I agree it is, I'm just saying I'm a fake imposter sometimes when things are not going well
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Re: College Nightmares? [crowny2]
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Re: College Nightmares? [Andrewmc]
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Andrewmc wrote:
I agree it is, I'm just saying I'm a fake imposter sometimes when things are not going well
Re: College Nightmares? [Steve Hawley]
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In terms of dreams, I have two. The usual one where I realize I have a final that day, and I never went to class or studied. The second is a weird one where I'm in the locker room (I was a jock in HS and college) and all the toilets are decrepit and overflowing. Which is weird since neither my HS nor college had bad bathrooms.
In terms of real-life, I had one where I was on the crew team. The day before we leave for the Pac 10 championships on the last day of finals week my coach calls me and is seriously pissed off: the Athletic Director called and I'm off the team. I've been deemed academically ineligible because I didn't take enough units that semester.
I was just devastated because I let down the 8 other people in my crew after we'd gotten up at 4AM the entire year basically preparing for this race. So I was ruined for an hour. Then I pull myself together and think: solve the problem. I call up a math professor buddy I know. I'd taken advanced stats from him. Can I add basic stats on the last day of finals take the final later that afternoon for a passing grade? Of course I can. So I run around campus getting all kinds of late add waivers and signatures, add the class, take the final, run over the to the AD's office and slam the transcript on her desk. Boom. She was pissed that I'd gamed the system. But I was able to row with my crew.
In terms of real-life, I had one where I was on the crew team. The day before we leave for the Pac 10 championships on the last day of finals week my coach calls me and is seriously pissed off: the Athletic Director called and I'm off the team. I've been deemed academically ineligible because I didn't take enough units that semester.
I was just devastated because I let down the 8 other people in my crew after we'd gotten up at 4AM the entire year basically preparing for this race. So I was ruined for an hour. Then I pull myself together and think: solve the problem. I call up a math professor buddy I know. I'd taken advanced stats from him. Can I add basic stats on the last day of finals take the final later that afternoon for a passing grade? Of course I can. So I run around campus getting all kinds of late add waivers and signatures, add the class, take the final, run over the to the AD's office and slam the transcript on her desk. Boom. She was pissed that I'd gamed the system. But I was able to row with my crew.
Re: College Nightmares? [trail]
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the whole " didn't know I'd had a class i'd been missing the whole year till time for finals" seems to be a common nightmare. i guess we're all wired the same way in many respects?
your story about adding a class and actually passing it at the last minute is pretty awesome tho!
/r
Steve
your story about adding a class and actually passing it at the last minute is pretty awesome tho!
/r
Steve
Re: College Nightmares? [trail]
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thats awesome
They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within
Dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good T.S. Eliot
They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within
Dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good T.S. Eliot
Re: College Nightmares? [Alibabwa]
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I have the nightmare where I either can’t find the exam room or I’m late. Then I didn’t study or bought the wrong textbook for the course and didn’t realize until the exam (the latter actually happened). And just in case that isn’t enough, I suddenly realize I’m naked. Or I have the dream where I still haven’t graduated and have to do one or two more classes but somehow can’t get myself to study or do any of the assignments and I know I’m going to fail or have my degree rescinded. I may also end up naked in public.
I was never brave enough to just do the course from the textbook.
They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within
Dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good T.S. Eliot
Re: College Nightmares? [Steve Hawley]
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one more here. A senior paper was required to graduate (which I did in real life just fine) but in dream life I manage not too, and graduated anyway. I kept trying to make good by going back to campus, finding a topic, finding an advisor, but it's always a hall of mirrors downward into nope, not happening.
the other recurrent nightmare is being extremely late for a flight in an airport with multiple dimensions. That one's closer to reality.
the other recurrent nightmare is being extremely late for a flight in an airport with multiple dimensions. That one's closer to reality.
Re: College Nightmares? [Steve Hawley]
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Here's mine: I'm on campus (undergraduate) and I suddenly get the feeling that there's a class that I'm supposed to be in right now, but I can't remember if that's actually true or where the class is being held. I walk and then run around campus (which has now become some weird, vaguely eerie mash-up of undergraduate and grad school campuses and Hogwarts) trying to locate the class to no avail. Then I start to wonder if I'm actually enrolled in this school. I think I need to find my campus p.o. box, since it apparently contains my class schedule and other info that would prove that I'm supposed to be there but I can't find my key to open it so I go off trying to find my dorm room, where the key surely is. There aren't many people around campus and I don't recognize any of them which I find odd, but no time to worry about that now. I go into several dorm buildings trying to find my room, but can't locate it in the M.C. Escher-esque buildings where nothing leads to anything familiar. At that point, I give up on searching for my room and head off to another area where the on-campus apartments are but I can't find anybody familiar and I'm now in full panic mode. I think I then roam around campus for a while before my mind surfaces just enough to acknowledge that it's just a dream, the scene ends and I go back to deep sleep.
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Re: College Nightmares? [Steve Hawley]
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I went to this little no name school called "Naval Nuclear Power School" in 1980. We started out with 13 sections of 40 men. Class was from 0700 to 1600 with 1 hour for lunch, and then there was a mandatory 2 hours of study from 1730 to 1930 if you were passing. If you were struggling that would increase to 3 or 4 hours or more. There also mandatory study on Saturday from 0800 to 1400 if you were having problems.
It went for 28 weeks. We lost 6 entire sections on academics. Then we went to in plant training where we worked 12 hour rotating shifts for 26 weeks. Most that got there made it to the end, but there was still about a 5% academic drop rate.
10 years later when I was working a full time job and raising a family I went to ODU and got a degree in Applied Mathematics. I went at night and on weekends and finished in 30 months. In general that was a joke compared to what I had already gone through, which is probably why I can't relate to any of the things in this thread.
"...the street finds its own uses for things"
It went for 28 weeks. We lost 6 entire sections on academics. Then we went to in plant training where we worked 12 hour rotating shifts for 26 weeks. Most that got there made it to the end, but there was still about a 5% academic drop rate.
10 years later when I was working a full time job and raising a family I went to ODU and got a degree in Applied Mathematics. I went at night and on weekends and finished in 30 months. In general that was a joke compared to what I had already gone through, which is probably why I can't relate to any of the things in this thread.
"...the street finds its own uses for things"
Re: College Nightmares? [VagueRunner]
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chriskal wrote:
To this day I have a recurring dream where I need a particular class to graduate, but the final is coming up and I’ve only gone to the class once or twice so It’s probably not possible to get a passing grade. Happens 2-3 times a year and each time I wake up I have to lay there a minute and take stock.
It’s good to know that I’m not the person who has a variation of this dream. Even in the dream I’m questioning how I never bothered to go to class and that maybe I’m not really in the class.
Same.. I always assumed it was just me but reading the responses to this thread is kind of comforting. I have one recurring dream about a HS math class that I'm convinced I didn't take the final exam for, and one about a college class where I haven't handed in all my assignments for.
I also wake up a couple of times a year convinced I still live in the UK and never moved to the US (which was almost 24 years ago).
Re: College Nightmares? [Steve Hawley]
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Steve Hawley wrote:
the whole " didn't know I'd had a class i'd been missing the whole year till time for finals" seems to be a common nightmare. i guess we're all wired the same way in many respects?I've been out of college for 30 years and i still have that one, you would think we would grow out of it.
Re: College Nightmares? [Steve Hawley]
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I undergrad degree was in business and it wasn't hard. I have two big tests I have to pass by the end of the year for my masters degree and those may give me nightmares.
Re: College Nightmares? [Perseus]
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https://www.psychologytoday.com/...ing-final-exam-dream
... "The Dream is common to the past two to three generations in the United States and other countries with educational systems that emphasize high stakes formal written tests that determine your future academic opportunities."
Mine often includes two variations: 1) I am trying to remember my locker combination and/or 2) I can't remember or keep track of my schedule, 1st period, 2nd period, etc. and keep going to the wrong classroom. I'm always in my old high school, though it's laid out differently in my dream.
... "The Dream is common to the past two to three generations in the United States and other countries with educational systems that emphasize high stakes formal written tests that determine your future academic opportunities."
Mine often includes two variations: 1) I am trying to remember my locker combination and/or 2) I can't remember or keep track of my schedule, 1st period, 2nd period, etc. and keep going to the wrong classroom. I'm always in my old high school, though it's laid out differently in my dream.
Re: College Nightmares? [Steve Hawley]
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29 years since I graduated and I still have a recurring nightmare two or three times a year. Academically, college was tough for me as a science major. I went to all the classes, did the labs, wrote all the papers, but not very good at continuously studying the material on a nightly basis, which was necessary to do well. This led to constantly cramming for the exams. My constant nightmare is there is a class that I haven't kept up with for 4 or 5 weeks, there is an exam or a final, and there is no way I can learn all the material in one night. I can't believe I still face this terror 30 years later.
Re: College Nightmares? [Thom]
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I had that dream too for about 20 years after college, and that was while being a professor. What stopped that dream was one night I dreamed I was late for giving my final exam and I suddenly realized I hadn't even written the final. Now I have a new recurring nightmare.
I've been out of college for 30 years and i still have that one, you would think we would grow out of it.
Thom wrote:
Steve Hawley wrote:
the whole " didn't know I'd had a class i'd been missing the whole year till time for finals" seems to be a common nightmare. i guess we're all wired the same way in many respects?I've been out of college for 30 years and i still have that one, you would think we would grow out of it.
Re: College Nightmares? [Steve Hawley]
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For years after highschool I had the dream of not being able to find my locker.
They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within
Dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good T.S. Eliot
They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within
Dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good T.S. Eliot