In the dreamtime
I've often been told, by people who have sat their finals and got on with their lives, that for many years afterwards they have had recurring dreams of having to sit them again. So far, this hasn't happened to me (although I did have a very odd dream about my Phonetics exam the night before I actually sat it). Last night, though, I had a bizarre dream/nightmare involving a Phonetics oral presentation.First, to put things into their proper context, throughout the course of Honours, we had to give a number of presentations. Most of these were in Sociolinguistics, but because Sociolinguistics was taught by one particular Phonetics lecturer, much of the content tended to be phonetically inclined. Anyway, in my dream, the entire class was called up and told that we had to come back to do another Phonetics presentation. For some reason, I prepared a very lavish story reel (a filmed storyboard with timing and temp audio) for a cartoon I had been working on, only to realize, upon arriving at the university, that this didn't actually have anything to do with Phonetics. Worse still, I couldn't remember anything about Phonetics (truthfully, I can't). My friends all told me I should just go ahead and wing it, and that if I didn't go up on the platform and give a presentation, the lecturers wouldn't be able to write me a reference. (Ironically, this was actually something that this particular lecturer threatened us with when several students were planning on not preparing presentations, because they occurred just before our Finals.)
I don't dream often (or, more accurately, I don't often remember my dreams), but this was a surprisingly vivid one and not one that I would particularly like to repeat. Then again, it beats my recurring dream of leaving the house with no shoes on.
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