Sep 14th 2025 dream: The Solitaire

Here is my first blog :3

I actually started writing this as a bulletin but then it became too long and i was like "you know what! let's make it a blog", so now you can get my yapping to be stored into a server forever. Aren't you feeling lucky already

Now, talking about the topic itself, I might say that my dreams are often, if not always, characterized by a feeling of anxiety or oddity (and I wouldn't be surprised but I'll dwell about this in another blog); I generally remember the main details of the story for the rest of the following day, and if I write about them i can also store an image in my brain for whenever i read them again.

One particular recurring dream plot of mine happens to be the one related to school exams. Even though I graduated from high school in July 2022, ever since that moment I have dreamt the most varied episodes of me having all sorts of tests (usually written ones). One I can remember quite vividly, for instance, is that one in which I have to do my final Italian test of high school sitting at a school desk positioned inside an empty swimming pool located right outside of my institute. why? only god knows

A recurring theme of these school tests dreams is that, even though i'm supposed to be at school at that moment, my mind is portrayed as the mind of the current me. Therefore, the literal process my mind always follows while experiencing the dream is:

1. I am at school, sitting in front of my test/exam;

2. Why am I at school at this age? I don't really care actually (and acknowledging I'm definitely not at school anymore in real life would probably make me realize that I'm dreaming, consequently waking me up), THOUGH I was surely not prepared for this. I did NOT study for any of this;

3. *chuckles* I'm in danger. Here comes that feeling of anxiety. Tomorrow it could be me running from a thief, or experiencing an earthquake, but yeah today it had to be a school test.

Getting to last night's dream, here it was another Italian test! This one was not actually the final one, but rather some random test. My classmates were there with me (full of empty faces, since tonight apparently none of them was important enough to be featured as a character) and my Italian high school teacher was there as well (she was very sweet actually I can't get mad...). The peculiarity of this last test was not the setting or anything like that, besides it was the fact that it was officially called "The Solitaire". There were no game cards to play with though, it was just... called like that. There were tons of short questions like some sort of crosswords games and we had to get to the test with the answers already prepared. As I looked around myself, I could notice that my classmates had already read the questions before test day, and I can remember that I had sort of refused doing that because I did not think it was fair. Silly me!

The test did not start immediately, as some of the classmates were late and hadn't got to the classroom yet. I remember that some other teacher (who was not an existing person of my life though) was looking for some boy in a changing room, as well as one paper had been prepared for one of my actual coworkers too (70 year old guy...?).

Now, when the test began, I could start feeling the real anxiety flowing through my veins. As time went by, I could only answer one or two of the many questions. And I think the one I answered was related to Hatsune Miku please don't ask me why cause i don't have an answer

As the test finally ended, I could not think about anything but the fact that it would have been the second low mark after the very recent beginning of the school year (where did the first one come from? who the hell knows)! And there it goes, the loop. How will I recover from this, how will I be able to confront my teacher, and so on. Eventually, I wake up.

I could actually start telling my dreams here, I find it cool. The only issue is that apart from weekends I don't really have the time in the morning to get myself to write in detail, so I would probably have to take some notes as I wake up and then get more in detail as soon as I get home from work. If I manage to remember them, of course...

Thanks for reading this madness, if you did, and have a great day! ^^