Caveat: Are You Listening?

I dreamed I was giving a listening test to my students. This isn't that strange – I do it a lot. It was one of those standard Korean TEPS-style English listening tests, you hear some conversation or short academic-style passage, and then the voice drones through the possible answers: "A bla bla bla; B bla bla bla; C bla bla bla; D bla bla bla." These sorts of tests would be difficult for native-speaking students, too – you have to pay close attention, as often, the possible answers tie in to some detail in the preceding passage. I was telling my students to focus, but I was unable to focus, myself, and I was unable to get the right answers on the questions, either.

It wasn't a very interesting dream, plot-wise. It was just interesting that it was a sort of fragment of my life, re-lived so vividly that my memory of the dream and the incomprehensible questions in it stayed with me all morning, and when I got to work after my vacation, this afternoon, I was trying to figure out if the test really happened or if it was, in fact, just a dream.

[daily log: walking, 5 km]

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