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A list of my recurring dreams

Alexei Sorokin
4 min readJan 21, 2022

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I’m sure you have yours and I’m sure some are common for a lot of people, like the one about doing an exam of some kind.

  • This first one is really weird. Donald Trump and I (not that I know him) are at Chuck E.Cheese. We are wearing helmets because we’d biked to this place. We stop at different stations but especially at the one where you have lots of coins being pushed to the edge; you put a token and have a chance of some coins falling down from their different levels so that you can eventually collect them. We also stop by the basketball station, and Trump tells me that Russell Westbrook is his favorite NBA player. Ok, I just made it up. The ones below are genuine.
  • Exams, exams, exams. In my younger years, I achieved academic excellence, especially when I was at my boarding school in England. I had straight As and got into Cambridge. But I guess the stress from the hard work was so high that it’s engraved in my mind for the rest of my life. In my dreams, I’m heading to some exam and worry about being unprepared. For example, I know I have a math one coming up but for some reason, I hadn’t done any math in months. The variations of the exam dream are many but the direction is always the same — heading to or doing an exam unprepared.
  • Continuing the topic of education, I have this frequent dream where I’m back in Russia to finish school. I didn’t finish the final two years of school in Russia. I first went to the US where I spent a year in Oklahoma, then continued for four years in England. So I dream of…

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Alexei Sorokin
Alexei Sorokin

Written by Alexei Sorokin

A Russian immigrant in America, father of 4, Cambridge and Harvard Business School alum. I run and write every day. https://runningwritingliving.substack.com/

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