Recurring dream

[Bob Kontak]

I am in college and forget to go to a particular class for almost the entire semester.

Dream is always when walking between classes and I am trying to calculate if I can pull off a "D" by just taking the final exam. Worried sick because I just remembered I had forgotten. Always math or english.

Mind you the most "anal" passage of my life was during college - e.g., figuring out exactly what was needed to graduate.

The going to school only in my underwear dream phase is over. Now it's just this one that repeats.

Prognosis?

[gearya]

Before you are fully awake, go back into the dream and focus on co-eds.

[Embraer]

have a very similar dream that reoccurs. I register for a class, but never make it. at the end, im worried if I will pass or not.

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by gearya

before you are fully awake, go back into the dream and focus on co-eds.

but missing this class is going to mess with my gpa.

I still focus on my memories of the early 80's Kent State coeds when wide awake. :-)

I had a lot of sex back then. Occasionally with a partner.

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by Embraer

have a very similar dream that reoccurs. I register for a class, but never make it. at the end, im worried if I will pass or not.

Bingo! Same family of paranoia.

[Flieger]

LOL, I had one of those only a couple weeks after graduation. Sounds like they only get worse. Mine was funny because in the dream I was thinking "wait, I really remember graduating" and then I think I woke up just before the test.

[mikesride]

I walk into the bedroom and spy my girlfriend and her female friend making out! They both make eye contact with me and direct me towards the bed...........Mine is better than yours!!!!!

[DanielDudley]

Dreams from the past usually reflect stress in the present. It is best to acknowledge it.

[drcoastline]

It sounds similar to a dream I have during high stress periods. I was told it is due to lack of control over the situation which prevents the task from being completed.

I am fishing but can not reel the fish in. No matter what I do I can not get the fish to the boat. Next time I have one of those dreams I'm going to have to see if I can place a few nekid coeds onboard to help out.

[1990C4S]

Originally Posted by Bob Kontak

Prognosis?

Insanity has taken hold, it is irreversible, there is no treatment.

My analysis is based not on your dream, but on prior posts.

[VincentVega]

have a very similar dream that reoccurs. I register for a class, but never make it. at the end, im worried if I will pass or not.

Same here. Weird.

[Z-man]

I have had that recurring dream as well - many times. Haven't had that particular type of dream in a while.

I believe those types of dreams usually point to a time when you are stressed over a project or major life event (marriage, birth...etc), and are concerned about missing a step or forgetting something, just like you would forget going to class until the very end.

-Z-man.

[wdfifteen]

Interesting that so many of us have such similar dreams (nightmares!). For about ten years after I graduated I had the nightmare that I found out I had one more class to complete before I was finished. I haven't had it in years though.

[BlueSkyJaunte]

Stress Prompts Graduation Nightmares : NPR

There are written records of similar dreams all the way back to the 2nd century BC.

Originally Posted by Dream expert dude

the first example of (a) test anxiety nightmare that I can find goes back to early China, when in the 2nd century BCE they instituted a system of civil service exams that allowed people to enter into the government. And lo (and) behold, they start reporting exam nightmares.

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by 1990C4S

there is no treatment.

My analysis is based not on your dream, but on prior posts.

I stir love into most every post I make. :-)

Originally Posted by BlueSkyJaunte

Stress Prompts Graduation Nightmares : NPR

There are written records of similar dreams all the way back to the 2nd century BC.

WOW. This is it - I have some things that I need to deal with that I am wimping out on. Procrastination - kinda - mainly a chicken. Time to nut up.

[Grog]

For 15 years after my last patrol on the USS Will Rogers I had a reoccurring dream. The engine room machinery would go silent and the sub would slowly rotate upside down and begin to sink. (If a sub went upside down, all the air would go out the bottom vents for the ballast tanks) The dream changed to one where I would show up to the boat at a pier and have to go on one more patrol, knowing that I was not in the navy anymore, horrible feeling. Been free of them for a little while. Hope this doesn't change that.

[rcooled]

Originally Posted by Grog

The dream changed to one where I would show up to the boat at a pier and have to go on one more patrol, knowing that I was not in the navy anymore, horrible feeling.

I used to have a recurring dream involving the military too. Same thing every time...I somehow find myself back in the Army after being discharged, and I'm trying to convince someone that it's all a big mistake. "No wait, I've already done my time"...and of course, no one cares. Must be something in life that was frustrating me at the time...the overwhelming theme of that dream was frustration.

[Hugh R]

I have the same dream most nights, with variations of being back in the USMC, back in school and behind in classes, mostly also involving some twisty turney ride or I can't seem to get all my schit collected to get out of where I perceive that I'm in, as in I seem to be behind the curve all the time.

Speaking for myself only, I think it is a projection of where I feel I should be in life, as compared to where I am. Don't get me wrong, I'm pretty happy with where I am in life at age 60 in two weeks. I think in part, its a "what if, I'd not done this, or had done that" in my youth and early career.

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by Grog

The engine room machinery would go silent and the sub would slowly rotate upside down and begin to sink.

That's only about nine orders of magnitude worse than me messing up my GPA. But you only know what you know. A college kid can't conger up that kind of risk without having been in a sub with time to think about what could happen if..........

Another "patrol" is about three times worse.

Has to be current situational stress/frustration/anger/fear triggering this kind of thing.

[LakeCleElum]

I've had 2 dreams that seem to repeat from time to time:

1) Signed up for a college class, forgot about it and might try to salvage a grade at the final, but forget when/where to go.

2) Had so many rental places that I totally forgot about one and can't remember if I sold it and if I still own it: how do I get there and who is the tennant......IN my dream, I drive by and just try to remember who the owner is?

both dreams are created by some of my darker past......