How often do you dream/talk in your sleep about nursing stuff?

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Lately, I do quite often. I often talk in my sleep about nurse-y type things (does that violate HIPAA :uhoh3:), especially when I take really long naps on my couch with my kids running around like they just drank a pot of coffee. My kids think it's hilarious when I talk in my sleep about school stuff--stops them in their tracks.

Seems as my nursing education progresses, so do my dreams. What about you?

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Specializes in Emergency/Cath Lab.

I still to this day am haunted of vent alarms and cardiac monitor alarms in my sleep.

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Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.

I dream about school stuff so much I think I should get extra credit.

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I recently started medical terminology and now when I dream medically they incorporate my terms. For example I had a dream that I had to undergo an emergency oophrectomy. Not a good dream since I really want children.

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Specializes in Former CNA &PCT.

Oh yeah! I dream about Microbiology and don't know if I say Gram + or Gram - in my sleep!

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I was going through a particularly rough patch in school and was beyond sleep deprived. :sleep:

I was sitting on the couch, reading my text, when I kinda... I dunno... I didn't have my eyes shut yet... but I was standing at the hospital elevator... and scolding a patient for trying to run away in his hospital gown.

My boyfriend, who was on the couch next to me, was watching me make hand gestures and he busted out laughing when I yelled, "Go put your clothes on!" :saint:

I snapped out of it and was kinda freaked. It was almost more like a hallucination than a dream.

Back when I was taking Micro, I was studying in my bath :o when I fell asleep.

Did you know that, not only do bacteriophages look like spacecraft, but that they kinda also look like wonky spiders? :eek:

So, I was sleeping in the tub, dreaming about these awful "bacteriophage spiders", until I suddenly woke up with a partially wet text. :uhoh21:

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I've been doing this a lot lately. I don't ever remember the dreams but in that lucid moment before you wake all I know is it's nursing related and really screwed up. I'm glad I don't remember the dreams!

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Specializes in Oncology/hematology.

You crack me up... definatly lively dreams! Mine usually concern nursing math, and I don't need freud to figure out what it means.

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Specializes in transplant/case management.

i have mine on the weekends normally (you know, when you can kinda turn your brain off for a second when it come to school)...lol. i haven't had a weekend without something nursing school related playing in my subconscious.

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Specializes in ER, progressive care.

In school I know I studied hard when I would dream about the material. This happened to me A LOT, but some of the more notable ones was dreaming alllllll about the krebs cycle in biochem 2 and dreaming alllllll about critical care math problems after I was practicing them all day :lol2:

From a work perspective, sometimes I'll hear IV pumps/tele/ventilator alarms going off in my head...

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I dream about school stuff so much I think I should get extra credit.

lol. This is me as well.

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