# The "Sitting Naked In Class And Nobody Notices Dream" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 27, 2011, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-naked-in-class-and-nobody-notices-dream/604249 "2011-11-27T16:54:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2011, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-naked-in-class-and-nobody-notices-dream/604249/1 "2011-11-27T16:54:45Z")
Be honest, please. Have any of you had this one? I have it at least twice a year, in living color and everyone around me is fully dressed. I posted about this on my FB, hoping that someone else might come out of the “dream closet”, but so far, bupkes. This is back in my high school days, btw. Thanks Q ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2011, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-naked-in-class-and-nobody-notices-dream/604249/2 "2011-11-27T17:20:11Z")
[Never heard of it before](http://xkcd.com/557/). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2011, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-naked-in-class-and-nobody-notices-dream/604249/3 "2011-11-27T19:30:39Z")
I’ve had the ‘naked in public’ dream, but in mine everybody notices right away. Happily, their responses are universally positive. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2011, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-naked-in-class-and-nobody-notices-dream/604249/4 "2011-11-27T19:42:18Z")
Next thing you know, you’ll be afraid that people will suddenly realize that you’re a fraud! ---
**Author:** ![Terr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Terr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terr)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2011, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-naked-in-class-and-nobody-notices-dream/604249/5 "2011-11-27T19:44:11Z")
Never had it. But I and everyone I asked who had gone to college had this dream or a variation thereof: you suddenly realize that you forgot that you registered for some class, had never attended it, and today is the final. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2011, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-naked-in-class-and-nobody-notices-dream/604249/6 "2011-11-27T19:50:25Z")
> [@Terr](#): > > But I and everyone I asked who had gone to college had this dream or a variation thereof: you suddenly realize that you forgot that you registered for some class, had never attended it, and today is the final. What? You’re not naked when this happens? ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2011, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-naked-in-class-and-nobody-notices-dream/604249/7 "2011-11-27T20:15:49Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > [Never heard of it before](http://xkcd.com/557/). 😃 Yup, never had the naked dream (at least not the “naked in class” dream), but I’ve had this one dozens of times. It’s irritating and I’ve only been out of college for a few years. I can look forward to decades more of this? Shit. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2011, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-naked-in-class-and-nobody-notices-dream/604249/8 "2011-11-27T21:06:18Z")
Somewhere in outer space there’s some aliens laughing their asses off at me, I just know it!🙂 “We got him again, Zark, and he’s got no idea he’s bein’ fucked with!!!” Quasi ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2011, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-naked-in-class-and-nobody-notices-dream/604249/9 "2011-11-27T21:36:04Z")
> [@Terr](#): > > I and everyone I asked who had gone to college had this dream or a variation thereof: you suddenly realize that you forgot that you registered for some class, had never attended it, and today is the final. Yep, I’ve had that one. But not the ‘naked in class’ dream. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2011, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-naked-in-class-and-nobody-notices-dream/604249/10 "2011-11-27T22:04:54Z")
I don’t have naked in class/wherever dreams, instead I am scantily clad I guess one could say. I might be for example wearing just a longish t-shirt, but it isn’t quite long enough, so like a sliver of my butt might be visible, so I tend to be trying to stay skulking around the edges of the scene trying to get to my locker to get some more clothing. Or I can’t find my damned locker and I have to get books and homework for my next class, or I might forget which class I have next and which room it is in. _sigh_ I am freaking unemployed and I still occasionally get this kind of dream. I have long since figured out that if I need to pee in my dream and I can’t find a functional or private bathroom, I need to wake up and pee. ---
**Author:** ![FlyByNight512](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/82dd89/32.png) [@FlyByNight512](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyByNight512)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2011, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-naked-in-class-and-nobody-notices-dream/604249/11 "2011-11-27T22:10:26Z")
Not usually fully naked, but I’ve dreamed about being out in public in only a nightshirt dozens of times. > [@Terr](#): > > I and everyone I asked who had gone to college had this dream or a variation thereof: you suddenly realize that you forgot that you registered for some class, had never attended it, and today is the final. Oh yeah, had that one two nights ago. Hell, my Mom still has those once a year or so, and she’s in her fifties. I’m not sure why college classes leave such an impression on the human psyche, but it seems to affect pretty much everyone that way. I wonder why - it doesn’t seem terribly traumatic at the time. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2011, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-naked-in-class-and-nobody-notices-dream/604249/12 "2011-11-27T22:50:40Z")
I had the dream a lot when I was a kid–usually it involved solving a math problem at the board and then realizing you’d forgotten to put on clothes and hoping if you just acted casual no one would care. I once didn’t button my pants properly and they fell off while a couple of my parrots were watching. The parrots screamed, I told them I wasn’t that ugly, and added that they should be thankful they hadn’t attended a Doors concert in the late 60’s. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2011, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-naked-in-class-and-nobody-notices-dream/604249/13 "2011-11-27T23:40:05Z")
And speaking of no one noticing, I also still have the dream where I fly on my own - just catch a current and step out into it, elongate my body and ride, daddy, ride! I do all kinds of maneuvers including a barrel and an Immelman and still no one even looks up at me! The last time I flew I hung in the air like Christ on the cross? You guessed it. No one was impressed at all! But always, always, always I find a current and can somehow adjust my flight to that it will take me down without crashing. I never crash. It’s like one of those big kites you strap on your back, only there’s no kite, just me. Sometimes I just step off the top of a large building and sometimes I launch myself by standing at the top of some stairs, fix my shoes where they straddle the steps, and just slide down, gaining momentum and just take off. I think to myself, “My dude, my dude! Just look at you!” 🙂 But again, nobody notices. 😉 Quasi ETA: But it IS the next best thing to really flying, I gotta tell ya’, because I DO see the ground as one would from say 1200 feet, it’s in color and it’s FUN! ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-naked-in-class-and-nobody-notices-dream/604249/14 "2011-11-28T03:18:27Z")
Never been naked in a dream. I have had to pee in dreams. But this just means I need to wake up to pee. I have had dreams where everyone looked to me to solve some HUGE problem. At first I am jazzed and confident. Then it quickly becomes apparent that I have no clue how to do anything. Even stuff I know how to do. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-naked-in-class-and-nobody-notices-dream/604249/15 "2011-11-28T03:30:06Z")
Before every semester begins I always dream that I’ve lost control of the class. The students are rude or aggressive or are ignoring me, etc. Awful. Funny thing is, I teach upper level students and never have even close to such a problem! ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-naked-in-class-and-nobody-notices-dream/604249/16 "2011-11-28T03:42:45Z")
I have the dream every once in a while. Invariably I manage to escape being noticed. ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-naked-in-class-and-nobody-notices-dream/604249/17 "2011-11-28T03:56:37Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > [Never heard of it before](http://xkcd.com/557/). 😃 Yep. This was my dream until I decided to go back to school. Since going back I haven’t had it anymore. Go figure! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Evil\_Prince\_Zorte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@The\_Evil\_Prince\_Zorte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Evil_Prince_Zorte)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-naked-in-class-and-nobody-notices-dream/604249/18 "2011-11-28T04:38:31Z")
I’ve had the naked in class dream, and the flying dream. Unfortunately, they happened at the same time- I was naked in school and flying, so I spent most of the time hovering near the high ceilings hoping no one would look up and notice my nudity. Flying dreams are awesome, and I felt cheated that this one got saddled with humiliation. Fortunately this wasn’t also combined with realizing I hadn’t been to 5th period biology in months, and wondering if I should still show up for it. I found that if I am going to have a “naked” dream, I actually end up wearing whatever I wore to bed. So the “I forgot my clothes dreams” aren’t nearly as bad if I wore boxers that night rather than sleeping nude. I recently had the naked dream on someone else’s behalf. I dreamed that while dropping my first-grader off at school, I realized that I hadn’t made her get dressed that morning (she would wear jammies all day if she could get away with it). Another dream I would have from time to time, similar to the flying dream, is the breathing underwater dream. I would be swimming underwater, and when I felt the need to breathe, I would take a really quick, shallow breath as if I could sneak one in before the water could get to my lungs. After a few of these I would end up breathing normally and stay underwater as long as I wanted. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-naked-in-class-and-nobody-notices-dream/604249/19 "2011-11-28T04:50:30Z")
**Prince** , Have you ever seen the film, The Abyss? In that film one of the characters was told “your body will remember”, as they filled his diving suit up with something approximating amniotic fluid (IIRC). Wonder if your subconscious may have taken you back to the time you saw the movie (if you did, of course). Actually, I need to _try_ that shoe thing sometime. I wear size 12 1/2, but I’d have to make sure that the soles were absolutely smooth and had no heel. My SIL’s carperted stairs are very narrow. Never measured, but they couldn’t be much wider than 12 inches. Maybe I should have entitled this thread “Recurring Dreams”. Thanks Q ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-naked-in-class-and-nobody-notices-dream/604249/20 "2011-11-28T04:57:58Z")
> [@Terr](#): > > Never had it. > > But I and everyone I asked who had gone to college had this dream or a variation thereof: you suddenly realize that you forgot that you registered for some class, had never attended it, and today is the final. I’ve had this dream too, and years after I was out of college! Does your whole grade hinge on the final too? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-naked-in-class-and-nobody-notices-dream/604249.md?page=2)