Although in order to provide a more accurate interpretation it would usually be best to have some additional general background information about you, it looks like the main thing to figure out is whether this recurring dream is “subjective” or “objective”.
That means whether the man symbolizes a part of yourself (subjective), or whether he represents the outer man and your relationship with him (objective). It could even be a little of both.
Of course, it might sound unusual that, being a male figure, he could symbolize a part of yourself.
But for instance, if a woman makes her main decisions by using her emotions and values side, her logical and critical thinking side would tend to be less developed. This part of her would then be symbolized by a male figure in her dreams.
In a practical way, certain thoughts, opinions and ideas would tend to pop into a woman’s mind which she might often take to be “true” and “factual” when they’re not really that way at all (because she doesn’t actually look at them carefully to see if they really fit her situation).
To show her this situation in order to correct it, dreams would keep appearing until she understood the underlying problem.
Of course, dreams mostly use a symbolic language based on analogies and metaphors, making it hard to understand them.
To look at this dream from the subjective side, it’s great that you’ve described how the man at work treats you.
That’s because this can help to show why the dream chose him specifically as an analogy about maybe how your “inner man” treats you.
For example, the man at work doesn't like you very much, gets annoyed with you, and sometimes treats you like you’re inferior.
In the dream, the man is “sick” and you take care of him. Even though he’s sick, you’re in bed with him and having a lot of fun.
Symbolically, this could possibly mean that sometimes, you might be “in bed with” and accepting of certain self-hurtful thoughts and opinions which pop into your mind (or which instead are maybe subtle and fleeting).
For instance, a woman might have the momentary thought “You’re so dumb, why bother trying for that promotion at work?”, etc. etc.
If so, these types of negative opinions etc. could tend to slow down her overall self-development towards being an independent individual.
Improving her so-called “masculine” assertiveness skills by reading a good book on the subject could help to build her confidence and lessen the number of such internal put downs
In this dream, it doesn’t really look like the objective approach would fit very well except maybe in the fact that it might also be hinting “Why do you really want this guy to like you when he treats you so badly?”
If you think over this way of looking at your recurring dream and something clicks about the guy standing for some negative thoughts about yourself, then it should stop or at least happen much less often (especially if you build up some ways of catching these self-hurtful opinions right away and countering them with self-stroking ones).
If on the other hand, nothing seems to make sense about this overall interpretation and the recurring dream keeps happening, then a whole different approach might be needed.
Anyway as mentioned, without knowing anything much about you, this way of looking at your dreams might not fit your personal circumstances very well, but I hope that these ideas can be helpful in some way.
Please make any comments or ask any questions about this interpretation that you’d like to.
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