No joke, but the entire time I was in undergrad I would have this nightmare.
Not as much as I hit my 40s but mine involved going back to school after a short gap, not being sure if I’ll be able to pass even if it get 100s on my tests and not remembering the combination to my locker.
I’ve been done with (too much) schooling for years now. But I still have dreams where I have a math exam and I don’t know anything (I was good at it back in the day), I don’t know what classes I have to be in/missed a bunch, or I still haven’t finished my thesis. None of which are true.
The last is the worst, but I guess that’s grad school for ya.
I’m 44 and yes, all the time.
Forgetting a class or going to class without pants and/or a shirt and having to ninja my way out of there…
Havent seen this meme format for a while
Not sure much missing a class but showing up and having an exam that I’d not heard of nor studied any of the material for
I graduated in 99 and I have these dreams.
I graduated at 99 and I have these dreams.
No, but potentially because that happened IRL to me.
I’m 40. I dream of missing the school bus.
Some times I dream of getting on the school bus but having forgotten to put on shoes.
I dream of being late for a cubicle data processing job I haven’t worked at for 7 years. (I worked for them for 11 years though). I then go on to do the work in the dream.
Like my brain torturing me.
Graduated twenty years ago and still have these dreams.
I used to have those dreams when I was starting something new - a new school year, or a new job. It’s my imposter syndrome, manifesting in a dream.
Kept getting the “you have to go back for one class we didn’t account for” dream for years after graduating. It was always a language requirement too.
It’s always math for me.
Damn, I didn’t realize I hace those dreams till your comment. I was like. How many damn highschool classes do I have to do I’m 30 years old already.
No, I also have them. Sometimes they are about a single subject, and sometimes they are like, “Oops, I accidentally forgot to go to school for three years.”
Just out of curiosity - are you a heavy drinker and this happens during withdrawals?
Like u drank heavily on Saturday night, do you get this doom paniky feeling with nightmares night Sunday to Monday?I don’t drink, actually. I am just prone to being anxious by default, and it usually happens when I get stressed.
“Modern education systems are definitely not traumatically abusive and most certainly are not creating PTSD-riddled students who struggle to function in society.”
The students in question 3 nights a week:
I mean, I get your point, but I feel like this is something different. I sailed through school and university with great grades with barely any effort, never felt any kind of pressure around that on me. The worst it got was the occasional vocab test that I put off learning for until the evening before. I liked school. And I still get this kind of dream occasionally. So at this point, it seems more like anxiety will just latch onto that kind of thing, whether it was actually traumatic or not
