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What Does It Mean When You Dream About Work?
If you dream that your workplace is on fire, you’re not the only one having this nightmare. Lauri Quinn Loewenberg, a dream analyst for over two decades, said dreams in which offices go up in uncontrollable flames are common among her clients during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Fire catches and it spreads, much like the virus,” Loewenberg said, speculating about the connection.
Although dream interpretation is not an exact science, there are psychological reasons why people report they are dreaming more lately.
“Crises tend to stir up our dream life. Just as we’re thinking more dramatic, emotional, intense thoughts by day when a crisis first starts, it activates our dream life,” said Deirdre Barrett, a psychologist who teaches at Harvard Medical School and the author of “Pandemic Dreams.”
“You see an uptick of dreams in general, but especially, obviously, anxiety dreams,” she said.
Barrett noted that for some people, changes with work have given them more opportunity to sleep in or take naps, and that can also increase dream recall.
One poor woman said that her recurring nightmare was just about the box on the Zoom screen with her boss in it.Deirdre Barrett, psychologist and author
Barrett has been surveying people about their vivid coronavirus dreams since March. She observed that most of the dreams people have about work are negative, such as dreams about losing a job or working under dangerous conditions.
One woman whose job is to deliver food in a nursing care center had a long-running dream in which the building was flooded, lights were shorting out and some type of monster was prowling the hallways, Barrett said. “All this time she was trying to do food delivery, what she does in waking-life, but just every horror movie thing that could go wrong in the place where she delivered food was happening.“
Health care workers tended to have recurring nightmares about respirators failing in both realistic and fantastical ways, Barrett...
