I have this dream ALL the time. In fact, I had it again just last night. I was taking a college course taught by my high school economics teacher. I hadn’t been to class in about two months, and there was a final exam at 11 AM. Was frantically trying to find out if I could drop the class before the exam.
I have this dream routinely every finals time. I’ve also LIVED it once, when I actually did discover a calc class I thought I’d dropped was on my report card. With a 0. It did not have a happy ending.
OH MY GOD. I have that dream all the time. It annoys me so much!
I graduated from university in 2007 and don’t intend to study at a uni level again, but I still have that dream.
Just the other day (Saturday, in fact!) I had a dream that I was back in school and didn’t know where my class was. I saw my friend Paul, who is a professor, talking to some people and standing in front of the schedule that had been taped to a wall. I asked him if I could get past him to see the schedule, but he didn’t want to move, so he told me to look at his schedule instead and handed it to me. I looked at it, but it didn’t have Saturday printed on it, just his Saturday classes that he’d pencilled in. I started to explain it, then said, “Wait a minute! It’s Saturday but I’m in school, and I don’t know where my classroom is. In fact, I don’t even know what class I’m supposed to be in. This must be a dream!”
Paul laughed and said, “Yeah, that sounds like a dream, but it can’t be! Does this feel like a dream to you?”
I said “No, I guess not.” Then I woke up. My first thought was, “Ha! I was right!”
I called Paul and his wife to tell them that even when I’m asleep I’m right and he’s wrong! Then I berated him for not taking advantage of the perfect comeback I’d set up for him. (“Yeah, only in your dreams!”)
A couple of nights ago I again had the exam-day-never-attended-class dream this weekend. It was intensely vivid, my panic was palpable. This wasn’t just a class, it was a prerequisite for… um, I forget a promotion? something important. I said to myself, “Now I’ll have to post on SDMB that this actually HAPPENED - not in a dream.”
I literally laughed out loud when I woke up and recalled the dream. I wish I had a computer handy at the time - I could have posted more detail (there was so much) but it’s all a blur now.
No sense creating a new thread, so I’ll just comment on this year old exam dream thread.
I watched the Zucker, Zucker and Abrahams 1984 movie Top Secret last night for the first time in decades.
At one point Nick Rivers (Val Kilmer) is being tortured by East German officers. He loses consciousness and the movie fades to a dream sequence where he’s frantically running through the halls of a school. He finds one other student and asks him “Do you know where the chemistry exam is taking place?” The other student answers “All the exams are over now. What’s the matter, didn’t you study?” Nick looks mortified. :eek:
Cut back to the torture scene where he’s waking up while handcuffed and being flogged by the two officers. A big smile and sigh of relief as he says “It was just a dream! Just a dream!”
I was crying with laughter.
My variation on the study dream is that I am enrolled in a university subject but I’ve never really got to grips with the whole schedule of when various papers are due and I haven’t handed anything in. I don’t know the papers are overdue, I am just very anxious because I know they will be overdue very soon. I have this growing sense of complete desperation because I can’t overcome my usual procrastination and actually write the papers, but I also can’t face looking at the schedule and finding out when the papers are due because if they are overdue it would be too terrible to contemplate. Yet without knowing the deadline, I can’t overcome my procrastination.
Here’s the kicker though: I graduated well over twenty five years ago and even sitting here now wide awake once I start to think about this dream I can’t entirely shake the feeling that it’s true and that I actually still may be enrolled in a university subject I’ve forgotten about with probably overdue work.