Still have nightmares about doing your Leaving Cert? This is what those exam dreams are trying to tell you
If you suffer from recurring nightmares about the Leaving Cert, know that you’re not alone.
Leaving Cert dreams can be in response to stress in adulthood. Photo: Getty Images
When the Leaving Cert rolls around each year, the general public heralds the usual arrival of good weather that it tends to bring with it, and sympathises with the sacrificial lambs that have to endure a gruelling two weeks of exams to that end.
It’s a tough slog, and can bring real stress for the students who sit through 10 or 11 exam papers, plus oral and aural or practical exams. So monumental is that period of our schooling that it reappears in our consciousness for years – even decades – long after the last book has been closed.
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