Strange Dreams

[bjarvis]

Last night shortly after I shuffled to the guestroom, I had a rather odd and possibly prophetic dream...

I envisioned I had taken a new job and was just introduced to my new office, a space in utter shambles. Most the dream was taken up in clearing away garbage left by the prior occupant, getting the workstation functional and making the appropriate updates (changing the name on the door, updating the voice mail message, checking my network logins, and such). Once I was more or less settled, I started working on a list of items I would need: a dry erase board, replacement chairs, a hands-free wireless headset for the telephone, a better monitor, replacement window blinds, etc..

Alas, I woke up before my dream could fill in certain desirable blanks, such as what precisely my role was or where I was working.

Comments

[bearfinch.livejournal.com]

I get career dreams like that too. One time I dreamt I was the manager of a beautiful greenhouse with all these rare plants in it, and I was trying to plan out where i'd put all of them to make the place look nice for visitors. I felt sad when I woke up because that's something I would really love to work at.

[manley1.livejournal.com]

Sounds awesome. I wish my dreams were that good instead of so intense..

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Maybe you should switch to decaff. :-)

[cuyahogarvr.livejournal.com]

Interesting, I almost wish it was a new job instead of the possibility of it being a forewarning of picking up the pieces in your present job after all of the upcoming layoffs. It could go either way I guess.
Most of my "job" dreams are about previous jobs instead of future jobs. I'll dream about teaching - a lot which was something I really enjoyed.

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

I'm not too concerned about my prospects in another round of layoffs. My feeling is that I'd be kept on not because of superior technical skills but because I have better communications ability, project management and multitasking than most other folks around here.

That said, if they offered me a severence, I'd be off like a shot. I'd love to have a couple of weeks to just laze about the trailer in WV in the spring doing nothing but writing.

keep a diary...

[justetthon.livejournal.com]

You should keep a dream diary. I think you are very expressive in your unconscious mind, of what is going on in your life...

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You should keep a dream diary. I think you are very expressive in your unconscious mind, of what is going on in your life...<given the dream the other week about the electrical shorting out, reflecting the night Warren collapsed>...

if you write down the dream, AND have a little paragraph titled "Possible source" and then another paragraph titled "My Interpretation" you can look back and see things that didn't occur to you at the time. I used to do that years ago, and it was AMAZING to look back at the diary years after the dreams happened. Of course, now in this era of LJ, you are writing down the dreams. Just stick in the next parts... "what prompted this" and "what it means to me" and things will fall into place.

[moofedct.livejournal.com]

OOoh! A Choose Your Own Adventure...sort of.

I had a dream last night featuring my former boss. I was coming back to work for him...

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

A few months back, I had a dream in which I went back to a former employer as a new IT director and fired my old manager. It felt really good! :-)

[moofedct.livejournal.com]

So no strong feelings there, eh?

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

For the most part, Mark was a decent manager and we got a long well. He didn't enter my bad books until a particular incident in the fall of 1990.

He went on an angry rant via e-mail about how missed two enterprise-wide critical deadlines in the prior month. Alas for him, the deadlines were missed because he didn't didn't sign the documentation and pass it along as he had been informed via a note on the docs, e-mail and a voice mail message. That he sent this rant while I was on vacation in Vancouver knowing full well I wouldn't be able to do anything about the situation sealed it.

As soon as I read the e-mail in Vancouver, I called him and coldly told him that I took no responsibility whatever for his mishandling of the docs and I was profoundly disappointed his in unprofessional handling of the situation. He sheepishly agreed he had overstepped, but as soon as I returned, I began job hunting and was gone within a month.

The experience left a deep impression --did you notice?-- but it was useful ultimately: whenever I get the urge to fire off a nasty message or telephone call, I think back to Mark's counter-example. I then wait as long as necessary to think calmly & rationally before taking any action.