I keep having dreadful work-related dreams
Nothing worse than stressing about excel / your boss / your projects in your sleep. Repeating scenarios / conversations / interactions. This has been going on for ~3 months now as work has become more stressful & monotonous.
The only thing that seems to help sometimes is leaving at least ~2 hours before I go to bed for relaxation / fun / exercise / fiction reading. Or when I wasn't too busy to have a gf, some quality coitus time.
Problem is, only one-two nights a week I have this amount of free time. Same thing happened in ugrad during the more stressful times.
Any advice WSO? Should I get a shrink?
I experience the same thing, typically after particularly dense days where my mind runs over the same figures/deck for hours. I knew it got bad when I created an entirely new deal in a dream and woke up stressed out until I realized it was not real haha
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then wth am I supposed to do during lunch?
Xanax is miraculous at making things that suck not suck as bad. Take it before you feel a sleepless night coming on. Or a long plane ride, dinner with in-laws, etc.
Edit: Not endorsing drug abuse - talk to a doctor about it and he'll give you a low-dose prescription that'll get you through the night.
If this keeps going on, get help. It can spiral out of control real fast.
find ways to channel your stress into something productive- assuming you ascend the ladder, you're job is going to get increasingly stressful(imagine the stress Blankfein or Deutsche CEO is under daily). The most successful people are able to channel- learn a new hobby or something.
If all else fails I agree with thebrofessor- try to not baste for a couple days.
or get a co-ceo...
This is common for many of us working around the clock in high stress environments.
The brain takes into your dreams whatever is top of mind, and that 2 hour break before sleep is helpful in resetting. When you can't get that (and as often as you like), practice this:
Used to happen to me. Being active helped. Try to occupy your mind with anything but work in the few hours before you go to bed.
I found when I used to play Xbox long hours in high school before going to bed, that's all I would dream about. Different kind of scenario.
I recommend the great outdoors.
I had this problem too, esp during weeks with brutal hours. One of the thing that I found really helped was taking 20 or 30 minutes before bed to do something exclusively non-work related. Read a book, watch netflix, etc. If you think about work before you go to bed, you're going to dream about work.
Short term - read a book before hitting the hay, gets your mind distracted and relaxed
Long term - find things you care about more than work
Your best course of action is to stop resisting and accept your fate.
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