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I am working at a Shopper’s Drug Mart. As I am walking down one of the aisles a coworker walks by me quickly and grabs my butt. I feel violated. I walk toward the cash registers located at the front of the store and see a man I know working as a cashier. I go to work at a cash beside him. I serve a very unhappy customer. The customer was a French Canadian man who was raising his voice at me and suggesting that I was incompetent.

The boss arrives. She is someone I know, a very wise and understanding counselor. In this dream she is judgmental of me. She suggests that I must have mistreated this customer to have made him so unhappy. I continue to tell her that I was not rude and was merely doing my job. She suggests that I go work in the bakery instead. The setting has somewhat changed, I now feel that it is more of a grocery store than a drug store, hence the ‘bakery section’. I get very upset, at this point my speech in the dream becomes a little bit lucid. I get frustrated and tell the boss that I have worked in a bakery before and did not enjoy the job at all and that I do not want to give it a second try. I tell her that I a coworker has grabbed my butt and that this constitutes as sexual harassment in the workplace and that “I don’t need this shit”

The dream now jumbles, it is the same location. Now I am not myself, I am Miranda Bailey, a character from the television show Grey’s Anatomy. I get out of my car and go into the drug store to buy some tampons. I enter the store and am looking around as someone comes by me quickly and rubs their hands down the side of my legs then quickly runs away. As Miranda I have more confidence, I say “This behavior is not appropriate”. Now I am myself again.

I wake up.

Conclusion: I believe that this dream was brought on by stress that I was having at the time about a maintenance person at the rehab program I was in. I felt that he would overstep his boundaries with clients and speak very inappropriately. At this time I felt that as a client I had very little control over his actions. By analyzing my dream and noticing my feelings on the subject I was able to make a decision to take the steps needed to report the behavior I had been witnessing. This dream was beneficial in showing me my feelings regarding a real life situation and deciding to take action. I spoke to the person who ran the program and she accepted my emotions and suggestions. After a few more discussions with her I felt that the situation improved.