# Is this a common recurring dream? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 5, 2001, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-common-recurring-dream/97110 "2001-12-05T22:18:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jaimest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/48db29/32.png) [@jaimest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaimest)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-common-recurring-dream/97110/1 "2001-12-05T22:18:24Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![frankhoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a698b9/32.png) [@frankhoma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frankhoma)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-common-recurring-dream/97110/2 "2001-12-05T22:46:13Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![jaimest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/48db29/32.png) [@jaimest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaimest)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-common-recurring-dream/97110/3 "2001-12-05T22:57:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jaimest \* > \*\* > 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 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? Whew ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-common-recurring-dream/97110/4 "2001-12-05T23:02:15Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![45ACP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/e5b9ba/32.png) [@45ACP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/45ACP)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-common-recurring-dream/97110/5 "2001-12-05T23:03:07Z")
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! 45ACP ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Zambezi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@Mr.Zambezi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Zambezi)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-common-recurring-dream/97110/6 "2001-12-05T23:13:17Z")
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.