

But what mysterious messages does the exam dream have for the law student? If we could interpret our dreams then we could discover the messages our subconscious is trying to communicate if dreams are a reflection of our subconscious emotions then recognizing those emotions can help us understand our waking emotions. The exam dream is real because it embodies real emotions in the context of what you remember as real and stressful historical events. It is real, not because you will actually find yourself naked in a room taking an exam for which you could not possibly be prepared under surrealistic circumstances, but it is real because your sleeping brain conjured up the impossible circumstances from your actual memories. It was the middle of the night, so I just turned over and went back to sleep, but it was memorable enough to stick with me through the day. My heart was racing and I felt a bit like crying. You were thinking about what I had to say and before you answered, I woke up.

My failure was only exacerbated by the fact there were only 4 students, please don’t leave me behind. I had a family and a life and I worked so hard and I really tried. I started to cry and repeatedly asked you not to fail me. You said, “that’s a mathematical term from calculus, everyone took calculus so you should know this stuff.” I later turned my exam into you and you marked all of them wrong, wrote F, circled it, and handed it back. At some point, someone asked you to clarify a question and you started to laugh. During the test, every so often, the proctor would tell us all to go to the next room to continue the test and everyone would run through the halls looking for the next location even though there were no signs. The test was the hardest test in the world, I felt like I didn’t know any of the material, and you were sitting in the room watching everyone with a look of disappointment. I was handwriting the test in a room filled with people all dressed in heavy coats. I was sitting in a class room, and I was barely dressed and feeling pretty naked. Many of the dreams of law school students and graduates are not unusual to that experience however, these dreams are naturally unique to the extent the dreams manifest in the law school context.ĭream 1. Dreams manifest our thoughts, fears, and passions often diametrically inconsistent with our waking memories, but it is only from these memories that our dreams can even exist. THE MATRIX, (Morpheus played by Laurence Fishburne Neo played by Keanu Reeves).ĭreams are a material part of the human experience and thus the law school experience. Morpheus: Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?
