<p>I’m in my 50s and still have that dream occasionally. More often, however, I have nightmares about producing a newscast, but being unable to log into the computer, write copy, even look at video – and meantime the clock is ticking… closer & closer to air time… and I still have nothing on paper… and the tech crew wants the newscast ‘rundown’ and I’m still hours from having it done even though it’s less than an hour and a half to airtime… </p>
<p>I’ve been out of the TV news business for over 15 years, but it still haunts me, lol</p>
<p>So I’m traveling internationally in a couple of weeks. I dreamt I was at the airport, just about to walk through security, when I realized that I had left my passport at home and there was absolutely no way I could make the round trip to get it and still make the flight. I was horrified.</p>
<p>Every semester, just before finals week in college, I would have the same nightmare, in which I was sitting in a classroom with other students, and was supposed to take an exam in some esoteric course, usually in math, about which I had no knowledge whatsoever. It’s a very commonplace anxiety dream, but that didn’t make it any less distressing. After I passed my comprehensive exams for the PhD, I thought, “well, at least I’ll never have to worry about having that nightmare again!” --which has turned out to be true. Instead nowadays, before the beginning of each semester, I dream that I am standing in a classroom in front of students, and am supposed to teach some esoteric course, usually in math, about which I have no knowledge whatsoever.</p>
<p>I’ve had every academic anxiety dream mentioned, as well as the “forgotten passport” dream. </p>
<p>I think I started having them in 7th or 8th grade, when I used to dream that I couldn’t remember my locker combination, couldn’t find the right classroom, couldn’t remember my class schedule, etc.</p>
<p>I haven’t really had the “finding out the day before the final or the final paper is due that I’m registered for the course” dream in a while. What I have had fairly recently is the dream that I find out, all these years later, that it’s been discovered that I was really a few credits short of what I needed to graduate from college or law school. So I have to go back. Absolutely horrifying; I wake up with my heart pounding.</p>
<p>My father has told me that he still occasionally has academic anxiety dreams – and he finished college 71 years ago!</p>
<p>Same thing here. I occasionally dream that I can’t find the classroom in college, or I can’t find the classroom from my dorm, so I just stop going to that class. Then all of a sudden it’s finals week and I don’t know where I’m supposed to be when, or what I should have read, or when the final is, or what papers are due that I haven’t completed. . . and I don’t even know who to ask.</p>
<p>I’ve had the types of dream mentioned above and also the “waitressing dream” (you arrive at your waitress job and realize you’re late and have many tables of customers waiting for you) as well as the “moving house dream” (it’s moving day and you haven’t packed and don’t even have any cardboard boxes!!).</p>
<p>I had the terrible dorm dream just last night, where you move into an awful dorm room with, like, 20 beds and no doors on the bathrooms, and clothes everywhere.</p>
<p>My latest variation is that my class lets out late, and then I have to get to the other end of this huge campus to pick up my daughter at a daycare run by the college! I get lost and wander all over the place. My husband thinks it’s funny that I’m combining two anxiety dreams!</p>
<p>I’ve had those dreams MANY times over the years but recently lived one of them! I’m in grad school and had just started a new class. We were assigned a lengthy powerpoint presentation. Mine was due the second night of class. So the room is filled with about thirty students as I got up, inserted my flash drive into the computer and the powerpoint comes up missing all of the text and most of the images. Apparently my mac ppt. is not compatible with the schools pc. Would have been nice to know that ahead of time. </p>
<p>Anyway, a long, long, awkward period of time (probably about 20 min but seemed like a day) followed while I tried everything to get it to work, called IT, tried emailing it to myself, etc. All with thirty silent people and the teacher staring at me waiting.</p>
<p>I finally gave up and had the entire class gather around my tiny macbook to watch the ppt.</p>
<p>After class, I told the professor that it was my nightmare come true except that I wasn’t naked during the whole debacle.</p>
<p>Well, I had an amazing dream right before I woke up this morning. Again, I was clearing security before a flight and this time they asked me a lot of questions, some that were upsetting and some that weren’t – all very personal. Turns out, they were asking to select certain customers to get perks. I was one. I got a massage before getting on the plane, and then the perks continued. We had private little rooms, and our group of winning fliers had an amazing tray of treats brought to us and I won a two-hour consult with a particular customer on board who was a famous nutritionist. More stuff, but it’s fading. It is sure going to be disappointing when I get on a plane in two weeks.</p>
<p>I’m in my 50s and I still had the “OMG final/can’t find class” dream for a long time but recently I’ve been getting a more relevant one. I am supposed to be playing organ for a service or a wedding and I can’t figure out where it is, or what the music should be, or something like that. Just last night I dreamed I couldn’t find the car keys or a car to use to get there. Eventually I realized I was on vacation (in my dream) and didn’t need to go play!</p>
<p>It’s like the part of your brain that has the good sense is sleeping too.</p>
<p>It’s always an upper level math class and I haven’t attended the class or done any of the work (no, I haven’t forgotten to officially drop it, I’ve just been blowing it off). The final is tomorrow and I’m looking at a text book that is totally incomprehensible to me.</p>
<p>Haha. I have just transitioned from the “Forgot to drop a class and the final has already started” dream to the one I woke up to yesterday. I woke in a panic Saturday that my secretary had called me during a mediation that was going way past closing time to tell me that a major crisis had developed in a big $ file (a license losing crisis). I had responded, “I’m dealing with Mr. Smith’s crisis today. We will deal with Mr. Jones’ crisis Friday.” It was so clear. So real. It was like a memory, a real file, a completely plausible screw-up and not at all like a dream. </p>
<p>4 hours of back and neck spasms and a frantic drive into town to check the file later, I finally reached my out of town secretary who calmly told me she had not made such a call. It was just a dream. The file confirmed it. </p>
<p>I’m still not over it. </p>
<p>Whatever happened to my SI swimsuit model dreams? I guess that one is so unrealistic now, I can’t even dream it. Hmmmm. I wonder if the swimsuit model is still having nightmares of me? ;)</p>
<p>I’ve had the “have a final in a class I didnt know I registered for and never attended” dream that garland and JHS describe. I also have a slight variation on this dream from time to time. I dream that I didn’t finish a class or a paper or my dissertation or something, and have to go back to either undergrad or grad school to do so. In the dream I am my current (old) age, having to go back to either undergrad or grad school as a nontraditional student to finish the class or the paper. I haven’t had it in quite a while, but with my luck, now that I am writing about it, I’ll have it again soon. Ugh!</p>
<p>Had it again last night. This time it was a project for some sort of basic interior design class our high school offered, but I never took. The list of supplies alone that I had to buy were over the top and I couldn’t get a car to go to the store to shop. Then, in order to get the project done, I had to call my personal trainer (who I’ve known less than a year now) and cancel our appt. </p>
<p>Funny thing was, this morning he texted me to tell me that he had to cancel our appt. this afternoon because he wasn’t feeling well. Maybe he’s really at the store buying supplies to complete a project for a high school class he never completed!</p>
<p>I missed another plane in my dream. This time I was in bed, realized I had a flight to catch, but couldn’t really get my eyes open and get going. I find it weird when in a dream I am trying hard to open my eyes, can’t get them open and just want to go back to sleep.</p>
<p>Okay. Am I the only one who is having “the dream” since participating in this thread? Last night I dreamt that I slept until 2 in the afternoon and woke up to realize that I had missed a class that I was scheduled to teach. I threw my clothes on, no shower or makeup and tried to leave the house only to find that my driveway was being repaved and my car was trapped there. Good thing I’m on vacation this week.</p>