dreams

[aryanhwy]

Last night's was a fun one, falling in the category of "SCA/academia mash-ups". These come in various kinds -- sometimes it's all of my SCA acquaintances showing up in garb to conferences, sometimes it's SCA events co-located with conferences, and sometimes it's bringing academic colleagues to the SCA. Last night's was of the latter kind -- I don't remember much, but I remember that all my logic seminar students were sitting in on various classes of the sort you get at University or Raglan Fair, and LOVING it. One moment stuck with me, which is why I remember the dream at all, when I looked across a room and saw one of my quieter, more reserved students with his head thrown back grinning as he learned about medieval hunting practices.

These vignettes always amuse me.

Comments

[baronessekat.livejournal.com]

Sounds like your subconscious is telling you that when they are no longer in an academic student relationship with you, you should totally invite them to an SCA collegium.

[aryanhwy.livejournal.com]

I did once try to talk my PhD supervisor into coming to an event with me, but I didn't succeed. (He did medieval studies as an undergrad! I'm sure he would've found it at least a spectacle!)

In this particular case, though, I don't have any reason to suspect any of my logic students as having a specific interest in the Middle Ages. Should any of them display such an interest, I'll definitely invite them!

[hrj.livejournal.com]

I'm curious: do you feel that these dreams represent anxieties about intersecting those parts of your life? Or simply that they both are significant presences?

[aryanhwy.livejournal.com]

These dreams have always been such pure fun that I don't think they represent any anxieties -- I gave up on being anxious about SCA/academic cross-over 6-7 years ago, and that has never been a significant worry since.

That's one reason why I like these dreams -- they're fun. They take my favorite parts of my life and bring them together. Most of the time my dreams are a place for my head to work out in its own peculiar way everything that is bothering me, and they can be quite heavy. (A significant part of my 400 words project is giving me a venue where I can churn these dreams into something resembling sense; once I've written them out, they lose a lot of weight.) Certain times of my life I can track exactly what it is that's worrying me by following the pattern of my dreams.