School
To dream of a school represents feelings about situations with social concerns, insecurities, or anxieties while learning something new. Being tested on your ability to understand, adapt, or improve. Worrying that you are not intelligent or experienced enough with a certain subject matter that needs improvement. Not liking that you weren't listening enough and need to do more. Your awareness of needing more experience, discipline, knowledge, or emotional maturity before moving forward in some area of your life. Concerns with not being prepared enough. Concerns about being evaluated, compared to others, or pressured to meet certain standards. Anxiety about how well you are being perceived by others for your level of competence, experience, or knowledge, or how well you are performing in life. There is something happening in your life that you think is very important to be too careful about.
Positively, schools may represent your concern with work or long-term projects being perfectly accurate. Carefully thinking about what you are thinking. Enjoying learning something difficult. Learning about your problems, your past, or how to improve yourself. A school dream may also appear if you are an expert at something and are very concerned about potential mistakes. Analyzing written work, theories, or ideas.
Negatively, dreams about schools may represent heightened levels of anxiety or prolonged periods of fear that you are not intelligent or experienced as you need to be. An unbearable problem that you can't stop worrying about. Second-guessing yourself. Feeling stupid that you aren't perfect. Fear of failure. Feeling inexperienced or forced to deal with situations where you don't feel capable enough. Frustrations with repetitive life lessons, feeling trapped in situations where you constantly have to prove yourself, or feeling that life keeps testing you in ways that make you uncomfortable. Feeling stuck repeating the same mistakes or struggling to meet expectations.
The level of difficulty of an institution may reflect how serious or emotionally taxing an issue is. Whereas elementary school may simply reflect caring about an issue, university may reflect a more serious concern that requires your full and constant attention.
The number of the grade you are in uses dream number symbolism to tell you the overall theme for your life situation. See the themes section for numbers. For example, Grade 5 may reflect a life lesson in change and Grade 10 a life lesson in a new beginning.
Attending specific classes in a school may represent the manner in which you are thinking. For example, history classes may reflect the reexamining of your past, and math classes your attempts to solve a difficult unforgiving problem that requires a perfect solution.
To dream of a school hallway represents anxiety or a concern about improving with something that is important to you during a transitional moment. You may be concerned or worried about a change that you are about to make.
Locations within the school property may also carry personal symbolism for current emotions based on memories you have had at specific spots at school. For example, if someone hurt your feelings or something embarrassing happened in a certain location (hallway, doorway, or back of a room) in your dream, it may mirror something happening to you in waking life.
Examples of life situations that may encourage school dreams may be nervousness related to dating someone, anxiety about work, or caring deeply about how others will react to a project you are working on or plans you've made.
See the themes section for school for a more in-depth look at school symbolism.
Example: A man dreamed of being in school. In waking life, he was very concerned about a book he was writing being very accurate. He was spending a lot of time reviewing his past work for mistakes. In this case, being at school may have reflected his feelings about needing to constantly learn, review, and improve his work in order to avoid mistakes or criticism because the success of the project felt very important to him.
Example 2: A woman dreamed of hiding in a classroom. In waking life, she was very nervous about what to say to someone she had angered and was carefully thinking of an excuse. In this case, hiding in the classroom may have reflected her feelings about wanting time to carefully think of her excuse in order to avoid embarrassment, criticism, or making the situation worse while dealing with the social anxiety of being judged for her mistake.
Example 3: A young woman dreamed of seeing a little girl at school get dismissed from school. In waking life, she was very jealous of her ex-boyfriend breaking up with her for her friend, and then experienced him breaking up with the friend as well. In this case, being dismissed from school may have reflected her feelings about herself avoiding a difficult life lesson in jealousy because her friend was quickly broken up with as well.
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