re: Anyone ever have dreams about being back in school ?

The dream where you're walking around with a briefcase and no pants on ?

Or the Dilbert Dunker when you can't surface, and everyone's left the building ?

Every couple months. Never any dreams about hooking up with college girls.

Aw yeah. With no pants.

They say this is common for successful people that are facing a challenge and stressing about working through it… the pajamas or naked is you feel vulnerable also… suggestions are when you wake up think about the challenges facing you in your life and put a plan down to accomplish them… you go back to school environment because it is where you had lots of emotional feelings as to completed challenges… fwiw

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I have this dream where I hadn't been to this one class all semester and the first time I show up they are having a huge exam or something.

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Bingo - very consistent to one of my recurring pattern dreams.

I still wake up stressed out over bombing a test from a dream. Fun fact I may have bombed like one test in college

Holy hell, yes, I do, often. It’s sometimes high school and college. There’s anxiety in both situations. I was in college for six years figuring out what direction I wanted to go. Finally after settling on a major, I just wanted to get focused and get done. After graduating with a degree in Broadcasting, the real life struggle began. In real time I struggle to grasp the concept of real life even though I’m in a successful career now.

When I sleep at night, whether nightmarish or dream, the thought of trying to make it through college builds up tension, stress, anxiety, etc. Studying for essay exams, preparing to do obscenely long research projects and papers, sitting for long hours in class, pulling all-nighters studying; man, what a time, and I don’t miss it! Well, I should say, I only miss the part of where I wasn’t in “real life” yet, but knew it was approaching, and that was the scariest part.

Yes. I didn't know how easy I had it the first go round. Dropped out and went to work. Went back and finished years later. It's a lot harder when you have to work full time.

I figured it up the other day. Not finishing on time has probably cost me well over 500k in lost wages if my career path had been similar and started earlier.

I have these all the freaking time. I was a really good student in college which may have something to do with it. I have several versions but the main one is that the end of the semester rolls around and I either forgot or didn’t know I still had said class. And then I’m scrambling around looking for the right building and I’m late for lecture, or it’s test time and I didn’t study, something like that. I have it frequently.