The - I Haven't Been to Class All Semester - Dream

[SentientMeat]

Heh, heh! I had no idea how common this dream was.

I am 29 years old. I sometimes dream I am in school and have no idea what my GCSE timetable is.

Then I wake up and realise I have 4 A-levels, a BSc in physics and a PhD in acoustics, and feel a little foolish.

[Politzania]

I still have these dreams too - whats weird is that the missed class is always either a math class or psych 101.

[Blown_Injected]

*Originally posted by Mean Guy *
**My most common reoccurring nightmare is the “forgotten class” dream, and I’ve been out of college for two years now. I had no idea that this dream was so common. I’ve also had the “forgotten locker combination” and the “late for class but can’t find my classroom/forgot my schedule” dream.

They all seem to fall under the same general category: “a lack of proper organization or preparedness results in serious negative consequences and/or embarrassment”. Since I’m a very organized and detail-oriented person who always showed up for class and cared very much about my grades, I can’t help but wonder if the other sufferers of this sort of dream fit a similar personality mold. **

Damn it!!! You cats are freakin’ me out.

Had it in junior HS, HS, in college, and in grad school. My last class was three years ago and it still happens every once in a while.

I could even show you the room that I would walk past in Jr HS, in the 70’s, that would trigger the oh shit!!! How could I forget to go to class all year?!?!?!?

[lucwarm]

Yeah it’s interesting how universal this is.

I just woke up from a dream where I was in school; hadn’t been to class all semester; hopelessly behind in my assignments; missed yet another class.

The funny thing is that I deal with stuff in my job that is just as anxiety provoking as school and yet I don’t have anxiety dreams about work.

[Guinastasia]

Does anyone else have the dream about being naked in public? Cuz I don’t like that dream…

[MaddyStrut]

Yes Guin, I frequently dream that I arrive at work only to realize I’ve forgotten to wear a shirt, or pants. Very scarey.

I also dream that I’ve forgotten to wear shoes and socks, which I find extremely embarassing. In fact, it’s even worse than being naked. The odd thing is I have no problems with bare feet. Why does it bother me so much to be barefoot in my dreams?

I have the school dream, the naked dream, and some odd dream where my teeth fall out. I’m a mess.

[Sneeze]

I’ve never had the dream, but I missed every class all semester in real life. It was “English for Engineers”, and since there were no tests, the grade was based on three papers we wrote. I retyped three papers I wrote in high school, and got an A (But am I guilty of plagerism?).

I’m a programmer, and I once dreamt that I (personally) was caught in an infinite Fortran loop. I mentally kept incrementing the loop index, but it was always greater than the final value, so the loop would never terminate. So I woke up in a panic and cold sweat. But then, we’ve all had that one, right?

[Merejane]

*Originally posted by Guinastasia *
**I have a dream where I have to either punch in a phone number, or type some sort of code in, in a short period of time, and I keep messing up and having to start over. **

Yes! I wondered whether anyone else had that dream. For me, it’s always dialing a telephone in an emergency situation where I urgently need to contact someone in my family. I mis-dial, try again, and mis-dial again. Each time I mis-dial, I get more anxious, making it more likely that I will mess up on my next attempt.

I hate that dream!

I sometimes dream about someone in my family – my father or one of my two brothers who have died. In these dreams, they are alive in the present. Those dreams are always sad to wake up from.

But it is wonderful to wake up from that stupid it’s-final-exam-time-and-I-forgot-to-go-to-class-all-semester dream, and realize I haven’t had to worry about that in real life for about 20 years!

[AllShookDown]

*Originally posted by Jomo Mojo *
**

But what about a people that don’t go to school? How would this universal dream play out for them?**

I was wondering the same thing.

I’ve had the lost class and crumbling teeth dreams. My other recurring dreams are:

1. I’m driving on an urban freeway with lots of exits but can’t seem to get off the freeway. Also that I’m in a shopping mall and can’t find my way out.

2. I parked my car somewhere or left my purse somewhere and need them to get somewhere by a certain time, but I either can’t get to the place where I left them, or I get there and they’re not there. I have this one more often now than any of the others.

3. Back when I wore contacts I’d dream that they were breaking while in my eyes.

4. I haven’t had this one in a while but used to have it fairly often. I’d be in a park or some place with tall hills or rocks/cliffs and I’d fall off a cliff. Instead of landing gently or crashing, I’d bounce back up into the air and have to go through the terror of falling again, over and over. That one’s nasty and I’m glad it went away.

[shrew]

I have this dream all the time. Sometimes I’m the student; sometimes I’m the teacher. Usually I’m the student. In my teacher dreams, I wake up and think my students are in my bedroom with me. I have to sit up and convince myself they’re not there.

When I was teaching in England, I would dream that all of my GCSE students failed miserably and I was blamed. Luckily, that never happened. In my student dreams, however, I often dreamed that I overslept final exams, which I actually did one time — a NOON final. The professor was so worried about me that I felt horrific guilt afterward.