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Only recurring dream I have is I'm back in college and it's the end of a semester, suddenly I realize there's some math class I haven't been attending and I have just a few days to cram everything I've missed in time for the final.

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I have this dream constantly. Always that I forgot to ever go to the class, never that I'm struggling in a class or that I'm going to fail I class I've been attending. I wonder, did you skip a lot of classes in College?

I’m not the person you are asking but I got the same type of dreams, and yes I practically didn’t attend to at least a quarter of the classes in college. I didn’t like some lecturers, so I would study through textbooks and ask my friends about important exam dates and would generally have fears about missing these exams but somehow I still have these type of dreams.

Hah, I don't think it depends on that really. I've never really missed classes in college (mandatory attendance yay!) but I still get those dreams occasionally.

I've had that a lot for years after College. During College, I skipped a lot of classes and instead studied by borrowing books from the library, it worked well in terms of learning but it meant that if I failed my exams, my teachers would probably not hesitate to expel me. That added a lot of pressure and is most likely why I've been having that dream regularly since even 15 years later.

It's funny to know this is a dream theme that others have. It's not the only recurring nightmare theme I have but it's a major one. You're right that it's just that I forgot to attend or something, like I just totally forgot I was enrolled for the course.

In my case, there's some real-life precedent for it. I enrolled in one course in undergrad, and dropped it right away my first week or so for some reason I don't recall. Toward the end of the semester, before finals, I found I was still enrolled, but had never set foot in the classroom or anything.

I was sort of panicked, but went and talked to the professor, and he was fine with it. He basically verified that I never did anything with the class and it was somehow deleted from my record completely.

I still don't know why it wasn't dropped in the first week, although this was before electronic registration systems.

I have exactly that. It can be from highschool or university but the setting is always the same - there was some class that seemed easy, I took it for granted, didn't attend, and now only a few classes left before the end of semester and I am facing a dilemma: I haven't done anything, I am afraid of confronting the teacher who might not even know me, and I am uncertain if I can still make it or if it's already too late and I failed the class.

I have this dream too, except it is the English language class and there was a book to be read on our own (Hound of Baskervilles) that I forgot to read.

I have both the naked in public dream (or sometimes, in underwear) and the missing class dream. Also a similar dream where I have a work schedule that I should know but I didn't write it down (used to work a job with irregular shifts).

They underlying theme is probably low self-confidence.

Me too. This is creepy. I mean, being naked, chased by monsters, flying, or talking to people who are dead... okay, those are some ancient archetypes or whatever. But the missed math class in college is just too modern and too specific.

Same. And the math is always in-intelligible gobbledygook. Probably my subconscious shaming me for managing to get my M.Sc. without taking Differential Equations and Transforms

https://xkcd.com/557/

I have the exact same dream but the class varies.

Wow I have this dream constantly as well

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