Dreams of colleges are more related to unnamed people, much more related to peers, and more related to romantic partners than dreams in general. They are much less related to animals, less related to insects, and much less related to fantastic beings.

Dreams of colleges are more related to sadness, more related to embarrassment, and more related to hatred than dreams in general. They are less related to fear and less related to pain.

College dreams are much more related to work, much more related to human-made places, and much more related to schools than dreams in general. They are less related to transportation, less related to natural places, and less related to magical places.

Dreams of colleges are much more related to sex than dreams in general. They are less related to aggressive acts, less related to friendly acts, and less related to disasters.

Dreams of colleges are much more related to recurring dreams and more related to sad dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams, less related to bad dreams, and less related to weird dreams.

College dreams are less related to hearing, less related to smelling, and less related to vision.

You can gain insight from thinking about any dream, no matter how strange. Only you, as the dreamer, have final say on what your dream may or may not mean. Each dream is unique.

The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience colleges in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.

Our emotions in dreams can help us understand its meaning. Pay attention to how you felt in the dream. Pay attention to how you feel about colleges in dreams. See how you feel about colleges now, in your waking life.

This interpretation is from ""The Dream Interpretation Dictionary: Symbols, Signs, and Meanings" and is provided by J.M. DeBord aka "RadOwl". He is the author of several acclaimed books about dreaming, the host of The Dreams That Shape Us podcast, and is a moderator of r/Dreams, one of the largest dream sharing communities on the internet. Being back in college is a frequent dream theme for people who have already graduated, but you don’t have to have attended college to dream about it. The symbolism is often related to learning. You feel challenged by something or recognize a gap in your knowledge that needs to be filled. You are learning something new and feel challenged intellectually. Consider what you learn, or need to learn, about yourself and life. Life is a continual process of adjustment and assimilation. You take in new information, have new experiences, and decide how things fit into the big picture of who you are. A college setting is a natural place in a dream to tell stories about what you’re learning about yourself and your life. College is supposed to be preparation for adult life, specifically for occupation or profession. When situations are encountered for which you feel unprepared, it’s common to dream about being in college and unprepared for an exam, or needing classes to graduate. Graduation in the larger sense means “ready for the challenges that come next.” See: Campuses Dreaming that you can’t find the classroom where you belong can indicate you don’t know where to get the knowledge, experience, or information you need to meet a challenge. Think beyond professional or work challenges to consider life challenges, personal challenges, social challenges, and relationship challenges. Getting through college is comparable to climbing a mountain in the metaphorical sense. Many steps have to be taken and obstacles overcome. Personal and intellectual growth is required, as well as planning and organization. See: Climbing You can dream about being in college if you face other sorts of mountains to climb, such as a big project at work or a big challenge at home. The setting can be used to describe situations that require strategy, skills, talent, and ability. A college setting can be used to express feelings about missing college life, or missing the opportunity to attend college. Where would you be now? Time in college is associated with freedom. For many people it’s the first chance they have to make their own decisions and set their own agendas. It’s where new friendships are made and high school reputations are left behind, giving fresh opportunity to reshape yourself and your image. If you missed that sort of opportunity, you might dream about college as a way of wishing that you’d had it, or that it would come again. A college setting can be used to express feelings about meeting requirements and being prepared. We are told by teachers, counselors, and parents that college will get us what we want as adults. But what if you do everything right, get your degree, and it doesn’t lead you to where you want to be? What if you get into the work world and find out it wasn’t what you expected, that the way to get ahead has little to do with what you prepared for, or the occupation you chose does not lead to the adult life you want? You might then dream about college to think back on the roots of what led you to where you are now. In a more general sense, dreaming about college can be a way of saying that you’re thinking about your life, or that you’re moving on from that time of life. You wake up one day and realize you’re no longer a young adult with wide-open possibilities. Along the same lines, college is sometimes thought of as a step that leads to marriage and family life. You might dream about college as part of planning for your adult life, or as a way of looking back on the decisions you made and experiences you had that shape your adult life. Of course, if you are too young to be in college and dream about it, it can be a way of looking ahead and planning your future. It can relate to the expectations and hopes you have for what that time of life will be like, or thinking about what you want to do with yourself, or even wishing for freedom and opportunity. College can mean “informed opinion.” This use of the symbolism often plays out without actually showing a campus or college. Instead, college is referred to, such as through a professor or letter. The symbolism can be based on the type of college. For example, a dream about attending a business college can be a general way of saying “taking care of business.” A law college can in some way tie in with subjects related to law, and law in the general sense means authority and rules. Types of colleges include junior college and community college, which is a beginner step to getting a college education. A college dream can be a way of saying you’re taking remedial steps or going in the right direction. On the other hand, Harvard Medical School can symbolize prestige and preparation for tackling the biggest challenges. See also: Campuses, Climbing, Mountains, Schools, Students, Teacher, Universities