Dream

Today while I was delivering my class, there was a past year question related to a library. At that moment when I was explaining the accounting treatment to the students, I suddenly recalled that I once had a bad dream involving a library. Then I shared it with my students (although I know that dream is nonsense for most people 😂). Nevertheless, I am glad that some of them laughed. Maybe I should share more about this dream that I used to have.

Speaking of dream, I must mention this movie:

Don't worry, my dream is not as complicated as this movie. Otherwise, this post will be a thesis 😂(P.S. this is a damn good movie, you should watch it when you are free if you have never watched it before).

Anyway, the dreams that I can remember after I woke up (especially if I can still remember it until now) are mostly dreams that are not so pleasant. There are some recurring dreams that I used to have, and I think one of it is the dream about the library (I am not 100% sure, but I felt that this dream had repeated itself several times).

My dream about the library has something to do with the following notice:

You are right! The dream is about forgetting to return library book and I am being imposed a hefty overdue fees by the library.

Yeah, I know, facepalm. Even I wanna facepalm myself for having such a weird dream.

The dream was something like this:

1. I was at the time when I would graduate college really soon.
2. I received a call from the school library informing me that I still have books that were not returned to the library.
3. I misplaced the book and I couldn't locate it.
4. I was imposed a hefty overdue fees.
5. If I don't pay the fees, I couldn't graduate.
6. I don't know how to tell my parent about this.

There you go, it is a dream that made me felt anxious even after I woke up. At the point I woke up, I felt so shitty about not returning the books. Then I realised that I had graduated and I did not have books that were not returned to the library.

Aduhhh, heng ah! 😂

(In Hokkien - literally translate to phew, luckily.)

Instantly relieved after the realisation of how absurd this dream was.

Perhaps this comic is suitable for me:

Yup, definitely not accountant-ish.

Or maybe this happened:

Or maybe this:

Seems legit though. Another legit reason might be:

Well, at least I am trying! 😂 Maybe this will work for me:

Write this statement multiple times until I remember it clearly.🙊

I am not saying that I always forgot to return by library book all the time, but I think it ever happened to me before in real life. It is not a good feeling.

Well I guess I had such dream whenever I felt anxious and worried in the real life. There is a saying in Mandarin:

日有所思，夜有所梦。

Literally translated as the dream that you have at night is the reflection of what you thought of during the day time.

I felt lucky that this dream does not appear anymore (and I am pretty sure I don't have overdue books with me now 😂). It is ok though, once in a while we have a really weird dream which may affect our mood when we woke up. Don't let it affect our mood for the whole day. Just share it with your friend, laugh over it and move on with life. After all, life is too short for us to be living in a bad dreams.

Maybe next time I can share with you about the nightmare of needing to sit for exam, even though it was after I passed my ACCA and changed my career to be a lecturer? This will be another story about my dream next time.😉