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I remember having nightmares of getting kicked out of the university. It was my last chance to submit my bachelor thesis (which was rejected twice in a row) and I was a little sad seeing all of my friends already with jobs and graduated and me still a student, with money issues at home and jobless. So I had nightmares of not succeding, of not finishing the university and not getting a job and not being able to help my mom with the house expenses. There were not scary nightmares, in the sense there weren't monsters or such, but they were scary because they felt real. I was in therapy for a year and I learned how to cope better with frustration and how to improve my social skills.

Right now I don't have nightmares anymore, asides when my mom travels inside the country because of her job (she's a doctor). I hate planes and I freaking hate when she has to take a plane. I can't sleep at all until she calls me phone saying she arrived safely. I have nightmares of plane crashes so the best is just to try to relax myself and wait for her call. I think it's because the dad of one of my classmates at my school died on a plane crash (Aeroperu Flight 603, you can google it) and I have been terrified of planes since that time. The ironical thing is that I'm the most calm in my family about planes: my sister has fear of flying (said classmate had a little sister in her class so I'm guessing it's because of it too: we were 9 and 5 years old at the time) and my mom is no better, she has to take pills to stay calm.

Wow, those sound very terrifying. I think it's the "real" nightmares and fears that are the worst. No one believes in monsters, so when you wake up, that fear is gone.

Also, I still have nightmares about not studying for tests even though I graduated from college 10 years ago. ha!

While we're on the subject of University themed nightmares, I have two which are re-occurring.

1.) I have a dream where I've signed up for an online class, and I have forgotten that I enrolled in it until the very end of the semester. The dream is always accompanied with the realization that I just failed a class I didn't even know I was taking.

2.) I have this BIZARRE re-occurring nightmare where it's suddenly found out that my high school diploma isn't valid (basically one of my credits in high school wasn't legitimate), and in the dream I have to end up going back to high school, or else my Bachelors and Masters degrees will be considered invalid.

It always starts out scary, but it ends up kind of as a "New Game+" for my life, because high school is super easy when you're a 27 year old man whose been through graduate school.

Weird stuff man. It's so strange how school haunts us our entire lives. It's just one of those things I guess...

I often dream about forgetting to study for a test. I finished college over 10 years ago. I was hoping that some day, I'd get a relief from that, but my dad who is a college professor (for over 30 years) says he still sometimes gets nightmares about failing. hahahah

My mother is a professor as well. I'm seeing a pattern in the root of our anxieties...

Hah! You are probably right about that.