Ever dream you were in college and didn't know when/where your classes were?

[raccoon]

I dreamed that last night. I was desperately searching for my schedule. I looked through my purse, and stacks of papers, syllabuses (syllabae?), composition books, etc....and couldn't find it.

Now, I probably dreamed this because I work in an academic setting, and students have been printing off their schedules.

I think it means, Do you know what you want to do with your life? Are you doing what you want to do?

At least it's not the old exam dream. :scared:

[HopeHoops]

1. Dream? Hell I WAS in college when that happened.

[raccoon]

2. OMG, that's even worse. nt

[HopeHoops]

6. Well, to be fair, I was probably stoned all to Jesus at the time.

I graduated Magna Cum Laude.

[Arugula Latte]

10. ...

:spray:

[grace0418]

3. I always have the exam dream. The class was Chinese History, which I never took.

Although I did take a Chinese Art History class and, while it was fun and interesting, it was extremely hard to keep names straight because my western brain was just not wired to remember them. They all sounded so similar, but I suppose John, James, Jean, etc. sound confusingly similar to a non-Westerner.

I think that's why my anxiety dream took the shape of a Chinese History final. I'm a really good test-taker and have bluffed my way through a test or two in my day, but you can't fake something like that. In the dream I find the textbook in my apartment and suddenly realize the test is the next day and I have to figure a way to learn it all by then. :scared:

[Kali]

64. ...

"suddenly realize the test is the next day and I have to figure a way to learn it all by then. "

that describes every class I took:rofl:

[Demoiselle]

4. No. But I've dreamed I had the starring role in a play.

And I was rushing to the theater to perform and I didn't even know the name of the play.
Of course there was a talent scout from Hollywood scheduled to watch the show, too.
Ah well.

[Wapsie B]

5. The exam dream where you're the only one naked in the classroom?

Haven't had that one in some time.

[raccoon]

7. No, the one where it's exam time and you realize you haven't attended

any classes/cracked the books, etc.

[Locrian]

8. thats the one I have

I havent attended class because I forgot I was signed up or something. And the test is the next day...

[Rambis]

12. Yep

I haven't been at school for twenty years but I still have that nightmare a few times a year.

[Hayabusa]

32. That's the dream...

I kept having in college. It's finals time and I realize that I had completely forgotten that I had even signed up for the class.

[ashling]

68. My wife and I teach college and

I think I have had some of those people in my class.

They are the ones who show up at your office during the last couple of weeks and ask how they can get an A in the class.

"But I've got to get an A in this class.!"

of course, I have often had that dream ....
or I'm going to class and I can't remember where it is or if I've been there in the last month.

It is like the falling dream ... loss of control.

[WildEyedLiberal]

40. I have that dream all the time

I didn't really have it when I was in college, but in the two years since I've been out, I've had it several times.

It's really bizarre.

[Tikki]

9. Yes...

Tikki

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

11. I always have a nightmare that I'm registered for a class but have forgotten...

and now it's halfway through the term and suddenly I remember and panic because I haven't been studying, turning in assignments, or taking tests.

[pokerfan]

23. I still get that one

and I'm 50.

[raccoon]

42. Don't count on it going away with age--I'm nearly 60. :-) nt

[driver8]

30. That's pretty much the same one that I have!

I am sitting down to take a test and realize that I have never been to class.

[RagAss]

58. Bingo !...that's mine too...and I'm 50.

[704wipes]

62. yeah, I lost the schedule of class days/times

I have that dream about once every 60 days or so...

[Deep13]

13. yup. nt

[MrCoffee]

14. All the time

[KG]

15. never went to college, but after all these years periodically dream i show up for the first day

of HS, and muck around a bit before recalling i already graduated. :P

[DBoon]

67. I have dreams of moving into college dorms

then realizing I am way older than everyone else, and that I am in fact too old to be living in the dorms

[MiddleFingerMom]

16. College 101

.
Required freshman course -- taught you basic life skills like laundry
and cooking mac-and-cheese and designed for 18-year-olds who were just
leaving the nest for the first time.
.
I was 28 when I could afford to go -- 6 years in the Army and 4 years in
the civilian workforce behind me. Stopped going after the first class
and went to the prof's office right before finals week to let him know
that I had "missed the last class" and needed to know where and when I
had to show up to take the final.
.
He laughed and told me it had been a half-semester course and the final
had been more than a month before.
.
Understood my situation and gave me the final right there.
.
.
.
Still can't make mac-and-cheese worth a darn.
.

[Posteritatis]

17. That's a recurring one for me

It starts popping up if I'm forgetting/ignoring something I should be paying attention to for too long. When I figure out what that is and deal with it, the dreams go away until I forget something else.

[raccoon]

43. Helpful post. I thought it was just my general anxiety, but may be what you say. nt

[ceile]

18. Recently actually.

And I haven't had a college class in a decade. Also had the same dream, but I was back in high school.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

19. I've dreamt that I've somehow neglected to attend classes for 3/4 of the semester...

....and having the realization that I might not end up passing the class.

[JanMichael]

60. That's like mine too. Yet I didn't attend 3/4 I didn't...

...attend any...

[Alexander]

20. No, but I did used to have nightmares I was still stuck in high school.

Since I didn't graduate, but instead got a GED, I view that as a sign that I didn't think of my GED as legitimate.

I would have recurring nightmares that I was still in high school at the age of 19, 20, 21, etc.

Thankfully those dreams all went away once I got my college degree.

[progressoid]

21. Yeah, or you make it to class and it's finals and you can't even remember what class it is.

or show up and everyone looks at you funny because you're forty *cough* years old.

Paging Dr.Freud

[tblue]

22. I dream a lot that I've missed class or

an exam or didn't finish my paper on time. It's very distressing. And I've been out of college forever. What this means, I have no idea, but I dream it a lot.

[old mark]

24. R, I still sometimes dream about being in the Army, and I got out in '71.

I am usually trying to tell them I'm way too old to be doing that shit when I wake up.
Always happy to be home after those derams.

mark

[UTUSN]

26. Oh, my ZEUS!1 I have a similar one, that back when I was on active duty

(I also completed my active duty in '71) I signed a contract that takes effect NOW, and I go back in, and am the oldest one and have to deal with all the regulations and restrictions, the whole thing.

That said, last night I had one where I had parked my vehicle a block away from some modernistic building where I had to do something, then inside the building, like a bank or mall, kept getting bigger and overwhelming, with lots of light and structures and all, stunning to the sight, but HUGH!1 Then leaving, I went to the doors I entered, where the vehicle should have been across the street, and there was and incredibly HUGH!1 expanse of manicured lawn, going for miles, impossible to walk. Then going to other exits, there was some kind of trolley cars system for taking you to the city streets that used to be across one street, but (and on and on)... Never did get to the danged car before waking up!1

[old mark]

28. Yeah, it's funny - they are trying to get me to re-enlist or something,

and I keep telling them they must have the wrong guy.

An old military buddy once told me about an article he read about how long it takes to get over being in the service. It really depends on your branch and type of service. He was in the Marines, which was something like 15 years to never. I'm going on 63, so I kind of lean toward "never" myself.

Hey, at least the food was good....:puke: :rofl:

Great to wake up a free man, though.

mark

[TrogL]

49. I was in a summer program for two months 37 years ago

I still occasionally find myself thinking "that big tree would make nice cover in case of a sniper".

[old mark]

50. I guess it worked, didn't it? nt

[doc03]

46. I have one every once in a while that I get drafted

again and I can't convince them I had alread been in the Army or that I am 61 years old.

[mnhtnbb]

25. No, but I lived out the nightmare of forgetting about a final one time.

Fortunately, it was an extension class (adult ed) and the instructor was willing to let me make
it up when I realized I had forgotten to come to the final. My excuse? I was moving into my very
first house!

[EastTennesseeDem]

27. No, but I have an odd habit of waking up hours before my alarm goes off

and thinking I've missed the alarm by about six hours.

And I can never get back to sleep.

[driver8]

29. I have this dream at least once a week!!

In my dream, I am in class to take a test but have never seen the material. It is usually some weird class like 18th Century German Literature.

[LiberalEsto]

31. I get that one a lot

AND the exam dream.

[Mojambo]

33. About once a month for the last 18 years.

The one I really get is that I'll be enrolled in the several classes and then one by one will forget to attend them. As I miss each class I somehow resolve that I can't possibly attend it after missing one of the classes because I'll never catch up.

So slowly but surely I drop out one class at a time.

[Mopar151]

34. Been through several variations of this.

Sucks.

[Jennicut]

35. Yes, and I graduated 11 years ago in 1999.

It happens every few months or so.

[XemaSab]

36. For me it's usually the dream

where it's the end of the semester and I realize I have only been going to one class out of the five I am registered for. :o

[petronius]

48. I've had that one, although it's more of a painful memory than a dream

:)

[femmocrat]

37. Yes, I have that dream frequently. Very similar.

I think it means we need to organize our lives better!

[AsahinaKimi]

38. I think what was worse for me was

Being lost on a ship..and not knowing where the main deck was. I was on a cruise ship once..it was huge.

[GreenPartyVoter]

39. I've dreamed that I go to see my old high school compete and the coach comes up to me in a panic and

says they are one girl short, so I have to suit up and get out there. And of course I don't know the routine and there's not a snowball's chance I can squeeze into one of the uniforms anymore. And then I get out there and start flailing around and I am always two steps behind everyone else and I don't know where I am supposed to be in the formations or the stunts. :scared:

[elleng]

41. STRESS dream!

What's doing on in your life now?

Ever have the walking around school looking for bathroom, w/out clothing????

[raccoon]

44. What's going on in my life now--I find it nice but boring. Due to

health issues, the cold, and inertia, my activities have been more circumscribed than than I'm content with. I keep telling myself I need to get involved in some other activities, but inertia usually wins out. Or has so far. :-)

"Ever have the walking around school looking for bathroom, w/out clothing????" Not that particular one, but I've had dreams of looking for a bathroom. I think the older we get the more we have that dream.

[doc03]

45. I never attended College but I have had that

dream about High School many times, couldn't remember where the class was or couldn't remember what locker I had. Weird 40 plus years after being out of school isn't it.

[One_Life_To_Give]

47. That was a Dream?? Thought it was a Semester! nt

[TrogL]

51. Yeah, and I'm running around naked

The library only contains childrens' books and the big huge skycraper where most of the classes are held is only half-built.

[BlueCollar]

52. Yep...from 1975-79

I remember it was at SFSU...not much else...

[Darth_Kitten]

53. Yes, actually.

:)

[TheCentepedeShoes]

54. Haven't had one like that in some time

but for several years after graduating college I had a recurring dream about needing to go back to HS to deal with some unspecified unfinished business
I would argue that I had graduated HS and had a college BA while waving both diplomas around
All to no good, had to make up WhatEver was missing, and spent the rest of the dream trying to remember which class was where and when

[ThatsMyBarack]

55. I've had NIGHTMARES....

About not being able to escape dorm life! :scared:

[Sheltiemama]

56. All the time!

And I work at a newspaper, not in an academic setting.

[PfcHammer]

57. I have the exam dreams often and also sometimes dreams where my

teef fall out. not good.

[JanMichael]

59. Still have a similar dream where I wake to find a class is ending yet I never was there.

Plus there's nothing left to do but I still have to go to the class without the last paper and unprepared for an exam.

There's no end to this one. I suppose it's just a feeling of pressure?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

61. Yes; but my favorite school anxiety dream

involved having to write a final exam on a subject I didn't know anything about, using a pencil that was so gigantic that I couldn't hold onto it.

[tigereye]

63. nope, just high school, and then grad school...

one of those where you can't find the room, or you totally blow off classes until the last day! (yikes!)

[yurbud]

65. I used to have that dream a lot. Now I'm a college instructor & it actually happened to me TUESDAY

I walked into the first session of a class and asked the students if they were there for my class and they all said NO.

I realized what had happened. My community college district has three campuses, and the nitwits at the district office decided to put a campus number (a piece of information probably useful to about seven people if any) before the building letter and the room number after it a while back, so when I copied and pasted the location from the schedule, I mistakenly copied the wrong number.

Fortunately, it was a small building, so I only had to stick my head in a couple of rooms before I found my students.

[DBoon]

66. Always

after 30 years, it still haunts me

And in my dreams I realize it's too late to drop the class....

[Taitertots]

69. Been there in real life

They have computers all over campus. In five seconds you can see your classes and their rooms.