I often dream that I am lost, or I am at school or work, in a place that I haven't been to before.
I'm also late for work or haven't been to work?
There are spiritual undertones to this dream because being lost is a way to help you understand how there is much to learn regards being 'found' in the spiritual sense. School and work also relay the same message in that we are all here to learn and experience.
We grow and develop through experience. We dream of places that we haven't been to before when it is time to move forward and welcome pastures new, not always new places but more likely new phases of life, or moving in a new direction.
School and work could possibly represent spiritual work, but remember that when you care for other people this is still spiritual work. When you dream that you are late for work or haven't been to work it is because you have neglected an aspect of yourself, perhaps the spiritual side of yourself, maybe you have concentrated all your energies on earthly physical things and have not given attention to the work that needs doing in order for you to make real progress and become an all rounded individual. I have known people to dream of not attending work when they are not happy with some aspects of the work that they do. Although physically you have to go to work, in your dreams you are choosing to stay away.
Being lost is often used to symbolize the feeling of not knowing which way to turn, or not knowing the way forward, quite often this happens when people are spiritually lost. To find yourself and uncover facets that you have never taken notice of is a way for you to move forward and become an all rounded individual.
These types of dreams continue to play out throughout our life because we never stop learning or developing.
The school of life!