# Do you have dreams/nightmares about your workplace? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 5, 2003, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-dreams-nightmares-about-your-workplace/179887 "2003-06-05T18:16:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Triss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Triss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triss)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-dreams-nightmares-about-your-workplace/179887/21 "2003-06-07T06:11:55Z")
_laughs at **G-Ray’s** post_ I do have annoying dreams about it but I wouldn’t call them nightmares per se. For example: The phone is ringing. And ringing. And ringing. I pick it up but can’t make it work properly. Still it rings. I push every button, (which morph around, or sprout from the handpiece or something) try to make sure it’s plugged in, (usually into something stupid like, the computer, scanner, a toaster, the phone book) I can’t answer the damn phone no matter what I do. I occasionally have a variation or two of that one. I have a vague recollection of another dream wherein once, I was trying to ship something vitally important overseas and I kept somehow addressing it to my own office. I’d call them basic frustration, fear-of-being-incompetent dreams. ---
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-dreams-nightmares-about-your-workplace/179887/22 "2003-06-08T06:08:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by misstee \* > \*\*What did Iowa ever do to you??? > > 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. \*\* Wow misstee, me too on all counts. I worked for Pizza Hut off and on for three years all kinds of hours. And I live in Iowa and am wondering what we ever did? I used to have nightmares about little severed fingers and grossly ground up hands. I work with big bologna slicers and lots of different sealing machinery and they all have the little red circles with a line across them and fingers separated from hands all over the place. I know when I am working too many hours when I have those dreams. I also had a dream about when I worked at Bob Evans that my bed was in the front lobby and I was having sex with someone and people kept intrupting me because they wanted to be seated or get their checks paid for. ---
**Author:** ![SparrowHawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@SparrowHawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SparrowHawk)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-dreams-nightmares-about-your-workplace/179887/23 "2003-06-08T06:46:45Z")
One of my summer jobs during college was sterilizing glassware for a pharmaceutical company. All my dreams were filled with the sound of clinking glassware and the hiss of steam. After I had my daughter, I once woke up from a dream in a panic, because I didn’t know where Mommy was. Then I remembered “I’m the Mommy, and I’m right here,” and everything was okay. Sometimes, if I’m stuck on a painting, I will dream I am painting it and then I can actually do it in real life when I wake up. Those are good dreams. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-dreams-nightmares-about-your-workplace/179887/24 "2003-06-08T12:55:08Z")
Not anymore. I think it’s because even though the work is difficult sometime, my co-workers are all low-stress people. When I worked at NEC, though, I had two division chief-level bosses, and neither of them were capable of phrasing what they wanted in a coherent sentence, either in Japanese or English. There were times when Boss A would say “Do it like X”, so I’d do it, at which point Boss B would say “Why are you doing it like X, you’re supposed to do it like Y”, and Boss A would be standing over his shoulder saying “Yeah, why aren’t you doing it like Y?” My last two weeks there I was having nightmares of this kind of scenario every single night. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-dreams-nightmares-about-your-workplace/179887.md?page=1)