Apparently A TON Of Us Are Having The Same Recurring Dream/Nightmare About Accidentally Skipping A Class For An Entire Semester, Needing To Take The Exam, And Waking Up In A Cold Sweat

I was mindlessly scrolling Twitter on Saturday when the above Tweet appeared on my For You tab and I was blown away. I felt like the 4th wall of the Matrix had just melted. I could not believe someone Tweeted a recurring dream...or nightmare that I have all the time. But what's wild is I never thought twice about it. Just thought it was a random dream-thing we as humans do. And I never even thought about it after I woke up from it, like most people do with dreams. I don't write them down or anything- I wake up, go "woah, that was weird" and go about my day as the memory of the dream fades away after 5-10 minutes. So someone else posting that specific dream, about realizing you've missed a class for an entire semester and are about to fail, hit me like 1,000 needles. Vivid memories of that dream came flooding back to me. So I QT'd it because if that guy is having that dream, and I'm having that dream...maybe everyone is having that dream?

And I got so many replies saying they in fact have this dream too.

And on and on it went. Everyone freaking out because nobody knew that there were SO MANY people who shared this dream. Teeth falling out, sure. Driving off a cliff, of course. But nobody had ever talked about an extremely specific dream about missing a class/not realizing you were registered for a class/not being able to find the classroom/having to take the final exam/waking up wondering if you actually ever graduated.

In mine I'm usually wandering the hallways trying to find a classroom I've never been to because I didn't know I was supposed to be in that class, and then being too anxious to go inside because I hadn't been to a single day of the class all year, and then failing the class. It always feels so, so, so incredibly real it's hard to describe.

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Honestly, I just think it's crazy we all share such a specific dreaming experience. Like, our brains can make us dream about anything but for some reason, 15 years after graduation, we all still share a dream about the stress and anxiety of school. But also I've never heard anyone else mention it until that Tweet, so now we can add a new shared experience to our humans on Earth resumes, which I think is pretty cool. 

I'll say this though- this still isn't the worst dream to have. No, the worst dream possible is when you meet the love of your life in a dream and she's perfect and then you wake up sad because she doesn't exist and you're still alone. Quite literally the meanest thing our brain does to us, bar none.