In my ill spent youth, I worked at a radiator shop in SF.
I was a driver, so when we weren't picking up or delivering, we worked the shop - stripped radiators with an OXY-acetylene torch, bead blasting tanks, moving things around the shop, spraying fresh radiators - like that.

One night I had a nightmare where I was following the bead of the torch all night. Toss, turn, sweat all night.

I almost called in to tell them I wasn't coming to work as I did my 8 hours in bed last night.

Interesting topic...

I am 61 years old and graduated from college in 1987. I still have the following dreams:

1. I'm still in college and have a year or two remaining until graduation. Graduation feels like an impossible goal that I will never reach.

2. I'm at the end of a semester. I have one class (typically some type of mathematics class) that I attended one or twice at the beginning of the semester and never attended again. The final is a few days away and I dread taking the final because I am obviously not prepared. I never reach the room where the final is being held.

3. In high school and college, I worked as a disc jockey at a couple of radio stations in Louisiana. I am playing records on the air and I have two turntables. I cannot seem to cue up the next song before the previous song finishes. I have several seconds to minutes of dead air between all songs.

Very strange.

I still have nightmares every so often about forgetting my gym uniform in HS and it's gym day..I graduated HS in 1991