My College Exam Dreams

by David Wilton
(London, UK)

I have a common recurrent dream about my preparing for my exams at college.

I often dream that I am unprepared for the exam, and that I only have one or two nights to revise.

When I was actually at college in real life, I was not the best student, and spent a lot of time playing soccer and socialising with friends. I did feel guilty about this at the time. This was over 30 years ago.

I do remember panicking at the time, but I must have worked at some point because I didn't do too badly in the end.

The feelings of panic and running our of time comes back to me vividly in my dreams.

I don't really know why I dream of this all the time, after so long, but perhaps it was such a strong emotional feeling when I was quite young and impressionable, so that it haunts my subconcious even today.

It might have some unrelated meaning. Perhaps unconciously I am aware that time is running out and I need to sort things out in my life now, before it's too late.

It might also mean that I should stop worrying about things, because everything works out in the end.