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.
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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.
I equally had this same dream last night. I’m still wondering what’s the meaning.
Thanks for this Avenue.. Having Exam dreams has become too popular in my case . I am very very worried each time I had that dream. The annoying thing is that I don’t get to write anything before time up it’s either I don’t have pen, paper or I come late. I seriously need to understand what that dreams means
I had a dream about written an exams and someone was helping me out to write the exams but I couldn’t write even that person gave me a full test book to look on and write but yet still couldn’t write because was afraid. Please what will be the meaning of my dream?
I realised I was late for my exam..so I rushed..i saw myself going through shortcut roads and running for the exam..the same thing has happened in real life too..after all this I finally reached my destination and there was nobody there..i was already late and thought my exam might have started..now I left all hopes and decided to leave. This was an important test and I had prepared a lot for it in my dream..but as soon as I decided to leave the place some other girl was there ..she asked me to not leave..so we enquired the watchman..he said the exam is in the other building.. I somehow managed to be there and somehow the invigilator alllwed us to sit for the test..i was quite nervous and not able to think clearly..i felt I was underprepared for the test but still kept anssering the questions..at the end I was satisfied with my performance..i saw myself ansaering a math question which I have made up in my dream..as there is no such question like that in real life ..but I still tried solving that question but was not able till the end and pretty dissatisfied..
I dreamt when I have passed my exams yet in reality I finished schooling
I saw myself in an exam hall which we where not plenty writing already an I ask someone sitting beside me her number one corresponding with mine an she yes that is correct, please help me thanks
I had a dream about been given my exam result in class, but this is the exam room for sighted people and I was there while I am totally blind. Thereafter I went to my room with a lady who was to have sex with me. WHen we reach the room, The guy who was bully when we were at high school tried to enter the room by force . I fought and win and because in the dream he was having an artificial part of the head, it was broken and he died. Instead of calling the police, I decided to continue to have sexual intercourse with that lady.
I had a dream last night about taking an exam…in that dream,all my friends were helping each other with answers tho I came in late,when they gave me mine to write,I couldn’t answer anyone I was trying to ask for answers from my friends bt den everyone was in a haste to submit and I ended up submitting an empty shit… please help me enterpret
I had a dream last night about an exam that i have on october 5th and i saw myself in it and not knowing anything.It was really stressfull and anxious dream.
This is the dream I have. History based, not studied for it etc. I never actually sit it and I’m always preoccupied with other business/pleasure that prevents any real studying rushed or otherwise. I studied history at University 20+ years ago so I have an element of context, but I’ve had this recurring dream for years!
I have a dream i was about to write exams let I met with the teacher I was asking her not to give me difficult questions but she were telling me the kind of questions she is going to set for me at the same time she were defining one of the questions for me then she said it a family reunion that if I pass am have years documents but if I fail I we have three years documents then I wake up……
i had dream about my competitive exam that is coming within months. i saw in dream that i already have set of questions in my hand before exam and i was able to clear exam. can you please make me clear my dream Michael .this exam is very important to me .
I have been having this same pattern in my dreams. I am writting exam but the thing is that i dont have time. I am starting to write but l only have like few minutes, even if i know the answer but because of the time l start to panic. This mostly happen when l dream of myself giving an language based exam. Also when l am giving some other exam based on science or mathematics in my dreams l see that l dont know the answer but none of my friends are helping me. They give their papers to someone else and while waiting for it the time is up and l start to panic. Please help me interpret this.
I had a dream a family member giving me an exam and a paper where to copy from and takes that paper before I finishing but my brother finishef.
hello.am andrew.what does it me to see water has washed off the writtings on your academic certificate. And also i dream of being in a class sitting for exams.in this dream,i always see the question papers are too many and i cann’t answer all of them in a given time which indicates am going to fail and often i leave the exams room when i have not finished.then lastly i always dream of having sex with my girld friend(s).but when i get such a dream i often get mis understanding with that person and defnetly the relationship breaks up even if i bag for forgiveness althougi i hve done nothing bad to them.i have got it on four and i seperated with them.what can i do.
Heyi.am bakirumbye.what does it mean to see ur wife cheating on you with another man?
I had a dream where i was writing an Exam i wasn’t prepared for and a friend of mine assist me on my Exam
I was in panic mode in the exam. I couldn’t write, I didn’t know a thing. I was screaming, begging my mother for help. The exam desk was a mess. I was in absolute panic.
I have been dreaming for like three month that am taking exams sometimes it’s practical exams and sometimes it’s theory and my friend have been dreaming about me taking exams also..
I had dream that i am back at school doing grade 12 and some of my classmates (boys) wants to be in a relationship with me. while the teacher its in front of us trying to explain to us about dacing, some another lady gave a dress to wear for matric dance because her son was my partner for that matric dance and she gave a gift but i did not open it. And the lady was so happy that i am going with his son to the matric dance, and after the lessons of dancing, the teacher went out of the classroom and i ask my friend to give me so clues of what the papers were going to write on exams was and we still friends even now from primary,secondary till now. She gave a memorandums of exam but the other paper was for maths and i knew that the was for accounting and it puzzled me because i dont even know those graphs of maths and the other was for english matching words with the right sentence meanings.. then i woke up.