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Haunted by Recurring Dreams
Making sense of my nighttime adventures
I dream a lot. Most mornings when I awaken, I can remember one or more dreams I had the night before. I don’t spend a lot of time trying to interpret them in a search for some underlying meaning, but I do wonder where in the heck some of the material comes from. For the most part, though, I think of them as free entertainment where I didn’t have to buy a ticket for admission.
It’s like a movie without the popcorn.
By far the most interesting dreams are the ones I have had, in various incarnations, more than once. These are what are known as “recurring dreams” and because I have had them multiple times, there is a familiarity with them each time I have one. It feels like I am returning to a place I already know.
The mystery of the Whittier School
One dream I keep having takes place in a school building I had attended when I was in kindergarten that was abandoned shortly after I attended there. It was located at the end of the street I grew up on and was named The Whittier School. Built in 1889, it was our town’s first high school. By the…
