Poll of the Day > For those who are finished with any level of schools...

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Long story short, just had another nightmare where I had an assignment to hand over and I was a day late. Back when I was in school, it meant losing 10% of the assignment possible total grade for each day the assignment was late.

I've been done with school in quite a while, but I just keep having nightmares, about once a month, about being late for either an exam/class/assignment, and those dreams are always very realistic, unlike some of the more garbage dreams.

Really wish it would stop since I can kind of feel myself being stress even when sleeping.

I never had nightmares about schools, IIRC

I have had nightmares about waking up late for work, though

LinkPizza posted...

I never had nightmares about schools, IIRC

I have had nightmares about waking up late for work, though

Were you worried about being late for work because you could actually be late for work IRL that day or you weren't in any situation where you would be late for work?

No not for some time now.

no, I think I did have a dream once or twice about back in high school. Funny enough I did end up missing an exam for an insurance course I took for work and mis wrote my date of my exam when I booked it near the start of the course, fortunately they were pretty okay with allowing me to re write it next term without any penalty. I think they were pretty lenient since it was when they moved all testing to online due to covid.

The_tall_midget posted...

Were you worried about being late for work because you could actually be late for work IRL that day or you weren't in any situation where you would be late for work?

I wouldn't have actually been late. I basically make my own hours...

Never did

Nope, never did before, don't have it now.

I'm 45 and haven't been to school for decades, yet I'll still occasional have dreams about being back in school and having deadline or grade problems, or something else school-related.

Which is even weirder, because I didn't really have those sorts of dreams when I was in school.

Not about school itself, but once or so a year I'll have a dream where I'm at a marching band performance and I don't remember my places. First time it happened it was a nightmare, but now they're just more of the same.

ParanoidObsessive posted... Which is even weirder, because I didn't really have those sorts of dreams when I was in school.

and this.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Which is even weirder, because I didn't really have those sorts of dreams when I was in school.

That's the thing, I never did, but now I do. I have ever since I graduated.

I've never really had those dreams. Although I kind of had one last month were my prof was pissed off at me for putting the word 'cum' in my project title.

Never had em but never cared about that kinda stuff so id find it weird if i cared in dreams.

I still occasionally have dreams about being in school and trying to remember which classes I have to head to, etc. And sometimes there'll be some weird in-dream explanation for me being back, like a technicality or something requiring me to redo something.

I used to have them every other week in school. But since i graduated it completely stopped lol

i used to have ones where i forgot i registered for a class until very far into the semester and never showed up or did any of the work and it was too late to get caught up. i don't know how that would happen in reality though

I haven't been in school for awhile, and I often still get nightmares about school: missing classes and deadlines, failing, getting lost on campus, etc. My of my nightmares about school take place in high school, especially 12th grade, and college. Unfortunately, in my dreams, I am often stupid. For example, I would not wonder why I would be taking high school classes again when I've finished grad school.

Never had those dreams of being late to class. I have had nightmares that somehow I got enrolled in my college again. Hardcore religious college, that was a horrible experience.

No, never.
Never had a naked in public dream either.

dreams about it, but not nightmares

I still have dreams of being at school and this is 18 years later. This includes looking at my timetable and dreams about people in my year. Some good and some fucked up dreams. Most of my dreams are more like nightmares but I've become used to them.

I've been put of school too long I think. It's all work nightmares now

I never had those sorts of dreams when I was in school, but I occasionally do now.

adjl posted...

I never had those sorts of dreams when I was in school, but I occasionally do now.

Really wish I understood why that is so. You'd think at one point that one's self-consciousness would realize that the scenario is not possible and just let go. I can feel those dreams causing anxiety, which I don't approve of.

Not nearly as much anymore, but yeah; once in a great while.

My most common dream

Justin2Krelian posted...

My most common dream

I am curious.

How good were your grades in school? How long ago did you finish?

wwinterj25 posted...

Most of my dreams are more like nightmares but I've become used to them.

Same here. I get many nightmares.

Justin2Krelian posted...

My most common dream

It's one of my most common dream themes, too.

The_tall_midget posted...

I can feel those dreams causing anxiety, which I don't approve of.

My nightmares cause me anxiety.

The_tall_midget posted...

Really wish I understood why that is so. You'd think at one point that one's self-consciousness would realize that the scenario is not possible and just let go. I can feel those dreams causing anxiety, which I don't approve of.

We barely understand dreams in the first place, let alone specific ones. A number of theories suggest that dreams are a result of brain activity in under-utilized parts of the brain, primarily as a means of strengthening the synapses that are responsible for maintaining unused memories, and that would make sense here. We have plenty of memories of school that don't necessarily get considered on a daily basis, so having dreams poke around in there to clean out the cobwebs is to be expected, as is framing that in an anxiety-inducing manner.

What I always find weird is that I never wake up feeling stressed about them, as much as I definitely feel stressed in them. But then it's pretty rare for me to retain any emotional state from my dreams after I wake up (unless that emotional state is "horny"), so I guess that tracks.

No.

I sure do. School-related nightmares are practically the only nightmares I have. I often have nightmares about having to go through school all over again. It was a stressful time for me.

Yep, still get the occasional "Oh shit I forgot I took an online course this semester and haven't done any of the work a week away from finals" dream.

finished college, still have nightmares about being late and naked for both high school and college exams

No, which is kind of surprising because I had an abusive teacher who would mock me in front of the rest of the class whenever I was late or struggled with an assignment.