I’m an “unprepared for exam” kind of guy.

I’ve been out of school for a number of years, but I still have recurring nightmares about finals I didn’t know were coming.

Never exactly the same (tonight was an exam on logical operators? which I know pretty well out here in the real world?) but some things are usually constant:

  • I always find out days before a final exam that I was enrolled in a class I needed to graduate, but never attended because I didn’t know it was on my schedule
  • I’m always the only person who is unprepared, and the Professor is always cognizant of this fact
  • I always decide not to study in the buildup, and completely wing it (c’mon, dream me! Get it together!)
  • The exam is always “high stakes” – meaning there will be very negative consequences if I don’t pass.
  • The exam room always feels like it’s oriented incorrectly – this one is hard to explain, but do you ever walk into a room and everything is oriented right-to-left instead of left-to-right?
  • I always wake up right as time for the exam runs out, so I never find out the results

And for what it’s worth – I did very well in school. This never happened to me, so I don’t know where this one comes from, save for general preparedness-anxiety.

Sometimes I wake up and read up on the topic … for next time.

What about you, kbeans / Lemmings? What haunts your sleep?

  • Saturdaycat@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I had a really weird one when I was a child. I would be chased in black abyss by a giant sword which would then drop on my chest. I would wake up feeling a stabbing pain in my chest and the coldness of the blade. Usually I would fall back asleep and have a similar running dream, this time falling off the abyss and waking up suddenly again.