where I was totally a student at my top choice and just going about life as usual and I also had the world's most adorable dog. It was the worst dream ever because way to tempt me with things I have no idea whether I'll get or not, scumbag brain. 

[sansao]

scumbag brain. 

^^ This

[courtc8891]

I had a dream that I got a SSHRC (a $17500 grant) and had to turn it down because I wasn't accepted anywhere.

[child of 2]

 scumbag brain. 

that's a first

[psychdork]

I had a dream the other night about GradCafe specifically.  In the dream I was looking at the results page and saw that someone had posted something about one of my schools.  In addition to the various columns on the page (school, program, status, etc.) was a column where you could post how confident you felt that you will be accepted to that school.  Well, this poster posted that he (I was confident it was a he, I don't know why) was 100% confident that he would get accepted to this particular school.  And although my (real life) interview went well, seeing this triggered my anxiety as I didn't feel 100% confident that I would be accepted.

 

*sigh* I see therapy in my future...

[MonkeyDr]

I had a dream the other night about GradCafe specifically.  In the dream I was looking at the results page and saw that someone had posted something about one of my schools.  In addition to the various columns on the page (school, program, status, etc.) was a column where you could post how confident you felt that you will be accepted to that school.  Well, this poster posted that he (I was confident it was a he, I don't know why) was 100% confident that he would get accepted to this particular school.  And although my (real life) interview went well, seeing this triggered my anxiety as I didn't feel 100% confident that I would be accepted.

 

*sigh* I see therapy in my future...

I see therapy in all our futures. 

 

Not only is this waiting game horrendous, but then you go to gradschool and...you have grant apps, publications, living up to your PI's expectations...

 

Therapy: the one thing I'm sure of in life. 

[quilledink]

The other night I dreamt that I was only accepted into my last choice school, which is really a back-up option for me, and that while I was excited and ready to go (at least I'd gotten in somewhere, right?), all the profs who'd written me reference letters were so shocked and appalled that I'd only gotten into one school and that school at that (though it's reputation is ok, so I'm not sure why I was thinking that...) and spent the entire dream insisting that I didn't go to grad school but waited a whole other year to apply. It was a nightmare, to say the least. o.O

 

(P.S. This thread is awesome.)

[MammaD]

I dreamed I was driving through a tollbooth while holding a butter knife out the window.

I can't even begin to imagine what my brain was trying to do with THAT one.

[SLPjmar]

I have had the same dream consistently, where I am rejected from every school I applied to. On the website where I can check my admissions status, I am also able to read the adcom's list of reasons I should not be admitted. It makes me cringe every time I think about it. Though the other night, I did dream that I was accepted to the most competitive program on my list. I'm hoping it's a sign.

 

I have also dreamed that somehow I was taking a class (biology, I think) that I hadn't attended all semester. It was now time for the final and I had to take it, even though I didn't learn anything all semester.

 

Finally, I constantly dream of losing all of my teeth. The crack and disintegrate in my mouth while I'm talking to someone and my mouth fills with blood. I know this dream is a manifestation of my anxiety and stress.

 

Wah, I can't wait for this to all be over. 

[lifesgood]

In my dream, all the applications that I'd submitted were Incomplete, it was past their deadlines, and the adcoms would not be even look at them.  In the dream I kept hitting refresh, checking emails from schools, and looking at the status of the apps just in case it was wrong.  Nope.....they were ALL incomplete.  I woke up suddenly and had a hard time falling back to sleep.

 

In the morning, I checked online to see if they were submitted and complete....just to be sure.

[pears]

besides the occasional stress dreams about rejections, forgotten apps, and other school snafus, i had a dream this morning about eating po'e (basically the most delicious thing ever- tahitian fruit pudding with coconut cream) in a field. then, a helicopter flew by. my brain willingly allowed me to literally watch myself in a dream, just eating po'e.. for hours..

i think i'm finally losing it.