re: Do you ever get dreams (nightmares?) about missing a class in college and failing exam?

Less lately, but usually either

1) Didn't go to class all semester, unprepared for exam. This is based on real life. I did this twice to the same professor, including the second time where I showed up to the prep session (unique to this prof) and the class had voted to take the exam early. So I had to beg the same professor I'd bailed on previously to let me do something to make it up. Thankfully it was like a 50 point curve because he taught Federal Indian Lands Law to undergrads so I got a B anyway.

2) Similar to 1), but I'm graduating and worried that I'm going to derail an otherwise blemish-free college career by failing multiple classes in the last semester.

I used to have a reoccurring dream about a class I forgot I was taking then showed up for the first time only to find out if was the final exam. In the dream I felt like my whole life depended on it.

I get that one.

I also get the dream that, no matter how hard I try, I can’t make it to the final exam due to a multi-level obstacle course of impeding events (flat tire, natural disaster that only hits my college apartment complex, people trying to stop me for various reasons unrelated to the exam like to chat while I’m frantically trying to make it—think Ned Ryerson from Groundhog Day, etc.). It’s sooo frustrating.

All of my dreams are anxiety-related (teeth, tornadoes, alligators, snakes, etc.). I envy people who have just normal, good dreams. Not fair.

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They almost always take the form of be blowing off a class the entire semester and then taking the exam with zero idea how to do any of the work

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The last time I had a dream like this it was a semester long group project that I contributed nothing to, and I had a very lucid moment during the dream. My team went up to present and I told the teacher "I graduated college almost a decade ago, I have no idea what the frick I'm doing here," and walked out.

This was close to a year ago, and I haven't had a dream like this since. Although, I do still get the recurring dream where I'm stuck in my high school pool locker room before swim practice, unable to remember my locker combination

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You mean where it's almost the end of the semester and you realize there's a class you forgot to attend the whole time?

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You described my recurring nightmare perfectly. Happens at least once a year I'd say.

Yep all the time.

Sometimes I have gone back for a masters, and forgot to attend a certain class all semester.

Sometimes they have somehow determined that I need to retake my math classes or else they'll revoke my degree.

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It’s been over 35 years since I graduated and I still get those dreams occasionally.

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Me too, Natty.

Amazingly I had a dream last night about not going to classes for the semester and it being too late to get a W. I’m 40 now and have been having versions of this dream since college.

Wow I thought I was in a minority with this one, I used to have it frequently in my 30s and still occasionally in my 40s

Yep...

Mine always ends with me trying to figure out what I am gonna do. The final exam and deadline for course work is coming and I am unprepared for both.

Typical dream for people who are worried about the future (sub consciously).