Have you ever heard of school failure dreams? These are a very common anxiety dream where the dreamer has to take an important test and discovers they didn't study the right subject and can't find the room and they're running all over their old high school or college frantically trying to find the test room.

But as people get older and farther away from school, it's not uncommon to start dreaming about being arrested. I used to have school failure dreams whenever I was facing some sort of challenge or obstacles, then the dreams suddenly morphed into getting arrested over some stupid misunderstanding, pushed around by the cops, having to go to court, no one listening to my explanations or believing the truth, complete public embarrassment.

It's all about facing some sort of challenge or obstacle in real life and feeling normal and natural anxiety in your dreams. I have no idea why I morphed from school failure into getting arrested, but other people I know who used to have school failure dreams have had the same experience. I am now getting carted off to jail in my dreams whenever I feel like I'm in a situation (in waking life) where other people will be judging me critically or finding fault no matter what I do or say.