Having a bad dream about me getting lost!

Feb. 13, 2021

Last night I had another bad dream and it was about me getting lost. Before my diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment in 2005, this was not happening. At least this time I didn’t wake up crying or upset. The dream was happening at a place that looked like a college campus.

I know that when I was working as a paraeducator in an elementary school, that every other year we would go to a college campus for a one-day workshop. Ahead of time, we would pick what subjects interested us and we would reserve a spot in the different classes. I think that beforehand I would ask any of my friends including some teachers who I worked with, which classes they were signed up for. I think that there were three that we needed to sign up for. I was able to just go with someone I knew who was also signed up for the same classes as me. I never had problems with getting lost because I always made sure that someone was with me.

During this recent dream, I was leaving one class and I had no one to help me navigate my way to the next class. I just walked around the campus, hoping to run into someone who I knew, but that never happened. I was getting worried because it was starting to get dark out. There were lots of other staff at these classes who were from other school districts. I was able to find some former high school students from my school district who I knew. They were able to give me a ride back to my car that was parked at the school where I worked. I was happy and relieved.