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Originally Posted by chihirochild
I keep having nightmares that I am in high school and about to graduate but I’m missing a class or have failed several classes (it’s usually something like PE or Art, sometimes English) and can’t graduate and/or have ruined my academic record forever. I wake up confused and have a hard time convincing myself that everything’s OK, that I definitely finished high school and even medical school. I’m not totally sure what about the current situation is bringing up this particular flavor of anxiety dream – maybe the fact that I’m going to have to work in the ICU more, which I hate and always find frightening and feel like I am never fully prepared for?
In better news, I slept for 8 hours last night! It was interrupted and there was a nightmare but still! (I’ve been so stressed and anxious lately that I haven’t been managing more than five or so.)
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I have a similar recurring dream, either about high school or college, where I realize I've forgotten to attend a class all semester. Or I'm in a confusing building and can't find the classroom. Or it's first day, and I can't find my schedule and have no idea where I'm supposed to be. And I graduated high school, ugh, 25 years ago and college 4 years after, though I guess I did do grad school 5 years ago. But I had those dreams in between college and grad school as well. I've read that they're fairly classic and common anxiety dreams. I imagine they're connected to the ICU service, like you said, or maybe just Covid in general.
Glad you got some sleep last night!