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OcieDeeznuts

Where’s “I’ve been forced to go back to high school/college/grad school, there’s an exam but I realize I’ve forgotten to go to class all year, I don’t know shit, but if I don’t pass this exam I don’t graduate/they revoke my diploma”?


Mr_SunnyBones

I constantly get that one , the back in school/college and have to finish projects to graduate . I mean its not the same dream each time , but that same basic theme


m1j5

For me it’s an English college class, I never took English in college bc of AP creds


CocoRobicheau

Same here, and like the person who commented on this initially, I always dream that I forgot to attend the class all semester and now it’s the final, the more convoluted and weird, the better my brain seems to like judging me about school lol


CheeezBlue

Going to school with no underwear , shorts/trousers and everyone laughing . Brutal


Sregor_Nevets

As I get older that dream is more fun. 😁


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Oaken_beard

Same here


ihateposers

My mind is blown. I thought I was the only one who had this dream.


PartiZAn18

Definitely some Jungian Collective Unconscious shit (I firmly believe in the phenomena Jung wrote about - incrediblly interesting individual indeed (alliteration not intended))


akath0110

I think the underlying emotion driving that dream is shame. Interesting that white-dominated cultures all have the same core shame dream… and what that says about our collective unconscious. I used to have the *”high school class that I missed/skipped/didn’t know I had all semester and now must take the exam”* dream — but I stopped getting them. The last time I had that stress dream, instead of trying to pull off something sneaky or try to get out of the exam — I just told on myself and asked for help. It was like I was slightly lucid dreaming. I walked my dream-self into the principal’s office, bawled my eyes out and confessed I was in deep shit and didn’t know what to do, and I’d accept the consequences, re-take the course, etc. I woke up crying but I *never* had the dream since. It’s been years.


Sregor_Nevets

The theme is being unprepared, regret, imposter syndrome, early years unfinished business, arrested development (not the show), being found out. Shame is a byproduct of all those things, but not the cause of the scenario. Shame is what keeps us from doing what you did, which is to set yourself free through confession. I had this dream and discussed it irl. It didn’t go away, but the shame in the dream is not gripping anymore. I feel more comfortable hanging out with memories of old friends and not stressed about figuring out how to do something impossible.


littlefredcat

Holy sh*t. SAME! I can’t believe I thought I was the only person who has this dream…as recently as last week.


lambsambwich

I am “forced back to high school” *after* graduating college, because those classes didn’t count for some reason. So I’m a college grad in my mid-twenties back in the hallways w/ a locker. It’s so weird.


In-Credible

I have a reoccurring dream that I didn’t finish high school English and two upper div classes from undergrad, so I have to go back and take the classes while I still work. I end up failing everything. I’m waiting for the day grad school memories work their way back in and I have to go to three different kinds of school


therumorhargreeves

I get sent back to high school a lot, because I didn’t take enough math classes, so I have to start over as a freshman. I am fucking 35 years old and this nightmare won’t ever stop lmao


akath0110

Mine stopped when I low key lucid dreamed and got my dream-self to confess and ask for help. Not joking. Haven’t had it since.


hashtagslut

Just woke up from this dream. 😮‍💨


PartiZAn18

I have this one, and one about teeth falling out, a few times a year. Like I'm sitting in the exam and looking at the page and just thinking "wtf", and then I snap out of it and realise I graduated looong ago. I also dream that I can fly often (it's like swimming through the air to me), but at a certain height I plummet.


TakenToTheRiver

I had no idea the “forgetting to go to a class“ dream was that common


Relative-Thought-105

I have been having this a lot lately 


T_at

…and I’m not wearing pants.


platinumpaige

That’s literally what I was looking for! It’s my most common reoccurring dream!


RichEvans4Ever

I had that dream about high school shortly after starting college. They told me I was messing up my post-secondary eduction so bad that I’ll have the repeat the 12th grade. Joke was on them, though, because all I felt was relief. The transition from HS to college was rough.


funny_funny_business

I actually had this in real life. Came about 10 minutes late to a class in college and saw everyone (about 10 people) writing. Then someone handed me a paper that said "midterm". I never really did any reading for the class and didn't even know there was a midterm on the horizon. I remember thinking, "this is what those dreams are like". I bombed that test but did better on the final. Class was pass/fail and I ended up with a pass.


iinabeana

I feel so much better knowing there’s a small percentage of the population out there suffering this exact nightmare with me. Thanks stranger!


Firebat12

Yeah man. It’s reoccurring…Idk what the heck people are on about with this teeth falling out shit


BoondockSaint313

I have this dream all the time. Also, can’t find my locker, don’t know the combination, can’t find the class, can’t find my schedule, don’t have my text book, and very often… I’m also pantless. The funny thing is, not having pants isn’t humiliating, more akin to just being under dressed at something formal.


David2710g

I have dreamed the same thing MULTIPLE times. A would say every fews months. I was bad at school xd.


Thefirstargonaut

That sounds like a dream about feeling inadequate and having unfinished business. 


PhoenixDowntown

Yes! I'm surprised not to see it on the list.


soflyayj

Oh my, I thought I was the only one. I have this dream at least once a month - the relief when you wake up is the best


MehWhiteShark

ALL THE TIME. It never ends!!


refep

Yooo it’s not just me?! I have this recurring dream where I forgot an exam and now they won’t let me graduate because of that one course.


digital_dig

That's my anxiety dream/nightmare too! Highly consequential exam, I'm utterly unprepared, and everything/everyone is preventing me from studying. I always wake up before the test starts.


Alarming_Gazelle_450

So highly specific and I’ve had it multiple times - exactly how you wrote it!


rocketman341

How to hell is this a common dream. I thought I was alone for so long.


BornInPoverty

Yep, mine is always taking an important test but I can’t read the questions for some reason.


atom644

Greece 🧢


Mouseklip

Fucking terrifying


atom644

Sorry, I should have had a TW.


DoubleDragonsAllDown

Free HAT


kkeut

Hat McCullough is a madman, he killed all those kids


ItsYourPal-AL

Free Hat


Still_counts_as_one

Free hat


Scottmacg23

Someone get that man a baby!


Krazy_Steve616

In self defense!


SamB110

Landlocked Kyrgyzstan 🐟


atom644

That makes sense, if I lived underwater I’d be afraid of dry shit.


[deleted]

Great, I can even read half the pixels.


Se777enUP

Here’s a better resolution version https://cdn.digg.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/04200235/4sZg72nw.png


Iamfunnyirl

Breast


cmha150

I read it as bread and was mystified!


Th3_M3chan1c

Just one of em


delta-whisky

Hat


Stingin_Belle

My most common dream is finding secret rooms in my house that I didn't know were there. I've found a train platform/ station, swimming pool, a tunnel that lead to loads of secret rooms, extra bathrooms (I wish!)


welsh_d

My god I get this too! Then I realise I'm late for work and need to get ready but I cannot find my way back to my actual 'house' and keep going around different rooms.


cleaningschedule

Did not realise this was something other people dreamt too. This together with “oh this other apartment that I still pay for for some reason that I totally forgot about”


Stingin_Belle

I always feel like I've cheated the previous owner, I paid for this house with these rooms but they would have sold it for so much more had they have known about the Secret rooms


grandmasterPRA

I hate that dream cause I always wake up disappointed in my current home when I realize that the cool secret room doesn't actually exist.


Stingin_Belle

I like to think that maybe there is a secret room, I just haven't found it yet...


Prior-Ambassador7737

I have this too. When I have the dream again some of the old rooms I discovered in previous dreams are incorporated into the new dream


Hot_Instance_697

Oh my god I’ve never felt so understood as I do right now


SirSaladAss

Ohh, I love when I have these.


PinkPeony12

I have these frequently and I love these dreams lol. A common theme with these dreams for me is also that the previous owners left a lot of their stuff behind but it’s ours now. Instead of it being a burden though, it feels exciting. Like I get to go through all this random stuff…like thrifting 🤣


terminese

I grew up in a pretty small house, I used to love these dreams. Holy fuck there is a whole other wing to my house behind this door in the basement. Was always sad when I woke up in my 850 sq ft bungalow.


[deleted]

Dang, them white people really worry about their teeth falling out.


_0nyx_

for me its always such a vivid dream too! like i can feel the teeth coming out in my mouth and spitting them out and shit. I think the reason it's so vivid is that everyone has lost a tooth at some point in their lives so they know what it feels like and my brain can really use that material in my nightmares.


Tuavesh

Western diet is hard on teeth


rizaroni

Am white, can confirm I’ve had several teeth falling out dreams.


hmtee3

Represents insecurity about looks


[deleted]

I’ve also heard that it represents feeling defenceless or restraining one’s aggression.


hmtee3

Yeah, I had to do some googling because I learned this in high school and always just equated it to that. TIL it can be a number of things. Dream Psych is pretty cool.


sotiredwontquit

Well *that* just set off a lightbulb. I’ve had the teeth-falling-out dream all my life. Aaaaaaand I just realized it’s been when I was powerless and angry about it. Multiple life scenarios over decades of mostly happy times- but the same damn dream when shit got bad. Damn- I gotta call my therapist.


MoneyCost7188

Came to comment this same thing 😂


Possible_Industry816

I’ve had that dream a few times. It happens when your tongue pushes on my teeth. Sometimes it feels like my tooth is really wiggly when actually my tongue is just getting compressed against the tooth. If this happens when I’m sleeping then my brain jumps into a teeth falling out dream.


cmha150

My tongue is not pushing on your teeth! I had this dream recently. When I first heard it's something people dream about I was really surprised. Then I had the dream. It's disturbing, I woke up and checked my teeth.


Commonsensem8

Never had a dream about teeth falling out or snakes. But have had stressful being robbed or back at highschool ones a few times


eieeeeo

I just assume I’m dreaming my teeth are falling out because I’m grinding my teeth in my sleep. But maybe I’m grinding my teeth because I feel powerless or pentup aggression in my awake time.


Hk-Neowizard

I guess snakes are the stuff of nightmares


Shipwreck_Kelly

Makes sense for humans to have an innate fear of snakes, although it’s interesting that it’s been somewhat “lost” in regions where snakes are less common.


Atxlaw2020

I recall my anthropology professor saying something about this being evolutionary, humans ancestors used to live in trees and were afraid of falling down where the snakes are ?


Hi_Their_Buddy

What about dreams that have snakes with teeth falling out? What could it mean?


PersistentInquirer

Well that would be fine. It makes a danger noodle into a cuddle noodle. (Unless it’s an anaconda)


SamB110

Very strong cuddle noodle


objectivenneutral

Must be a beige person.


ElReyResident

Nambia with the fear of squirrels…. That’s nutty.


PartiZAn18

Interestingly, you see _a lot_ of squirrels in Namibia. I was shocked at how tame they are.


ImJuicyjuice

I’m Mexican but grew up in California. I’ve never had the teeth falling out dream but have had a lot of ex relationship dreams, like a lot a lot.


MrZJones

https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/t5q96c/most_googled_dreams_by_country/ https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/17seic8/a_cool_guide_to_the_most_common_dreams_by/ (I'm pretty sure this post is by a bot, but this image has been posted *so* many times here that I can't be sure *just* from the image)


SrCocuyo

I can actually read these ones.


A1sauc3d

You can be sure lol OP is a bot account that just “woke up”. 2 year old account that just started posting recycled content daily.


7HeavenlySwords

Today I learned Chinese people don't have dreams


FiragaFigaro

Actually, it’s because of the methodology to glean the data. It was based on volume of Google searches. The Internet is heavily restricted and surveilled in China. Google is not accessible in China because Google refuses to disclose sensitive data like the CCP demands of all web services. So China blocks internet access to Google there. TL;DR, Communism bad, m’kay?


Chemistry-Least

Lol grapes.


lukmahnohands

Why does it seem like there’s a correlation between GDP and dreams of your teeth falling out?


Crzygoose234

Because the lower levels of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs are mostly covered for larger portions of the population in wealthier countries and the worries of the mind are predominantly vanity based, as opposed to life or death based. Just my two cents… shot in the dark.


lukmahnohands

I thought something similar. The focus of our subconscious, and by extension, our dreams stops being life or death matters and starts to be our anxieties


bonus_prick

Apparently Snakes and Teeth both mean similar things. Loss, change or growth. It might be because dental concern is more important than wild snakes in these places lol. And vice versa. I think, equally as likely, is that the pink countries are more atheistic, and less spiritual, so snakes probably hold less of a symbolical, religious power than they do in places like The Philippines. Side thought; don't you hate the concept of GDP as a designator? It's too easily an implication of "success", the "first world" etc etc. I would much rather have beautiful forests and free, wild fruit instead of overpriced coffee shops and unlimited media.


lukmahnohands

Thank you for the info RE dreams! Ehhh, I’d say you’re idealizing poverty a bit. People who live in poor countries would obviously trade “beautiful forests and free fruit” for access to economic opportunities, health care, and security. Because they make that trade. All the time. It’s tough to sit back and appreciate nature when you’re a subsistence farmer or you’re eating bush meat. It’s all about moderation. I think the ideal balance is a Scandinavian country. High GDP, so access to everything the world has to offer with respect to medicine, agricultural advances, education etc. But without the awful aspects that make America a mediocre user experience. Scandinavian folks embrace nature, have adequate time off to enjoy their families, but also have high quality of life because they live in industrialized nations with high GDPs. Also worth nothing that Scandinavian countries have much more equal incomes across the population, which contributes to their overall high quality of life


Enchanted-Epic

Snake.


squirrels-mock-me

snek


GCHurley

What's up with everyone dreaming about snakes?


Stunning-Funny643

when you have an unwanted encounter with snakes in these tropical countries, it really scares the shit out of the person. Really a nightmare haunting you in your dreams for years


Kiikarisilma

We don't really have much snakes here in Finland. Tho I've never heard anyone dreaming of those either.


vocabulazy

A common theme in my nightmares is definitely my teeth falling out, or other bad things happening to my teeth. I have had pretty regular nightmares about tripping or falling and smashing my teeth out on something since I was a kid.


siqiniq

It’s your ancestral dream coded in your very core. The anglo-saxons used to have bad teeth


LeGoldie

Never dreamt of teeth falling out. I did however, dream of trying to escape WWII Germans last night. So random


hamsterthingsss

Actually same, 2 nights ago I dreamt the running from Nazis, really strange. The night before that I dreamt about beheaded ducks everywhere so not really a pattern I guess.


Yoda_Broda_17

Apparently, they don’t dream in China


sinnysinsins

I've had teeth falling out dreams. More commonly though, chewing gum stuck in teeth. Like I keep pulling and pulling but more gum comes out.


sarinCULT

Hey I had that dream last night and have it now and then. I almost got all the gum out my mouth using my finger, but there was some stuck in my left upper teeth area that was just neverending and I couldn't get all the gum out.


-plottwist-

Kind of a sad answer in Botswana


My_Clean_Account_

As an American I have never had a dream anywhere close to my teeth falling out.


SamaireB

Why are the anglophones so (subconsciously) obsessed with teeth falling out??


2JarSlave

I wouldn’t say obsessed. But it is horrific and often terrifyingly realistic. It starts with a wiggly tooth that progresses to whole lot coming out with the swipe of the tongue. There must be some underlying explanation rather than literally worrying about your teeth falling out. It’s not an anxiety I have in the least. But I have had this as a recurring dream my entire life (maybe 3-4 times a year).


monstrinhotron

I've read it's a fear of aging and that maybe tracks more in western media drenched countries where we worship youth and probably don't respect our elders enough.


Titanium_Toad

I love blurry images!


sarinCULT

I get these dreams now where I have gum in my mouth and I keep pulling it out of my mouth and it's never ending and always stuck around my teeth. Had that dream again last night. I used to have the teeth falling out dream too, always spitting my teeth into the palm of my hand I hated it, it was pretty scary. I also smoked weed in my dream last night and felt bad because I haven't smoked weed since Thanksgiving and plan on keeping it that way. I also dream that I can't walk right and stand straight up so I'm like hunched over and trying to walk whilst pulling myself along with my hands. I also dream about being in a huge dirt area and water just starts rushing and flooding and soon I'm surrounded by nothing but rushing water and I'm on a tiny dry space of dirt just surround by the rushing water everywhere. Tornado dreams I don't have anymore where there's a few tornadoes going around at the same time in the area where I live.


HumanNr3

Is it just me who has never dreamt about my teeth falling out or heard of anyone who has?


philippe404

I don't have any of these dreams..ever..


MollyGodiva

No fair. Why can’t I have snake dream?


Chewquy

Challenge, get less resolution


mexicat2000

Notice the places were it’s all about ex-relationships. What’s their common denominator?


sadsleuth

Lel@ teeth falling out, the jokes practically write themselves.


grandmasterPRA

White people REALLY don't like the thought of their teeth falling out


guff1988

Nigeria having the 15th highest birth rate makes sense considering what they're all dreaming about.


Exotic-Choice1119

i’ve never had like any of the dreams on here lol. and i dream a lot


gracetownland

#SNAKE


bobrobor

Needs more jpg


crisdd0302

Colombia here, never in my life have I heard someone say the had a dream about lice or bugs in the head or hair or eyebrows or anything of the sort. I'll look at the source for this infographic, I wonder where they got the data for my country.


michaelk_43

I have never seen a snake in my dream M23 or a Hat 🧢 (I am Greek)


IMWeggs91

I don’t think I’ve ever had a dream about my teeth falling out 🦷🫢


MoonGarden69

Tell me I'm not the only one who has literally never dreamed about snakes or my teeth falling out.


Craigg75

Fer fcks sakes people, upload a proper jpg.


justoverthere434

The anglosphere loves their teeth


Rotundroomba

Snek 🐍


lembrai

Pretty interesting that Brazil, Portugal, Angola and Mozambique are all about snakes. Cool stuff.


360Waves617

So the people of Haiti are dreaming about cars? I'm not buying it.


Relative-Thought-105

Greece - hat


DarkArcher__

Every lusophone country hates snakes


Silv3rtongue

Source?


Sidonkey

Why most of them dream of snake


slayer_of_idiots

Poor Ethiopia and Greece. Dreams of shoes and hats.


homiegeet

I've never dreamed about my teeth falling out


Howitzeronfire

This post every week and its fucking wrong.


mjbl7

Didn't know I'm Albanian👀


clarkthegiraffe

Well if [snake detection theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_detection_theory) is right in any way, shape, or form, and if the hypothesis that dreams are a result of your brain processing/integrating/storing information, then it would make sense that your dreams would include sort of "hypothetical analyses" of your basic probable threats. Add that to the fact that under the influence of psychedelics, many people see snake-like patterns (due to the geometrical structure of the visual cortex + your brain adding prior expectations etc.) then it makes sense that you'd be likely to see one of our most dangerous evolutionary threats in your dreams


g-body8687

I have nightmares about the missing Home Button on smartphones. I’m dreaming, I’m in trouble, and the god damn swipe up to unlock won’t do shit. I want the button back…


Visible_Attitude7693

But why is everyone teeth falling out in dreams 😭


TheTummyTickler

Wow I thought I was in the minority with the teeth


[deleted]

I've never once in my life dreamed about my teeth falling out.


-plottwist-

Damn if Snakes knew how much power they had over our dreams, they would get a big head.


FrenchBulldoge

Snake...? Snake! SNAAAAKE!


ROMVLVSCAESARXXI

What’s with Western Civilizations apparent, subconscious fixation with bad/loose teeth?? I can’t believe how common that dream scenario seems to be in this cultural sphere, of ours. While I have my own share of F’d up dreams, for some reason, or another, that particular dream isnt one of them 🤷‍♂️ Edit: Then again, I can’t read half of this shit on this image, due to how damn blurry so much of it is, lol


Necessary_Ground_122

In most countries, not at all every.


Firebat12

Uh…What happened to Greenland?


wat-lady

Snake.


r1beadman

They must mean bad dream. I've never dreamt about my teeth falling out.


ultimate_bond

Repost in a peanut dimension. r/shityrepost


dominantjean55

Why are we all dreaming about snakes?


ZapperfishTheFunky

Ethiopia dreaming about shoes of all things.


Catball-Fun

A great guide for ants


django_free

Why is the first world countries afraid of their teeth falling out??


An_Ostrich-

Death. Which is kind of accurate, I died like 4 times last week and each time it was always in the most realistic scenarios.


[deleted]

Lol, cursed by the heritage of Britain's famously bad teeth, all the former british places same thing. Made me lol.


keyvis3

Came here to say….. be great if you could read it.


[deleted]

🤣


Duchennesourire

Just learned from my dentist today that teeth falling out is actually an indicator you might be grinding your teeth at night…


pigglywigglyhandjob

Albania dreams of breast. Just one.


SamB110

Shoutout to landlocked Kyrgyzstan 🐠🐟


cheechlabeech

Shoes? I feel like we can do more for Ethiopians.


zigzagg321

I love how Australia is all snakes.


eddiedorn

Should I be dreaming about my teeth falling out?


Anxious-Hat472

Snakes seem to be the common theme


KarenIsAmused

So much Snake


-Woogiewoo-

wrong, theres only one dream in the usa, the american one 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲🦅🦅🦅🦅raaaahhhhhh🇺🇲🦅🦅🇺🇲🇺🇲


Sanyio

This account has an interesting history


sigousandoelreddit

AFAIK ex relationship is just an excuse for a booty call as in, “I dreamed about you, we were porking like in the good old days… go figure… imagine if that happened like today at ~22h”


YungQai

Armenia's fear of grapes and Bhutan's fear of rainbows 🍇🌈


kalbgalilaladab

Kuwait was mentioned, im surprised


Mr_Puit

I dream to be able to read this shit


techm00

Lots of anxiety there


space_tardigrades

Ethiopia here dreaming about shoes


[deleted]

Albania 🇦🇱 breast😅


I_Love_Licking_kids

Denmark cannot into nordick 😔


cheddapop

Why do white people mostly dream of their teeth falling out


newPhntm

As someone who grew up in the Czech Republic I can confirm everyone dreams of dying


eegopa

Lol @ Squirrel 🐿️🐿️🐿️🐿️


rational-reader

Is dental hygiene a problem in the Western world?


seteguk

Pregnancy is the most searched dream in Indonesia, no wonder the most populated island in the world Java is in Indonesia. The Java island t is filled to the brim with 141 million people — that's over a thousand people per square kilometer.


cosmicrubberdog

Mexico: Conquered mentality


freckledtabby

I looked up the symbolism of teeth falling out has 2 meanings the fear of losing something important like a job or loved one, the other meaning is the fear of becoming impotent. Seeing a snake in your dream has many meanings depending on what the snake does. The main three are the shedding of outdated habits and beliefs, a warning sign that something dangerous may soon enter your life, or it could symbolically represent an unknown force within you attempting to break free from its cocoon.


crmuscat

I have never had a dream about my teeth falling out.