Effing school dream again!

[Dominus]

I've been out of school for many years now. And yet every so often I still dream about being in school. You know that nightmare that you're about to have the final and you're completely unprepared? I get that a lot.

Last night, the whole night long I was in a math class. Dont know what math it was, because nothing made sense to me. It was the night before finals. Night class...

As I was sitting in the class, I thought to myself what the hell am I doing back here? See, unlike most asians I hated school. I got 2 degrees and I hated every minute of it. It was a mean to an end, that was all. I hated having homework to do. I hated having tests every so often. I especially hated struggling struggling with very theoretical concepts that have no application in the real world.

 

[Telstra]

Your work feels like at school ?

 

[Dominus]

Your work feels like at school ?

No. My work is very practical. School was very theoretical.

 

[Telstra]

No. My work is very practical. School was very theoretical.

But is work as mentally stressful as when you were school ?

 

[ronboy]

As a teacher, it is not unusual for me to dream about school.

But, I do not dream about my own school, students, or district. I always dream that I am teaching back in the schools and district that I grew up in. It is a neighboring district to where I work now, but, for some reason, my mind always seems to be fixated on my alma mater. I do not desire to teach there, because I love where I work. But for some reason, my mind seems to drift back to the other district.

 

[rareboy]

I've been out of school for many years now. And yet every so often I still dream about being in school. You know that nightmare that you're about to have the final and you're completely unprepared? I get that a lot.

Last night, the whole night long I was in a math class. Dont know what math it was, because nothing made sense to me. It was the night before finals. Night class...

As I was sitting in the class, I thought to myself what the hell am I doing back here? See, unlike most asians I hated school. I got 2 degrees and I hated every minute of it. It was a mean to an end, that was all. I hated having homework to do. I hated having tests every so often. I especially hated struggling struggling with very theoretical concepts that have no application in the real world.

I have a number.

One is the Thesis Dream where I have been slogging away but not actually in attendance at the University and suddenly it is presentation week.

Then there is the High School/University Dream where my entire degree is not legitimate because I am still missing a secondary school credit and I am simultaneously running my business and still trying to get that credit.

Then there is the High School Dream where I literally have not been to classes or learning the material, but it is exam time.

And recently, I had one where I was required to return to complete an elementary school level course in ?????, while simultaneously teaching there.

Some nights are exhausting.

It is apparently very common among Type A personalities to have this dream.

It seemingly has to do with second guessing your own academic and professional legitimacy and trying to resolve unfinished issues.

 

[peeonme]

Most of mine are about being back in a machine shop with an a-hole boss.

 

[Latimer]

My anxiety dreams most often involve not being able to find my car, which I've parked on the street, walked off and then forgotten where it is, and I end up walking block after block trying to locate it. I've also had dreams where I have to leave it in a repair shop, and then forget where the shop is located. The dreams are never set in the present with my current car, but always in the past with previous cars. I always wake up before I find it.

 

[Dominus]

My anxiety dreams most often involve not being able to find my car, which I've parked on the street, walked off and then forgotten where it is, and I end up walking block after block trying to locate it. I've also had dreams where I have to leave it in a repair shop, and then forget where the shop is located. The dreams are never set in the present with my current car, but always in the past with previous cars. I always wake up before I find it.

This has happened to me in real life. It took me 3 hours to find my car

 

[LeicsDom]

I've been out of school for many years now. And yet every so often I still dream about being in school. You know that nightmare that you're about to have the final and you're completely unprepared? I get that a lot.

I don't get it about school but I do about work
I regularly dream that I am at work but some essential piece of kit is miles away and I don't have the time to go and get it or I don't have my car or the trains are not running

 

[LeicsDom]

My anxiety dreams most often involve not being able to find my car, which I've parked on the street, walked off and then forgotten where it is, and I end up walking block after block trying to locate it.

I've done that for real

I had to drive to Liverpool several weeks in a row and found a great little parking spot for £3 a day. Then one week the street was closed off and I had t find somewhere else to park.
Stupidly I failed to use my phone to take a pic of where my car was and spent an hour wandering round the back streets near Liverpool docks trying to find my car dragging a suitcase across the cobbles.

 

[Tentpants]

I dream from time to time that I am starting college and its the first or second day of school and I have a room stocked with closets of clothes, or I have a new class schedule I have to navigate.... Suddenly I am wondering: What am I doing here? What happened to my job? I wonder if I can call my boss and be back there at work Monday morning? In real life, I never finished college (I hated it!) and this dream I am sure is the nagging sense of un-accomplishment rearing its ugly head.

 

[72-Jay]

School was a loong time ago for me.
* They're not real common,but sometimes I still do get 'school-related dreams'...
* The most common form is something along the lines of: I'm in college, its getting near the end of the semester, and suddenly I remember that there's a class I've forgotten about, and haven't attended most of the semester
* Sometimes I'll get one that's just about being in class (dream doesn't even always 'say' what class/subject)
* Now and then I'll get one that's about highschool classes
* Best 'school-related' dream I ever had (and one of the best dreams I had in general): I was in class (in the room before class started) & there was one other guy there...he ended up kissing me - which felt absolutely amazing ..just wow.. wish I had more of those
* Most odd 'school-related' dream I ever had: Even though it was years after I'd graduated, I needed to go the highschool to get some paperwork(maybe a transcript or something) for whatever reason...... Something very bad had happened there in the months before, so as I was walking through the halls towards the office to get what I needed I also couldn't help looking around at all the damage that was done.

 

[Latimer]

This has happened to me in real life. It took me 3 hours to find my car

I once parked a white rental car in a large shopping center parking lot. I forgot what make it was. Took me 45 minutes to find it. Why, I wonder, aren't parking spaces always numbered? It would make it so much easier.

Thank god we now have cellphone cameras to photograph the space and nearby landmarks. I was at Disney Hall--the Los Angeles Philharmonic concert hall--which has the most confused parking garage in Christendom. Never would have found my car without having created a visual record of how to get there. I thought of it as a modern version of Ariadne's thread in the Labyrinth.

 

[tarallucci]

I have dreamed something about the school days but my final exam comes often to mind and it is so uncomfortable... we had external teachers interviewing us and one of them made his best to annoy everyone.

 

[Vannie]

 

[rareboy]

Last night it was about going to University and getting organized in the dorm apartment building....one of my original roomies was in it, along with some other characters I have no memory of....and I also had to get my textbooks sorted out. I woke up when I was sitting in my first lecture for the semester.

 

[Dominus]

Had another dream about school last night. In the dream, I thought to myself why the hell am I back in school? I'm in my 30s for godssake!

 

[Latimer]

So what's causing the anxiety that's leading to the dream? Or does the dream arise without cause?

 

[rareboy]

So what's causing the anxiety that's leading to the dream? Or does the dream arise without cause?

Good question.

....and there are a wealth of theories out there, but the notion that there is something unresolved seems to be a common theme.

https://www.google.com/search?q=bac...j0i22i30l7.7715j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

I can see that where there were enmotional issues in primary or secondary school that never were completely worked out...you might flip back to that setting. In one instance, it actually did result in me reaching out and sending good wishes to a 'best' friend from primary school that had betrayed and hurt me as only a straight 14 year old boy can hurt.

I know that when I dream of my one former employer and his wife, it is because it ended very poorly on their part and nearly thirty years on, there was never any resolutionm.

My university thesis dream is so common and I think that many people always leave school thinking that there was more they wnated to do or should have done....if only there was always more time.tting