Dreams of feeling unprepared can stem from stress in your day-to-day life. But dreaming specifically about feeling unprepared at school, he says, could be because those are such formative years in people’s lives. “For a lot of us, school is really the first time that we got that feeling of stressful non-preparation,” he says. “In a situation where your stress as an adult is triggered by work or some other scenario, those are very powerful memories of effectively the first experiences of being unprepared or late or missing something.” Often, people dream about missing a whole semester of classes and realizing they might fail, not being able to find their classroom, or finding out that they have a big test they’re unprepared for. That may be, he says, because the system of school is itself “very emotionally negative for most people. These types of dreams are so common that having them every once in a while isn’t typically something to be concerned about. But if you’re having them a lot, that could be a sign of another issue, such as having too much stress in your life. Dimitriu recommends that people try addressing that stress either by making a change in their life to eliminate it or by finding ways to cope with it. Some people may also have weird or stressful dreams because of poor sleep hygiene, Dimitriu says. He recommends that people go to bed and wake up at roughly the same time each day, and avoid eating large meals or drinking alcohol before going to sleep. And he encourages people to schedule some time to unwind before bed. School often involves high-stress, high-pressure situations where students are competing with each other and with a lot on the line,” Selterman says. “When you combine all of those factors, school itself is actually very miserable.”
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