dream a little nightmare sweetheart....

So here goes. There is one regularly occurring dream/nightmare that never fails to wake me up stressed out and mildly upset. When I say regularly occurring I mean every few months. I don't know why I am writing this down. Perhaps someone out there with Freudian powers of dream-analysis can tell me what this means. It seems fairly obvious to me but then again, people can ascribe meaning to anything these days, even grainy tea-leave residue on the bottom of your cup. Do dreams really mean anything anyways, or is that a legend dreamed up by psychoanalysts with illusions of grandeur? As it is late, I will divide this into 2 parts.

Let me preface this dream by saying I have been out of university for over 7 years:

I wake up and look at the alarm clock and realize suddenly I am late for an exam. Seriously late as in a possibility I will MISS the exam (I was never ever late for anything school-related.) Panicked I rush to the university (where I did my undergrad) and though I recognize some key landmarks, I am on the edge. Sweating and breathing hard I rush towards the hall where I believe the exam is taking place (that I am not certain which hall is another reason for panic as this is a fact I would check 10 times ordinarily). As I am running, I come to the realization that I have not studied AT all for this exam (from my memory it was finance or math related). I realize I have missed most of the classes (I hardly EVER missed a class, wouldn't even entertain the thought) and am severely under-prepared and will probably fail miserably. I rush around the campus not sure of where I am going, what material I was supposed to have studied, and am on the verge of breaking down. My mind runs through some mathematical formulas and I realize I don't have a clue what they mean. I finally find the hall I thought the exam was going to be in, only to be told it is the wrong hall and the exam is taking place at another site on campus. I turn around and rush out of the hall. End of part 1.

Now the strange part is during the dream my logical mind would interrupt for a second and say "hang on buddy, you're out of university, you've been out for 7 years, this can't be real, this is a dream you clown, now wake the fuck up". However this would be brushed aside and the nightmare would continue. Thoughts? Part 2 to come if I can remember it this week.