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…
I graduated in 99 and I have these dreams.
I graduated at 99 and I have these dreams.
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
Graduated twenty years ago and still have these dreams.
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.
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, but potentially because that happened IRL to me.
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.
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.
“Turns out I didn’t graduate after all” nightmares love to haunt me during particularly stressful times
It’s the opposite for me. I actually dropped out when I was right at the finish line due to a particularly good job offer at the time. From time to time I get dreams about finally graduating, then I wake up… I mean I don’t regret my decision back then and certainly with the experience I have now no employer cares, but boy it does hurt.
Do you ever get “oh no I forgot I parked that car/motorcycle I own and used to drive over around here somewhere? Have to walk around the blocks and look for it” dreams
I didn’t know that so many of us share the same dream.
