The preposition jingle

Date: 10/9/2018

I’m driving around the town I grew up in. Amy is siding shotgun and some other friends are in the back. I hear an odd tune on the radio and turn it up. “OH MY GOD THIS IS SHIRLEY GRAMMAR JINGLES” I say in disbelief. No one else gets it. I click some button and it starts playing the “music video” on the screen. Except it’s a video from when I was in elementary school. Me and my classmates are reciting the prepositions jingle “aboard, about, above, after, against, around, at! Beside, behind, below, between...” My classmates are all very enthusiastic. My friend Peter is named P. R. Yankovich. “Why is he Russian??” I wonder aloud as I sing along. The camera pans to 2nd grade me with messy hair and gapped teeth where I’d pulled all the loose ones. “But I don’t know how to math!” I shout dramatically. The class laughs. The video switches to an interview with Michael Phelps—before he was famous. He talks about the importance of math literacy in elementary schools. Present day me flips out and almost crashes the car because “I WAS IN A VIDEO WITH MICHAEL PHELPS???” Amy grips her seat for dear life as we careen through the intersection near super Wal-Mart.

AI generated interpretation This dream suggests that you may have unresolved feelings about your educational experience. It may be possible that you feel as if you did not receive all the educational opportunities that you could have, or that you feel you should have done better academically. The presence of Michael Phelps in the dream may represent a personal goal or ambition that you feel you have yet to achieve. The prepositions jingle could suggest that you are reflecting on the past and trying to find ways to move forward. The presence of your friends in the dream may also reflect your desire for support and connection as you try to move forward.