Apparently, self-torment is a basic Human Condition:

Bob Collard
6 min readApr 8, 2021

At least it is for this one….

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Here’s a question for all you psychiatrist or psychologist or whatever-ists out there on Medium. And I know you’re out there, ’cause we read and follow you.

And, clap for you (hint, hint…).

I’m basically fine…

Pretty good, really.

Except for this one little problem…
My subconscious mind delights in flogging me through recurring Anxiety dreams — based apparently on some uncomfortable experiences from my earlier life.

A sadness at the footsteps of dawn…

And frequently too! Like, maybe every other night or so! There are probably three or four recurring dreams which usually result in a sense of dread that sometimes gets so bad, it wakes me up, just to get some relief! Here’s the top three:

  1. Preparing for, or going into, or actually taking a test in college, and realizing I have either: never been to the class, or never studied or did any of the work, and dread is settling down on me like a ton of bricks… I know lots of people have this dream.

Not so much this next one, I bet:

2. I seem to have a lot of “car” dreams, like this: I cannot find my car in some large system of…

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Bob Collard
Bob Collard

Written by Bob Collard

Free-agent (aka: retired). I've turned back into a teenager! (Except without all the angst… better hardware, too).

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