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I have one that recurs relatively frequently. I'm in school taking classes. The problem is, it's getting close to the end of the semester and there's this one class that I've never even been to and done no studying for. This is obviously a problem with exams pending (leaving aside the question of whether the prof would award a passing grade to a student who had been awol the whole term even if they did blow away the final).
This is, I think, a pretty typical scenario for an anxiety kind of dream. But there are a couple things about it that always make it seem even more odd and surreal, especially when I've just woke up from it at 2 AM.
First, it mixes different elements from my past. For example, this course I'm in trouble over might be happening on a campus where I used to work, and be taught by a physics teacher from my high school as part of the math department where I went to college.
Second, the course in question is always a math course. Math was my best subject and I could soak it up instantly. (Note the past tense; after 15-odd years of disuse I'm lucky to balance my checkbook properly. I might as well never have taken real analysis or abstract algebra for all that I can recall now.) So why does it show up like this? It would be more apropos for me to have a nightmare about biology or American lit or some other subject where I was indifferent at best.
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