
Have you ever had nightmares about school years after you have graduated?


Yes! I have recurring dreams every few months that I'm in high school in the present day and that all my old classmates are back there as well. And I think it's because I feel like that was the time when my life spiraled out of control and ended up in this dark timeline. Like the point where things got f*cked up. Though I can't blame myself entirely; I didn't do anything wrong, per se. I had a medical condition that stunted my puberty and I developed severe depression during this time. But I still feel like things went "south" in the 11th to 12th grade, and that was like 2004.
Genuinely
Sometimes i still wake up as recently as months ago in sweats, fearing i had overdue assignments or had failed high school... it really is true what they say, until one experienced it for themselves, nightmares and waking up from it sweaty and heart still racing... god it's scary...🤔🤔
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High School was hell for me and yes i sometimes have night terrors about it
In one of them the setting was my English teachers classroom, we were learning this weird chant and my dad came into the classroom as a black horse. We were preparing for some type of battle. I remember getting up from my desk standing next to the horse and crying because I knew it was my dad. As this was happening I was wondering how he turned into a horse. When I woke up I was crying heart racing and still remembered the chant, I should have wrote it down because it slipped from my mind so fast
The other ones are were i'm stuck in high school, not able to graduate and have to repeat the year. I graduated on time in real life and sometimes I remember that as im dreaming lol
Dreams do seem to fade fast, except for some nightmares that you seem to remember, like the ones you really don't want to remember.
You should be glad your dad was only a horse. Some dads can be the horse's ass.
I graduated over 3 and a half decades ago, and still have dreams that I didn't complete my math assignments, can't remember where my classes are, am flunking out, (Despite being on the honor role in real life in 11th and 12th grades) and have to keep repeating 12th. Grade over, and over, and over, and over again. The worst part, is that it sometimes takes an hour after waking up, for me to remember that I was a good student, and am retired and relatively affluent financially with people often seaking advice on offsetting financial risk in assessing commodities leverage investment strategies.
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No. For me once I left school, apart from the friends I made and still keep in touch with, I haven't given a second thought to it.
That bad huh?
I was bullied for a lot of the time so I didn't really start studying until after I left. I HATED school.
The one I remember most is I was up in front of class giving a report in my underwear. I was a bit chunky in high school and very self conscious about my weight so you can imagine how that must have felt.
I think everyone who has been to college has had nightmares like that.
The most common seems to be the one where you didn't know you were in a course so you didn't go to class or do the work & it's too late to drop so you're about to flunk.
My parents are in their 50s & said they have that occasionally.
Yes, especially taking a test. That shit feels horrible. It would make me wake up full of stress
We all have felt that at times.
Yes. I had nightmares about being bullied again during high school. Being assaulted all over again, shoved into lockers, my stuff stolen, reliving that horrible time in my life all over again.
That must have been hell. Sorry you had to go through that. :(
It was what happened
I completed grad school 36 years ago, but I still have nightmares about a certain professor. He must have died a decade ago, and I swear he's haunting me.
LOL Wow man I've never had dreams that bad about college. That professor must've been a mean one!
I still have nightmares about college. I have to take a final exam in a course that I completely forgot about. I never attended class and I couldn't even remember where the classroom was.
Thanks for reminding me. I had dreams where I hadn't been to class for 6 months.
Mostly good dreams. Going back to theatre arts and reuniting with everyone. Making out with girls I never met. Super powers where I literally stopped time and kinda just went ape shit feeling titties and what not. I could also move things with my mind. It was tight.
LOL Yeah I had bad dreams like that for awhile after finishing college. So much time has passed now that I really don't have dreams like that anymore though.
Indeed I have! I had a lot of anxiety in my youth. It still sometimes haunts me in my dreams.
I am still in college, but I have had dreams about previous school grades in college
A lucid dream where you know you’re dreaming? Anyways, about high school and books? No. Mostly women are in my dreams.
You never had that? Like you are taking a test you never studied for and are stressed until you remember you already graduated so you don't have to take that test.
I’ve had a few lucid dreams in my life. I don’t dream much, but when I do it’s usually about a woman or two and it’s sexual. Occasionally I’ll have nightmares, but it’s all dependent on you. What you have seen and done in life is what you dream about. I did well in school, but I never gave it much thought.
No, but I did one time have a dream where the shadow of a teacher had an axe and tried to murder me. I ran but didn’t really go anywhere. “You….. UGLY mess”
Actually i think i do remember something similar. If not about a test i sure had feelings as if i was suppose to be somewhere during the day.
I have before , even regular dreams about back then
I've had numerous dreams about tests I didn't study for, waking up with anxiety over it, and taking a bit to realize it was a dream.
Yes, I sometimes have the one where I didn't finish my Ph. D. and I have to go back and do more...
Yes at times not any more
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