I don't understand it . When I was working at Wrongway Regional Medical Center with all its stress, plus the normal life stressors, I typically had good dreams.
Now that I've been retired a year, and my stress level is down near zero , I have bad dreams. Not nightmares- just uncomfortable dreams, like not getting something done or TCB, and having to deal with the consequences.
Last night's dream included the scenario of finding an old man in a cornfield who had been neglected and was in need of hygienic and medical care. I called 911, gave a report, and did what I could until EMS and the PD arrived, but it was a very uncomfortable dream.
National Blah Blah Blah Day is "an impulse to do get the things done which people have been nagging you to do". My dreams are nagging me to do something and I'm not sure what that something is.
Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).
On 4/17/2021 at 6:40 AM, Davey Do said:
I don't understand it . When I was working at Wrongway Regional Medical Center with all its stress, plus the normal life stressors, I typically had good dreams.
Now that I've been retired a year, and my stress level is down near zero , I have bad dreams. Not nightmares- just uncomfortable dreams, like not getting something done or TCB, and having to deal with the consequences...
National Blah Blah Blah Day is "an impulse to do get the things done which people have been nagging you to do". My dreams are nagging me to do something and I'm not sure what that something is.
I believe I've discovered what my dreams were nagging me to do that I have not been doing. I have not been expressing my pain through my art.
While working as a nurse, my wake up routine involved drawing comics of situations that troubled me regarding my job and life in general.
Since my stress level has been significantly lowered, and I have all sorts of other founts of inspiration to create art, my psyche pain was put on a back burner. And there, it simmered.
The simmering pain had a need to be expressed and did so through bad dreams.
So recently, I resumed my wake up routine expressing my pain through my art, and viola!, my good dreams have returned!
Take last night, for example: A dream included three of my deceased relatives- my Dad, Mom, and Little Sister. It was a good feeling spending time with them.
My dream also involved me working as an artist. I remember thinking, "It's great having an art studio in the basement where I can slop paint and make a mess, but also have a nice office on the upper floor!"
I believe my subconscious was saying to my conscious self, "Yes! You need to express your lower level pain, because everything upstairs is neat and orderly and relatively okay".
Last night I had a vivid dream that I was working in a nursing unit, and I was having some sort of bladder problem and dribbling pee on the floor. I don't have any bladder problem in real life by the way just to clarify.
The charge nurse on duty in this unit, somebody I don't know in real life by the way, was extremely rude. I decided that since I was having this infection or problem that I needed to go home. I had an assertive conversation after that with the charge nurse, telling her that I did not appreciate the way she talked to me. She was receptive and I felt like I had made my point.
Of course soon thereafter I woke up and naturally had to pee.?
I have been having excellent sleep the last month and catching up on some dreaming. I was having a lot of fractured sleep last year, probably partially because I was drinking too much alcohol, I had a tumultuous year plus the pandemic. There was just a lot of change last year.
I quit alcohol for Lent, and now I'm just drinking wine a couple days a week I think I have narrowed it down to the fact that I may have an allergy to something in beer.
It took a while, but my digestive system has healed, and my sleep is so amazing and restorative. I'm generally a busy bee anyways, and even more now that I'm not unwinding with beer that's then keeping me awake at night because my stomach is rumbling, it's not like I was getting drunk or anything. So I am having a lot of amazing dreams that I think are good for my system and health.
You have a noisy subconscious. I would have a word if I was you, especially re cleaning products ?????. I think your subconscious needs to mind its own business and stop speaking out of turn ?.
Generalized Cleansing, my left foot ?. I actually think that it has to do with the watermelon theory ????
I believe I've discovered what my dreams were nagging me to do that I have not been doing. I have not been expressing my pain through my art.
While working as a nurse, my wake up routine involved drawing comics of situations that troubled me regarding my job and life in general.
Since my stress level has been significantly lowered, and I have all sorts of other founts of inspiration to create art, my psyche pain was put on a back burner. And there, it simmered.
The simmering pain had a need to be expressed and did so through bad dreams.
So recently, I resumed my wake up routine expressing my pain through my art, and viola!, my good dreams have returned!
Take last night, for example: A dream included three of my deceased relatives- my Dad, Mom, and Little Sister. It was a good feeling spending time with them.
My dream also involved me working as an artist. I remember thinking, "It's great having an art studio in the basement where I can slop paint and make a mess, but also have a nice office on the upper floor!"
I believe my subconscious was saying to my conscious self, "Yes! You need to express your lower level pain, because everything upstairs is neat and orderly and relatively okay".
National Blah Blah Blah Day case closed!
I am glad that you now have your "case closed"!!
I went through something similar after I retired. When I was working I would use my drive home (~45min) to decompress from work but also to process other things happening in my life. After retirement I didn't have that time anymore. Once I realized this I started walking in the morning for "time". (I have heard it before but I think you said your Dad also said something like... you never have time off when you retire). We all need a way to work through/process emotions/issues etc. Glad you found yours and are back on track!
2 hours ago, Emergent said:
I have been having excellent sleep the last month and catching up on some dreaming. I was having a lot of fractured sleep last year, probably partially because I was drinking too much alcohol, I had a tumultuous year plus the pandemic. There was just a lot of change last year.
I quit alcohol for Lent, and now I'm just drinking wine a couple days a week I think I have narrowed it down to the fact that I may have an allergy to something in beer.
It took a while, but my digestive system has healed, and my sleep is so amazing and restorative. I'm generally a busy bee anyways, and even more now that I'm not unwinding with beer that's then keeping me awake at night because my stomach is rumbling, it's not like I was getting drunk or anything. So I am having a lot of amazing dreams that I think are good for my system and health.
Sorry you had such a bad year, glad things are better now!
Specializes in Psych, Corrections, Med-Surg, Ambulatory.
6 hours ago, Emergent said:
Last night I had a vivid dream that I was working in a nursing unit, and I was having some sort of bladder problem and dribbling pee on the floor. I don't have any bladder problem in real life by the way just to clarify.
The charge nurse on duty in this unit, somebody I don't know in real life by the way, was extremely rude. I decided that since I was having this infection or problem that I needed to go home. I had an assertive conversation after that with the charge nurse, telling her that I did not appreciate the way she talked to me. She was receptive and I felt like I had made my point.
Of course soon thereafter I woke up and naturally had to pee.?
Your brain wanted to keep you asleep to get to the resolution of the dream. Your body was trying to wake you by alerting you to your need to pee.
Your brain wanted to keep you asleep to get to the resolution of the dream. Your body was trying to wake you by alerting you to your need to pee.
I think the point of the dream was assertiveness, something that I have made big strides in, in the last 10 years.
It came very naturally to me in the dream. I was assertive but didn't get angry. I was heard because I approached it in the correct way. (I also had to wake up and go pee.)
Davey Do
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I believe I've discovered what my dreams were nagging me to do that I have not been doing. I have not been expressing my pain through my art.
While working as a nurse, my wake up routine involved drawing comics of situations that troubled me regarding my job and life in general.
Since my stress level has been significantly lowered, and I have all sorts of other founts of inspiration to create art, my psyche pain was put on a back burner. And there, it simmered.
The simmering pain had a need to be expressed and did so through bad dreams.
So recently, I resumed my wake up routine expressing my pain through my art, and viola!, my good dreams have returned!
Take last night, for example: A dream included three of my deceased relatives- my Dad, Mom, and Little Sister. It was a good feeling spending time with them.
My dream also involved me working as an artist. I remember thinking, "It's great having an art studio in the basement where I can slop paint and make a mess, but also have a nice office on the upper floor!"
I believe my subconscious was saying to my conscious self, "Yes! You need to express your lower level pain, because everything upstairs is neat and orderly and relatively okay".
National Blah Blah Blah Day case closed!