[mama pajama]

I am in my 40's and a constant dream theme I have is I am in high school or college. I usually am my age but am going back for a class for whatever reason. Sometimes I am taking a class over and am running late to a final without being prepared or have my homework. Sometimes I'm just talking with a old classmate and I feel embarrassed or self conscious about how I look now. I think this is weird because I used to be very concerned about my weight/appearance. I had a eating disorder back then and spent so much time/energy on my appearance. I always felt fat and had a hard time relaxing or enjoying myself if I was around other people.

Now I like to look nice but I spend minimal time on how I look. I really don't worry or feel self conscious about my weight like I used to. I can be around others and I don't sit there and obsess about how fat I look or feel.

I don't understand why it's mainly high school/college, why am I regressing to a really unhappy part of me I feel I've gotten over?

[Lost_in_the_woods]

Things are not always clearly connected in dreams. Maybe u are stressed about some current work or social situation so u are having flashback dreams to a time when u felt simular. Idk.

[Skeezyks]

Hello mama pajama: I don't have any answers for you here. But I thought I would share that I often have dreams about being back in college & being so far behind in my work that it's pointless to even continue going to class. Come to think of it, that's not all that far from the way it was a lot of the time...