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napoleonboneherpart@reddit

Cut him some slack, he was dying 2 days ago until an unknown Red Cross worker miraculously healed him

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jamessheldon444@reddit

The pic is from the 80s, so 41 checks out.

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Scared_Slip_7425@reddit

Well his dreams are giving him heart-attacks nightly!

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Dimac99@reddit

I still have nightmares I've forgotten my timetable. Probably because I genuinely couldn't remember one nowadays with my brain fog.

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absentlyric@reddit

Lmao that MF is NOT 41, he's probably 56.

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Outside-in-2211@reddit

Dude that guy is at least 60. Y’all ever seen a 41 year old?

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lordjohnworfin@reddit

I have dreams of still living at home, being late for school, trying to find my locker, can’t remember what classes I have etc… Wake up in a panic.

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cahillc134@reddit

I haven’t had a nap this good since my senior year in high school. I doubt I ever will again.

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NorthBase710@reddit

I am sorry but do people actually do this ?
I am 42 and have not thought i had to go to school since i was in school.

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davesmissingfingers@reddit

Who doesn’t still wake up in a cold sweat thinking they’re missing their biology final?

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Its so weird, I occassionally have dreams about panicking end of university because I realize I missed an entire class for a term and I wont be able to graduate. In real life I was not like that at all, I never had any school related anxiety, so its funny to me that sleep me liked skipping school.

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ShillinTheVillain@reddit

I have that one occasionally too. It's always comforting to hear other people have the same weird dreams.

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1_art_please@reddit

Yes, like the teeth wiggling loose thing. I can understand manifesting anxiety within another situation in your head I guess. But why is loose teeth such a thing?

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Which-Grapefruit724@reddit

Mine are so vivid too with how all the teeth come out. I have had this one so many times! Horrific.

I also have the one where I am trying to drive the car from the back seat or passenger seat and I just can't seem to get up into the drivers seat. Also incredibly vivid. Awful.

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Scared_Slip_7425@reddit

“You’ve bitten off more than you can chew” is the teeth falling out dream explanation I’ve heard

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ShillinTheVillain@reddit

No idea. The one I hate most is when I have to run or fight but my arms and legs won't work

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dangerousjones@reddit

It sounds crazy, but when fighting in dreams, use Judo over striking. Just grab them and flip them upside down and toss them

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davesmissingfingers@reddit

Mine was running away and having the ability to fly, but I could only do so if I used the breaststroke. I failed every time.

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Rellcotts@reddit

I am always unable to find my classroom I keep forgetting which one and I run around campus.

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Josephthebear@reddit (OP)

I've had that one where I enroll in a bunch of classes but can't keep track what day they are and where they are located

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MattsNewAccount620@reddit

Yes!

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DrDew00@reddit

It’s always that I don’t know my class schedule so I don’t know what class I am supposed to be in.

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Biguitarnerd@reddit

I do too and the fog slowly clears and I realize I graduated forever ago and it’s such a feeling of relief when I come to my senses.

That being said I sometimes have the opposite and have a really good dream and wake up feeling amazing and it’s such a bummer to slowly come to my senses lol. I have a pretty good life I guess but waking up to realizing I didn’t somehow come into a shit ton of money and I do still have to go to work is the worst.

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nickyskater@reddit

The only time in my life when those dreams went away was when I went back to school for post-grad.

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MirthRock@reddit

I read an article once about how this is the most common dream for our generation. I have it all the time too, and I always wake up in a panic thinking I didn't graduate.

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MathematicianBest678@reddit

This is literally the most "these are my people" moments ive ever had in my life. Ive had variations of this "I never graduated " dream forever.

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1_art_please@reddit

Maybe it comes from being a sandwich generation. Like we see the boomer way of life slipping away and into the life and financial stresses of today and we are scared of that life slipping away (like ' I missed my class, now im screwed!') feeling.

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Neil_sm@reddit

Yep me too, but it's usually high school for some reason.

Another recurring one I have is that I'm back as a server or bartender working in restaurants again. I did that for several years, but I've been out of it for 20 years now. But I still have dreams where I'm suddenly on the clock there and I suddenly realize I have all these customers that have been waiting and I'm way behind on everything and can't find anything to serve them. And I'm pretty sure I have a much better job so I don't know why I'm even on the schedule, wtf is going on here!?

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1_art_please@reddit

Oh I do too from my years being a dishwasher and cook in my late teens and early twenties! Same idea - orders keep coming in and I cant keep up. I only really get those dreams when I am getting sick with a fever. I always wake up in a panic.

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depp-fsrv@reddit

Yep, college traumatized me and sometimes I have nightmares about not graduating and I'm 45 and graduated 20 years ago.

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ALaDeux@reddit

I have the same one! Sometimes I’ll be in the middle of the final for the class I never went to all semester in college.

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BrettneySpears@reddit

I always have that one too! Somehow forget about a class all semester and now it’s time for the final exam. Another favorite: I’m back in school as an adult (for some reason) and can’t remember my locker combination.

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Successful-Winter237@reddit

Yes

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Successful-Winter237@reddit

Yeap… I never went to the college class and now there’s a final.. usually a couple times a year

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Rombonius@reddit

> because I realize I missed an entire class for a term and I wont be able to graduate

I HAVE THAT EXACT SAME DREAM

'i skipped an entire class for a term and forgot to drop it so it counted as a 0 nuking my gpa and i never really graduated and they are going to come find me'

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naanofyourbusinesss@reddit

I have this dream too. It’s so weird!

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flamingknifepenis@reddit

I have dreams about needing one more class to graduate (15 years ago) signing up to take it a decade and a half later (as you do) and suddenly realizing that the final is tomorrow and I completely forgot that I never actually graduated.

… don’t know where I’m pulling that one from, but it happens at least a couple times a year.

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Rombonius@reddit

ditto

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Dildo_Shw4ggins@reddit

Had this one multiple times. Sometimes I’m trying to find the classroom of the class I haven’f attended all semester and I’m too embarrassed to ask anyone.

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meatee@reddit

I have this one all the time. It's always a History class that I've somehow forgotten about until almost the end of the semester.

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davesmissingfingers@reddit

Same. I have no idea why I get the anxiety dreams when that was never an issue.

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diamondsnrose@reddit

AP American History and Government final that the teacher told us about on the first day but never mentioned again.

That wasnt even a thing in HS but I still wake up in cold sweats.

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Didifinito@reddit

PTSD just not the same kind a soldier gets.

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spuldup@reddit

Mine is always: It's the first day of a new grade and I don't know where to go for my next class.

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Acceptingoptimist@reddit

Mine is it's near the end of the semester and there's an entire class I forgot to attend.

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Successful-Winter237@reddit

Yeap

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ChaucersDuchess@reddit

Same, even though I graduated with my last degree 19 years ago 😂😂😂

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FirefighterEast9291@reddit

Settle in for a long ride - I still have anxiety dreams about my undergraduate degree despite having done 6 subsequent degrees in various fields and being over 70 years old 🤣

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Typical_Dweller@reddit

School dreams have been replaced by shitty jobs I had in my 20s dreams. Slightly different emotional quality.

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iIllIiIiIIillIIl@reddit

For me it's a research paper I had 3 months to work on but haven't started and it's due next week.

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Rombonius@reddit

except that happened and it wasn't a dream

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unbalancedcentrifuge@reddit

I still dream that I did not get my high school diploma........I have my PhD

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Rombonius@reddit

but they'll take away your PhD once they find out you never got your HS diploma on some technicality / missed class, so now you've got to go back and do it or else your world is collapse

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Love_for_2@reddit

For me it's that I'm in my English class when I suddenly realize I don't have enough credits to graduate. I'm 43

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BlackPhoenix1981@reddit

Like 3 weeks ago, I had a "naked in science class" dream. I haven't had one of those in forever. That was a crazy flu!

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Drum_Eatenton@reddit

For me, it’s losing my class schedule on the first day

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Traditional_Cat_60@reddit

Not me. I’m the one giving the tests these days.

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nwbrown@reddit

Protip, if you set your alarm to awake to the same music the radio station you listened to in high school played, you can delay the realization that you are old for a few minutes.

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janedoe15243@reddit

The real life tips are in the comments

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m8tang@reddit

It wouldn't work. I still listen to those same songs

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Ok_Go_Blonde@reddit

This made me laugh way more than it should have OMG 😳 😂

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Smokeythemagickamodo@reddit

When that drool hits,

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Material-Drink9757@reddit

That’s a hell of a nap

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Glitterbug1128@reddit

Those are the worst naps ever. Pure panic inducing.

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DameKitty@reddit

After I became the stay home parent I had one where I was late for work.

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tearlock@reddit

Bro that looks more like 51.

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CSWorldChamp@reddit

This guy ain’t 41.

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LemonPartyW0rldTour@reddit

I have a dream on occasion that I have to go back to high school to take a class in order to keep my diploma even tho I’ve been out for over 20 years.

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ScagWhistle@reddit

That is NOT what a 41yr old looks like.

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DnBeyourself@reddit

Why is the guy 61?

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red286@reddit

I can't do naps, esp on the weekend. I set my alarm for 90 mins, then my alarm goes off and I'm like "fuck it, I'mma sleep another 5 mins" and the next thing I know I've slept for 6 hours and it's 9pm.

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MyBestCuratedLife@reddit

Is that the picture of a 41 year old?!

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DrDew00@reddit

I wish I could nap. I used to be able to fall asleep anywhere. Now I can’t even stay asleep when I’m supposed to be sleeping.

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Overall_Falcon_8526@reddit

41, I wish!

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ONROSREPUS@reddit

This got me thinking. I don't know if I have ever dreamed of HS. I can't recall a single time. I can remember a couple of college ones.

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ryhoyarbie@reddit

Got news for ya, I’m still in high school…..teaching.

They’re like, you’ve been in here long enough, now teach them how to get out of high school since you never did.

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ONROSREPUS@reddit

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Perfect place for this.

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HeightExtra320@reddit

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This one got me

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PattesDornithorynque@reddit

Say, people over 70, do these dreams ever stop?

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Shoulda_Ben_Aborted@reddit

Why does it take me 6 years to finish high school????? Wake up already

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GoneInterneting@reddit

😆

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angnicolemk@reddit

I'd rather that than the dream I had last night, an incredibly realistic dream that I had just found out I had four brain tumors.

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DelilahCox1998@reddit

that’s an unhinged vibe for sure. what’s going on here?

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SB4_Camaro@reddit

No way they guy is 41

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notworkingghost@reddit

I’m always being unprepared for my thesis defense.

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TransportationOdd559@reddit

West 41 year old looks like that

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Wrong-Local-4283@reddit

i have two types of recurring dreams,

first, its almost final exams time in college and i realize for forgot to go to this one random class all semester, i panic, wondering if ill fail or if i can study enough to pass the final.

second, (i was in the army reserves and got deployed a bunch) i dream that my unit is about to deploy and i miss a movement for deployment. it's either a bus or a plane and i think oh crap im gonna miss movement.

those aren't from naps though, but i can relate.

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HighOnGoofballs@reddit

I still get the didn’t go to class one, when I was younger I got the teeth falling out and one where I was trapped in a pinball game I think. Also one where I apparently killed someone or needed to hide a body for some reason and did a very bad job of it. The actual killing wasn’t ever in the dream, it had happened in the past I think

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Wrong-Local-4283@reddit

i have had the teeth falling out on also, but not as often as tgose other two.

also did you watch the movie Goodfellas a bunch?

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HighOnGoofballs@reddit

I don’t think it was goodfellas related but who knows. It was kinda like a “oh, we’re moving and there are two bodies in that real shallow pond…”

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koei19@reddit

Ah, to be 41 again. Those were the days.

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Head-Delay-763@reddit

These days (I'm 41) fucking suck. But hell, sounds like it's all downhill here on out

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adolfojp@reddit

Exercise now. It was easier at 36. It will be more difficult at 46. But it's oh so rewarding to fight sarcopenia.

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Self-Translator@reddit

I second this.

Can do sets of a dozen chin ups. Bench more than my body weight. Run more than 10kms. Climb, jump, and crawl. Cycle and paddle. Feeling pretty good to be honest, but it's been work to maintain this decaying meat vehicle.

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ScientistAsHero@reddit

I know! Lol. I'll be 47 come August.

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Self-Translator@reddit

Oh shit. Don't do that to me. I'm drifting between 41 and 47, and don't need this in my life.

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Scherzkeks@reddit

RIP

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soundfeel@reddit

Hear, hear. I just turned 46 today, and the last 5 years have been... rough.

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jeophys152@reddit

Not specifically this, but I do have dreams relatively often where I have to go back to highschool for some reason

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UrAverageDegenerit@reddit

I still get dreams where I'm showing up to school either without knowing/having my class schedule and/or where the class is that I'm already late for. Havent had the 'can't seem to get my shit together and I'm going to miss the bus' dream in quite some time.

As an adult, I've been in so many more high stress situations or had to deal with emotionally taxing life issues and no dreams reflecting on that stuff.
But it goes to show you how much trauma our adolescent brains just internalized while we were in school, where we are still having these kinds of dreams 25+ years later.

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elonmusktheturd22@reddit

The feeling of impending dread hearing a bus drive past

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crazycatlady331@reddit

What is this sleep that you speak of?

I lost my ability to sleep through the night at the beginning of Covid lockdowns (3 job offers rescinded). I never gained it back, even with melatonin.

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Scared_Slip_7425@reddit

Don’t use melatonin, it actually gives you sleep disturbances if you take it long term. Try ashwaganda and l-threonine instead. Those work well for me for anxiety. I’m assuming that’s why you can’t sleep.

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billyjoelsangst@reddit

He’s 60

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Cloud_Fortress@reddit

Ouch

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guidevocal82@reddit

That's a hard 41.

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miranto@reddit

Bro that dude is NOT 41!

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DrThunderbolt@reddit

One time I woke up from a nap and it was 8pm and I thought it was 8am I was so asleep.

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darkuen@reddit

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Technical-Weekend598@reddit

I still have the dreams that I’m in high school, it’s the end of the year, and I haven’t gone to class all year

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captainmidday@reddit

41? That'd be nice!

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fuuture_mike@reddit

Got my ass

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gimmeslack12@reddit

I get the school one, but I also get a dream of my first office job career and am dealing with all my old coworkers acting weird that I came back to work there again. And then I slowly start thinking “why did I leave my better, high paying career to come back to this place” and then I wake up and realize it was all just a dream!

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MilkiestMaestro@reddit

That man is in his late 50s

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Scherzkeks@reddit

That looks like a hard 41...

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flabergasterer@reddit

I wish I could take naps. Never have been able to. Maybe take 1 a year.

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throwleavemealone@reddit

I don't know if that feeling will ever go away.

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Serrajuana@reddit

A few years back I was outside waiting for my cab to show up. It was the middle of winter, so I was bundled up. The school bus stopped and was going to let me on 🤣 Like damn dude, I didn't want to go when I was still enrolled!

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Potatoe_Potahto@reddit

A while back I woke up staring at an unfamiliar ceiling and completely spaced on where I was. This didn't look like the ceiling of any flat I'd ever lived in. Did I crash at someone's place? Did I get laid? How drunk was I last night?

Then it hit me - I was looking at the ceiling of my bedroom in the suburban house I share with my wife and kids. It was like being hit with a dump truck full of responsibility. Still, those few seconds where the only problems I had were where the fuck I was and the impeding hangover that hadn't kicked in yet, those were nice.

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Josephthebear@reddit (OP)

My favorite movie!

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noonesaidityet@reddit

Those are the worst dreams I have. Not quite nightmares, but I don't like having them. It's either a test I didn't study for, or I'm running late, or just being at the high school in general.