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Of all the vivid, bizarre and downright surreal dreams that I have, there are 5 "Dream Themes" that tend to rotate around in my subconscious. They are:

Dream Theme #1: I’m walking around, completely naked.

Dream Theme #2: I’m hanging around in either the attic or the basement of my old house in East Rochester – both believed to be haunted.

Dream Theme #3: I’ve returned to my job at Wendy’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers after a 12 year hiatus, to work fulltime.

Dream Theme #4: I’m driving around in my old Volvo 240 DL that's plate-less and unregistered.

Dream Theme #5: I need to repeat my senior year of high school math, despite completing 4 years of college and most of my Master’s degree.

I’ve often found that these themes appear while I’m experiencing some level of anxiety in my real life (der). For example, Dream Theme #3 occurs when I’m feeling particularly unsatisfied with my job. I think it’s because I enjoyed my time at Wendy’s; I got paid well, I worked with cool people, and I could eat all the French fries and Frostys that I wanted (I was a vegetarian, so no Junior Bacon Cheeseburgers).

Last night I experienced Dream Theme #5 (with a dash of Dream Theme #1). I was terrible at Math in high school, not that I didn’t get it – rather I found it boring and more work than it was worth. And while I was taking advanced classes such as AP Biology, I was in the lowest level Math class for my year. I didn’t care. So after awaking from that dream this morning, it hit me that my current job-hunt has become senior year Math for me. It’s boring and it’s too much work.

Seriously folks, when did it become so much work to find a job to uh, work?

Why I was naked too, I have no idea.