I have a similar reoccurring dream where I am basically in school(never in one of my schools), just some random generic school, and I have to get to class, but I have no idea what class or where it is. All I know is that I have to be there, and I'm walking down hallway after hallway, then finally get into a class and have no clue what is going on in there.
June 12, 2018, 10:26 PM
Gutpile Charlie
I have had the same dream of not knowing if I have attended a classthat I should have. The other reoccuring dream I haveis what I call my "show biz" dream.
Over the years I have done a lot of theater work as an actor, musician orchestral conductor and director. The dream that I have is that it about five p.m., the curtain goes up at 8 p.m. ........but I have never attended a rehearsal for the show! I have lived in fear of "going up" on my lines, but I don't even know what the show is and I'm on stage in three hours!
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June 12, 2018, 11:13 PM
Sgt Neutron
I had a dream last year that involved me in 1997. I was in Korea, and working on a follow on assignment. I was on the phone with the Personnel Center at Randolph AFB ( I had to call at 9PM to 3AM local time to work with them). I got a reasonable assignment.
My dream involved me working the assignment, and really pissing off the guy working my assignment. Eventually my assignment came down. I was assigned to MCRD Parris Island---as a Marine recruit! Everyone I tried to contact about the orders said the same thing: "They're Orders. You have to obey orders". So my dream continued with me getting off the bus at Parris Island as a 35 year old USAF E-7 that REALLY didn't give a shit at that point.
June 13, 2018, 09:04 AM
mike28w
I still occasionally have the college class dream , similar to the ones already described ( I'm 62 ).....
This intrigues me... I think it reflects just how stressful college can be.... I suspect that is one of the reason's there is so much acting out in college....ie: wild parties , too much drinking and also drugs and sex.... Kids who aren't quite ready to handle the stress...?
June 14, 2018, 05:33 AM
kkina
quote:
Originally posted by rtquig: [QUOTE]Originally posted by sjtill: I have that dream, but it always takes place in school. That and I can't remember my locker combination.
Almost forgot that one. Had the forgotten locker combination dream like 20 or 30 times. No idea why something like that would be so traumatic. I don't think it ever happened for real, or maybe for just a second at the beginning of a semester.
Originally posted by Angus the Kid: My only reoccurring dream.
I have this dream once or twice a year:
I'm back in college. The semester is ending and as I'm prepping for finals, I remember one class that I barely attended all semester. I attended a few classes at the beginning of the term but did not return for some unknown reason. I don't know why I didn't attend this class, I just didn't. I attended my other classes and feel prepared for their respective finals.
The neglected class is always a math class and I realize I will be completely lost and unprepared for the exam. I panic. I question my future and I wonder what my parents will think of me. I never take the exam. I never even reach the exam date and time before I wake up.
Mind you I'm 53 years old and haven't attended a class in over 30 years! I am a civil engineer and love and excelled in math.
What does this dream mean?
This is a common dream with Georgia Tech grads that I know. It may be a class that you thought you dropped or it may be that you just slept through the exam after a night of cramming, but the theme is similar. I had it once or twice pretty soon after graduating but not in a long time.
I have another recurring dream but I do not know what it is. I know it while I am dreaming it, but I do not remember the content when I awake.
Yep. Had it for 3-4 years after getting out 24 years ago, but not in quite some time.
-- I always prefer reality when I can figure out what it is.
as your analyst I would have to ask, "while you are in this dream are you in your underwear or completely naked?"
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June 14, 2018, 07:34 AM
V-Tail
There was a great passage in Joseph Heller's Catch-22, in which Yossarian, who was trying to convince the shrink that he was crazy, claimed that he had a nightly recurring dream in which he was holding a live fish.
quote:
"Are you both crazy?" the doctor cried shrilly, backing away in paling confusion.
"Yes, he really is crazy, Doc," Dunbar assured him. "Every night he dreams he’s holding a live fish in his hands."
The doctor stopped in his tracks with a look of elegant amazement and distaste, and the ward grew still. "He does what?" he demanded.
"He dreams he"s holding a live fish in his hand."
"What kind of fish?" the doctor inquired sternly of Yossarian.
"I don’t know," Yossarian answered. "I can’t tell one kind of fish from another."
"In which hand do you hold them?"
"It varies," answered Yossarian.
"It varies with the fish," Dunbar added helpfully.
The colonel turned and stared down at Dunbar suspiciously with a narrow squint. "Yes? And how come you seem to know so much about it?"
“I’m in the dream," Dunbar answered without cracking a smile.
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June 14, 2018, 10:21 AM
Angus the Kid
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Originally posted by Blume9mm: as your analyst I would have to ask, "while you are in this dream are you in your underwear or completely naked?"
Regardless of the setting, I rarely ever have the "naked" dream.
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June 14, 2018, 10:59 AM
FishOn
quote:
Originally posted by Angus the Kid: My only reoccurring dream.
I have this dream once or twice a year:
I'm back in college. The semester is ending and as I'm prepping for finals, I remember one class that I barely attended all semester. I attended a few classes at the beginning of the term but did not return for some unknown reason. I don't know why I didn't attend this class, I just didn't. I attended my other classes and feel prepared for their respective finals.
The neglected class is always a math class and I realize I will be completely lost and unprepared for the exam. I panic. I question my future and I wonder what my parents will think of me. I never take the exam. I never even reach the exam date and time before I wake up.
Mind you I'm 53 years old and haven't attended a class in over 30 years! I am a civil engineer and love and excelled in math.
What does this dream mean?
I have this dream! It is always that I did not complete one class and could not graduate. I am mid 50s as well. I also still have the dream of waiting tables and too many tables are seated and I can not get to everyone and diners are getting upset. I worked my way through college in restaurants.
June 14, 2018, 12:20 PM
muddle_mann
quote:
Originally posted by Angus the Kid: My only reoccurring dream.
I have this dream once or twice a year:
I'm back in college. The semester is ending and as I'm prepping for finals, I remember one class that I barely attended all semester. I attended a few classes at the beginning of the term but did not return for some unknown reason. I don't know why I didn't attend this class, I just didn't. I attended my other classes and feel prepared for their respective finals.
The neglected class is always a math class and I realize I will be completely lost and unprepared for the exam. I panic. I question my future and I wonder what my parents will think of me. I never take the exam. I never even reach the exam date and time before I wake up.
Mind you I'm 53 years old and haven't attended a class in over 30 years! I am a civil engineer and love and excelled in math.
What does this dream mean?
Dreaming about school happens a lot (although 30 yrs later is a bit of a stretch ). I had dreams about going back into the Army for years after I got out in 93. I think it has to do with a period in our lives when we are young and are brains are being used extensively and it makes a lasting impression. I heard one college grad having dreams he didn't finish school so he placed his graduation certificate on his nightstand so when he woke up it was the first thing he saw.
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June 14, 2018, 12:52 PM
Oz_Shadow
You ever wake up from a really good dream and hope you do have the same dream again?
Then it doesn't. Ever.
June 14, 2018, 01:13 PM
murphman
I'm 57 and I still sometimes dream that I forgot to drop a class and have to take the final.
The past couple of years, I dream that I've had to go back to high school to pick up some additional courses, or I'll have my degrees taken away from me - but I can't find the classrooms.
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June 14, 2018, 07:13 PM
callibird
I have a similar dream as the OP from time to time...in college, end of the semester and for some reason I have attended 0 classes.
In some of the dreams, I can remember thinking "Why am I here? I've already graduated!" Which I have, both undergrad and MBA.
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June 14, 2018, 08:42 PM
LtJL
Dreams are the brain's garbage disposal. they are composed of random thoughts and images that the cerebral cortex makes a failed attempt at organizing into something coherent.
June 14, 2018, 08:58 PM
DonDraper
quote:
Originally posted by Angus the Kid: My only reoccurring dream.
I have this dream once or twice a year:
I'm back in college. The semester is ending and as I'm prepping for finals, I remember one class that I barely attended all semester. I attended a few classes at the beginning of the term but did not return for some unknown reason. I don't know why I didn't attend this class, I just didn't. I attended my other classes and feel prepared for their respective finals.
The neglected class is always a math class and I realize I will be completely lost and unprepared for the exam. I panic. I question my future and I wonder what my parents will think of me. I never take the exam. I never even reach the exam date and time before I wake up.
Mind you I'm 53 years old and haven't attended a class in over 30 years! I am a civil engineer and love and excelled in math.
What does this dream mean?
Welcome to my world. One reoccurring dream after another, usually involving situations just as you describe. It's an anxiety dream. There is anxiety in your life.
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June 14, 2018, 09:00 PM
mttaylor1066
quote:
Originally posted by callibird: I have a similar dream as the OP from time to time...in college, end of the semester and for some reason I have attended 0 classes.
In some of the dreams, I can remember thinking "Why am I here? I've already graduated!" Which I have, both undergrad and MBA.
I have dreamt that variation many times myself... when I awake I have to consciously think "Yes, you have graduated...you already have two degrees... there is no class you need to pass, you're through with all of that." Takes me few minutes to calm down.
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June 14, 2018, 09:04 PM
Edmond
For years after I finished my undergrad, I would dream that I never finished. That I was short of graduation. But of course I did and I even thought in my dream that if I did not do enough classes to graduate, wouldn't they have sent me a letter telling me so?
I haven't had that dream in quite a while.
I also have another dream where I fall from tops of buildings or other high places yet I always land softly.
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June 14, 2018, 09:07 PM
ZSMICHAEL
My uncle who is now in his mid 80s used to laugh about the I went swimming in my Madenform commercials. I can now see how stupid they were, but they were an effective ad campaign in the fifties.
). I had dreams about going back into the Army for years after I got out in 93. I think it has to do with a period in our lives when we are young and are brains are being used extensively and it makes a lasting impression. I heard one college grad having dreams he didn't finish school so he placed his graduation certificate on his nightstand so when he woke up it was the first thing he saw.