I'm in my 40s. For a good long while, my recurring school dream was that my high school discovered that I didn't actually finish correctly, and because that invalidates my college degrees (in dream logic land), I can't do my job until I go back and finish high school properly.
For some reason in the last six months to a year it has shifted to the idea that I signed up for a full semester's worth of courses, while still trying to work my full time job, and I'm flunking all of them because I keep going to work and never attending the classes or doing the homework.
Either way, coming up on nearly 20 years since I've been in any kind of school and my subconscious is still freaked out about it, one way or another.
By contrast, my subconscious appears to not give a flip about whether I'm doing my paying job correctly. Don't tell my boss.
Wow, seeing so many comments high school/college exam dreams do seem universal. I have had these dreams like forever. To think about high school was almost 25 years ago.
Another theme for me is not able to board on plane. More than missing flight it is about being stuck to places where I do not want to be.
I still have regular dreams about not passing high school exams. Worse: in my dreams I have to study to pass for high school exams, and work my day job, and take care of the family at the same time. Because of the commitments outside of studying, in the dream I worry about not being able to study. Then I wake up.
For some reason in the last six months to a year it has shifted to the idea that I signed up for a full semester's worth of courses, while still trying to work my full time job, and I'm flunking all of them because I keep going to work and never attending the classes or doing the homework.
Either way, coming up on nearly 20 years since I've been in any kind of school and my subconscious is still freaked out about it, one way or another.
By contrast, my subconscious appears to not give a flip about whether I'm doing my paying job correctly. Don't tell my boss.