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Put the shoes on (thelemmy.club)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 57 points 6 months ago (9 children)

And in my nightmares I end up at school, and I graduated 30 years ago.

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  • [–] 32 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    As someone diagnosed with PTSD that also has nightmares related to it, I think it’s way underplayed how much public schools give people long term emotional trauma. Not even just bullying, a lot of the expectations schools put on kids are just developmentally unreasonable. It’s not random that so many people have school related nightmares decades after they’ve graduated.

    I think nakedness in dreams is just a common theme for vulnerability, but there’s a reason it’s so tied to school for many people, and it’s not because they’re healthy environments that produce well adjusted young adults.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Not just public schools. I went to private school and still woke up with high school nightmares for years as a college graduate.

    I think the expectations are a part of it, but I also think it's the fact that it's an extremely stressful time period between expectations for one's future, high hormones, major social changes that happen as everyone's brain cooks at a different speed, and the constant fighting for increased independence.

    Like, don't get me wrong I also didn't enjoy being in class, and I've had full on flashbacks to fights with my father over my grades in high school (also have a ptsd diagnosis), but imo the educational elements of high school weren't meaningfully worse than earlier years or college/adulthood. It was being a teenager that was particularly traumatic, and high school was just the location where most of the issues converged

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  • [–] 19 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    if you show up naked to a school at almost 40 i think bad things will happen

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Yes, everyone else will develop acute glaucoma for some reason.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    I don't think I've ever gotten naked in public dreams, but I do still get stress dreams about missing an exam or having to make an assignment deadline despite not having been in school for like 20 years.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago*

    I have them where I've forgotten my locker combination or don't have my class schedule. The thing is I actually do remember my last locker combination because I use it as a pin for something so I'm not even sure what my subconscious is on about with that one.

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