Dreams about exams – what do they mean? (dream interpretation exam, test, trial)
Dream interpretation exam, test, trial. Dreaming that you are going to take an exam or actually taking an exam (and maybe even failing?) is a very common theme in dream interpretation. Actually, this theme is one of the ten most remembered in dreams. But what does it mean?
Exams in dreams as a symbol of a real trial in life. Yes, it really is quite simple. Often the dream is about an upcoming – or a finished – test or exam in life. This can be a real school exam or another type of trial or test (job, relationship etc.). It has been proven that people who work in performance-related jobs (for example giving talks and lectures, teaching or management roles) often dream about being at exams – or quite simply dream about the situation in which they feel they are at an exam (their job situation which they see as a trial or test, that is).
Dreams about exams (or tests) might symbolize an upcoming decision that needs to be made about you rather than by you. It can also symbolize a new phase in your life (maybe becoming a parent), and the question is then if you’ll pass or fail.
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When trying to understand your dreams it is important to know that your dreams are… your dreams. As such, you are the best person to figure out the true meaning of your dreams.
However, it is important to learn how to generally approach your dreams. Dream dictionaries like this one are only a supplement, and if you want to fully utilize the potential of your dreams, you should start at a different place.
My online course “Unlock your DREAMlife” gives you a great foundation for understanding (and recalling) your dreams.
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Dreaming about exams as a symbol of low self-esteem/self-confidence. Naturally, the dream might also mean that the dreamer (you?) is living with a sense of low self-esteem; that you don’t think you are living up to the trials in your life, but it might also mean that you perhaps have an unacknowledged performance anxiety or anxiety towards authority.
If the low self-esteem or the performance anxiety is dealt with, well, then you might dream that you are passing your exam, and you may realize that the exam you are taking in your dream – and that you are exposing yourself to in real life – may not even be necessary!
Dream dictionaries are a very helpful tool when interpreting dreams. However, generally learning how to approach your dreams, will give you a better foundation for understanding them. My online course “Unlock your DREAMlife” teaches you how to much better utilize – recall and understand – your dreams.
Also read: Why I no longer interpret dreams for free
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NOTE: Dream interpretation is not always an easy skill, and when you dream about taking exams, it is almost certainly about something different for you than it is for someone else dreaming about exams. It is crucial that you feel the interpretation fits you, and it might be the case that the above interpretations do not suit you and your situation.
Have you had a difficult dream about taking an exam that you can’t really understand or that you’d just like to share? Feel free to comment below.
my name is Mohid I am from Pakistan I dream that I have done my exams and I am currently in 12 and I finish my 12 class and I also get a cup or reward type thing and I got 3rd position in Dream what is the meaning of this dream
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It’s more than eight years I graduated from the college in 2012 batch and I was a very good student of my class with 98-99% of attendance and 70-75% results and Now I’m doing the Job in a reputed firm. I see a dream periodically say once in a month that I’m in my college ….I haven’t visited it from long time my end semester exams are going on and I have studied really nothing….I’m very anxious….The only difference is in subjects….It change everytime….. Another part of the dream is that I visit the college late so I don’t easil get the room the hostel…Lack of friends in hostel etc.
Can you please interpret the dream….I’m seeing this dream from more than 7 years….Even today I had the similar kind of dream….What is the meaning of my dream …What my dream is pointing towards …I want to know.
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It’s more than eight years I graduated from the college in 2012 batch and I was a very good student of my class with 98-99% of attendance and 70-75% results and Now I’m doing the Job in a reputed firm. I see a dream periodically say once in a month that I’m in my college ….I haven’t visited it from long time my end semester exams are going on and I have studied really nothing….I’m very anxious….The only difference is in subjects….It change everytime….. Another part of the dream is that I visit the college late so I don’t easil get the room the hostel…Lack of friends in hostel etc.
Can you please interpret the dream….I’m seeing this dream from more than 7 years.
Hello
It’s more than eight years I graduated from the college in 2012 batch and I was a very good student of my class with 98-99% of attendance and 70-75% results and Now I’m doing the Job in a reputed firm. I see a dream periodically say once in a month that I’m in my college ….I haven’t visited it from long time my end semester exams are going on and I have studied really nothing….I’m very anxious….The only difference is in subjects….It change everytime….. Another part of the dream is that I visit the college late so I don’t easil get the room the hostel…Lack of friends in hostel etc.
Can you please interpret the dream….I’m seeing this dream from more than 7 years.
Hi. I’m Mher.
I had a dream of a written examination. It happened at the first floor nearest the faculty room at my highschool campus. There are sets of exams. I think, 4 sets. I was doing really well with the set I am answering until a friend asked me what happened to his test paper. And I remember spilling a bit of water on his test paper. So I told him, if you want, let’s exchange test papers. And we did. And after exchanging, I started answering. I notice immediately, I had probably 8 or 9 test papers. I do not understand them but I’m still trying. The test papers also had this waxed cardboard page that is making it hard to write the answers. My ballpen is also giving up. And then I broke down, I was so angry with the waxed cardboard page. I was shouting and complaining to my adviser. I want the faculty to know how shitty the test papers are. I noticed that I do not even have an idea of what those questions are on the test papers. Like, I’m trying to answer it, but can’t. Then the adviser of the other section came to see what was happening. I saw her belly. She was pregnant. And I immediately calmed down coz I do not wanna stress a pregnant woman.
Then i woke up.
I dreamt i was with 3 friends and each of them took everything that was meant for all of us, when it comes to friend A something we all gonna share he takes it all likewise friend B and C then we all went to an examination hall, everyone seem to have an answer question except me and the teacher gave me my question and answer paper, on the question paper seems the answers had been ticked on only my paper and a lady beside me was solving hers and sharing to people to copy from, I decided not to give my friends because of what they had done or probably bec I hadn’t finished yet. When writing the answers down on the answer paper, my hand writings were bad and couldn’t write well and wasn’t actually copying the answers but re-writting the questions and my friends where furious and wanted to collect the question paper and I started copying the answers because there was no time left and while writting the answer paper was filled with something else someone’s writting irrelevant to the given question and all of a sudden the question and the answer paper were gone leaving me with junk of papers filled with so many different writtings and irrelevant things..then I woke up before they had said time up..
I had a dream today ,n I saw that I was in a class and at the same time writing exams ,but e exams was only set on objectives .but tho we were e second barge to write e exam but everyone too with how his or her questions is been set but the questions and the answers where e same too .But before we were about to entre into e class some of my mates had e chance to take e answers from e barge .so whiles we were writing e exams those who were having e answers and they were copying ,but because I was not having some of e answers to copy I was sad n I didn’t know what to do ,but beside me there was this one girl who was sitting beside me n she was also having some of e answers but then she told e class that they shouldn’t copy all e answers but some of e answers are not correct but we should read e questions before we choose e answers ,we should read e questions very well,n I also saw a lady teacher invigilating us too
Dear Debora,
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I mostly dream, that, I have an upcoming exam, sometimes I’m not prepared and anxious, other times, I’m late for the exam and worry about “will they let me enter or not “,one thing is common in all my dreams, that I’m always anxious, and I never reach the exam hall.
I have a dream where I have to take a test in the rain.
Hello am Risper. I always dream tha am in a Park surrounded by wild animals, I feel terrified but they are not harmful. This dream comes like twice or thrice in a week.
I had a dream where I climbed a very high rock at the middle of a river and later, I gradually came down when I saw my friends ready to go. Please what is the meaning.
I had a dream where I went to the exams and records office and told the staff that I want to process my statement of result. Please what does it mean.
Hi,am Maria. I have a dream where am writing exam in my old school and I past the exam
I dream about my crush appearing exam together not in our College but in my Church. And after I did my exam & left the Church and stopped in the road chatting with my friends, he left the Church too & followed me but he crossed me and went forward on the other road. While in dream & in reality too I feel like we both like eachother but aren’t expressing our feelings rather ignoring like we don’t care. Everybody has flaws and does mistakes and so I was feeling like he’s judging me of my flaws as well as listening to other people instead of following his heart. Don’t know how & why but i also feel like he cares for me deeply.. don’t know what’s what’s stopping us to take the step forward! I usually get many dreams about him.. one is_ he was standing proudly wearing spectacles & on the background there was 2-3 tall buildings & cars, the other is we were standing together in the evening where besides us there was a sincere dog & infront of us there was another man standing facing his backwards as if like we are gonna discuss something & dream ended.. and more but I’ll stop from here.
Anything gonna happen between us?What does all these dream mean? Is it a sign from GOD showing us the direction? Or is it because of our thoughts over-thinkings.. !!!__________
Last night I’ve been dreaming about following an exam in my high school (I’m now a fresh graduate and working as a programmer). In my dream, I fail the exam and I feel my other friends pass it without difficulties. When the exam will soon be finished, I just realized that my friends cheated the exam and they exposed their cheat notes to me at the injury time. I took the notes and tried so hard to follow it while hiding it so the teacher didn’t notice. And when the teacher came to the class, I felt so desperate to finish the exam as fast as I can, but I just can’t do that. When they say it’s time to collect, it’s absolute and I can’t even try to take a few seconds or one minute to answer the exam with the cheat notes in my hands. Without too much thinking, I immediately collected it. At the end, I still can’t answer the most of the questions. Nevertheless, I feel so relief when the exam is done, I don’t care what the results I get in the future. Then i woke up with mixed feeling. I feel a little dissapointed that I failed the exam and regret that I don’t know the cheat sheet was existed early in the exam. More than that, I feel so relief that the exam is done and it is just a dream.
When i read about your interpretation of this kind of dream, i thought that it reflect what i just struggling in my mind last night. I feel like i failed at my job that day and thought that my skill is below everyone else. Also, i keep thinking that i can’t made my parents proud for what i’ve done in life. The lack of self-esteem and confidence in me cause the destruction in my relationship with my friends and family. I realize that the biggest challenge of my life is myself. Thanks for made me realize with your accurate interpretation of dream, i really appreciate it!
I almost always have stress dreams about my exam the night prior. I can vividly see my notes in my dreams and I typically wake up not feeling rested from it. However, if I don’t stress dream before an exam I take it as a sign that I didn’t do well. A friend recommended I look it up or get treatment for my stress dreams. I seem to be the only one in my class getting them!
Hi! Thank you for this wonderful opportunity to relate my dream on this platform. Recently, I dreamt where I was in an exam hall though I’m already a graduate. I was late to the exams, it was mathematics examination but I was happy to solve the questions because I love mathematics. When I was given my own question paper and answer booklet, I started off with the solving. I realized that some of the questions were not that easy for me to solve but I continued anyway. As I was writing, I was becoming noisy at the exam hall though in reality I’m a very quiet person. Back to the dream; even after the examiner’s warnings to not disturb again, I still gave a shout there. When the examiner asked who made the sound, I became afraid to reveal it was me. My fellow exam candidates pointed at someone else, even the person sitting beside me couldn’t even reveal it was me. Some marks were removed from the accused person’s answer booklet. Seeing that, I was so troubled and i had to confess for conscience sake. The examiner came over to my chair and took a shot of some of my questions which I understood those were the questions she wanted to take mark from. But I tried to make excuses and to give reasons why I was shouting. At last, I solved the questions but never saw the result because if I had seen it, I would have known whether the Mark’s were removed or not. In the dream, I was not sad about anything, I was just excited hoping I’d written something that warrants good grades. Thanks for your patience in reading this lengthy write up. God bless!
I dreamt preaching in the church and the lights went off but I keep on preaching
Hello am Bryan I have had this re occurring dream of failing a test ( at the moment am waiting for my graduation this year) at my former university.
Dear Brian,
thank you for your comment and dream! I currently cannot keep up with the enormous amounts of comments I receive daily (currently more than 200 unanswered), so I have decided to no longer offer this kind of help. I would however love to help you understand your dream in a private online session – see more here. Best regards – Michael
I always saw i am doing preparation of the exam, like learning.