Advisor dreams and nightmares

Ok. Here is my attempt to blog since I will soon no longer be president of UCAN and can let my guard down.

How many of you still have education dreams and nightmares? Sadly I am one of these people who dream about being back high school and college (usually missing a test or assignments or getting in trouble - the worst is one where I am back student teaching and cannot remember my students names). I return to being a teenager or college undergraduate who seems constantly worried about completing papers at the last minute/ missing tests, and missing school because I slept late. Throughout the dream or nightmare I don't have any thoughts about my current life, family, career and educational attainment. What makes them funny in retrospect is my chosen profession - academic advisor - many times these are real situations of my students. I probably have one of these every couple of months usually during a high stress period like registration and when other projects are also going on - when we all have 15 or 30 minute appointments all day and a full mailbox of email and 30 voicemails. I am convinced I keep having them because of my chosen profession and to remind me of what its like to be a student.

Whats really funny about having these dreams is that these situations actually rarely happened in my life - Looking back I was an average student worred more about my social life (friends, girlfriend - who is still willing to put up with me as a husband, playing nintendo or Battletech - a transformers meets dungeons and dragons role playing game) and running cross country for my high school than getting homework done or stressing over a test. If I did bad on a test or homework assignment I was like "Oh well I still get to watch toons when I get home and play Super Mario Brothers or tetris."

I was reminded of this regular occurence of my life when watching Top Secret - If you have not seen it I highly recommend it - its by the creators of the Airplane movies and stars Val Kilmer (Check out Real Genius for another good Kilmer movie). In the movie Kilmer's character Nick Rivers, sort of an Elvis meets the beach boys musician, is being tortured in East Germany for being a spy - he ends up passing out and dreams he is back in school and has missed finals - he wakes up in the middle of still being tortured relived that it was just a dream. I have the same reaction when I have these dreams I wake up and realize it was all a dream and that life is good - I have a job (not something everone has these days, people that care for me and something better than Nintendo - and XBOX 360".

I am curious if anyone else has these kinds of dreams? Do you have them during regular or early registration?