Help: Terrible nightmares about my beloved RB cat!

In message , CATherine
writes
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 05:46:19 +0100, Cathi
wrote:


Don't know what it was about the last place of work, but I would dream
about it (or people in it) pretty much every night. It got to the stage
that if I was to say "I had a really weird dream last night" (and they
usually were weird) people would change the topic of conversation! I
still dream about it now and then, having been gone for three years.
The current job hardly ever features at all.

It sounds like that job had a big impact on your life; and not in a
good way. Something about the job or the people must have been
disturbing you deep down. I am glad you are out of it. Purrs,

It did get really annoying towards the end, but the dreaming about the
place and its people started right at the beginning of my time there,
before it got to be a bad thing. And the dreams were seriously strange!

For example: I had to go to work on Christmas Day, but there was
nothing about to indicate it was Christmas - I just "knew". Lots of us
were there, and a special buffet meal had been laid on. I remember
watching a work colleague pile her plate high with merringues.

Then we heard some interesting gossip - one of the senior sales staff
had been arrested on drugs charges.

Then I woke up!
--
Cathi

In message , CATherine
writes
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 05:46:19 +0100, Cathi
wrote:


Don't know what it was about the last place of work, but I would dream
about it (or people in it) pretty much every night. It got to the stage
that if I was to say "I had a really weird dream last night" (and they
usually were weird) people would change the topic of conversation! I
still dream about it now and then, having been gone for three years.
The current job hardly ever features at all.

It sounds like that job had a big impact on your life; and not in a
good way. Something about the job or the people must have been
disturbing you deep down. I am glad you are out of it. Purrs,

It did get really annoying towards the end, but the dreaming about the
place and its people started right at the beginning of my time there,
before it got to be a bad thing. And the dreams were seriously strange!

For example: I had to go to work on Christmas Day, but there was
nothing about to indicate it was Christmas - I just "knew". Lots of us
were there, and a special buffet meal had been laid on. I remember
watching a work colleague pile her plate high with merringues.

Then we heard some interesting gossip - one of the senior sales staff
had been arrested on drugs charges.

Then I woke up!
--
Cathi

In message , CATherine
writes
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 05:46:19 +0100, Cathi
wrote:


Don't know what it was about the last place of work, but I would dream
about it (or people in it) pretty much every night. It got to the stage
that if I was to say "I had a really weird dream last night" (and they
usually were weird) people would change the topic of conversation! I
still dream about it now and then, having been gone for three years.
The current job hardly ever features at all.

It sounds like that job had a big impact on your life; and not in a
good way. Something about the job or the people must have been
disturbing you deep down. I am glad you are out of it. Purrs,

It did get really annoying towards the end, but the dreaming about the
place and its people started right at the beginning of my time there,
before it got to be a bad thing. And the dreams were seriously strange!

For example: I had to go to work on Christmas Day, but there was
nothing about to indicate it was Christmas - I just "knew". Lots of us
were there, and a special buffet meal had been laid on. I remember
watching a work colleague pile her plate high with merringues.

Then we heard some interesting gossip - one of the senior sales staff
had been arrested on drugs charges.

Then I woke up!
--
Cathi

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message
...


Singer709 wrote:



Do any of you have similar "abandonment of loved pet" dreams? Can you
tell me why I might be having these awful nightmares?

They're called "anxiety" dreams - most people get them, in
one form or another. Are you going through a stressful
period in your life? Unresolved stress is what usually
brings them on.

Mine have usually been about people and events in my life,
not beloved pets, but equally upsetting. One of the
recurring ones is that I'm somehow still living at home with
my parents in Minnesota (I left home at twenty), then "wake
up" in the middle of the night realizing that I simply MUST
bet at work (in California) the next day! I usually wake
"for real" feeling very upset, so it takes a glass of warm
milk, or a few minutes with a book, before I can settle down
enough to sleep again. (It sounds silly, but it doesn't
FEEL silly, when I'm in the midst of it.) And of course,
the "standard" one - when I was still singing - was to find
myself onstage, costumed for an operatic role, large
audience out front, and realizing that I had no idea which
opera, and didn't know my part! (That was pretty scary, too.)


I've had that same dream!!! It's awful.

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message
...


Singer709 wrote:



Do any of you have similar "abandonment of loved pet" dreams? Can you
tell me why I might be having these awful nightmares?

They're called "anxiety" dreams - most people get them, in
one form or another. Are you going through a stressful
period in your life? Unresolved stress is what usually
brings them on.

Mine have usually been about people and events in my life,
not beloved pets, but equally upsetting. One of the
recurring ones is that I'm somehow still living at home with
my parents in Minnesota (I left home at twenty), then "wake
up" in the middle of the night realizing that I simply MUST
bet at work (in California) the next day! I usually wake
"for real" feeling very upset, so it takes a glass of warm
milk, or a few minutes with a book, before I can settle down
enough to sleep again. (It sounds silly, but it doesn't
FEEL silly, when I'm in the midst of it.) And of course,
the "standard" one - when I was still singing - was to find
myself onstage, costumed for an operatic role, large
audience out front, and realizing that I had no idea which
opera, and didn't know my part! (That was pretty scary, too.)


I've had that same dream!!! It's awful.

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message
...


Singer709 wrote:



Do any of you have similar "abandonment of loved pet" dreams? Can you
tell me why I might be having these awful nightmares?

They're called "anxiety" dreams - most people get them, in
one form or another. Are you going through a stressful
period in your life? Unresolved stress is what usually
brings them on.

Mine have usually been about people and events in my life,
not beloved pets, but equally upsetting. One of the
recurring ones is that I'm somehow still living at home with
my parents in Minnesota (I left home at twenty), then "wake
up" in the middle of the night realizing that I simply MUST
bet at work (in California) the next day! I usually wake
"for real" feeling very upset, so it takes a glass of warm
milk, or a few minutes with a book, before I can settle down
enough to sleep again. (It sounds silly, but it doesn't
FEEL silly, when I'm in the midst of it.) And of course,
the "standard" one - when I was still singing - was to find
myself onstage, costumed for an operatic role, large
audience out front, and realizing that I had no idea which
opera, and didn't know my part! (That was pretty scary, too.)


I've had that same dream!!! It's awful.

CatNipped wrote:

{{{{{{{{{{Adrian}}}}}}}}}} Ohmygawd, what a awful run of tragedy for
you to endure! Please, please don't feel that way, though. There is
*always* hope that things will get better - they usually do. For
help coping with depression, please read "A Letter to Young Women in
Trouble" http://www.gcmensa.org/ALetter.asp (it's not just for women -
it's the story of when I attempted suicide and what I did to overcome
the depression).

Hugs,

CatNipped

Thank you, I've printed it out and will read it later.
--
Adrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera)
A house is not a home, without a cat.

CatNipped wrote:

{{{{{{{{{{Adrian}}}}}}}}}} Ohmygawd, what a awful run of tragedy for
you to endure! Please, please don't feel that way, though. There is
*always* hope that things will get better - they usually do. For
help coping with depression, please read "A Letter to Young Women in
Trouble" http://www.gcmensa.org/ALetter.asp (it's not just for women -
it's the story of when I attempted suicide and what I did to overcome
the depression).

Hugs,

CatNipped

Thank you, I've printed it out and will read it later.
--
Adrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera)
A house is not a home, without a cat.

CatNipped wrote:

{{{{{{{{{{Adrian}}}}}}}}}} Ohmygawd, what a awful run of tragedy for
you to endure! Please, please don't feel that way, though. There is
*always* hope that things will get better - they usually do. For
help coping with depression, please read "A Letter to Young Women in
Trouble" http://www.gcmensa.org/ALetter.asp (it's not just for women -
it's the story of when I attempted suicide and what I did to overcome
the depression).

Hugs,

CatNipped

Thank you, I've printed it out and will read it later.
--
Adrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera)
A house is not a home, without a cat.