Graduated twenty years ago and still have these dreams.

Kept getting the “you have to go back for one class we didn’t account for” dream for years after graduating. It was always a language requirement too.

“Turns out I didn’t graduate after all” nightmares love to haunt me during particularly stressful times

"Modern education systems are definitely not traumatically abusive and most certainly are not creating PTSD-riddled students who struggle to function in society."

The students in question 3 nights a week:

I have a recurring dream about being unaware there was a test in class today, and then I cant even find the classroom.

I'm 40. I dream of missing the school bus.

Some times I dream of getting on the school bus but having forgotten to put on shoes.

I dream of being late for a cubicle data processing job I haven't worked at for 7 years. (I worked for them for 11 years though). I then go on to do the work in the dream.

Like my brain torturing me.

I'm 44 and yes, all the time.

Working for 12 years now after graduation. My most recurring dream is that I actually did not complete one maths lecture and still have to do it. I enroll in university again and have a few months for preparation but I only start studying a few days before the exam. Then I don't have a clue what the fuck that even is about and fail miserably during the exam. Normally I wake up during exam but always before I get the results.

I graduated in 99 and I have these dreams.

I keep dreaming of attending a university to see if I want to take an advanced degree program there.

However, while I participate to a degree, I have zero obligation to participate in the class or anything final at all. Of course the class is full of everyone I’ve known since high school and college.

I always wake up from those dreams melancholy.

I've been done with (too much) schooling for years now. But I still have dreams where I have a math exam and I don't know anything (I was good at it back in the day), I don't know what classes I have to be in/missed a bunch, or I still haven't finished my thesis. None of which are true.

The last is the worst, but I guess that's grad school for ya.

I still experience nightmares of failing my job training exams even though I did a-okay in all of them and it's been 15 years since. o_O

For the first time ever I don't have class every day and my mind keeps going “OH SHIT WE FORGOT TO GO TO CLASS!” Even though like… we had this same realization five minutes ago you stupid brain. Why are we freaking out again?

You missed the final and must beg the professor for a re-take.

That and also being at school and forgetting where my classes are.

I show up with no clothes on all the time. I’m not pleasant to look at with no clothes on

I haven't been a student for many years, but shitty dreams like this occasionally haunt me. Lots of variations on the theme. Lost textbooks. Lost homework. Lost locker. Forgotten locker combo. Can't find the classroom. Forgot I signed up for a class. Just generally can't get my dream shit together.

I have dreams where I go back, attend 1 class out of like 7 for the day, but forget where all the other classes are as well as what they are. I end up having to go to the school office to get my class roster so I can attend the other classes, but its all rushed because I'm late for that next class.

Never had those. I do regularly have dreams where due to some quirk of the rules or something my 3rd grade education or something didn't count thus invalidating the rest of my education.

So I show up going "hey I'm like 30, can you just hand me a test or the years homework and I'll be back next week" only to be told no, so I end up redoing the whole grade.

No, that was my life so I didn’t dream it, I lived it.

I did manage to graduate 20y later, but it did require regular 5/9-5 work for a decade. ADHD probably.

I used to have those dreams when I was starting something new - a new school year, or a new job. It's my imposter syndrome, manifesting in a dream.

Forgetting a class or going to class without pants and/or a shirt and having to ninja my way out of there..

Not as much as I hit my 40s but mine involved going back to school after a short gap, not being sure if I'll be able to pass even if it get 100s on my tests and not remembering the combination to my locker.

No joke, but the entire time I was in undergrad I would have this nightmare.

Not sure much missing a class but showing up and having an exam that I'd not heard of nor studied any of the material for

Havent seen this meme format for a while

i had these dreams before, while job searching after graduation. "was i still enrolled in a class in the same college i went to, but partially attended but never seen a transcript from it " or in the school i was before .

Why am I reminded of that scene from Top Secret where Nick Rivers dreams he's late for an exam? He is then told that it's the end of the semester, and all the exams are over.

Does it matter that you fail it, if you don't remember you enrolled?

No, but potentially because that happened IRL to me.