I was fully aware that I had been in college for three years, but for some reason, I had to return to high school. This didn't seem odd to me in the dream. In fact, I was rather nervous and excited about it. I knew I would be taking a number of AP classes that year, and I wanted to do well in them.
When I arrived at school, I realized I had forgotten how to open a locker. I struggled with my locker for a while, trying different ways to turn the combination lock. I wasn't sure what I was doing wrong. Around me, no one else was having problems with their lockers.
All the lockers were in one room, set up in aisles as though this was some sort of store. It was a bright room, with fluorescent lighting and a newly waxed tile floor. Everyone's coats, jackets, and backpacks were thrown into a pile on the floor; we weren't allowed to keep them in our lockers.
In the room, I saw some of my TAs from my college psychology classes. It looked as though they'd had to return to high school as well.
I don't remember attending any normal classes. Instead, I got my schedule and then tried to run away from the school for lunch. I got outside, and found myself in an intersection near my boyfriend's appartment complex. One of the roads, however, had been turned into a hiking trail. I began walking down it. The trail was gravel, and rocks were getting into my Birkenstocks. I saw other students from my high school there, though I remembered them as people who had graduated the year before I had.
I ended up sitting on a large hill and eating my bagged lunch. I kept thinking I was going to slide down the hill.
An older man appeared on the wooded trail. He was wearing a suit, and he announced that AP Psychology was about to begin. Apparently I was in the right place for my class. Other students gathered to sit on the hill, and class began. The man kept walking up and down the hill, lecturing to us. I felt really proud of myself for taking all of these challenging classes, not seeming to realize that I had gotten credit for Psychology 101 four years before.
