Eric
I agree with Jeanne, trust yourself more than you trust the paraliminal. But I admit in the beginning I trusted the paraliminals a lot. I wore them thin.
Jeanne,
COBOL, I didn't manage either, to me it is verbose and impractical. Delphi is my favourite language.
Dreams, just when I thought COBOL was bad and testy, I face being at school in my dreams constantly. I'm way over 25 but the school dreams keep reoccuring. The stage is one of my fears in the dreams at school, I always do the wrong thing on stage, or fear it so much I choose not to go to practice. I sometimes get a part on the day of the show but of course I haven't practiced, so I don't know the words.