Work dreams, or rather, nightmares

[uppityperson]

I had a dream last night about a rehab facility I started working at, again. I was at work and a person was admitted (short term rehab) along with a white porcelain bucket (rather like a small bath tub). In the tub was a person that had been (magically?) shrunk down to 6 inches tall. This 6 inch person was to be the rehabbing person's pet, until they got well enough to go home.

So, little 6 inch guy is calling out "help me! get me out of here!" at me. I looked, then looked again, and told 6 inch Mel Gibson "No. You are an asshole. You stay in there."

Seriously, I woke laughing.

How about you, have you had work dreams/nightmares?

I posted this in here rather than GD because I thought they might not understand like the rest of the skeptics may.

[mr blur]

1. You're just weird

I wouldn't be surprised if you skeptics are responsible for "all the wars in the world".

[uppityperson]

20. I must say the 6 inch Mel is the funnest one I've had.

[LeftishBrit]

2. Well, I did once dream ...

that the Workplace Bully of the time came to my office and he had horns and a tail!

I also once dreamt that I was in the photocopying room, waiting in the queue to use the photocopier. One of my colleagues had a cup of coffee, and absent-mindedly put it on the photocopier, which was set to make 6 copies. Out of the photocopier popped 6 cups of coffee, splattering coffee all over the room!

[uppityperson]

15. I'd like one of those type copy machines!

[HappyCynic]

3. Workmare

I'm a computer programmer and there was one time years ago that I was spending a lot of late nights on a project. About a month after the final version had been approved and gone into manufacturing, I had a workmare. In it, I was at my desk at work, still trying to finish the project. The date was the day of the dream so it wasn't a flashback. I just remember being really worried because the project was so late. I woke up and it took me about a minute to convince myself that it was a dream and the project had been over and done with for weeks. In this case, the normalcy of the dream was what made it especially disturbing.

[moggie]

4. I sometimes have work dreams

They're all anxiety dreams, and boringly realistic, so I don't have fun stories to tell. What pisses me off is that I sometimes still have anxiety dreams about college, and that was mumble years ago! You know the sort of thing: I turn up for an exam and realise that I'm completely unprepared, or I'm giving a presentation and my mind goes totally blank (also, where are my trousers?). I'm glad that I'm not alone in this:



But damn, college is over: I should be able to leave it behind.

[uppityperson]

16. I still have that one, and the locker combination one from high school.

Yes, decades from now, it still happens. Our mind stores emotional things longer than boring things. Makes me wonder if the alzheimer people in the nursing home chanting "help me, help me, help me..." are reliving college or high school memories

[lizerdbits]

5. Some of my job involves working in a containment facility

Change to scrubs (no bra or undies), put on tyvek suit and hood, plus PAPR to breathe filtered air and shower out when finished. I once had a dream that I was in there but wearing no pants. I had a scrub top, hood, and PAPR but no pants. I looked down and had no pants, then was looking at myself with no pants.

The one last night wasn't work related, I had this really awesome bird like tattoo on my upper back and had awesome ripped muscles. I was looking back in the mirror admiring my ass kicking lats and delts, along with the tattoo. The tattoo looked a lot like this but it was very colorful, the wings were thinner and straight across instead of down:

[dropkickpa]

6. I love the no support BSL3 clothes

:sarcasm: for the impaired. I have boobs. There's nothing more unpleasant than boob sweat running down your torso in a tyvek. ew. And I've had the naked in the BSL3 dream, too. I am so happy I don't work over in that building anymore. I hated that garb.

[Orrex]

7. I could read this thread all day.

[lizerdbits]

8. Here's another one for you but it was real, not a dream

All the scrubs get autoclaved out and I had on a pair of pants that had been through the autoclave one too many times. Luckily we have the tyvek on top of the scrubs because when I squatted down to pick up something heavy and the seam on the ass completely gave out (and I don't try to stuff myself into a smaller size so they weren't too small, I've pulled shirts off hangers and had them rip before putting them on). My scrubs were pretty much assless for the last 10 minutes of being in there.

[lizerdbits]

9. The PPE is another example

of why those big boobs I wanted as an insecure teenager would suck now. No support is the #1 complaint of the larger boobed women. And the last few times I've been down there it's been 80 degrees in the labs. Plus I can jog painlessly with smaller ones. Nice to know I'm not the only one with the naked BSL3 dream.

[dropkickpa]

11. Oh, it sucked MIGHTILY!

And it's naked except for the PAPR if I want to be completely accurate. Silly as fuck.

[Orrex]

12. Clearly I'm in the wrong line of work

:banghead:

[Warpy]

10. After 5 years, I finally stopped having "nursemares."

Mine always involved being floated to an unfamiliar floor and getting bogged down with too many patients who needed too many things and looking at my watch and discovering it was 2:30 and I hadn't passed their 8:00 AM meds yet and I had no idea in the world where the hell they kept the med cart, anyway, and why was their med list in Sanskrit?

I always awoke from that nursemare the same way, with a full bladder, a headache, and a sore back, the last two of which persisted throughout the day.

[uppityperson]

17. I am happy to read that others have med cart dreams too

having recently returned to nursing, now as one of those little old nurses who go reallllly slowly, the ones I used to mock. Too many yrs of that nightmare makes me realllllly cautious.

Time to go off shift and I haven't passed the first round of meds. That is the worst.

[Heddi]

21. I have the Nurse-Dream equivalent to "It's the last day of finals and I didn't study"

Where, in my dream, I look at my clock and it's 7:05am (almost time to get out of there) when to my horror I realize that there are patients that I never even saw or gave meds to or assessed throughout the night. Wake up in a panic, sweating.

Since I've started taking Chantix to stop smoking, my dreams have ROCKED> they're very vivid and I KNOW I'm dreaming in them and they're so cool. I wake up to pee and can go back to sleep and pick up where I left off!

[lizerdbits]

22. You're lucky

When I took Chantix I would spend hours trying to fall asleep, and I have enough sleep issues as it is. I almost didn't stick with it but I'm glad I did.

[Heddi]

24. Man, I love me some CHantix

I'm on my 2nd pack, almost week 5 now. When I got the refill, the PharmaSHILList asked me if I had any side effects and I said no. She said "NO? None?" nope.

The ONLY thing is if I take it on an empty stomach I get a tummy ache and a rumbly tumbly until I eat, but that's it.

I tend to take mine between 1-3pm (when I wake up) and 1-3am (when I eat dinner at work), so I'm not taking them close to a time that I'm going to be sleeping soon. Maybe that's why I don't have problems.

Then again, I'm borderline narcoleptic and have slept like a wee babe after drinking 2 extra large energy drinks :D

How's the Chantix been working for you? Right now, the idea of picking up a cigarette and smoking is as foreign an idea as picking up a syringe and doing some heroin would be. Just not even a thought.

[lizerdbits]

25. I have slipped on occasion

Once for quite a while, but didn't need to go back on it. I really didn't have the urge to smoke while I was on it and for months later. There were various stresses that brought on the initial 'slips' and one lasted for a while. The long slip was ended with those nicotine lozenges, which I didn't try before Chantix (patches and gum failed prior to drugs). I think the reason I didn't need to go back on Chantix is once you can run 8 miles it's an incentive to stop smoking if you slip- you aren't running 8 miles at that point.

[Warpy]

23. That was the only good part of an SSRI

My dreams were in full color and involved wonderful things, trips to exotic places with plenty of money for shopping for exotic things and a body that didn't hurt.

Unfortunately, my waking hours weren't nearly that pleasant and I had to bag the SSRIs

[Orrex]

13. I've never had full-fledged dreams about work

but I've had a few blips upon waking that sort of rattled me. I was enslaved to the financial services industry for several years, and more than once I'd wake with start, thinking "I forgot to send the $100M Hudsucker wire" or something like that.

The jolt would only last for a few seconds until I got my bearings, but it royally spooked me for those few seconds!

[uppityperson]

19. What about telephone dreams? Where the numbers are in the wrong places?

I was looking at cell phones once and omg, there it was. A phone that was oh so stylish, but the buttons were slightly offset the wrong way (1 was lower than 2).

[LeftishBrit]

14. My 'wrong clothes' dreams aren't nearly as much fun as some of yours..

but:

(1) I was IRL scheduled to give an educational research presentation at the Department for Education and Skills (as it was then called - one of the incarnations of 'Ministry of Education'; currently called 'Department for Children, Schools and Families'). In my dream, it was a much more important presentation than in reality, and all kinds of important people were present - including, oddly, not the Education Secretary of that time, but 1940s Ministers of Education R.A. Butler and Ellen Wilkinson. The talk was taking place in a garden, and everyone was wearing a dark suit. Suddenly I realized that I was wearing only my underwear!

(2) Relevant both to work and to DU: when Bill Clinton was president, he visited my town, and I dreamt that I was in the Senior Common Room of my college, and that he walked in and shook my hand. I suddenly realized that I was wearing my green pyjamas!


Many years ago, the Queen Mother visited my dad's workplace to open a building. The night before, he dreamt that he had to bow to her, and he bowed backwards instead of forwards and landed on his back.

[uppityperson]

18. Your poor dad, lucky guy to meet Q.M. though. I've never had clothing dreams

I hear about them, but have never had that particular nightmare. They sound rather unpleasant, but hey, could help distract people from your speech, if you were unprepared. Huh, wonder if that is the reason for those.

[conscious evolution]

26. I have two types of workmares

One comes from my days in the food/bev industry.I have nightmares where I am waiting tables and I get in the weeds and can't get out.
The other comes from my time in electrical construction where I have to pull service cable in the Empire State Building.By myself.