Graduated twenty years ago and still have these dreams.
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.
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.
It’s always math for me.
“Turns out I didn’t graduate after all” nightmares love to haunt me during particularly stressful times
I didn’t know that so many of us share the same dream.
“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
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.
I graduated in 99 and I have these dreams.
I graduated at 99 and I have these dreams.
I still experience nightmares of failing my job training exams even though I did a-okay in all of them and it’s been 15 years since. o_O
Working for 12 years now after graduation. My most recurring dream is that I actually did not complete one maths lecture and still have to do it. I enroll in university again and have a few months for preparation but I only start studying a few days before the exam. Then I don’t have a clue what the fuck that even is about and fail miserably during the exam. Normally I wake up during exam but always before I get the results.
That and also being at school and forgetting where my classes are.
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 have dreams where I go back, attend 1 class out of like 7 for the day, but forget where all the other classes are as well as what they are. I end up having to go to the school office to get my class roster so I can attend the other classes, but its all rushed because I’m late for that next class.
I haven’t been a student for many years, but shitty dreams like this occasionally haunt me. Lots of variations on the theme. Lost textbooks. Lost homework. Lost locker. Forgotten locker combo. Can’t find the classroom. Forgot I signed up for a class. Just generally can’t get my dream shit together.
For the first time ever I don’t have class every day and my mind keeps going “OH SHIT WE FORGOT TO GO TO CLASS!” Even though like… we had this same realization five minutes ago you stupid brain. Why are we freaking out again?
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.
No joke, but the entire time I was in undergrad I would have this nightmare.
