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?
For years I had recurring dreams where I was lost wandering an endlessly large building - usually office buildings with hundreds of hallways and stairwells that led to more endless hallways. Haven’t had them as often the last few years but they always left me feeling down the next day.