Can't stop Dreaming at night

Yes, I've been retired for over 5 years and most of my dreams still involve:

Being at a business conference with colleagues from the past
Visiting accounts to represent the company (even though in my dreams I realize I'm doing it pro-bono and tell them I'm not getting paid)
Being in the office with former colleagues

I just dreamt last night that I was meeting with the CEO of my former company.

It has been suggested that because I was "retired early" by my company due to Covid I never had the closure I needed. In any case, I've not found a way to stop dreaming about work and most of the dreams involved some sort of adversity. If you find a way to stop it, please let ME know!
 
yes, all the time. I dream a lot but my work dreams are about me being a new employee in an office setting which is what i did. I never can find work to do, everyone else is super busy and totally ignore me. I have told no one that I'm old, no one guesses I'm in my 70s and still working! I actually retired when i waa 66 and now I'm really 84.
 
Even though I retired 15 years ago and dove into retirement head first and with great glee, I will admit that I have the occasional bad dream about being at work. Not often, but often enough to be unpleasant. It's always a dream about getting blamed or being in trouble for something that I had no control over or having a job dropped on me that is insurmountable.

The Spousal Equivalent says he hears me occasionally muttering "It's just a dream....it's just a dream" in my sleep and he knows I'm dreaming about work.
 
Yup, when I dream of work often, it's usually about being afraid of my bosses, colleagues, being berated or ostracized, which actually happened in my work life. I had good work years and bad work years. The day I retired was one of the happiest days of my life. There's nothing I can do about it. It's a dream or a nightmare, what can you do? Wake up!
 
There is a thing sometimes called "Lucid Dreaming" where folks can learn to interact with
our dream(world), at least in some small way.
It's talked about by folks in some spiritual/pagan kinda' way but also by the scientific/analytical way
as well.
Both say that you can conceivably make peace with disturbing and reoccurring dream scenarios.

You might want to check it out... might help, can't hurt.
 
I dream about working a lot, especially when I worked for one place for the longest and I find I can never get anything done in my dream and the boss is upset with me. That never happened in real life. I also dream about working at a hospital when younger and it is a mixed up one which never happened.

I remember when I wake up and think, wow, what a dream.
 
My work dreams are mostly based on a job I worked from 1980 to 1993, I always find that odd. I spent twenty five years at the next job, eventually even became part owner, but almost never dream of that business. What's even odder is sometimes when I dream of that earlier job it will be sprinkled with people or equipment from the later job. Weird.

Personally I love the way your brain puts your life in a blender and creates dreams, I would hate to have dreamless sleep.
 
Every now and then I have a dream that I’m back in the classroom. I keep asking myself how I got there and why? very happy to wake up and be retired. I don’t think there’s any way to stop those dreams. Your subconscious just has to work it out.
 
Ted01 said:
There is a thing sometimes called "Lucid Dreaming" where folks can learn to interact with
our dream(world), at least in some small way.
It's talked about by folks in some spiritual/pagan kinda' way but also by the scientific/analytical way
as well.
Both say that you can conceivably make peace with disturbing and reoccurring dream scenarios.

You might want to check it out... might help, can't hurt.
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I have been retired for 13 years. I have had a lot of dreams about work usually involving some sort of frustration. I am happy to say this seems to be working itself out and the recent dreams about work are much more pleasant and surprisingly some of the issues are being worked out in them.
 
This really caught my attention. I retired a little over five years ago, yet I still routinely dream about work. The dreams aren’t frightening, just oddly frustrating. More often than not, I’m traveling for business and struggling to reach my destination — unable to find my gate at the airport, my room in a hotel, or a client’s location for a meeting. It happens several times a week. I honestly thought I was the only one!
 
I think I figured out why I frequently dream about work. Many of my counterparts at work and my accounts were also my friends, so I had no time for personal friends outside work. These were the people in my life at the time. I do sometimes dream about family because they are now the only people in my life. This might apply to many others who dream about work.
 
Rich said:
This really caught my attention. I retired a little over five years ago, yet I still routinely dream about work. The dreams aren’t frightening, just oddly frustrating. More often than not, I’m traveling for business and struggling to reach my destination — unable to find my gate at the airport, my room in a hotel, or a client’s location for a meeting. It happens several times a week. I honestly thought I was the only one!
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OMG I have the same type of dreams! Most often I am late for a flight or have no return flight booked, and I never have my device with me so I can't contact the airline. I've also dreamt I can't find my room at a hotel during a conference. During one of my last dreams, the hotel assigned me a new room and there were already other conference participants in the room.

These "travel" dreams are frequent for me as well.
 
seadoug said:
OMG I have the same type of dreams! Most often I am late for a flight or have no return flight booked, and I never have my device with me so I can't contact the airline. I've also dreamt I can't find my room at a hotel during a conference. During one of my last dreams, the hotel assigned me a new room and there were already other conference participants in the room.

These "travel" dreams are frequent for me as well.
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I'm sure some sort of psychologist could likely tell us what's going on. Evidently though, we are on similar dream plans!
 
I often dream about work. I'm sitting in a cubicle without a computer, doing nothing and am afraid that a boss will come by and fire me. I started my own business several years before leaving the corporate work force. My boss jumped through hoops to get me to stay, although I eventually left, perhaps that is why I have the dreams.
 
C50 said:
My work dreams are mostly based on a job I worked from 1980 to 1993, I always find that odd. I spent twenty five years at the next job, eventually even became part owner, but almost never dream of that business. What's even odder is sometimes when I dream of that earlier job it will be sprinkled with people or equipment from the later job. Weird.

Personally I love the way your brain puts your life in a blender and creates dreams, I would hate to have dreamless sleep.
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And I would prefer to be dreamless. That would be bliss.
 

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