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Zebra Foal
Number of posts: 899
Registration date: 2007-08-16
 | | Subject: The "Examination Dream" Thu Aug 30, 2007 4:32 pm | |
| Apparently this is the most common dream-- and apparently even people who have never taken an examination have this dream! It has variations but it is clearly recognizable.
The link below I think is very good re interpretations of this dream:
[url]www-leland.stanford.edu/~corelli/examinationdreams.html[/url] |
| | | | Conrad
Number of posts: 5647
Location: Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Registration date: 2007-07-21
| | Subject: Re: The "Examination Dream" Fri Aug 31, 2007 1:50 am | |
| I just realized that I have three (rather than just one as I thought) recurrent dreams, one of which is a variation on the examination dream. In the dream I am of the age that I then currently am, so i will have long since graduated from high school or even university, but I get notified (or just somehow know) that I have in fact not graduated from high school (and it may sometimes be university, not sure) yet and that I have to take these extra courses and exams still. (I think most of the times it is mathematics, I'll get back to that) And I get very worried about the courses and exams. The dream ends before my actually taking the exams or courses though.
it could be mathematics because in high school I tended not to do any homework at all, and would if need be (by no means all of the classes) just study the day(s) just before the exam and I would make it (though i also flunked one year and had to re-do the whole year). But with mathematics I couldnt do this, because it seems that for me at least you have to sort of keep up with your homework in order to follow everything and you'd have to be *really* smart to be able to do the whole course a few days before the exam. Anyway, so I did choose mathematics in my final years but because I already knew I was going to graduate anyway (since my grades for the other courses were good enough and even at that time for mathematics they were) from about 4 or 5 months before the final tests I pretty much stopped doing mathematics altogether and accepted a bad grade cuz I would graduate anyway.
I'm not sure about the interpretation that they give in the link of examination dreams. The equation of examinations with the Final Day and hence of studying with life itself somehow seems too easy and general. I dont get that connection re my dream at all. But it may be there and I just cant see it yet. (the unconscious works in complex ways) |
| | | | Zebra Foal
Number of posts: 899
Registration date: 2007-08-16
| | Subject: Re: The "Examination Dream" Fri Aug 31, 2007 1:47 pm | |
| | Conrad wrote: | I just realized that I have three (rather than just one as I thought) recurrent dreams, one of which is a variation on the examination dream. In the dream I am of the age that I then currently am, so i will have long since graduated from high school or even university, but I get notified (or just somehow know) that I have in fact not graduated from high school (and it may sometimes be university, not sure) yet and that I have to take these extra courses and exams still. (I think most of the times it is mathematics, I'll get back to that) And I get very worried about the courses and exams. The dream ends before my actually taking the exams or courses though.
it could be mathematics because in high school I tended not to do any homework at all, and would if need be (by no means all of the classes) just study the day(s) just before the exam and I would make it (though i also flunked one year and had to re-do the whole year). But with mathematics I couldnt do this, because it seems that for me at least you have to sort of keep up with your homework in order to follow everything and you'd have to be *really* smart to be able to do the whole course a few days before the exam. Anyway, so I did choose mathematics in my final years but because I already knew I was going to graduate anyway (since my grades for the other courses were good enough and even at that time for mathematics they were) from about 4 or 5 months before the final tests I pretty much stopped doing mathematics altogether and accepted a bad grade cuz I would graduate anyway.
I'm not sure about the interpretation that they give in the link of examination dreams. The equation of examinations with the Final Day and hence of studying with life itself somehow seems too easy and general. I dont get that connection re my dream at all. But it may be there and I just cant see it yet. (the unconscious works in complex ways) |
The excerpt of the link below may be more germane to interpretation, but I guess the thing is: what *feelings* do you have in the dream: anxiety? fear? abject horror? shame? a sense of shock that you are so far along in your life and yet something locked in the past somehow disqualifies you for where you are now? confusion? (sorry, I composed this and lost it and now am rushing and don't have it quite.)
It is interesting that you note dramatic time contrasts and pathways: You could not cram for a math exam, but now you must qualify in some way for math or its proxy; and then in your real life you found a way not to actually have to acquire math knowledge. And yet here again is math.
I would be interested in knowing what the *feelings* are of this dream. They lead to the associations which give the dream personal meaning. I would also be interested in hearing the other two recurrent dreams if you care to share them.
Thank you for your candour. Your openness is disarming and admirable and I hope I have learned something from it. |
| | | | Zebra Foal
Number of posts: 899
Registration date: 2007-08-16
| | Subject: Re: The "Examination Dream" Fri Aug 31, 2007 1:49 pm | |
| | Conrad wrote: | I just realized that I have three (rather than just one as I thought) recurrent dreams, one of which is a variation on the examination dream. In the dream I am of the age that I then currently am, so i will have long since graduated from high school or even university, but I get notified (or just somehow know) that I have in fact not graduated from high school (and it may sometimes be university, not sure) yet and that I have to take these extra courses and exams still. (I think most of the times it is mathematics, I'll get back to that) And I get very worried about the courses and exams. The dream ends before my actually taking the exams or courses though.
it could be mathematics because in high school I tended not to do any homework at all, and would if need be (by no means all of the classes) just study the day(s) just before the exam and I would make it (though i also flunked one year and had to re-do the whole year). But with mathematics I couldnt do this, because it seems that for me at least you have to sort of keep up with your homework in order to follow everything and you'd have to be *really* smart to be able to do the whole course a few days before the exam. Anyway, so I did choose mathematics in my final years but because I already knew I was going to graduate anyway (since my grades for the other courses were good enough and even at that time for mathematics they were) from about 4 or 5 months before the final tests I pretty much stopped doing mathematics altogether and accepted a bad grade cuz I would graduate anyway.
I'm not sure about the interpretation that they give in the link of examination dreams. The equation of examinations with the Final Day and hence of studying with life itself somehow seems too easy and general. I dont get that connection re my dream at all. But it may be there and I just cant see it yet. (the unconscious works in complex ways) |
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| | | | Zebra Foal
Number of posts: 899
Registration date: 2007-08-16
| | Subject: Re: The "Examination Dream" Fri Aug 31, 2007 1:50 pm | |
| | Zebra Foal wrote: | | Conrad wrote: | I just realized that I have three (rather than just one as I thought) recurrent dreams, one of which is a variation on the examination dream. In the dream I am of the age that I then currently am, so i will have long since graduated from high school or even university, but I get notified (or just somehow know) that I have in fact not graduated from high school (and it may sometimes be university, not sure) yet and that I have to take these extra courses and exams still. (I think most of the times it is mathematics, I'll get back to that) And I get very worried about the courses and exams. The dream ends before my actually taking the exams or courses though.
it could be mathematics because in high school I tended not to do any homework at all, and would if need be (by no means all of the classes) just study the day(s) just before the exam and I would make it (though i also flunked one year and had to re-do the whole year). But with mathematics I couldnt do this, because it seems that for me at least you have to sort of keep up with your homework in order to follow everything and you'd have to be *really* smart to be able to do the whole course a few days before the exam. Anyway, so I did choose mathematics in my final years but because I already knew I was going to graduate anyway (since my grades for the other courses were good enough and even at that time for mathematics they were) from about 4 or 5 months before the final tests I pretty much stopped doing mathematics altogether and accepted a bad grade cuz I would graduate anyway.
I'm not sure about the interpretation that they give in the link of examination dreams. The equation of examinations with the Final Day and hence of studying with life itself somehow seems too easy and general. I dont get that connection re my dream at all. But it may be there and I just cant see it yet. (the unconscious works in complex ways) |
The excerpt of the link below may be more germane to interpretation, but I guess the thing is: what *feelings* do you have in the dream: anxiety? fear? abject horror? shame? a sense of shock that you are so far along in your life and yet something locked in the past somehow disqualifies you for where you are now? confusion? (sorry, I composed this and lost it and now am rushing and don't have it quite.)
It is interesting that you note dramatic time contrasts and pathways: You could not cram for a math exam, but now you must qualify in some way for math or its proxy; and then in your real life you found a way not to actually have to acquire math knowledge. And yet here again is math.
I would be interested in knowing what the *feelings* are of this dream. They lead to the associations which give the dream personal meaning. I would also be interested in hearing the other two recurrent dreams if you care to share them.
Thank you for your candour. Your openness is disarming and admirable and I hope I have learned something from it. |
Here's the excerpt from the stanford link: | Quote: | | These dreams may be suggesting that we pay attention to things that have been neglected. Pay attention to the real meanings and purposes in life. The important issue may not be so much the beginning or ending but the journey or process itself. The course of life. We often get caught up in looking back at what we missed in life and get depressed or we spend a lot of time looking to the future and get anxious about what lies ahead. We miss living in the moment |
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| | | | Conrad
Number of posts: 5647
Location: Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Registration date: 2007-07-21
| | Subject: Re: The "Examination Dream" Mon Sep 17, 2007 5:01 am | |
| | Quote: | | The excerpt of the link below may be more germane to interpretation, but I guess the thing is: what *feelings* do you have in the dream: anxiety? fear? abject horror? shame? a sense of shock that you are so far along in your life and yet something locked in the past somehow disqualifies you for where you are now? confusion? (sorry, I composed this and lost it and now am rushing and don't have it quite.) |
I think I felt like being picked up and put down somewhere in the past again (with my current self) and be told: do this all over again first. I dont really get the feeling that I myself felt that I wasnt qualified for where I am now, but that formally I hadnt done everything right yet, and that although that is completely irrlevant to my current situation the people who have a say in this required me to go back and re-do these things. And that created a sense of anxiety and hopelessness in me
| Quote: | | It is interesting that you note dramatic time contrasts and pathways: You could not cram for a math exam, but now you must qualify in some way for math or its proxy; and then in your real life you found a way not to actually have to acquire math knowledge. And yet here again is math. |
yeah, it could be like I am in this dream punishing myself for not having done math much in high school. It may (but it does not seem too likely) have to do with my idea that I now am very interested in learning math, I feel that nowadays I would be able to appreciate and enjoy it, whereas before except for at times the enjoyment of solving not too difficult sums, I just saw it as one more burden in high school
| Quote: | I would be interested in knowing what the *feelings* are of this dream. They lead to the associations which give the dream personal meaning. I would also be interested in hearing the other two recurrent dreams if you care to share them.
Thank you for your candour. Your openness is disarming and admirable and I hope I have learned something from it. |
One other dream is about my running or even just jumping and then seemingly defying gravity in the sense that while I jump I can extent the jump (in length not in height) for much much longer than what is normally possible. In long jump you see athletes sort of making steps in the air, and that's what I do as well in these jumps. And while at the moment of the dream I know that this very very long jump is completely unusual and bizarre it feels perfectly natural and I continue to be amazed why other people cannot do it.
More about the other dream later perhaps. |
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