I know a lot of people dismiss their dreams as meaningless, but I don’t.
There is nothing more important than studying oneself and if dreaming was entirely meaningless then it would not have evolved as part of our consciousness.
Anyway, I have a recurring dream where I constantly strive to finish university. This stems from dropping out in the final term due to the onset of sz. In reality, I did finish university by studying aty home and writing my dissertation from there too. It was a year late, but I got my degree albeit only being a 2:2.
In my dreams, I am trapped in a cycle where I am in the past and it is as if I haven’t got my degree and must finish university.
What on earth could this mean? Why am i trapped in the past when in reality I made it through?
If I can crack this one I could also crack another dream I have in which I cycle through emotions which in real life don’t apply any more.
I am very similar to you. I used to constantly dream about being late for school. Even like 10 years after having finished school. This was because I dropped out of sixth form due to psychosis and then a second time due to over sleeping because of meds and lack of energy to complete the work.
Maybe you really enjoyed the sense of community that the you got from university and haven’t found it elsewhere in life since? I know I wasn’t very good at the actual “school work” at school, but I really liked the people I was familiar with, etc.
I would definitely think it is less to do with the academia side of things and more the social/personal.
Do you maybe have some regret about SZ? It can feel like it derails our trajectory.
To dream of university represents issues or situations in your life that you are giving serious thought, or paying close attention to details. It can also represent very difficult or stressful situations where you may need to figure out problems, stay incredibly focused on goals, or find yourself experiencing new situations that are difficult to accept. A high level of anxiety or concern.
University in a dream may be a sign that you are emotionally swamped and have little time to enjoy yourself. You may also be totally focused on a subject.
Examples life situations that may encourage a university dream may be crises, serious health problems, or very deep interest in book you are reading."
Perhaps I am projecting my day to day problems into the same scenario and it is transference to how I felt when I screwed up at university.That is why i am having flashbacks.
I often have very stupid dreams where my whole dream is of me doing chores around the house. I hate those dreams.
But this past week, I keep dreaming of people’s faces getting really big and floating toward my face until they’re practically touching me, at which point I wake up. So weird!
I may be wrong and this is only a guess but maybe dreams are the brains way of compressing information.
I’ve heard dreams can be induced by a lot of food which may be what makes this reduction of information into simple images and associations more vivid.
I use to look a lot into dreams and felt at one point pretty comfortable in interpreting them for friends and family. I helped them a lot. For many dreams I felt that the people in dreams represented aspects of one’s own self and our dreams would give us a better understanding of our wants, needs and give us answers to questions we have about ourselves and the direction we should head.
I have exactly the same dream. I dream that I didn’t finish when in reality I did. My answer for myself is the fear of disappointment that I used to have with my father (he thinks I need to have a degree and work to be a productive citizen and whatnot). It was a struggle to finish it, and my father thought I was going to fail.
