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The symbolic meaning of the exam is to check compliance with some requirements. In modern culture, exams and tests have taken the place of initiations – tests, passing which, a teenager was once allowed into the world of adults, says psychotherapist Ekaterina Mikhailova.
Dream of Anastasia, 20 years old
“I dream that I’m at school and I have an exam or important work to do, but I’m not ready, and there is literally an hour left. This dream is repeated very often.
Interpretation
“Anastasia, with the help of sleep, your unconscious stubbornly tells you something, but then you remember that you have already graduated from school and wake up. The story remains unfinished: each time you do not reach the completion of the task itself, only you are very worried that there will not be enough time for it. The task itself is also not very important, it is not the subject, not the teacher, not the scale of the event that is important, but only its approach. In modern culture, exams and tests have taken the place of initiations – tests, passing through which a teenager was once admitted into the world of adults. The symbolic meaning of the exam is to check compliance with some requirements. Ready, ready, ready or not? It is interesting to look at your question from this perspective: the dream persistently reminds you that you do not have enough time to prepare for some kind of test, moreover, its inevitability is more important than the content. Waking up, you return to reality, where there are no similar circumstances. And don’t worry, school is over. I would think about what challenge you once did not accept or what test you refused so as not to worry. And perhaps, deep down, you understand that the choice you made has more than just advantages.
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Ekaterina Mikhailova – PhD in Psychology, Leading Fellow of the Institute of Group and Family Psychotherapy, certified psychodramatist and Gestalt psychotherapist, member of the International Association of Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes (IAGP), author of the books “I Am Alone, or Vasilisa’s Spindle” (Klass, 2014 ) and “Psychologist for the Invisible” (Klass, 2015).