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John Byrne
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Posted: 18 September 2026 at 4:12pm \| IP Logged \| 1	post reply

When my son was in daycare the year before he started kindergarten…

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When i was 5, kindergarten WAS day care. It was not considered part of the normal school structure. None of this K-thru-12 business.

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Posted: 18 September 2026 at 7:15pm \| IP Logged \| 2	post reply

... since the discussion has drifted to dreams ...

on more than one occassion i have had dreams with credits, you know, "starring ..." "directed by me".

i have repeats, like one where i and another person are 'stuck' in the same washroom in the same house and have to get out. same plot but with different guest stars.

and finally, almost all my dreams (the ones i remember) involve a quest, trying to find someone, trying to find something, going from point a to point b ... i do a lot of walking/driving/train-ing/plane-ing in my dreams.

anyone else notice any 'trends' in their dreams ?

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Posted: 18 September 2026 at 7:42pm \| IP Logged \| 3	post reply

My dreams are usually about trying to make my way home.

Sometimes it’s very simple—I am in a large hotel and I have forgotten where my room is.

Sometimes I am in a large city (bearing a strong resemblance to the French Quarter in New Orleans) and I am trying to get across town to my house.

Usually they take place a night, albeit well lit.

Most of the time I end up in a giant toy store.

None of them are nightmares.

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Posted: 19 September 2026 at 12:45am \| IP Logged \| 4	post reply

I was thinking you were describing a stress dream until you got to the giant toy store part, JB!

I apologize for further thread drift, but I’m curious if you remember: when I started working in education, kindergarten in Ontario was a two year, half day affair: junior kindergarten and senior kindergarten. Maybe a decade ago they changed it to two year full day kindergarten, meaning we’d often have three year olds in the classroom for seven hour school days, which to me is madness. How was it different in your day, JB?

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Posted: 19 September 2026 at 4:22am \| IP Logged \| 5	post reply

I just remembered that every now and then I'd have the same dream that I have one leg longer than the other by about 6-10 inches, so I have to hobble very awkwardly to walk. I think I recall at some time in my life somebody commenting that I walked funny, and I suppose that subconsciously stuck with me.

It took decades before I found out from the footprints from my getting out of a pool that an ex-gf pointed out to me that I was actually flat-footed.

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Posted: 19 September 2026 at 11:03am \| IP Logged \| 6	post reply

In my day, as noted, kindergarten was basically day care. School started with first grade.

The rise of double income families, were the husband and wife both had jobs outside the home, created a need for somewhere to put the kids, and so kindergarten became the official starting point.

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