When I was working, I had nightmares about work all the time. I often dreamt that I didn't make it to an important meeting or television segment on time or that I forgot to do something of paramount importance and ruined an entire event. I thought that these so-called "stress dreams" would stop when I stopped working, but they haven't.
I've had three nightmares in a little more than a week. In these dreams I'm back at work even though I've quit and they usually involve my boss ridiculing me in front of others. In one dream I got chewed out for not being on top of something that had to do with a Rod Luck television segment. In the dream Rod ended up having his face burned by some wayward fireworks...oops. Poor Rod - though I'm sure he'd take an at-work accident over the legal issues he's dealing with right now.
So how long will it take for my work nightmares to stop? People with PTSD have recurring nightmares all the time, but I doubt that my work environment was stressful enough to rank me among the Iraq soldiers who've returned home with PTSD and dream about IEDs all the time. In fact, I'll take a mutilated-Rod-Luck-face-dream any day over anything those poor soldiers have to dream about. Sweet dreams.
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Go school, Sarah. You'll start having nightmares about assignments or tests. I don't know if it's better than your current one. ;)
Actually I still have nightmares about school. I usually have a nightmare that I never got my degree because I didn't complete some requirement or another...
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