Dreaming about difficulties are extremely common. Someone could get an anxiety dream about school because it’s on their brain constantly or work and that dream makes them have a bit more stress than they were feeling before.
A dream can be daunting if it shows that something negative is yet to come or has been difficult to overcome. In this case, these dreams are a way of preparing you to best deal with these hardships ahead of time rather than surprise when they’ve crept up on you outside of sleep.
One of the most common dreams on difficulty suggests imbalance between thoughts, feelings and actions. The dreamer has accepted that the journey will be difficult but never meant to be impossible. Struggles are necessary.
The higher the level of anxiety, the more meaning difficult dreams have. One can deal with them by accepting the meaning and recognizing how such levels of anxiety manifest emerge from some other deep seated emotion that needs our attention.