Dreaded Dreams

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I have a good English teacher friend who is always so encouraging, understanding and supportive when it comes to my teaching trepidations. Since my first semester of teaching I've had dreams, or nightmares rather, about school, students and teaching. The subconcious storyline usually plays out something like this: I am in a classroom where the students are completely out of control, but when I try to talk nothing comes out...no sound, and I'm invisible, it seems, to the students. My students have never been completely out of control, thank God, but the dreams are still there every so often.

Back to my English friend...she sent me an e-mail from a listserv where fellow English teachers were talking about their dreams. One woman dreamed she walked into a classroom of students who appeared as students from her high school graduating class of 1985...crazy. Mine haven't delved that deep yet:)