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I am 36, graduated at 24 and about 2 times per year I have a dream that I realize I had forgotten I enrolled in a class and the final is today. I sit down and have no idea what these questions are and have no time to prepare.

This scenario never happened and yet the dream is not only reoccurring in myself, but apparently it is very widespread across society.

Things like this make me wonder if the Mandela effect truly is just mass misremembering where common themes are 'compacted' in similar ways across wide ranges of people this presenting as incorrect memories experienced broadly in society. Such odd phenomenon

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I have had this exact dream scenario too - "you signed up for x course and today is the final worth 60% and you forgot you were signed up". Only twice since I graduated many years ago.

I think was latent exam related stress working it's way through my brain. I always hated the stress of 50% or higher exams in engineering courses and they were common. I never stressed while taking the exam, just the lead up to it.

I don't think it's the mandella effect just your subconscious mind coming up with a worst case scenario of exam stress.

Mine's similar. I enrolled in a class, but never went. It's finals day and I'm determined to take it, but I can't find the classroom. Hours of looking for it.

Yeah, I have that one a lot. When I was an undergraduate in the 1980s (at least) it was common to enroll in more courses than you were really intending to take, go to them all in the first week or two, and then make a decision of which courses to keep and which to drop (which you could do with no penalty early on). The idea that I would forget to drop a course I stopped attending haunted me and still does, nearly forty years later.

Same here. It was a nice time to be a student then though. There was little pressure and I would take math, physics, law, psychology etc and find a mix between what I found interesting (math) and parties (not math). Now I dream that I forgot to drop them, dropped the wrong ones or have to pass them all. I like nightmares and I lucid dream most of the nights, so I don’t mind , but funny more people have that.

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