In my Dreams....

[walkertexasdruid]

I have had this recurring dream for at least the last ten years:

I am back in either High School or College, and I am doing very well. For some reason I forget about a class that I am attending that I need to graduate. When I finally realize that I need to go to that class, I cannot find it! I look and look, but it seems that the class does not exist! I usually wake up in a panic at that point. I have also had a series of dreams where for some reason I have to go all the way back to elementary school, and each night was a school year.

I suppose I have some kind of anxiety that I have yet to resolve. What do you guys think? :ohdear:

[rpgdemon]

That's actually a really common stress dream that pretty much everyone has some sort of permutation of.

I know that answer doesn't really help you much, but hopefully it is some relief?

[MSperoni]

I have a recurring dream like that. I'm in High School and I have to be in a class at a certain time but I have no idea where it is. I keep checking my little class schedule thingie but it doesn't help me. And the teachers/faculty I ask aren't helpful either. They point me in a general direction but I still wander around aimlessly until the bell rings and I'm late for class...

[Sithdarth]

I guess my variant is that I'm somehow talking college courses half the time at a college while still finishing some high school courses at the high school. The problem is that I always seem to spend to much time at the college and when I finally get back to the high school I've missed too many classes and can't remember where or when my high school classes are to catch back up.

I guess mine in particular is related to a fear of trying to do too much and forgetting things.

[walkertexasdruid]

I am glad that I am not the only one that has these kinds of dreams.

[Loyal]

I'm regularly having dreams that every single thing in my life is passing me by because I'm always, always, always too late to do anything about it because my already poor time management is magnified to a preposterous degree.

I go into a panic. I'm going to fail my courses. I'm going to lose my job. And then I wake up and it's like 6-7 AM. If I'm lucky. Sometimes I wake up at 3 or 4 and wonder if I seriously slept so long that it's the next night.

Fuck you, subconcious.

[BB]

I get the school dream too, always in the form of a school friend finds me and says "you do know you were supposed to be in school all this time right?" and then I'm back there, all my classmates there too.

Luckily, although it's been nearly 9 years since I was in school, I never seem to have much catching up to do!

[MSperoni]

I do sometimes have a variation of my High School dream:

I've either already completed college, or am about to, and I have to go back to my High School to tie up some loose academic end (like complete a class I need to finish for my degree, or some class I need to take to "round my degree off").

Then I end up wandering around aimlessly in the High School for awhile, like the "normal" version of the dream. Then when I finally figure out where I need to go (if I do) I'm like "screw this, I've gone through college! I don't need to worry about being bothered by this crap!" and then I leave.

(Which seems to contradict the reason I'm there in the first place, but it's a dream so it doesn't have to make plot-sense).

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

I'm pretty convinced at this point that I just don't dream. I mean, I know I probably do, because it's a thing most humans do, but for the life of me I can never remember a single dream I've ever had. I wake up in the morning with no recollection of any dream I might have had that night.

I don't know what that says about me.

[Aerozord]

Oddest thing about my dreams is I'm rarely in them. Usually when I dream its like a third person narrative. I'm watching stuff happen to other people. To me dreams are like TV, just something entertaining to watch until I have to get up.

[Raiden]

Mine is that it's Finals time and while checking my schedule I realize there was a class I was supposed to be attending all semester that I had never gone to. No matter how many times I get hit with it, I always fall for it.

What class is it? Fuck if I know. Maybe I'd known if I had shown up.

[synkr0nized]

I have often had dreams about being back in high school, forgetting how to get into my locker or getting lost trying to find a specific class, with the school in ways resembling my actual high school and in other ways being either the same style but a new layout or some kind of weird, amazing building that I'd love to be able to sketch out somehow.

Often at some point I will remember that I've not only already graduated high school but have also completed both a Bachelor's and Ph.D. And yet somehow I "have to take these courses" for some kind of remedial thing. Am I afraid that someone's going to take away what I've achieved somehow? I don't know.

But it's really friggin' surreal in a way. As far as I can recall, literally none of my friends, from any of my high school, college, or graduate years, are present, though sometimes the teachers resemble or are teachers and professors I've had.

For me, the problem I end up facing is not being able to find my locker or remember its combination, going to the wrong class, being unsure of my schedule, and/or getting lost in the building/on the grounds (though often this one is a result of how amazing it all is and is kind of fun). I'll also often have some kind of paperwork that I never really read that says stuff about why I am there even when my brain's all, "Wait, I've been through school already."

The times that I can remember where I'm actually in a classroom, I've never been stymied by a question (I'm usually well ahead of what the class is doing), and I haven't had those "oh no I am naked" elements.

I guess it's stress, not landing a job yet and worrying about my qualifications, and other related elements of my life.

[Steel Shadow]

After wracking my memories about it, I think I've had this kind of dream once. Like, years and years ago. Half way through I remembered 'Oh wait, I'm done with this stuff now' and just left. Never had it again!

... Well I can only assume that, I only remember a few of my dreams, and usually not for very long.

[Overcast]

I also cannot really remember any kind of high school or school stress related dream. I was pretty chill all through school, these days are when I have stress dreams, and never so much about being flustered, lost or something like that. They are all about escaping, waking up in a new job, new life, or with a crippling injury to wish away all the troubles of my daily.

[walkertexasdruid]

Other times I dream about the work day I am going to have the next day. Strangely enough my actual work day is very similar to the dream I just had. Hmmmm.....

[MSperoni]

I always hate the dreams I have when I get up and start my day. Then I wake up and then I have to do all that stuff again. Or most of it.