I often dream of a job I had 10 years ago. It was night shift at a radio station. Perhaps it being night makes it more real. I’m usually therer and have forgotten how to work everything.
I have dreams about my current and former jobs and they are usually bad.
I occasionally have bad dreams about work (but much more rarely than I had the anxious student dreams that plagued me in high school and college). They generally involve problems with patient scheduling, since that’s what I mostly do.
I have never, ever had a GOOD dream about this job, and never will. Because it’s nasty.
I rarely remember my dreams so I could be dreaming about work all the time. The only one I remember in any detail goes like this:
Somehow a baby crocodile got into the store but no one ever bothered to do anything about it. Eventually the baby croc grows into a tremendous mature croc. One day I offer this giant croc a bucket of fried chicken and it snaps at me, snubs me for my efforts. I yell at my coworkers, “This croc’s as finicky as a goddamned cat!”
Do dreams actually mean anything, even if they’re about a specific place? I hope not.
I’ll also dream that none of the college students will calm down or be respectful to me. IRL, they can be noisy, but I’ve never yet encountered a total boor or anyone I had to throw out.
I’ve had many, many dreams about waiting tables. All of them horrible nightmares. It’s normally just being overloaded with too much to do and not being able to do any of it.
One consisted of me not having any pants and they made me work anyways. Don’t think I had on undies either. Wish I could remember the tips I got in that dream.
I tend to have incredibly boring and mundane dreams. One I had a few months ago consisted of me buying a cheese sandwich and eggs at the canteen of an earlier job, and seemed to last about half an hour. (That dream sticks in my mind because of its mundanity, and my girlfriend asking me what I’d dreamt about, me telling her, and she mocking my dullness unsparingly.)
I also dreamt last year that I was being chided by a colleague at my current job for not being commited to the company. I’m not sure if that was out of guilt, but I doubt it, since I’m so uncommitted I wouldn’t care. I’ve also dreamt about debugging code (a main component of my job) more than once.
I’ve had late-for-work dreams occasionally when I’ve absolutely positively had to be on time for something (like my first day): I get that sort of incredibly detailed anxiety dream most times that I’ve an important time to wake up for (e.g. plane flights).
I have this dream where I’m standing out in the parking lot at work, with my father and some co-workers. And the setting is kind of weird with the sunlight being kind of like an eclipse. I look up and see a nuclear missle heading towards O’Hare airport, and before it hits, I wake up. I’ve had this dream twice. In the dream, for some reason, I know for a fact that the missile is nuclear. And as I watch it going over our heads, it’s going really slow and there is nothing I can do. Weird.
Somewhat related, but not work related. I’ve also had a few dreams involving me, standing on my deck, lauching nuclear missles towards Iowa. And the military is trying to found out where it’s coming from, and they have no clue. So I launch another one and they still can’t figure it out. The whole time, this nuclear launch thing that i’ve got on my deck is an old military type thing that was abandoned by them and forgotten about.
I’ve also had dreams that Iraq had invaded the Chicago land and was launching nuclear bombs and at us as well, but they were missing us and they launched them.
What does all of this mean? It’s not like i’m obsessed with nuclear missles or anything. But all my dreams keep pointing to the “the end” somehow. It’s not that I’m scared, it’s just it’s something that is reaccuring, and I don’t know why. Would a dream book tell you about my personality with these dreams?
I often dream that my workplace is going to catch on fire, and I won’t be able to get my patients outside safely. When I was working in a print place, I had nightmares of giant book binders attacking me, and gallons of toner flooding the store.
I’m almost 25 and I still dream about high school pretty frequently. In the dreams, I usually find myself at school, not knowing what classes I’m taking or where I’m supposed to be.
I rarely dream about my workplace. However, soon after I started my job, I had a dream in which my boss embarrassed me terribly at a company party, and to this day, IRL I have a hard time socializing with him at parties because of the memory of that humiliation.
I have answered the phone at home, while I was asleep “thank you for calling Pizza Hut, this is misstee, will this order be for dine in or carryout?” before I realized I was at home. I musta been dreaming about work that time.
I used to have a dream that there was some class I was registered for, but had forgotten about, and therefore had never attended, and I would wake up thinking I had a final in a few hours. This happened even after I was out of school, so I would wake in a panic, and have to tell myself “you aren’t in school, you don’t have any finals…you aren’t in school, you don’t have any finals…”
I had a dream where I woke up, got dressed, ate breakfast and drove to my work and actually started working on stuff I left the night before. Then i wake up and I’m half an hour late!
I had a dream about calling in sick to work… when I wasn’t really sick, just needed a day off.
In the dream, I was trying to get my father (who lives in another state, btw) to call in for me so I could sleep more. To have a dream that is essentially about sleeping…
Back in college (waay back in 2001!) I used to have the late for class/exam panic dream pretty frequently, usually early in the semester when I was still adjusting to a new schedule. Since I’ve started working I find that I care so little about work on a personal leve, that I hardly even think about it once the little hand is on the 5 and the big hand is on the 12, much less dream about it.
I’m also a pretty mundane dreamer when it comes to nightmares, they mostly involve petty but exspensive car repairs or low speed accidents. Until very recently I lived in Anchorage Alaska and at the start of every winter I’d commonly have really mundane nightmares about sliding, very slowly, down the road into other cars and then having to file insurance reports and all that crap. Then I’d wake up, realize I didn’t owe a small fortune in car repairs and go back to sleep feeling all warm and fuzzy Now that I’m living in Houston I’m expecting to phase them out with dreams of stalling the car in flood waters
I used to have both nightmares and dreams about my job. But when I got a job with the phone company quest they stopped. I think its because my job is a nightmare and all of my dreams have been crushed.
Now that I’m living in Houston I’m expecting to phase them out with dreams of stalling the car in flood waters