High-School Dreaming

Last night i dreamt that i had to go back to high school. Strangely, i was excited about this fact. It turned out (in my dream) that students have 5 years of eligibility to play basketball, so i was going to be able to play for a year. Also, Shaq and Dwyane Wade were both going back to high school with me (yes, the one from which i graduated with 9 other people). We were totally going to win state.

i was originally pretty bummed that i'd have to take high-school classes again (i've already taken them, and some were pretty boring the first time through), but then i realized that i could take calculus as a freshman and then move on to higher level math classes in future years. That made me much more eager to start back in. Thinking back, i'm not sure why i stopped at calculus. i could have started at least with something i don't know as well and that i might find more interesting, like linear algebra. Dreams can be so illogical.

i'm not sure why i'd have a dream like that, but there are some points that i can pick out origins for. The 5 years of eligibility, for example, is actually from college. You can only play in 4 of those 5 (contiguous) years, but if i had returned to Caltech for grad school or some such, i could have still played. But i haven't thought about that in a while. i also have no idea why i picked Shaq and Wade to come back with me. i hope it isn't post-dream imprinting because i read an article about them today, but i suppose it could be. Regardless, it was definitely two professional basketball players.

i've also been thinking lately about keeping my brain active - trying to continue to learn different things so i don't get stuck in a rut and let life pass me by. i've been working on my photography skills, and try to learn new things at work (programming languages/paradigms, best practices...). So maybe that's where that piece comes from.

So that might explain where the different pieces came from for the dream, but why did they all come together on one night? Who knows, but it was fun dissecting things. Thanks for your patience.