High School Anxiety Dreams

My dreams are vivid and maybe a little on the odd side.

Many of my dreams take place in my childhood home in Pines Lake and the surrounding area. Once, I shared this with my sister and she told me that I have issues. I have no idea what issues they might be other than I love where I grew up. Even people who have never been to the house in Pines Lake will appear in my dreams set there. Every time that happens I wake up a little bit amused.

In my dreams, there’s also an entire fictional landscape that appears over and over again. This landscape consisting of a shopping mall, highway (with tolls), high school, college campus, and small town exists only within my dreams and I’m quite familiar with it.

I warned you that my dreams might be a little odd.

Occasionally, I have high school anxiety dreams. In these dreams, I find myself thrown into high school once again. My anxiety stems from not being able to remember my locker combination, forgetting my schedule, getting lost on the way to class, or not studying for a test. By the end of the dream, I happily remember that I already finished high school and I move on.

A few years ago, I mentioned high school anxiety dreams to a co-worker and he told me that he gets them when he’s really stressed. He always dreams it’s Thursday because that was the day he had gym class and he always cut that class.

A few nights ago, I had a new kind of dream… a college anxiety dream. I was at a new college campus and it was the first day of classes. At first, I thought I woke up late. Then I couldn’t read my schedule. I didn’t understand the codes for the buildings. I couldn’t find my campus map either. I wondered why I didn’t do a dry run the day before. But then another something new happened… My Sweetie was there to calm my anxieties and help me get out the door and on the way to class with some other friends headed my way.

After I awoke and reflected on my dream, I noticed the big difference. For the first time that I can remember, someone other than me calmed my nerves and moved my dream along. Hmmm… Interesting.

For all I know, my husband could have been trying to shake me awake because he thought I might be snoring.


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Your Turn
Do you have anxiety dreams? Particularly high school anxiety dreams?