samantha

I often dream about work. The work dream falls into one of two categories; being late/missing work or doing work poorly.

My job involves putting patients to sleep, haha. Seriously, I am an anesthetist.

In my work dreams I either fail to show up for an operation or my patient awakens from anesthesia during surgery. The most traumatic is the dream where the patient awakens. When this happens the patient generally is running around the room and the entire operating room staff is staring at me like Im a horrible person.

In last night's dream, the surgeon asked how the patient was doing. I responded that the patient was fine while I was panicking to give the patient more drugs. The patient kept moving and wasn't staying asleep despite my efforts. Finally, the patient pulled the tube from his mouth (the one that entered his trachea and supported his breathing) and was talking to me. I was trying to talk louder than the patient so that nobody would hear while I frantically tried to resedate him.

In the end, I had to admit the patient was awake. When this happened I was hoping to be strong and deal with whatever punishment I had coming to me. Before anything else happened, I awoke.