Dreams

[stoutfellow]

I suppose most people have had this nightmare: you're hurrying to a class, in high school or college; there's a test today, and you haven't studied - you may not even have been attending the class. Those of us in academe sometimes have a variant: you're hurrying to give a test, in a class you haven't been teaching...

It happens that I mentioned this dream on the Bujold list, quite a few years ago.

It happens that Lois McMaster Bujold does read, and occasionally speak up on, the list.

I just ran across the following passage in chapter 19 of her The Hallowed Hunt:

"The gods walk through her dreams as though walking in a garden. I just have dreams of running lost through my old seminary, with no clothes, late for an examination of a class I did not know I had, and the like."
"Taking the examination, or giving it?" Ingrey couldn't help asking.
"Either, variously."

There's probably no connection, of course. Still...

Comments

[hornedhopper.livejournal.com]

I *hated* those dreams! For me, it was generally I had forgotten to bring the syllabus and couldn't remember what was on it, or discovered that I had been assigned to teach a different *subject* altogether.

And, since we know LMB *does* put into the stories, bits from her legion of fans, why not from your dreams, as well.