I was on an plane, a passenger jet, and there was some sort of exam being conducted – I hadn’t been paying attention so I had missed the introduction. I desperately tried to keep up but I could only ever make a start on the questions I had been given, since they all seemed to require specific knowledge I didn’t have. The problems were very complex and required great concentration, and I was constantly being distracted by noise and turbulence, although the people around me seemed to be completely unfazed. An attractive girl from across the aisle seemed to lose interest in the test, and decided instead to stretch out horizontally across the aisle and several seats, ostensibly to watch the in-flight movie. She propped herself up with her elbow on my tray table, and my face was in her hair. She was covering my test paper and pinning my hand, so I leaned forward and breathed into her ear that I wished her to move, then woke up. Upon realizing that it had been merely a dream, I actually felt more frustrated, and wanted to go "back in" – not to make the acquaintance of the attractive girl, but to finish the mysterious test and prove that [whatever it was] I could do it.
The Nerd
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