It is difficult trying to find something to write
about. I don’t have any story or
particular topic in mind to discuss, this makes doing 20 minutes truly
difficult and it means this post will be more of a journal entry than some form
of creative writing. But I really do
want to try and make writing 20 minutes a day a priority. So far I haven’t been so very successful.
This post might not be particularly interesting because I have
decided to talk about the stress I have been experiencing these past few
days. It all started on Wednesday after
I took my ethics test. Right after I
took the test I felt okay about it, but as the day went on I let myself get
more and more worried about how I did on the exam. My dreams became very strange on account of
my stress. Usually when I dream I don’t
dream about things that happened in the previous day. Usually it takes my mind quite some time to
process things and incorporate them into my dreams. For instance if I were to watch an episode of
Walking Dead I am not likely to dream about zombies. It actually took watching the whole first
season over a couple of days for me to have zombie dreams, and even then the
zombie dream came days after I had watched the show. Anyway, Wednesday and Thursday night I had
dreams that were directly influenced by the previous day’s activities. On Wednesday I learned that a going away
party had been thrown for one of the women who worked for the school and I had
not received an invitation about it. Now
to be fair, the invite only went out to the staff and faculty, not to the
student body. Also, at lunch on
Wednesday a fellow student, who is about to get married, showed me pictures she
had on her iphone of wedding dresses.
With that information my mind created an anxiety dream where I walk in
on a party where everyone is dressed up.
All the guys were in tuxes and all the women were in big puffy white
dresses. I was dressed in jeans and
realized I didn’t have time to get a white dress so I could join in the
festivities.
The next day I took a nap in the afternoon and dreamed of
exactly the thing that had caused me stress during the day. I dreamed I couldn’t go to a friend’s
birthday party because I had a prior engagement at my field education
site. In actuality, I was late to a
surprise party because of a service at my field ed. site, but I didn’t miss the
whole thing. The point is that my subconscious
had decided to stop being particularly creative.
The next night the dreams got even more direct and I dreamt
that I got my exam back and at first it said 95 percent on the top but the 95
quickly morphed into a 55 percent and stayed that way. I woke up convinced that I had flunked my
exam.
It was really strange how badly I had stressed myself out on
account of this test. My jaw is only now
recovering from the flair up of TMJ I had.
It was at the point on Thursday where my jaw wouldn’t close right and
the muscle hurt constantly. In addition
to this I was having stomach trouble, extreme fatigue, and I felt like my hair
was falling out.
It turns out I did fine on the test, but the stress was
seriously overwhelming.
Anyway, sorry this post is so utterly pointless.
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