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When I was at school, I used to get anxiety dreams in which I found myself sitting tests for which I hadn't prepared. Usually, I'd also be naked.

When I was a student, I used to get anxiety dreams in which I turned up to exams only to find that I'd forgotten that they were open book and that I was naked (this actually happened to me in real life - the former and not the latter, I should add).

Now that I'm a lecturer, I get anxiety dreams in which the students turn up to the exam, only to find that I've forgotten to set the paper. Still naked, though.

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Date: 2011-07-21 05:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nmg.livejournal.com
Ah, but was it a *competitive* naturist swimming event?

Date: 2011-07-21 07:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] purplecthulhu.livejournal.com
Just remember to set the paper. The students won't care if you're clothed or not :-)

Date: 2011-07-21 07:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nmg.livejournal.com
Give it a few years, and I'm sure that I'll be having anxiety dreams in which I turn up to an external examining gig naked...

Date: 2011-07-21 08:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] valkyriekaren.livejournal.com
You know, I've never had the 'naked in an inappropriate situation' dream. I don't know if this means I'm really repressed, or that I just don't have that much body shame.

Date: 2011-07-21 08:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] quercus.livejournal.com
I had a real exam at University where I woke up to find that I was both naked and several miles away.

Date: 2011-07-21 09:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] makyo.livejournal.com
As I just remarked in Another Place, I now occasionally have dreams where I'm late for my students' graduation ceremonies (and although fully clothed, have sometimes forgotten my gown or hood).

A couple of weeks before my MSc exams, I had a dream where I'd overslept and missed most of an exam. In my dream, I leapt out of bed, threw on some clothes, ran across campus to the exam hall (the Paranoia Panorama Room in the Rootes Building, in fact) and burst in through the door just as the invigilator (who subsequently became my PhD supervisor) said "OK, everyone stop writing now, please." I yelled "Noooo!" in slow-motion, and he turned to me, grinned, and said "Oh, I wouldn't worry about it - nobody else could answer any of the questions either." At which point I woke up, in something of a panic.

Date: 2011-07-21 10:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nelsolidarida.livejournal.com
You're from Warwick right? Naked is normal ;)

Date: 2011-07-21 11:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nmg.livejournal.com
I refuse to incriminate myself. Besides, I thought that the negatives had been destroyed.

Date: 2011-07-21 05:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nelsolidarida.livejournal.com
Don't worry, your deeds have been eclipsed by later generations...

Date: 2011-07-21 03:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] major-clanger.livejournal.com
Possibly at some point, given my new job, I will have a dream where I turn up to court horribly unprepared and naked. Or horribly unprepared and in wig, gown, winged collar and bands but nothing else. In front of the Recorder of Birmingham.*

*Our local most senior criminal judge.

Date: 2011-07-21 06:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moral-vacuum.livejournal.com
I dreamed that I couldn't answer a single question for my Ancient History A level. Which meant that when it came to the actual exam and I was indeed unable to answer a single question, it didn't come as that much of a shock.

My anxiety dreams don't have a specific wardrobe (or lack of one), but do generally involve humiliating failure.

Date: 2011-07-22 02:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marypcb.livejournal.com
at least they're better than the anxiety dreams I used to get, in which my teeth crumble to dust in my mouth... shudder!

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