Can't stop Dreaming at night

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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My youngest claims she can lucid dream. Says it’s no big deal. Must be a gift.
 

Rich said:
I'm sure some sort of psychologist could likely tell us what's going on. Evidently though, we are on similar dream plans!
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I jinxed myself just by posting. Last night I dreamt I was attending a conference I knew nothing about so I missed my appointments. I ended up doing appointments for a competitor so I redeemed myself. Of course, I checked in the hotel but later couldn't find my room. When I went to the front desk they told me they couldn't help me so I was without my luggage and brief case for the entire trip. At least I didn't miss any flights.
 
seadoug said:
I jinxed myself just by posting. Last night I dreamt I was attending a conference I knew nothing about so I missed my appointments. I ended up doing appointments for a competitor so I redeemed myself. Of course, I checked in the hotel but later couldn't find my room. When I went to the front desk they told me they couldn't help me so I was without my luggage and brief case for the entire trip. At least I didn't miss any flights.
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I had a dream last night about work—so bizarre it defies description. Still, it followed a familiar pattern: I was out of town visiting a customer, and as is common, I couldn’t find any clean clothes to wear.
On the upside, they're not nightmares.
 
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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Yes, I have done that before. It really helps, interesting and can be very fun.
 
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.
Click to expand...
I heard a neurologist talk about that once. to some degree we can be aware that we're dreaming and change our story -- after all we are our own screen writers. For instance, you might tell your child who dreams of a monster chasing him, to turn around in his dream and tell the monster to get lost.
 
I had a dream last night about my last day of work, clearing out my office, which was not bad at all!
I also had a dream about having a huge fish on the line, taking out lots of line as if it were 20 pounds. But it turned out to be a rather skinny 25" Northern Pike, which was a little disappointing.

If you want to stop dreaming about your job, shut it out of your thoughts as much as possible. And focus on other things right before you go to bed. I think last night I had my work dream because I was thinking about my job last night before bed. But otherwise, I never dream about my job.
 
I still dream about work and my co-workers. I like to think it is because I was happy there. A lot of these dreams are recurring dreams but the dreams I really hate are when I am at a conference, but can’t find anyone I know. When I go outside, I can’t find my car either.
 
Notice this thread has been revived. I dream 100% of the time while asleep, even if just for moments. Thus, have a vast dream world. A fair number of my dreams involve being at workplaces, despite being retired now 9 years. I seem to be talking to people often in dreams. Since I am doing far less talking now in retirement, that could be a reason. The reason dreams often route into unpleasant things, like being chased by evildoers, etc. is because the mind creatively, moment to moment, confabulates about whatever it is dreaming about that is quick to be hijacked by anything the amygdala finds frightening.

I do find myself escaping wars more than being chased by evildoers. More frequent are dreams with storms tornados or being along the coast where monstrous waves are threatening. (In my twenties, used to body surf, fins, wetsuit and all.) The one most common unpleasant dream is after leaving buildings, not being able to find my vehicle, in large parking lots, that always begins with awareness of dream memories that my car has been stolen dozens of times. (Actually has never happened except in dreams, haha.)

So I'll look all over before realizing, yes it is really gone again, that is going to be very expensive and lifestyle disrupting. Fortunately in recent years, my brain dream memory area has developed neural plasticity connections about losing the car so often, that this is a dream, so I then wake up. The reason I lose the car in parking lots is because even though I know exactly what the vehicle looks like as in model and color, the brain has a difficult time duplicating details of what one was dreaming a minute before.

Actually, the whole parking lot changes minute to minute too, though am not aware of such within dreams. Likewise, the attractive woman in a dream I met the minutes before, never appears again when I try to go back to wherever she was after returning from another room. The brain may create a woman, but she won't be or look the same.
 
Atory said:
Does anyone else keep dreaming about their job and clients after you retire? How do you stop this?
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I sometimes have job related dreams, and I retired early, over ten years ago. I was at that job for over thirty years, so it became a part of me and lingers in the back of my mind. I doubt you can stop particular dreams, just make the best of them. Sometimes I have lucid dreams, where I know in the dream that I am dreaming, usually a nightmare type dream, but I can tell myself in the dream that it's not real and wake myself up. Doesn't happen that often. It doesn't hurt to think of various other things when it's close to bedtime and try to guide your dream journey....good luck!
 
Gardenlover said:
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.
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I was always a good reliable worker, always there early or on time and the management thought highly of my work. But.....in the work dreams, I'm always late, trying to figure out how to punch the timeclock because it's always weird in the dream. I find myself doing nothing and worrying about how to account for what I did there, etc. A little monkey on your back you can't shake. ;)
 
I usually dream about people I've known in the past or sometimes people I don't know or just came across casually. When I worked as a waitress years ago, I used to dream about making strawberry pies because I made a lot back then. I'd wake up worn out from making pies all night.
 
Grampa Don said:
After 20 years I still dream about work. It's never exactly the same but similar and I often see people I used to work with. The weird thing is that I remember that I'm 86, but don't remember that I retired.

I used to sometimes dream I was still in the Navy, but that hasn't occurred for a long time now.
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I dreamed about when I was in the Army for about 10 years after I got out. , Then it was times working at the steel mill for another 10 years or so. I still dream about working at the jails with the Sheriff's Dept. and in a prison later on.
 
I do constantly...something unpleasant happens and I am frustrated. I don't know my job, unprepared for it
The so called experts on dreaming have no definite answers, only opinions on whether dreams are symbolic or explicit
 
Occasionally, I dream about work. Not my favorite thing to dream about. I'd like to dream about hiking in the mountains, but I can't even remember a dream like that.
 
I have dreams about working but always I do not have a car and have to walk home which is a home I lived in as a teenager. I always have to walk into the town and then other streets which take me home. These dreams are not in this town I dream about working.
 

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