Newbie with a bad nightmare

[Spanner]

Hi there! My dreams are usually weird as hell but I had the most frightening of all in a long time 2 nights ago. I was at work but it was a completely different building (I work in a hospital) & there were patients and relatives everywhere on 2 different storeys but all open plan if that makes any sense. I was running around like a headless chicken and getting a bit cheesed off with difficult patients and relatives when one relative shouted that she was taking the linen trolley so a patient could lean on it to go downstairs. I ran after her telling her not to let him use it like that because it was dangerous. When I got downstairs he was sat on a wall but looked like he was drunk. I asked him if he'd been drinking and his relative started screaming at me because I was telling her not to use the linen trolley like that again. Some other guy appeared from nowhere and asked me what was the matter with me really nastily. Next thing I know I'm trying to get back upstairs and as I go I have to dodge a small child running down, then this guy bumps into me on purpose (the same one who'd just spoken to me really nastily) and grabbed me by the scruff of the neck.....he bellowed at me "what is your problem?" and I heard my colleagues shout "he's got a knife". I felt the point of the knife against my lower left cheek buttock and felt him slide it up to my lower back. I think this was to make me aware that he had it but he didn't cut me with it. In my mind I thought this is it, I'm gonna be stabbed but I woke up shouting with sweat pouring off me. I've no idea why I would dream something so odd or bad because I haven't thought about work at all since my last shift. I never take thoughts of work home with me and I've never dreamt about work before. Does anyone know what this might mean? Thanks x

[Alaurast78]

Hey Spanner welcome to Dream Views!!! Interesting dream! I am not all up on interpretation but I often dream about work and those dreams tend to be strange. I think of my weird work dreams as my mind processing things while I sleep. I do believe though that some dreams have meanings and we should always pay attention to them. Do you always have strange dreams? Do you keep a dream journal? Dream journaling is a great way to notice patterns in your dreams and then you can better know how to dreal with them in your life. There are a few people here on DV that are great with dream interpretation and I hope to hear what they have to say about your dream. Great to have you here!!! Sweet dreams :dreaming; Laura

[Spanner]

Hi Laura, meet another Laura Thanks for that & yes I do have the weirdest dreams. I don't keep a journal mainly because they're so weird I can always remember them months even years down the line. If I've ever had a dream that wasn't weird I've never recalled it. Be good to know if there's anything significant in that particular dream though, it left me with a bad feeling for a few days. The last one that un nerved me for days like that was when I dreamt about myself vomiting jewelry......bracelets, necklaces, you name it & my mum was in the dream laughing at me while I sat crying wondering why it wouldn't stop. Very strange. x

[CatLover]

Sounds like stress maybe? Hum de dumm... the hospital one, maybe your worried about something? Maybe you watched too much tv or perhaps something happened to someone else that you know, and it's coming back to haunt you in the weirdest way you can imagine?? The jewelry one, maybe you think your mom doesn't care about you, or laughs at your expense all the time? Slight paranoia perhaps? Just my thoughts. Overall, it sounds like a bad case of stress.

[Alaurast78]

Originally posted by Spanner Hi Laura, meet another Laura * *Thanks for that & yes I do have the weirdest dreams. I don't keep a journal mainly because they're so weird I can always remember them months even years down the line. If I've ever had a dream that wasn't weird I've never recalled it. Be good to know if there's anything significant in that particular dream though, it left me with a bad feeling for a few days. The last one that un nerved me for days like that was when I dreamt about myself vomiting jewelry......bracelets, necklaces, you name it & my mum was in the dream laughing at me while I sat crying wondering why it wouldn't stop. Very strange. x Wow very cool, Nice to meet another Laura on Dream Views!!! I am glad you decided to stop by our little web site. I look forward to hearing more about your dreams. Have you ever had a dream come to pass in real life? When I have dreams that affect me for a few days or I have very strong fear or feelings about them I take extra note of them. I also remember dreams that I have had years ago. I have actually had dreams that i felt really strongly about happen in real life. The circumstances may not be exactly the same but I have come to think that sometimes dreams may be more than just dreams, but not all the time Also remember that an interpretation may not always be correct for you in your life... you are the only one that can truly know what it means... we are here to just give you ideas! Sweet Dreams

[ElijahJones]

It sounds like you work in an alzeimers ward or with elderly patients. My wife worked for a few years with these patients and it is quite amazing the amount of stress it can generate. I wont list all of her experiences but there was a women who went crazy and suffocated herself by getting tanlged in her bed rail. Old men who would suddenly bust out into fistacuffs because they brushed against each other in the hall and a rather sweet old girl who always wanted to know if the song on the radio was Patsy Cline. Well, after not too long my wife became depressed and for about three months she fell into the work/eat/sleep routine. We were on opposite shifts and I basically never saw her. Eventually we moved and she now has a job she loves but nursing and CNAing can be unbelievably stressful on the whole family one way or another. So the dream, on the assumption that you are working with senile elderly folks,... The child running downstairs: perhaps you recognize that they are like children and yet this does not rule out danger. In fact maybe there is an atmosphere there that you have not acknowledged but it is an ugly spirit of people in decay, of questions that can never really be answered, of past lives no longer kept secret by social decorum and of secret griefs that can no longer be hidden. It is true also that many of these people were great human beings during their lives. And then we watch as some become foul mouthed nasty little creatures that few want to spend much time with. The loved ones of alzeimers patients often face this grief for years and years as they see the people that mean the most to them slowly slip away. I would not dismiss the dream, but ask myself honestly if I was afraid and just what impact the job was really having on me. Try to focus on the bright spots. As I said the little old ladies like our Patsy Cline fan ultimately gave my wife hope. Even though they were not all there, there was still a spring in the step or a twinkle in the eye. Another women I recall always talked with my wife about her son. The converstation was always the same. "Hi what's your name? Are you from Pemberville? I'm from Pemberville. Say do you know Robert Bruning? That's my son." Hope that helps, best regards EJ