I was washing clothes in the dorm laundry room. When I go back to the room, I check the dryer. Even though it's the right machine, my clothes are not there but the machine is spinning.
Pen name: tkfkd It could be that you are simply worried about getting your clothes stolen by a stranger - which happens when you use public laundromat especially in school. It could also mean that you are worried about putting effort into something that you think is important but ending up with no positive results or visible results. The clothes may signify the product of your effort, but they are not there, and the machine spinning may signify your effort, which continues to spin without noticing that the clothes are gone.
The clothes represents your life. You want everything in your life to be as you wish it to be. You want the drying machine to work. You want your clothes to be dry once they're out of the dryer. You want your clothes to still be in the dryer. But it's not, because your clothes do not fit this machine. Your life does not fit into the machines of life. You are different. You shouldn't use no public laundry machines. You shouldn't conform your life to the popular prescriped values of society.