I'm already starting to have dreams about my oral defense. I had a pretty vivid one last night. Though the setting within the dream was not at Princeton Seminary, I knew that this dream was working through some pre-defense anxiety.
I was standing in front of a class, with my colleagues in attendance, and I was spouting nonsense. Then all of my colleagues started verbally challenging me, and I didn’t have an answer. I just stood there socially humiliated, without a lick of intelligence.
Yep, that was a pre-oral defense dream. No doubt about it.