Dream
I got fired!!! Yep, from a job I had 8 years ago. This time, it finally happened in my dreams. I have several recurring dream sequences. One is of going to school. Usually schools I've never seen before, often traveling to somewhere I've never been, with people I don't know, except one guy that appears in my dreams often. And then the dream of jobs. These are usually a mix of past jobs, with all the people I did once work with, but usually in a different office setting.
Typically, the school dreams (sometimes mixed with training for a new job) mean I'm learning something and the work dreams mean, well... I'm working on something or a life path. Often dreams are indeed highly symbolic. But there is a saying in psychology that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
The job dreams are often a mix of different jobs I've had over the years meshed into one long dream sequence and often ends up I'm showing up at one job and I know I haven't been there for years and I'm still employed there. Waiting for them to say something. Ya know, like "where you been? You no longer work here." But I just flow right in. Even though the locations are different. For example, I once worked at a shoe store in an outlet mall. In my dreams, it's a Payless Shoe or similar type store in a huge shopping mall. It's grander. Office jobs where it was a small office have huge amounts of employees, whereas they didn't in the "real" life situation as I don't think I ever worked at a corporate main office location, usually branch office locations. Sometimes there is a fear that they are going to discover I'm not qualified for the job or that I don't know what I'm doing. And then I realize I haven't been there in years and then I show up at another past job once I make that realization.
But this is the first time I've been fired in my dreams! I was "let go" in "real" life from this job in their final mass layoff before selling the company, my dreams hadn't reflected this until now. Does this mean I'm done working on a certain area of my life? A new path "job" for me? And why couldn't I be fired from working at Pizza Hut back in college? There's a job I don't care to visit in real life or in my dreams.
Some dream details I remember. They handed me a letter of my lay off and then immediately dialed me into a conference call to hear more about the lay off. The building was huge, I mean really huge, not the real life office. There had been some sort of destruction recently, I think a flood and outside the huge complex were things that had washed up from the waters to be left in the parking lots and areas around the building. One of my cats was with me. Even inside the office. She follows me everywhere in real life too, even in the rain. And she follows me in some of my dreams, my other cat doesn't. Ya, the one that sleeps next to me does not follow in my dreams.
I wonder if I'll go back to school in tonight's dreams for a new path. Or maybe a vacation on the astral plane. It's supposed to get to 100 degrees tomorrow. Think Alaska.
Typically, the school dreams (sometimes mixed with training for a new job) mean I'm learning something and the work dreams mean, well... I'm working on something or a life path. Often dreams are indeed highly symbolic. But there is a saying in psychology that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
The job dreams are often a mix of different jobs I've had over the years meshed into one long dream sequence and often ends up I'm showing up at one job and I know I haven't been there for years and I'm still employed there. Waiting for them to say something. Ya know, like "where you been? You no longer work here." But I just flow right in. Even though the locations are different. For example, I once worked at a shoe store in an outlet mall. In my dreams, it's a Payless Shoe or similar type store in a huge shopping mall. It's grander. Office jobs where it was a small office have huge amounts of employees, whereas they didn't in the "real" life situation as I don't think I ever worked at a corporate main office location, usually branch office locations. Sometimes there is a fear that they are going to discover I'm not qualified for the job or that I don't know what I'm doing. And then I realize I haven't been there in years and then I show up at another past job once I make that realization.
But this is the first time I've been fired in my dreams! I was "let go" in "real" life from this job in their final mass layoff before selling the company, my dreams hadn't reflected this until now. Does this mean I'm done working on a certain area of my life? A new path "job" for me? And why couldn't I be fired from working at Pizza Hut back in college? There's a job I don't care to visit in real life or in my dreams.
Some dream details I remember. They handed me a letter of my lay off and then immediately dialed me into a conference call to hear more about the lay off. The building was huge, I mean really huge, not the real life office. There had been some sort of destruction recently, I think a flood and outside the huge complex were things that had washed up from the waters to be left in the parking lots and areas around the building. One of my cats was with me. Even inside the office. She follows me everywhere in real life too, even in the rain. And she follows me in some of my dreams, my other cat doesn't. Ya, the one that sleeps next to me does not follow in my dreams.
I wonder if I'll go back to school in tonight's dreams for a new path. Or maybe a vacation on the astral plane. It's supposed to get to 100 degrees tomorrow. Think Alaska.
posted by Cassandra at
9/24/2011 09:45:00 AM
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