Haunted by Dreams About Exams? Here’s What Science Says. | Vantage with Palki Sharma

Haunted by Dreams About Exams? Here’s What Science Says. | Vantage with Palki Sharma

Adults often find themselves haunted by school exam dreams, reliving the stress and pressure of their academic past. These dreams manifest in various forms, from forgetting answers to arriving late or even facing the wrong test. Regardless of age, dreamers are transported back to the classroom, grappling with the feeling of being tested. Exam dreams frequently reflect underlying anxieties and challenges in waking life, even when exams aren't imminent. Our brains intricately weave memories and emotions, especially those formed during high-stress situations, into our dream narratives. These bizarre dreams, though unsettling, serve as subconscious training for handling the unexpected challenges of reality. Palki Sharma tells you more.

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[sravs]

I thought I was the only one, I still get dreams about 10th standard exam.

[makomal]

Holy cow, I do get this dream even after 25 years

[vv-cvud]

I’m 37, I still have a nightmare occasionally that did I had my 12t exam . ? This is a real trauma.

[bozidarugljesic]

I have those Dreams from time to time😅

[lbsnaadiaries]

She touched my trauma and my mother at 52 still gets such dreams. 😮

[sandhyakrishnan]

I am 68...I cannot recollect how many of such dreams I have had....sometimes it's waking up late on that day, at times not having an idea of the subject...lost books, a non_ functioning pen...& do on....feel relieved on waking up...

[SaiSS]

OMG I thought I was the only one. I'm 34 and I regularly get a dream that I am giving my 10th standard exam and the time is running out and I just wake realising that it's not really happening 😅😅😲😲🤯🤯

[yeelavumaye]

Oh! Boy im relieved that I'm not the only one. I have a son who's graduated from University and I still have nightmares of going to exam ill prepared. 😅

[andrewlipase]

oh my god... i thought i m the only one. i thought I am coward. but thanks to you palki.. u bring the truth. i always had dream about my 10th exams.

[unknowngba]

Just today I dreamt of my CA final exams which I cleared 13 years ago 😂😂😂
I dream about upcoming exams, me not being prepared for the same and being anxious every other night.
I thought I am the only one to experience it.

[Anupamakiran]

I have never heard Palki Sharma stumble in her narration, may be she was thinking about her dreams in the similar vein 😃 now, I’m glad to know that I am a normal person with normal dreams 😂

[deepaksubramony]

For me it's always either physics or math exams ... two subjects I absolutely hated as a kid because our schoolteachers back in India were (and likely still are) so horribly incompetent.😭🤦

[sahajreddy]

Finally, someone made a video on this topic. I get these nightmares quite frequently😣

[CuriousDroid]

Not just exams but I also have nightmares about being stuck in the classroom and having pending work that is to be checked by the concerned subject teacher.

Then I wake up relieved, that I have already lived through it but the memories remains.

[CyberGenious]

How do you know…
I am one of those.
Literally I feel it like it’s happening now, sometimes I am sweating sometimes writing in my engineering exam but at the end woke up with more awareness about the current situation in life and about dream…
Thanks for the video

[muskan]

Getting ready for exam but unable to find one shoe , rushes here and there, find shoes but exam is over, I cries badly.
And wakes up.
Ah, that's just a dream

[ramgopal]

Time Running Out ... And 30 chapters of Maths to complete... Cannot get rid of this dream .... Nightmare

[yhusseini]

In my dreams, I'm still an undergraduate student even after completing my studies 9years ago. Till date, sometimes, I have to scroll through my credentials just to convince myself that I had actually graduated. Such dreams are traumatic in nature.

[theshillonggirl]

Omg those dreams - i wake up with horror and confused state whether i am really in reality or dreaming - !!

[gauravverma]

I thought it happened to only me, didnt realise this was widespread