I’ve been done with (too much) schooling for years now. But I still have dreams where I have a math exam and I don’t know anything (I was good at it back in the day), I don’t know what classes I have to be in/missed a bunch, or I still haven’t finished my thesis. None of which are true.
The last is the worst, but I guess that’s grad school for ya.
I’m 44 and yes, all the time.
Graduated twenty years ago and still have these dreams.
No joke, but the entire time I was in undergrad I would have this nightmare.
Kept getting the “you have to go back for one class we didn’t account for” dream for years after graduating. It was always a language requirement too.
It’s always math for me.
Damn, I didn’t realize I hace those dreams till your comment. I was like. How many damn highschool classes do I have to do I’m 30 years old already.
Not as much as I hit my 40s but mine involved going back to school after a short gap, not being sure if I’ll be able to pass even if it get 100s on my tests and not remembering the combination to my locker.
No, I also have them. Sometimes they are about a single subject, and sometimes they are like, “Oops, I accidentally forgot to go to school for three years.”
Just out of curiosity - are you a heavy drinker and this happens during withdrawals?
Like u drank heavily on Saturday night, do you get this doom paniky feeling with nightmares night Sunday to Monday?I don’t drink, actually. I am just prone to being anxious by default, and it usually happens when I get stressed.
I’m 40. I dream of missing the school bus.
Some times I dream of getting on the school bus but having forgotten to put on shoes.
I dream of being late for a cubicle data processing job I haven’t worked at for 7 years. (I worked for them for 11 years though). I then go on to do the work in the dream.
Like my brain torturing me.
“Turns out I didn’t graduate after all” nightmares love to haunt me during particularly stressful times
Do you ever get “oh no I forgot I parked that car/motorcycle I own and used to drive over around here somewhere? Have to walk around the blocks and look for it” dreams
It’s the opposite for me. I actually dropped out when I was right at the finish line due to a particularly good job offer at the time. From time to time I get dreams about finally graduating, then I wake up… I mean I don’t regret my decision back then and certainly with the experience I have now no employer cares, but boy it does hurt.
I didn’t know that so many of us share the same dream.
I graduated in 99 and I have these dreams.
I graduated at 99 and I have these dreams.
“Modern education systems are definitely not traumatically abusive and most certainly are not creating PTSD-riddled students who struggle to function in society.”
The students in question 3 nights a week:
I mean, I get your point, but I feel like this is something different. I sailed through school and university with great grades with barely any effort, never felt any kind of pressure around that on me. The worst it got was the occasional vocab test that I put off learning for until the evening before. I liked school. And I still get this kind of dream occasionally. So at this point, it seems more like anxiety will just latch onto that kind of thing, whether it was actually traumatic or not
Forgetting a class or going to class without pants and/or a shirt and having to ninja my way out of there…
I have a recurring dream about being unaware there was a test in class today, and then I cant even find the classroom.
I haven’t had a dream like that before but it would be comical to be walking into like 3rd grade petrified you can’t find your class and get escorted to where you are supposed to be and being handed a test. Bam, it’s a 3rd grade test. You fucking crush that thing, feel like a champ and wake up feeling like you know you got 100.
They thought they were going to trick me with 7x8 or 6x7? Psh. Those have been up there for 30 years.
You missed the final and must beg the professor for a re-take.
I keep dreaming of attending a university to see if I want to take an advanced degree program there.
However, while I participate to a degree, I have zero obligation to participate in the class or anything final at all. Of course the class is full of everyone I’ve known since high school and college.
I always wake up from those dreams melancholy.
