Almost every person has their own patterns in dreams: situations, people and things that he sees come back again and again in a dream, even real dreams that are “played out” again and again.

There is, of course, a category of dreams that many people see without fully understanding why: school dreams. It is very likely that this has happened to you too: you are late to enter the class, you cannot find the right room, you look at the blackboard and cannot understand what is written there, you fall asleep on the day of the exam. Even the last time you sat in a class or auditorium, there are only a few years or even decades left.

As noted Deirdre Barrett, Harvard Dream Researcher and Author, These Dreams Usually Come stressful times in adults -and usually when this anxiety in their waking life comes from the ideaevaluation by some authority figure. Thus, in the dreams mentioned, we recall our earliest memories of successes and failures as a result of our performance.

“The dream scenario of going back to school and taking an exam is about feeling judged in your life that you have to meet the demands of others,” explains Jane Teresa Anderson, dream analyst and author. And so, when you feel that you do not meet these requirements, you “remember your school days.”

It is a fact that we are judged many times a day, not only by our boss, but perhaps by people in our lives, even troll Twitter accounts. And the reason school returns to the times of stress in our dreams is because in this, in essence, our idea of ​​the world was created. Most of us there for the first time felt anxiety, experienced successes, disappointments, inadequacy.

Barrett argues that these dreams and going back to school are not about how happy we were as children, but about “what was important for survival.” Even if the time we spent at school was small compared to our entire lives, its significance is much greater than this time.

However, what if you want to “graduate” from the night school of your dreams? According to Anderson, you should first try to connect the events of the dream to the events of your real life so that you can learn something from them. Then, before you even get out of bed, you can “reframe” the dream so that it takes on a more positive tone. Because even if you were late for the exam and missed the exam, you can pass the class (of life).

With information from the Atlantic.