Of what do college students dream?
Published by on March 5th, 2008
What do you think are the top 20 most common dreams of college students - between the ages of 17 and 21?
According to the fascinating reference book, The Writer’s Guide to Character Traits:
- Falling
- Being attacked or pursued
- Trying repeatedly to do something
- School, teachers, and studying
- Sexual experiences
- Arriving too late
- Eating
- Being frozen with fright
- A loved person is dead
- Being locked up
- Finding money
- Swimming
- Snakes
- Being inappropriately dressed
- Being smothered
- Being nude in public
- Fire
- Failing and examination
- Seeing one’s self dead
- Killing someone
I expect we can all tick a few of those off, though I cannot specifically remember any from that list.
What I do remember from my teen sleep, however, is a recurring dream of being at my grandparents’ living room on Christmas day and being handed a bunch of helium filled balloons. They would lift me up - despite the unrealistic assumption that four coloured balloons could elevate the chubby blubber-bucket I was at that time (if you’re even thinking “what’s changed?” you’re off my Christmas card list) - to the rather higher than normal ceiling, while some unrecognised German Shepherd - the dog breed, not a manager of sheep from Unter Absteinach - snapped at my legs in uncomfortably close proximity to my family jewels.
Maybe one day I will tell you about being unable to fly, naked, over rural, barbed-wire fences. And yes, we are still on the subject of dreams. Go on, go get your psychoanalytical friend, Rupert, to tell you all about it.
The book mentioned above - The Writer’s Guide to Character Traits - is one of those reference tomes you dip into rarely but that can save your pants when you are struggling to create a realistic and believable fictitious character. It is a little dry, but highly recommended.
Title Image by Omar Franc
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