Pre-Med Bad Dreams

[Elliott Smith]

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I thought it would be interesting to have a thread showcasing the bad dreams or nightmares of SDNers about the whole application process. I apologize if this is a topic that has been beaten like a dead horse, Post Away either way. I recently had a weird one of my own:

I was being followed around like a reality tv show, and for some reason during this show I was trying to find a missing dog. I never found the dog, but I did see my friend buying pot from a drug dealer. Then I chased him in a greyhound bus across a dandelion meadow until I could get the pot away from him and tell him how he shouldn't do it. Then the show turned into cops and there was helicopters and dogs chasing me...a set up! I was booked for possession of marijuana. I cried in my dream because I thought I wouldn't get into medical school. I woke up sad.

Crazy thing is, no matter how many of you might burn me for it...I neither smoke or am a proponent for pot, nor know how to drive a bus. Either way, it was freaky as hell. Hope to hear some more crazy dreams. 😴

 

[ssefase]

Took the MCAT totally unprepared and didn't complete a page of the verbal section. I decided to cancel my test score, the the tester said "no you can't do that." and I freaked out.

I actually had a similar dream to you recently, but it was a lot weirder... too long to explain.

 

[J-MUNCH]

I thought it would be interesting to have a thread showcasing the bad dreams or nightmares of SDNers about the whole application process. I apologize if this is a topic that has been beaten like a dead horse, Post Away either way. I recently had a weird one of my own:

I was being followed around like a reality tv show, and for some reason during this show I was trying to find a missing dog. I never found the dog, but I did see my friend buying pot from a drug dealer. Then I chased him in a greyhound bus across a dandelion meadow until I could get the pot away from him and tell him how he shouldn't do it. Then the show turned into cops and there was helicopters and dogs chasing me...a set up! I was booked for possession of marijuana. I cried in my dream because I thought I wouldn't get into medical school. I woke up sad.

Crazy thing is, no matter how many of you might burn me for it...I neither smoke or am a proponent for pot, nor know how to drive a bus. Either way, it was freaky as hell. Hope to hear some more crazy dreams. 😴

I have been studying dreams for many years now and you my friend obviously are hiding somrthing from the adcoms.

You should be ashamed........

 

[Elliott Smith]

I have been studying dreams for many years now and you my friend obviously are hiding somrthing from the adcoms.

You should be ashamed........

Really? Well that makes the dream even weirder then. Though I doubt your conclusion really. But since you have a "been studying dreams for many years" you must be an expert.

 

[45408]

eh, about two weeks ago I dreamt I was walking through my first choice (waitlisted/withdrew) to get to my actual school. 🙁

 

[SpenserKuntz]

I had a dream where my chemistry book was talking to me, and then it killed my lab note-book. It's strange, though - it was my lab note-book, but it wasn't. It's difficult to explain. It was probably one of the stranger dreams I've had.

 

[Zoom-Zoom]

I have been studying dreams for many years now and you my friend obviously are hiding somrthing from the adcoms.

You should be ashamed........

Dream interpretation is, at its very best, a pseudo-science.


This reminds me. I was once on a very long flight to Singapore. Before leaving I realized I was going to be very bored so I shuffled through some junk and found my old gameboy. I had one game, mario brothers. I played that thing for like 12 hours staight. That night, I had a mario brothers dream. It was creepy because everything was a cartoon, and 2-D. I didn't even know we were capable of having dreams like that.

 

[bananaboat]

okay i took the mcat last night in my dream multiple times (practice mcats).

in fact, in between i was training with chuck norris, who showed me how to sharpen my pencils and gave me a really crappy skipping rope. (we are actually doing physical training)...*must have been inspired by all the chunk norris mcat jokes*.

then, i yelled at my friends becuase they were being too noisey during practic exams.

finally after the exam i went on some vaccation, and i saw the family friend who was accepted to mt. sinai through hummanity program after 2nd year. while she and her mom stayed on the top of the hill, i was falling down this ladder made of logs and chains. 😱 🙄 😛

 

[Zoom-Zoom]

You're lucky. Most people who dream about Chuck Norris don't wake up. Ever.

 

[polycon7]

I had a dream this morning that I was on sdn reading a thread then all these posts came filtering in and singing the munchkin song from wizard of oz.."ding dong the witch is dead"...it was really strange. I haven't seen that movie in forever! 😕

 

[MirrorTodd]

I've had dreams about SDN before. My mind was making up posts from other users here. I wasn't dreaming about posts I've seen, but they were actually completely made up posts.
It's not like SDN affects my life or anything. I mean, I can stop any time I want to.

 

[Pemberley]

I have been studying dreams for many years now and you my friend obviously are hiding somrthing from the adcoms.

Two nights after the MCAT scores were released, I dreamed that I was in my first interview. Cutty (the character from the show House) was interviewing me in her office.

30 seconds into our conversation, it was clear as crystal to her that I hadn't really earned my MCAT score in biology, at least (and she hadn't even considered the other sections yet; she assured me she would find every fragment of ignorance I had on all the subjects and document them thoroughly). First she lectured me about how, if I'd been an honest person, I would have written in for a re-count, acknowledging up front that my score was probably wrong.

Then she decided that the reason I hadn't is that I must have cheated on the MCAT. She called the police, who came in the form of two woman marines, each with the face of Lyndie England but with way more muscle mass. The dream ended as they dragged me out the door (each was hauling under one of my arms; I was facing backward with my heels were dragging on the floor behind them) to Leavenworth.

 

[Depakote]

Not really related to the process, but...

Last night, I was lying in bed, I guess I had just drifted off to sleep b/c I basically thought I was still awake except I thought I felt something crawling on my arm and I heard a hissing/rattling sound.

I was awake, across the room with the lights on in half a second. Massive adrenaline surge. I threw the blanket off the bed and checked it for anything/everything. For some reason, I would have sworn I had a giant spider on my arm. (I know the sound was more of a snake sound, cut me some slack). Nothing there.

I looked at the clock and I'd been asleep for maybe 20 min.

Freakiest dream I've had in years, just because I couldn't tell it wasn't real.

 

[Elliott Smith]

Zoidberg...I can never get enough of that link.

 

[booswim542]

Good post....I keep having dreams almost every night that are some variation of me forgetting my suit/losing my suit/ruining my suit for my interview. I have to call back home to get someone to send me one or buy me a new one. Usually it's the airline's fault in my dream, hence my decision to buy a carry-on suit bag...

 

[Zoom-Zoom]

Good post....I keep having dreams almost every night that are some variation of me forgetting my suit/losing my suit/ruining my suit for my interview. I have to call back home to get someone to send me one or buy me a new one. Usually it's the airline's fault in my dream, hence my decision to buy a carry-on suit bag...

very good idea