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References to school are common in most people’s dreams, even in dreams that occur many decades after the last time the dreamer set foot in a classroom. It seems that childhood experiences in school make a lifelong impact on dream
...read moreReferences to school are common in most people’s dreams, even in dreams that occur many decades after the last time the dreamer set foot in a classroom. It seems that childhood experiences in school make a lifelong impact on dream content, providing a remarkably stable set of recurrent settings, characters, and scenarios. The specific meanings of school symbolism in dreams depends on the personal quality of these childhood experiences, both positive and negative. On the one hand, school is a place where many people make their best lifetime friends, have their first sexual encounters, and discover new strengths and abilities. On the other hand, school is also a place where many people feel bored, bullied, and brain-washed. Contemporary novels and movies (e.g., Carrie, Ferris Buehler’s Day Off, Superbad, Harry Potter), dramatize these opposing dynamics—school as a place of growth and friendship, school as a place of suffering and horror. Whether they achieve it or not, schools almost always aim at a transformation of their students, a developmental process whose success is celebrated with the ritual of a graduation ceremony. If you have dreams about school, your unconscious may be calling on you to reflect more carefully on something you first encountered at that time, something with long lasting positive and/or negative consequences in your life.
Kelly Bulkeley
Sometimes school dreams relate to specific happenings that fill the dreamer with remembered pride or (more often) embarrassment, but sometimes they use school as a convenient metaphor to convey their messages. For example, dreams of finding oneself back at school, but demoted to a lower class, or stripped of some coveted responsibility, can symbolize childhood insecurities that have still not been resolved.
David Fontana
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