Irrational Fears Thread

Back in my day, we were actual sailors, so the number of people on shore duty in a war zone was pretty small.

 

More than once I've dreamed it's the night of the high school play (I'm lead) and neglected to memorize my lines.

Most recurring was from radio. It was always the tower falling down and having to call the program director. Oh, and dead air in general.

 

We have a big-ass spider (a spotted orb weaver, evidently) whose web is right outside one of the windows in our living room. My wife won't sit on the couch in front of that window when he's there. (I decided it was a he.)

 

I last set foot in a radio station in 1992 and I still have dreams about not having any copy to read when the DJ throws me the cue. What the hell?

 

I often have that failing out of college dream. It’s move out day and I don’t know my dorm room number, let alone where the dorm is on campus. Getting back to the topic at hand, my irrational fear is being stuck in swirling bed sheets under water. That, and quicksand.

 

I think these school dreams are pretty standard. It's the night before the final, I can't find the textbook, I don't know what room it's in and I don't know the teacher's name. I haven't been to class the whole term.

 

Some of these school dreams actually happened to me.

I failed out of college.

When I went back eight years later, they transferred six of my previously earned credits twice — a fact I was not aware of until the semester before I was scheduled to graduate.

Both of these happened after I was failing a class three-quarters of the way through my senior year of high school, and I pretty much needed a perfect fourth quarter to graduate.

All of that made me immune to crazy school nightmares, so there’s that.

 

Saw this clip and it triggered another one of my fears, which may not be all that irrational — driving in a truck's blind spot. I'm always terrified they're going to suddenly merge over like this guy does and take me out.

 

No, that’s healthy fear. More people need to develop it.

I have the repeating high school dream somewhat regularly. Sometimes in the dream I even remember I graduated and have a college degree to boot, but I’m still sitting there. And I also have the showing up to school/work naked dream. But I guess my evangelical raising hard-wired me for modesty, so I’m always wearing a bath towel in those.

 

https://www.wvlt.tv/2023/08/14/woma...-diploma/?mibextid=Zxz2cZ#llebkjxatcoqn0izhep

The highlights:

The Toledo Public Schools system recently informed a woman in Ohio she never actually graduated high school when she received her diploma in 2007.
They did, however, have records showing she was half a credit short from graduation – which isn’t good enough for any college Tatum said she’s hoping to attend.
She said the school district suggested Tatum get her GED, but she does not think that is fair.

But also, she finished school 16 years ago and is just now figuring this out to apply to college.

 

Woman has to go back to high school 16 years later to finish one class?
I smell sitcom!
Or a potential Poin Files case.