u/hoolapoola_puff

Alright, I know this may sound funny, but I’ve been working in fast food in every dream I’ve had in the last week. I need this to stop.

For context, I recently started a new job at a fast food burger joint. We are a pretty busy location which means I’m constantly having to take drive thru orders, pour drinks, process payments, pack items, etc.

Unfortunately, in all my dreams recently, I have been doing these same routinized tasks and running through the same dialogue.

At first, I thought this was happening because of the inertia of doing the same things over and over again for most of my day. However, these dreams also recur on my days off!

My hope was that these dreams would become less frequent/vivid as I get better at my job. Maybe they are a way for my brain to cope with the rapid learning phase that accompanies job training? But sadly nothing has been changing, even as my job performance improves. These dreams are disorienting and make it hard to have a restful sleep.

Working in fast food is no joke. It is inhumane to ask somebody to do the same thing for 8-12 hours. Has anyone else had dreams like this? I would like to leave work at work. I would like my dreams to be about something else. I would like to grapple with and resolve other points of tension in my psyche, like I used to. I don’t want to be working in my dreams. I miss my old dreams.

Alright, I know this may sound funny, but I’ve been working in fast food in every dream I’ve had in the last week. I need this to stop.

For context, I recently started a new job at a fast food burger joint. We are a pretty busy location which means I’m constantly having to take drive thru orders, pour drinks, process payments, pack items, etc.

Unfortunately, in all my dreams recently, I have been doing these same routinized tasks and running through the same dialogue.

At first, I thought this was happening because of the inertia of doing the same things over and over again for most of my day. However, these dreams also recur on my days off!

My hope was that these dreams would become less frequent/vivid as I get better at my job. Maybe they are a way for my brain to cope with the rapid learning phase that accompanies job training? But sadly nothing has been changing, even as my job performance improves. These dreams are disorienting and make it hard to have a restful sleep.

Working in fast food is no joke. It is inhumane to ask somebody to do the same thing for 8-12 hours. Has anyone else had dreams like this? I would like to leave work at work. I would like my dreams to be about something else. I would like to grapple with and resolve other points of tension in my psyche, like I used to. I don’t want to be working in my dreams. I miss my old dreams.