Myer Material starting in ‘03. Economy crashed, from me down got let go. Did 3 years at Elmhurst Chicago Stone but the hours weren’t there so I went downtown & drove 7 years for Welsch in Chinatown. No shortage of hours in Chicago.

I retired in 2010.
No nightmares about work calls, just dreams of being in my old fire station or a completely foreign one.

Had one recently that my buddies and I were shooting the shit and the damn dispatch tone went off!
Woke me up instantly!

It's been about six years. It was kind of an odd situation, taking a two month leave of absence before officially retiring, so I was kind of in limbo for a while. I cleaned out my desk on my last day before going on leave, not sure if I was returning, so there was no need to go back.

I have had recurrent dreams since where I'm back at the office on my last day, tying up loose ends. They are probably due to lack of a sense of definite closure given the circumstances.

I hung drywall for a living from my teens into my early 30's. I have been away from that for 20+ years. I routinely have dreams about having to drywall super high ceilings on incredibly rickety scaffolding while on questionable flooring. I had a coworker push me off a stair well opening while I was up on 2 stages of scaffolding once. I didn’t get hurt but it could have been way worse. At times we went to extreme measures to reach some very tall cathedral ceilings and sky lights over the years. I hated doing that stuff, and now I get to dream about it

I don’t have nightmares, but I have recurring unpleasant dreams.

Each scenario is different, but they have a common theme: I have a software project that should be nearly finished, but I haven’t done any significant amount of work on it, and I’m worried that that’ll be discovered.

I was a fireman/EMT back in the 80’s. Been a 911 dispatcher for about 20 years now. I’ve seen and heard stuff I sure wish I hadn’t. And sometimes the nightmares come.
One in particular was the call that got me out of being a field responder. I climbed in th back seat of a car with two good friends dead in th front seat and helped keep the one in the back alive till we got the top cut off the car. I still see that car in my sleep. Can’t get away from it either, since I drive past that curve on my way home every day.

Been retired 13 years from Uncle Sam.I'm sure I have work-related dreams once in a while, but the frequest ones are about no knowing my way around the building/complex or outside, such as if I go out to lunch or miss my carpool and have to find another way home.

grocery biz for 35 yrs, then into the firearms biz full time since 2016


I rarely dream about anything I do now,

however, I do still have dreams that happen in, or are related to, being a grocery store manager,

great job, but stressful, and time consuming, and paid well,
but still in my dreams after 10 yrs,

a friend suggested, jokinly, kinda, that I had PTSD from working for some of the folks I did, and in some hood areas,


maybe,
maybe not,


some are repeats or partial repeats, or something different may happen with someone or something similar in a similare are,


mostly like someone, (my subconscious) tossed a shitton of memories in an AI program and it blended all together in some way,
that rarely makes a lot of sense

Man there's nothing I hate more than having really long dreams about being at work, only to wake up and have to go to work. It's like the opposite being paid overtime.

I have dreams I’m going through USMC bootcamp again, thinking “I have to go through all that crappe again?”

The dreams about high school are that I’m back, and that I have no idea which classes I’m supposed to go to.

I have very realistic LE dreams, also, and I just had one again a couple of nights ago. Some are patrolling in an unfamiliar jurisdiction, while others, I’m shooting at someone or trying to shoot someone but the trigger has no more travel to fire off the round.

In other LE related ones, I’m arresting someone, or I’m trying to chase someone, but the faster I try to run, my body begins to lean backwards and I can’t run fast.

I was a kid when The Exorcist and The Omen came out, and after only having the movies explained to me, I was DEATHLY afraid of demon possession. So, the nightmares I had as a kid, which stopped into my early 20’s, were related to being possessed or dealing with someone who is.

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Originally posted by ftttu:

... but the trigger has no more travel to fire off the round... ...I’m trying to chase someone, but the faster I try to run, my body begins to lean backwards and I can’t run fast.

These are because you're waking up and you're getting feedback from your body that doesn't match what you're doing in the dream. You get no trigger break because your dream is squeezing but your hand's not feeling a trigger.

I have LOTS of driving dreams. I wake up at least once a week to "no brakes" dreams. My foot's a pushin', but it's not feeling a pedal. (cuz there aint one) The panic wakes me up.

I don't have many memorable dreams, rarely nightmares and never about work.

I have woken up in the middle of the night and suddenly remember something about work that is really important that didn't make it into the pass down.

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Originally posted by Pale Horse:
It definitely fucks with my mind. But it’s also kind of fun because I’ll wake up from a dream that was good and go back to sleep to continue that dream.

This happens to me all the time as well.

Not retired yet. I generally sleep pretty good and nightmares are rare ( my wife does tell me I sometimes scream in my sleep but don’t remember the dreams in the morning ) despite long years of working emergency medicine and tours in Iraq, Afghani and duty at ground zero shortly after 9/11 when we were still hoping to find trapped survivors. If you work medicine in any capacity long enough you will make decisions/ perform procedures that result in someone’s death. Just the way it is. Despite decades of experience I still concern myself with occasional doubt - did I do the procedure to the best of my ability? Was my surgical technique adequate?

I've been retired 4 years. I still dream about flying every night. Usually some version of can't find the gate due to a bizarre physical layout of the airport, or can't get out of the hotel for the same reason.

Sometimes it is that the airline lets retirees ride the jumpseat or we can seat-sub in the sim when they need a second pilot in the sim. Those are fun dreams.

I used to have ooccasional prison dreams . When I woke up I would replay everything over with me doing everything right and it having a good ending and it worked. Dreams went away and never came back!!

Yes, personnel problem at work spilled over into sleep time.Had a delivery driver, “political, good buddy’s kid” hire that could screw up a train wreck. Lost a good driver over this dumbass plus in two weeks on the road either lost or damaged several hundred dollars of new auto parts in 1977 dollars. My manager and I both fought but upper management overruled us.

Woke up in a cold sweat as in the line of a James Brown song. In my dream I had two phone calls at once, every light on the multi line phone was flashing and nothing but ringing phones in the background while people are yelling “another call for you!” Well, woke up and decided enough was enough.

Went to work the next morning and said “Tell Tom (president) either I get Mark (old and good driver) back, we get rid of “X” or I’m gone. This is Wednesday, I’m out on Friday. Ball’ in his court now” as I went back to my desk.

One hour I had Mark on the phone, got him a little more money and “X” got pulled off the road.

When I was still working I would have dreams that my gun didn't work - bullet just falling out the end of the barrel or not working at all. A couple of times the bad guy would offer to help! I would wake up and think "oh, it's one of those" and go right back to sleep. In talking to other guys I learned that it's a really common dream for cops.

For six months or so after I retired I would have a dream that one of the other guys (always the same person) was on the radio hollering for help and wouldn't let go of the mic so I could figure out his location. Those also faded away. Today I look at the job as NMP: Not My Problem. No more weird dreams.

I was a CNC programmer for 30+ machines for 2 decades. I often had bad dreams that someone was somehow injured for a bad line of code crashing the machine.

I think the stress dreams show that we are empathetic to our work situations.

I retired in 2018. For the first 5 years or so, I didn't think about work much less have dreams about it.

But, for reasons unknown, in the last couple of years, I've had work dreams a couple of times a month. Ugh.