I took my philosophy exam today, and now I’m done with exams until final exam week. Even better, instead of having all my exams on the week of final exams, I have two exams on their regular final exam days and two exams the week before on the last day of classes.

The exam I took was surprisingly easy compared to the amount of reading that we had to do. We had two sets of essay questions with two prompts in each one, and we had to pick one essay from each set to answer. There were two decently-sized books that we had to read, but I think I could’ve done perfectly fine without even looking at the books and just writing based off the material we covered during lecture and discussion sections.

So if you happen to be a philosophy instructor, you should probably make your exam questions inclusive of out-of-class material as well as lecture and discussion material, or else your students might not actually read the books you recommend (what a surprise).

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Topic #86: If you could script tonight’s dream, what would would the plot be? There is a concept called lucid dreaming, where people are able to have some control over their dreams. Have you ever had a lucid dream? Would you want one?

If I could script tonight’s dream, I would probably script it so nothing happens and I get a full night of comfortable rest.

Normally, I would probably say that I would script it so I would be reviewing my notes for an exam, because dreams generally act as a way for your body to prepare for theoretical things that could happen in the world. If I keep on practicing taking the exam and studying the material, I would have a stronger grasp on the material for when the real exam comes around. However, I have no high-priority academic stuff to worry about right now, and there’s nothing else that I need urgent practice for, so I would probably benefit most from a night of good sleep.

I generally don’t have any lucid dreams, but I would like to train myself to have lucid dreams. I’m curious what is contained in my subconscious mind, and I think that with a combination of lucid dreaming and interpreting other uncontrollable things that happen in my dreams, I can find out what I am actually thinking subconsciously, and discover what my hidden worries may be, if I have any.

So Far in 2011…

Number of Taco Bell tacos eaten: 21

Number of times I did my own laundry: 2