Thursday 2 October 2014

Turn the paper over ...


I still have bad dreams about taking exams. Sometimes I am too late, or it is the wrong day or the wrong hall. Occasionally I have forgotten to revise at all but mainly I have revised the wrong subject. Last night the exam paper was made of chocolate and I ate it before I read the questions. I was surprised all over again when I woke up and remembered that I had graduated.

14 comments:

  1. Oh my gosh, I have had all these same dreams, except for the chocolate exam paper... That's a new one. :)

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  2. I didn't mind exams at the time I was taking plenty of them, but as I watch my boys begin to get onto that treadmill, I am pitifully grateful not to have to join them.

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  3. So I am not the only one having nightmares about exams. Except for me it's pretty much always the same: I am asked questions and I NEVER have the answer or my voice is totally GONE or somethign like that. And I wake up jumping from the bed ... horrible.

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  4. Yes I have all the same ones (except the chocolate one, which does seem an improvement on the usual ones!). xx

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  5. For me, bad dreams are from the other side of school life. Having taught in schools, I dream the register goes blank & I have an unruly class, none of whose names I know.

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  6. This is so familiar. I can't read the questions properly and I am exasperated beyond belief. I usually remonstrate with someone about the unfairness of having to sit the exam. There is often a complicated an impossible procedure to follow involving telephones that don't work. Exhausting.
    They are becoming rarer as I get older though.

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  7. This is fascinating. I still have bad dreams about exams as well - it's almost exam time and I don't know ANYTHING. I assumed it was just me, but it seems not. They are obviously deeply traumatising to us all. CJ xx

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  8. It's a horrible dream - I dream I've finished my exams but then realise I haven't written my dissertation; cue panic!

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  9. A slight twist on this, is that just as I'm falling asleep, I get an attack of the horrors that I have forgotten to take my contraceptive pill and wake in a state. I now have to remind myself before falling asleep that I don't have to go through this, I haven't forgotten it. I last took the Pill in 1993, and have been post menopausal for six years. I have no idea what that is all about!! Liz

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  10. Well I am glad that it was a chocolate exam paper that you ate, not a paper one, at least it was tastier!! I hate when I have weird dreams like this, very discombobulating! xx

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  11. I have those exam dreams too - forgot to study...didn't turn up to any classes...in the wrong place. I've never had a chocolate paper though!

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  12. This is a common experience well known to psychologists. I often sit a paper in the half subject geography which was never included in my tripos syllabus

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  13. Oh good gawd yes. These are such a common occurence for me at 3am that I have an emergency quilt nearby to provide post-dream comfort. Sometimes a pot of tea is required.

    I like the idea of a chocolate exam paper.

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  14. I have never had a dream about exams and I hated the things. I am the lucky one!

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