Hello how are you?
Hello! I'm doing just great, thanks. How are you doing?
I am doing fantastic! I have a final today but I am not stressed about it.
That's good. Being stressed is rarely helpful on exams. Is it your last final exam of the semester?
No I still have a few more. I am a little stressed about my religion final.
When will you be taking that one?
I am taking it on wednesday. How about you do you have any stressful finals coming up this week? Or are you done with the worst of it?
I've finished the bulk of them. I took two exams a day on Friday and Saturday. So, I've just got one left that I'm hoping to take today. I'm not super stressed because they allow us to take half a sheet of paper with us into the testing center. That's plenty of room for all my notes over the semester.
Oh yeah that is great. I love it when teachers throw you a bone like that. It makes the final less stressful. I feel like sometimes the schoolsystem os designed to make you stressed and it isnt conducive to good learning
Exactly, but sometimes that gives them license to ask harder questions. So, it probably evens out in the end. In any case, I'm not complaining. It'll be helpful. I think a lot of that stress comes from our obsession with getting good grades, y'know? Most people worry too much about getting straight A's.
Yeah thats me haha. I am hoping for straight As this semester.
I think most student hope for that! It's a good goal, because it can open all sorts of doors for us, but we don't want to confuse good grades with good self worth.
But it is reasonable considering there are thousands of dollars worth of scholarships available if you manage to get straight as for the majority of your schooling Yeah. That is true. Getting good grades shows that you worked hard but it doesnt necessarily show that you are a better person or that you even know the material as good as ot
Exactly! You're right in saying it is reasonable to shoot for. Most of us don't have the money for college, and our good grades get us through without tons of debt. I just wish we weren't so hard on ourselves about it.
Yeah thats true. I had the most awesome dream this morning. In it I was some sort of super hero and I had this crazy power inside of me. Somehow i managed to eat a bunch of jewelry or something. It was weird. I was talking to a doctor about getting it out.
That's hilariously weird. Was your power related to eating jewelry?
I had the power to expel things from inside of me but for some reason I couldnt do it with the jewelry Some dude came in and I started glowing then I touched him and this really cool suit of armor errupted around him and he became like a guardian or something. It was legit. Sometimes I have cool dreams. Honestly that one is a little difficult to explain though.
So, you basically had the ability to superbarf your way out of anything as long as it wasn't jewelry? How do you remember your dreams so well? I always forget mine right when I wake up.
No usually I forget them too just this time I remembered all my my Dream. It doesn't happen often but when it does it is awesome.
Have you ever controlled your dream? Like Inception-style?
Yeah. Sometimes I am self aware in my dreams and I can control what happens in it. That is the best:
That's absolutely awesome! What kind of things have you done in the dreams that you controlled?
I tend to find that controlling my dream brings me further and further out of it because my mind realizes I am awake I changed my scenery and made stuff happen that I always wanted to do but sont happen in reall life. Lie shoot lightning bolts for example or throw fireballs
So, you wake up faster when you control your dream?
Yes the more I try to manipulate it the more conscious I become and tbe closed to reality I become
I guess that makes sense. I think that's probably why I woke up so quickly the few times I actually controlled my dream. I was creating firearms out of thin air and flying around, my mind was bound to catch up to me sometime. But it's weird how controlling wakes you up, but having a crazy dream doesn't always do that.