The meaning of dreams

I don't really remember what was going on in my life when I had that \"body part sorting\" dream, as it was 10 or 12 years ago. Could have been some changes going on though, as that would definitely make sense that I was trying to sort things out.

I've had a couple of weird sleep walking incidents. When I was about 5 years old, I fell down our basement stairs... 8 feet straight down, onto the concrete floor, and I didn't even wake up. Or maybe I knocked myself out, I'm not sure, but I don't remember it at all. My mom apparently thought I was dead, when she saw me lying there.

And when I was 12, I walked out the back door and locked it behind me, in the middle of the night in November. The cold must have woken me up, because I do remember that one. Scared my mom when I started pouning on the door to be let in, because, as far as she knew, the whole family was in the house.

I still wander occassionally (I'm 36) so I don't know if I'll ever outgrow it. At least I haven't injured myself recently though...

OMG Envy you perform? Is it your first one, or are you accustomed to it? When I am in a stressful situation then I can't sleep at all I tend to wake up every 15 minutes

millkins wrote:

OMG Envy you perform? Is it your first one, or are you accustomed to it? When I am in a stressful situation then I can't sleep at all I tend to wake up every 15 minutes

I do perform and this is not my first time, however, that does not mean I'm accustomed to it at all! My teacher at college is constantly trying to get me on stage to build my confidence and try to prevent me from going berserk at any mention of the word 'performance'...

I just shake so much that my piano-playing goes horrifically wrong!

I have noticed that I can never sleep the night before the first day of college or an interview etc. though.

Surprisingly..I slept very well last night. It was probably because I was so extremely tired (had a 'power nap' by accident after dinner) and that I knew I didn't have a normal college day today because of a university open day.

Your teacher might be right about helping performance anxiety by performing more. That could help you to learn to calm the anxieties with other sorts of things, like interviews for colleges. Anyway, it helped me, when I was a kid, to perform in a group, not as a soloist. I would play in a quartet, or with a group of other violinists or violists. It really helped get over the nervousness I used to feel.

Well, we have performed a lot as a choir, and then as 4 soloists and then singing alone but still standing in a choir so I guess that helped. It is really how you want to think about it really, if you convince yourself it is not a bid deal and it is a performance 1 of many that will come and have passed, that one mistake that you fear will be meaningless so just try and change your way of seeing it and you should be less anxious. And I agree with scootiebee, your teacher has a point

No matter how much I perform, I can never get rid of this horrific anxiety and adrenaline rush.. I usually think that I'll be fine in interviews and I'll feel calm about it, until the day actually comes and I completely panic outside the interview room. :S

Still very very tired. I keep randomly drifting off to sleep, haha. Not dreamt of anything in a few days, which is a relief. I end up not wanting to sleep when I have episodes of nightmares consecutively..