The exam dream--ever had it?

You know, the dream where it's the end of the semester and you're about to take exams, and you haven't studied or done any work whatsoever for the course(s)?

I used to have it a lot, not as much now. And I've been out of school/college for years.

It's related to anxiety, naturally.

The class in question is usually a physics course.

And the nightmare is usually coupled with the fact that I don't know the combination to my PO box at the dorm post office.

I always wake up before I take the test, though...

Family reunion, that is. When I got there, I didn't recognize anybody. I called my travel agency and they said "We're sorry, but your family reunion was booked solid". So they sent me to another one.

where I am either still in HS or college (at my current age) and don't have enough credits to graduate.

As his character is being beaten to a pulp by Nazis, he slips into a hallucination that he's back in college. He asks some guy if he knows where the calculus exam is being held, but the guy responds that "exams ended three weeks ago; the semester is over". Val's character wakes up to find himself still being tortured by Nazis, and says, "Oh, thank God I'm not back in school! Thank God!"

Then, when I became a hairstylist, I moved onto having 4 foil highlights booked right in a row and shopping even though I knew I should be getting started on the hair.

Now that I'm a real estate appraiser it's all about scheduling an appointment for a time right before my son gets off the bus at home and not having enough time to finish it.

I'm boring that way.

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me too!:rofl:

I always realize it the day of the BIG TEST and I've never been to class all semester and don't remember where the room is.

I think it means you feel unprepared or overwhelmed about something in your life. :shrug:

Barenaked Lady's post perfectly summed up my thoughts, so nothing to add there.

Had those dreams even after leaving college. Took two or three years until it stopped.

until the end, then I panic.

:yoiks:

and I STILL have dreams about being back in high school, the bell has rung and I can't find my locker! Or, I am standing in front of my locker and I can't remember the combination. Jeezus! :-(

and still dream that. In my dream it's always a math course that I forgot I had and have never attended. I HATE that dream. So strange.

And then I woke up and realized I was an hour late for my exam.

One of my recurring dreams, sort of similar, is that I'm performing in a play and I still don't know all my lines. So in between each scene, I'm running around backstage, looking for a script so I can see my lines for the next scene. And then I can't find a script anywhere. I wake up very tense.

I also have the one where I get a call from the Dean that I haven't really earned my degree. Interestingly, it only happens in regards to my bachelor's, not the master's or doctorate. Weird, huh?

I have a recurring dream where I find out that I didn't pass seventh-grade math in junior high school. This means that I didn't qualify for high school, which means that my high school diploma is invalid and therefore I never should have gone to college, and so my college degree is also invalid.

In the dream, I have to REPEAT seventh-grade math to fix this problem, but I spend all my time filling out paperwork (in a desk that is too small for me) while the first exam is being given, and so I'm instantly off on the wrong foot again!

I even talked to a dream expert about it once. He said it indicates something about the nagging feeling that you are not living up to your potential, and that there are things you should be doing but are not.

similar dream last week. I discovered that I had to take a very important "final" test for a class that didn't even realize that I was registered for. I didn't even know that I was registered for *any* classes. I was horrified. My last college class was 8 years ago. :rofl:

would be a class I would not be able to fake my way through at all. I'm really good at taking tests, and managed to bullshit my way through many exams during college, but that would be one subject at which I would fail miserably. In the dream I somehow realize that my final exam is the next day but I have never been to class, never taken any other tests or written any papers, and I don't even have the book. So I sit there panicking, trying to figure out a way to get through the final. It never occurs to me that, since I've never taken any other tests or written any papers, I'm pretty much screwed from the get-go.

I hate that dream. It's finally stopped recurring so often though. Which is good, since I graduated from college in 1992.

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