The most expert of psychologists have said this probably means that in my waking hours I’m feeling unprepared for something. My dream self has never looked at my lines and has never been to a rehearsal, and in minutes I am supposed to step out onto the stage and carry the production in front of a full house. In my dream it’s opening night of a play and I am cast as the lead.

I have another recurring dream, and though the setting is different from the school dream, I think the meaning is the same. Cimons says the reason we translate those real-life emotions into a school dream is that most people remember what “test anxiety” felt like, so they attach that memory to current challenges.

That sounds more correct to me because in my waking hours I’ve known the feeling of “not measuring up” countless times. She quotes Gemma Marangoni Ainslie, an Austin psychoanalyst, who believes the final exam represents something “testing” the dreamer-a deadline, a decision or task, and that he or she is anxious about failure or not measuring up. An explanation that rings more true for my life comes from Marlene Cimons of the Washington Post. These explanations don’t quite seem to fit me. Another interpretation is that the subject is at a crossroads in life, and may be uncomfortable about the future. She says that the dreamer may be facing a decision or responsibility where he or she knows what to do, but is reluctant to act. A few years ago i n an article on the Psychology Today web site, neurologist Judy Willis hypothesized several meanings behind the dream. I guess that’s not surprising, since psychologists say the dream has less to do with school than with current life issues. Since then, it has been a recurring nightmare much of my adult lifeĪpparently many other people have this same dream decades after they finish school. I hear that it’s a common dream, though for me, I never started having it until years after I finished college. You know the one-where it’s the end of the semester and you realize the final exam is tomorrow for the class you forgot you were taking and haven’t attended since the first day.

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