Nightmare

[andrewducker]

Had my most common recurring stress dream last night - exam time when I haven't been to any lectures and don't know anything.  My main worry, if I remember correctly, was how I was going to explain it to my parents.

I've heard other people have this dream too.  I wonder how many of them are basing it on real life experiences.

Comments

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

me me me.

And largely, no, I've never been to an exam when I hadn't revised.

[makyo.livejournal.com]

Seven years ago I was revising like crazy for my MSc exams, which were and still are the hardest written exams I've ever taken. Sometime during this period I had a dream where I'd overslept and missed almost all of an important exam. I leapt out of bed, hurriedly got dressed and ran across campus to the `Panorama Room' (known as the `Paranoia Room' by generations of exam-stressed students), bursting through the doors just as the invigilator (now, incidentally, my research supervisor) looked at his watch and said ``Everyone please stop writing now''. I let out a horrified, slow-motion, yell of ``Nooo....!'' at which point he turned to me and said ``Oh, I wouldn't worry about it - nobody could answer any of the questions anyway...''

[xquiq.livejournal.com]

Sure, although mine generally revolve around getting thrown out for being crap and everyone back home finding out about it.

I also had a dream before one of my economics finals (which I was dreading), that I would go in and know all the answers, while all the smart arses on the course struggled. That one sort of came true (in that the paper was much easier than I had expected, whilst some people who had said the course was easy did very badly indeed). I like those sort of dreams better :)

[easterbunny.livejournal.com]

I had that one last week. Must be a dreme meme.

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, all the time, though not quite as common as its close companion, the one where I'm back in school and the bell has run but I can't work out from the timetable where I'm supposed to be. So I wander randomly around the halls getting into odder and odder situations until it all falls apart. Not based on real life as far as I know, except that it's my first day at a new school in the middle of a school year, something that did happen to me quite often.

The close relative of the dream one is the one where the convention is happening right now, except that I've totally failed to plan and organise anything.

And my other recurring dream is one in which my teeth are loose. No, I really don't understand that one, but I understand that it also is quite common.

[red-cloud.livejournal.com]

Don't have the exam one, I'm usually OK with exams. I'm on stage and I haven't learned my lines. I get that a lot, although I haven't acted seriously since 1992.

[in-thy-bounty.livejournal.com]

That sounds like every exam I've ever sat.

[darkoshi]

I don't remember having that kind of dream. I have however, had some dreams similar to BohemianCoast's, wandering around a very very large school trying to get to class on time yet not managing it... which is really just another version of my "need to use the bathroom but can't because I'm asleep, metaphorically translated into unsuccessfully trying to get somewhere" dream.

[spikeiowa.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's a very frequent recurring dream. Often the class is Symbolic Logic, a class I took and successfully completed with a high mark (but not quite high enough...)

I think the number one recurring dream, outdistancing the above, involves me and the Love of My Life, meeting again in that (now very familiar) imaginary dream apartment, comparing notes on our lives and (often) managing to say something hurtful and drawing blood one last time. It's not so bad. A couple of times I've laughed myself awake at the end of that one.

Loose teeth??? Maybe I'll try that...

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

My dreams of school are just of corridors and stairs. I never worried much about exams. School itself was the problem, and I left as soon as I could.