Common Dreams: Tests and Exams
These types
of dreams link commonly with the way in which we feel tested by life, or pushed
to our limits by responsibilities and the expectation on us to succeed, they can be symbolic for tests of endurance,
a test on skills and patience, they can also describe situations where our core survival techniques and abilities are tested for strength. Test and exam dreams can also be spiritually defined and seen as a measure of
how far you have come on a spiritual path. When I say this I must add that there really is no judgment from anyone, but it is common to judge yourself, these types of dreams can help you to think about the theme of judgment and re-shape your ideas and attitudes about it. These dreams don't happen so you can measure yourself against others, or against any measure you have regarded as important, such as your learned religious or spiritual beliefs, they happen to help you consider the experience of being judged and how you judge yourself, and also how you might judge other people.
Test and exam dreams can describe any given situation which tests the depth and strength of your character, your ability to manage these tests in the dream gives a clue to how well you are coping in your waking life, and they are not about if you are failing or not. When a dream test is hard it portrays a situation where you don’t feel in control, you feel as though life is always hard for you and situations outside of your control dictate the path you are on. The reality is that you are in control of your life and can make changes wherever and whenever you want to, allowing other people to create obstacles for you is sometimes easier than removing the power from the person and disallowing them their control over you. It’s good to mention that it’s not always a person who has control over you, it can be anything from addiction to money.
Test and exam dreams can describe any given situation which tests the depth and strength of your character, your ability to manage these tests in the dream gives a clue to how well you are coping in your waking life, and they are not about if you are failing or not. When a dream test is hard it portrays a situation where you don’t feel in control, you feel as though life is always hard for you and situations outside of your control dictate the path you are on. The reality is that you are in control of your life and can make changes wherever and whenever you want to, allowing other people to create obstacles for you is sometimes easier than removing the power from the person and disallowing them their control over you. It’s good to mention that it’s not always a person who has control over you, it can be anything from addiction to money.
Any educational
institution represents our need to learn lessons and gain knowledge about
ourselves or other people. They say life is a school of learning, and in dreams, schools can represent how we feel we are doing on an enlightened level. Life's lessons
can be hard to take at times, but it is how we come through and get over the
obstacles it presents us with that count towards the overall
experience. There is nothing wrong with character building, but being perfect does not make a perfect character.
Tests and
exam dreams happen at a time when you have reached a plateau in your life and
are getting ready for the next stage; you are looking back and judging
yourself, although it may seem in the dream that you are being judged by others,
ultimately you shouldn’t allow judgment from anyone.
Quite often
exam and test dreams link with an obstacle dream because in these types of dreams
we hardly ever finish the test or exam, this explains the unknown
aspects of the future and when we are uncertain about how things will turn out. This is why being successful or failing the tests isn’t revealed in the
dream, the reality is it doesn't really matter about being successful or not, you are here to experience and that is all.
When attempting
to read or write in these dreams we either can’t see the words or can’t write, we don’t have a pen
or pencil or the one we do have is broken, time runs out or there is a problem
with the paper. These types of obstacles can help explain how you feel ill-equipped, living without certain skills or tools which would help you make progress. You feel that you
can’t move forward because you don’t have all the things you need or that you are not good enough, this dream is helping you understand that you are starting out with the wrong attitude, you are good enough it's your thought process that needs work.
Another obstacle dream that uses the test or exam approach is when we cannot think what to write, this links with the ability to be able to translate thoughts into actions, you may well have thoughts about doing things but lack the energy and drive to see them through to completion.
Another obstacle dream that uses the test or exam approach is when we cannot think what to write, this links with the ability to be able to translate thoughts into actions, you may well have thoughts about doing things but lack the energy and drive to see them through to completion.
Overall
test and exam dreams happen to bring the dreamers attention to their own ‘life learning’
and about personal insecurities, capabilities or talents so that adjustments
can be made if you want to.
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