I have this dream every once in a while, usually toward the end of a semester.
I dream that there is a class that I was supposed to attend, but for some strange reason I haven’t gone until near the end of the semester. So I have to go into the class, humiliated, and I have to try to catch up. For 12 or 13 weeks of missed classes.
Of course this defies logic, as in the real world if a student signs up for a class and never shows up, he or she will get dropped by the end anyway. But it’s a dream so who needs logic?
Anyway, I am guessing this is just the college version of the pre-teen “underwear clad/naked in school” dream. Or is it something else?
I had similar dreams when I was in college. Since then it seems to have changed to missing a deadline at work that I didn’t know about until the last minute.
I think I need to clarify that I never had any dreams about pre-teens in their underwear or naked at a school, but as a preteen I had those dreams about myself…uhm I mean I had the dreams that I and no one else was in my underwear and or nude at school, and no one else…well everyone had those hehehe right?. All of you know what I mean I am sure, I just wanted to make sure I was semantically clear on the subject, I mean no misunderstandings here right?
I’m now over a decade out of college, and I still have this dream. IMHO, it is fairly common and reflects general anxieties about not being able to fulfill one’s committments.
I graduated from college in 1988 and I still have this sort of dream pretty frequently.
The college I am at in the dream is somewhat like where I attended, but different. Sort of “Generic U.” I usually find myself in some multi-storied central campus building looking for a math or physics lab. I have not been to class for the entire quarter, and I can’t remember where my books are, or exactly where the room is. I wander around, then find myself near the bookstore. I get on a huge elevator that’s as big as a lecture room and ride to the top of the building. People are getting on and off without even having the elevator stop, and I’m just searching for the right floor. I wind up in the basement and the lab is tucked under the stairs and no one is there, because the class let out early. I find a teaching assistant, but she doesn’t know what I’m talking about. Then I wind up out on a looooong quad or plaza and I have to get across campus. I go by the dorms and through several parking lots. Then it gets very dark and chilly and I want to go home.
There is an alternative version of this in which I find myself at my high school after having graduated many years earlier, and have returned because I did not complete all of my classes. This time the school IS the one I went to, and I can see it in incredible detail. Everything is exactly as I remember it consciously, except I cannot remember my locker combination, so I have to go to the office and get Mrs. Mayhew to give me the little card. Then I leave because I remember that I graduated, and I couldn’t have graduated without finishing all of my classes.
Then I wake up and go pee. And then I REALLY wake up and think that I have wet the bed, because I dreamed that I woke up and went and peed. Man, I gotta stop eating tacos before bed!
I am 33 and I have this dream not only about college, but also about highschool.
I am in some class, but forgot to atend. Now finals are coming up and I go to class and don’t understand anything they are talking about.
Common anxiety dream. My other one is where I havae a problem to solve like making a flute play teh color purple in cubes. Can’t be done, but try to tell my subconscious that.