Dream Studying

When I was first learning how to touch type, I used to fall asleep, imagining typing out words.  In my dreams at that time, I was almost always using a typewriter (image link for those of you who have never used one).  And yes, I learned how to type on a typewriter even though it was the late 90s.  It was still Kentucky, afterall. 

The same thing happened when I was learning Spanish.  I would fall asleep conjugating verbs and parts of my dreams would be in Spanish.  In fact, many of my dreams were in Spanish that was more fluent than what I was capable of in my waking hours.  (I guess in some dreams I can fly, too.  Being fluent in Spanish is sort of lame by comparison.)  When I was taking computer science, I used to dream about binary code and programming language, kind of like I was living in the Matrix.

I don't know why it came as a surprise last night that I was dreaming about accounting.  I was dreaming in T-accounts and debits and credits.  If only this dream was an indicator of how I was going to do on the final exam, I would feel good.  Instead, I just feel kind of annoyed.  I spent the entire weekend studying and now the subject is horning in on my sleep time.

At least I know my brain is working.  So often when I'm learning a new subject, I have to learn by brute force for a few weeks before I actually start absorbing and synthesizing the information.  I can't really be alone in that, but the first few classes are always tough because it's all just words or equations until the light bulb blinks on. 

Am I the only person that dreams in Spanish, T-accounts, programming languages and typing?  Surely not.  Does your mind let you know it's working while you sleep with weird dreams?