hospital on 40 floors

[cosmictramp]

The dream I am a nurse - I work in a hospital that for some reason has 40 floors. I work on floor 13, I work with small children and babies. I am sent to take some one to a waiting car at the entrance on the ground floor. I get into the lift to go back to my ward and the lift bypasses the 13th floor and ends up on the 24th floor. I get out of the lift and then have to find my way back to the 13th floor on foot. Its all very surreal as I am walking down the ramps and along the corridors and down the ramps all the corridors are full of beds with sick and dying people on them because there is no room on the wards, i go down floor after floor and its all the same. (The walking down the ramps and the along the corridors is very disturbing - I remember this feeling of being very confused and frightened as I was walking) I talk to another nurse and she tells me that I am one of the lucky ones as I work on the 13th floor with the children as this is the only ward that there is any hope, every other floor of the 40 floors is full to overflowing and they all are having to use the corridors and the ramps to house all these very sick people. It seems to take for ever (and I believe that I never will get back there) to get back to the 13th floor and the children. When I reach the 13th all the children have left because they have grown up and all that is left for me is to tend to the sick and dying in the corridors on the other floors. Then I find that there is no way out of this building for those who are there, all the sick will die, and all those that are tending the sick and dying will in turn become sick and die. its a charnel house (thats the final realisation before I awoke. Then I awoke. In the dream the numbers seem to be extremely significant the fact that I am working on the 13th floor and the fact that I ended up on the 24th floor. They have little signficance as far as I am aware in my daily life. I was a nurse once a long time ago and I left nursing because I did not like nursing children, however in my daily life I care for my chronically ill daughter who is in the process of making some decisions regarding her ongoing treatment.

[Burned up]

The first thing that comes to my mind relates to age. You don't say how old you are but if you were a nurse "a long time ago" then you are likely to be older than 24. What I'm getting at is that there just might be something in those ages. Age 13 "all the children have left..." sounds like it's an age when something of your own childhood was left behind. And Age 24 perhaps something relating to this? On the other hand, the numbers could mean all sorts of things - bus numbers, days of the month (OK, not 40), lottery numbers, chapters in a book. But I would definitely think about ages in your life. I would also wonder why it is you did not like nursing children - perhaps you felt uncared for yourself at some time in your life? Sorry to hear about your daughter. There could be some anxiety about her condition in your dream too. I guess that the decisions are not easy ones to make.