Last night I was up all night. I had to go work today. The reason I was up its because I had a dream that I was working in a psych hospital and this ghost patient was chasing me.....
Before I went to bed I was reading all the posting about ghost stories in allnurses.com.....man I was soooooo tired all day....I was so happy when my 12 hrs shift was over...lol
Have you guys ever dreamt about your work in your sleep?? I would love to hear it from you....
Specializes in Happily semi-retired; excited for the whole whammy.
I don't usually dream about work per se, although on occasion I have. More often, the symbolism in my dreams represents work. A couple years ago, when I was getting ready for an audit, I dreamt that the parking garage came crashing down. I'm sure that was representative of my concerns about what would happen if we failed the audit.
I have nightmares about work so often that it's made me seriously question my career choice. My dreams *always* involve me either forgetting about one (or more) of my patients or being thrown into my assignment without getting report and not knowing a single thing about my patients. I have these dreams up to 4-5 times a week. I do my best to leave work behind but my subconcious mind won't let me! It's exhausting :zzzzz
Specializes in Med-Surg/Peds/O.R./Legal/cardiology.
Scrubby, when I first started in the O.R., right out of nursing school, I would dream about hundreds of surgical instruments EVERY SINGLE NIGHT for weeks! It would drive me absolutely CRAZY and I'd be exhausted by the time I went in to work every morning. I guess it's just overwhelming when first starting out!
In radio it's the "dead air" dream. For musicians it's the "standing in front of a booing crowd of 20,000 and the microphone is dead" dream. For air traffic controlers, it's the "computers are down and I have planes coming in from all points of the compass" dream.
Everyone has 'em! I personally think it's the brain's way of dumping off steam.
I used to wake up every 2 hours. I would wake up and jump out of bed thinking I had to check someone. Took about 4 months for it to stop.
Of course every no and thne I wake up thinking I overslept and get ready and run out the house before I realize it is 1:30 in the morning. :chuckle:chuckle
Not a dream. Hmmm as far as dreams go I have had dreams that I had the whole building to myself and couldn't get my bed checks done and the nurses kept chasing me around.
Moving house seems to have broken the anxiety dream cycle - in the 11 months since I've moved I haven't (yet - touch wood) woken convinced I forgot to check on a patient all night! Bliss, but a fairly extreme treatment
I've lost count of the number of work-related dreams and nightmares I have had in the past 3 plus decades. I have lost a lot of sleep from waking up all hyped from a work nightmare.
Since I have had jobs that required me to be on call for the last few years I am geared to respond instantly to anything that rings or chimes. I had the experience of attempting to answer a (imagined) page by speaking into my ringing alarm clock and fuzzily wondering why no one answered!
CyndieRN2007
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I dream about work all the time. Esp when something dramatic happens at work that day. Its just the subconscious trying to keep us on our toes. LOL.