Remember that nightmare where you forgot to study for a final at school?

[yhelothar]

I had a few about forgetting to study for a final.
It happened to me once when I thought my final was on Thurs instead of Wed. I had nightmares about it for an entire week afterwards. Luckily it was for a band class, and the final just meant I went from an A to a B.

I've had a lot of nightmares about walking to school and realizing I forgot to put on my pants.

 

[Ichinisan]

my nightmare was always that it was the end of the semester and I found out that there was a class that I signed up for, but forgot about (and now I had to do a crash course and learn everything about the class overnight to pass a final)

even though in reality, if you sign up for a class but don't attend it for the first week or two of the semester, you're automatically dropped (unless you notify the professor of your absence)

I've had dreams that seemed to span an entire semester and I've had that same nightmare before about forgotten classes.

Similar scenarios with work-related nightmares too.

 

[Ns1]

This is true. And while the complexities in the given example (Rolling Stones) are true, something like a Dream Theater concert is much more appropriate (as is the audience...DT audience members know every single note that is supposed to be played).

The keyboardist has sheet music. (Dream theater)

 

[dougp]

I like this comment:

It's a good point. I understand the complexities are different, but if you're a professional musician than chances are most of what you do is muscle memory. If the sheet music isn't in front of you should still be fine if you've played it before.

I believe a lot of classical musicians simply don't force themselves to remember the music. I know when I was taking music theory in college, I never bothered remember the pieces I had to play because it didn't help with sight reading.

There is no reason they shouldn't remember the songs (when Necrophagist, Meshuggah, Dream Theater, and the likes can memorize extremely complicated riffs, timings, and play them), people doing a concert stint should easily remember the music.

Also, people who get all nervous for a test confuse me. I don't get nervous about anything though. Whatever happens, happens.

I played the violin for 10 years, and early on it was easy to remember some of the songs because they were a half page long. As I started playing more, songs got longer - 3, 4 or 5 pages long with key changes and timing changes. You have to start choosing what to remember, most people will memorize key changes, timing changes and the last few notes per page. Most professional players to not play the same song over and over, and they could belong to several groups where they are playing different pieces. It's nothing like a band or group that plays the same songs over and over 100 times or more a year.

 

[BradleyTCO]

I had this happen, but not to the same extent as this pianist. I showed up for the pre-concert rehearsal, and the orchestra had the score for a different aria than I had agreed to in my contract. The wrong aria was printed in the concert program, and the orchestra librarian couldn't find the agreed-upon piece in their library.

It was an aria that I hadn't sung in about ten years in public, but thankfully I remembered it, and we went on with the concert. Scary, but my five-minute aria was nothing compared to the concerto in the story.

 

[skyking]

even through tinny laptop speakers, that little bit of concert music electrified me.

 

[coldmeat]

my nightmare was always that it was the end of the semester and I found out that there was a class that I signed up for, but forgot about (and now I had to do a crash course and learn everything about the class overnight to pass a final)

even though in reality, if you sign up for a class but don't attend it for the first week or two of the semester, you're automatically dropped (unless you notify the professor of your absence)

This was basically my college experience, except I wasn't forgetting about the class, I just never went. At my uni they don't drop you from the class if you don't show up, they just don't care.

 

[Via]

One thing is for sure: I'd never buy another ticket to see this group, and if I had season tickets I wouldn't renew them.

I'm sure those tickets are very expensive. You mean to tell me they're just reading pieces without any rehearsal?

That's ridiculous. Not worth the money, at all.

 

[TridenT]

This was basically my college experience, except I wasn't forgetting about the class, I just never went. At my uni they don't drop you from the class if you don't show up, they just don't care.

Yep, this. Outside of certain classes (Ones that take attendance, basically): If you don't show up, you're not dropped. A lot of people wouldn't show up even for the first day and come on the day of the midterms and final. I've seen it happen many times.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I can't recall any incident or dream about not studying, but the dream I always get mid summer (even today now that I've been out of school for like 5+ years) is that I forget which locker is mine and/or what my combination is. Everybody will be getting their stuff to rush to the next class and I'll be there trying to remember which locker is mine, then when I find the one I think is mine I'm trying all the combinations and can't for the life of me remember it. I start to notice everyone leaving and I'm there alone in the hall still trying to get the lock open as I panic more and more because I will be late for class. I've also had the ones where I can't find my class.

This nightmares just come to show the psychological damage the school system does to people. 😛

 

[zinfamous]

my nightmare was always that it was the end of the semester and I found out that there was a class that I signed up for, but forgot about (and now I had to do a crash course and learn everything about the class overnight to pass a final)

exactly this for me. Or it is the end of your final semester, and you realize that you never took a req for graduating D:

 

[CrimsonWolf]

That look on her face is pure "Fuuuuuuuuuuucccckkkkk!!!!" but then she drives on. Awesome.

The conductor is funny too - just keeps going on and talking to her "you know it so well!"

 

[CrimsonWolf]

One thing is for sure: I'd never buy another ticket to see this group, and if I had season tickets I wouldn't renew them.

I'm sure those tickets are very expensive. You mean to tell me they're just reading pieces without any rehearsal?

That's ridiculous. Not worth the money, at all.

I read somewhere this was just an open rehearsal, so not that bad if that's the case.

 

[Via]

I read somewhere this was just an open rehearsal, so not that bad if that's the case.

The article describes it as a "lunch concert", whatever that means.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Man, I one had a dream that I missed a Diff Eq exam and spent 2 weeks attempting to beg the professor/dean to let me retake it.

It was the longest 2 weeks of my life, and when I woke up at 3am covered in swear, I literally could not tell if those 2 weeks had been a dream or real life.

Took me another hour to realize that it was a dream.

 

[mmntech]

The last exam I ever took in university, a good third of it was on a book I never got around to reading, and was never really focused on in class. I still passed though.

 

[Imp]

I've had this dream more times than I can count. Kept having them AFTER I graduated... Loved waking up and remembering I was out.

The sad part is that I did it...

I walked into a midterm for a class I was kicking ass in an hour late intending to skip it because I was an idiot and didn't mark the date down properly. Even worse, I completely missed a final in first year because I copied the wrong algebra class date down in the schedule.

 

[CZroe]

I once found out a couple weeks into the semester that I was signed up for a class I had not attended a single time. True story.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

My first semester of undergrad we had these weekly recitations for Calc I on Fridays, and I remember the fifth or so week everyone seemed really intense about the week's quiz. The girl sitting next to me asked me if I was ready and I replied "I guess so". I then take my seat, and instead of the usual single white page, the TA places five stapled green sheets, face down. After a moment we gain permission to begin. lol. (Got a D.)

I have much worse nightmares about research than any exams tbh. Some great ones too though, like heading back from the autoclave room to have four dudes in SWAT uniforms jump me. Then I find myself kneeling, hands tied behind my back, as the dean walks back and forth with a Bible in one hand and a revolver in the other, telling the rest of the chemistry faculty about how I sold data to China. In the end, I was sentenced to exile and eaten by dinosaurs. Usually in my nightmares I just drop a $10,000 centrifuge rotor or leave the -80C freezer open overnight instead.

 

[OverVolt]

Nope. I have never had that nightmare in my life.

Nor does my blood pressure rise when taking a test. I dont even get sweaty. I dont know why people freak the fuck out over written tests.

Because they went to public school. Teacher moves the test date and forgets to tell you, its your fault. Stuff on the exam that was never covered, also your fault. An exam that would take a skilled student two hours and you have 1 hour because the teacher was lazy and never bothered to check how long it takes to do the exam, also your fault.

etc etc etc

 

[TallBill]

because they went to public school. Teacher moves the test date and forgets to tell you, its your fault. Stuff on the exam that was never covered, also your fault. An exam that would take a skilled student two hours and you have 1 hour because the teacher was lazy and never bothered to check how long it takes to do the exam, also your fault.

Etc etc etc

although i'm the same way as you. I showed up 15 minutes late to the genetics final (50 minutes) and was the first to leave. I did the exam in 17 minutes, multiple choice and an essay so not a big deal. What the fuck was everyone else doing cause i got a 93 on it. You either understood what hat does or you didn't. You either knew the effect of pah's or you didn't. Like starring at it would somehow jog your memory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/histone_acetyltransferase

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/polycyclic_aromatic_hydrocarbon

oh thanks for linking still dont give a fuck thanks for being so smart

 

[Doppel]

my nightmare was always that it was the end of the semester and I found out that there was a class that I signed up for, but forgot about (and now I had to do a crash course and learn everything about the class overnight to pass a final)

even though in reality, if you sign up for a class but don't attend it for the first week or two of the semester, you're automatically dropped (unless you notify the professor of your absence)

Yep, I've had this.

This highly common dream is made more real by the fact I did once skip a midterm exam because I didn't realize it was that day, and in another case skipped the vast majority of an entire course (knowingly) and then crash-course studied with some borrowed notes before the final.

 

[purbeast0]

most of my nightmares usually involved me waking up with blue balls, not missing a test.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

I like this comment:



It's a good point. I understand the complexities are different, but if you're a professional musician than chances are most of what you do is muscle memory. If the sheet music isn't in front of you should still be fine if you've played it before.

No.

The Stones play the same 90-120 minutes off music for three hours a night, four night a week, during their tours. They've got three other parts to work with (two, really, because nobody's paying attention to the singer) and it's all the same fucking ten notes.

A Cellist plays 90-120 minutes of music for 3-4 concerts this week, a different set next week, and a different set the week after that, for the 30-40 week concert season. One week its Beethoven, the next week it's Schoenberg. Because fuck Schoenberg. They've got 80 other people to work with, playing upwards of a dozen distinct parts, and the entire time there's this asshole dancing on a podium, doing their dead level best to muck everything up.

Classical musicians who tour (like with a broadway show - although that's increasingly less common) will memorize most or all of their parts, but will still bring their scores and play with their eyes open to show the conductor they care.

 

[nageov3t]

This was basically my college experience, except I wasn't forgetting about the class, I just never went. At my uni they don't drop you from the class if you don't show up, they just don't care.

that's harsh.

the teachers are my university didn't necessarily care if one attended or not, but if a class was full, they'd want to open any possible slots for students who'd actually be interested in attending.