Refresher: My Fears Are Creeping Into My Dreams

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🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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From my Call of the Day archives; Alie needs Dr. Laura's help to understand why she's been having anxious dreams about the health condition that forced her to stop working. Searching for advice? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Time now for a refresher from my Dr. Laura Call of the Day archives. Remember, you can hear my
0:06.2	live radio program weekdays 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11. Allie, welcome to the program.
0:18.8	Hi, Dr. Laura. Thank you for taking my call.
0:22.0	Thank you.
0:26.6	I've been listening to you for 20 years, and I love your show, so thank you very much.
0:27.0	Thank you.
0:27.8	Thank you.
0:34.7	I've been having a reoccurring dream for about 18 years, and I just had it again two nights ago.
0:35.8	Just to give you a bit of background, I stopped working 18 years ago because of chronic illness.
0:41.2	And it's something I still contend with every day, but I'm at a point, and I've been at a point for the last several years where I've become quite good at managing the illness and doing what I need to do to take care of myself.
0:56.5	And I feel like I'm at a very actually happy point in my life despite that. I'm a very creative person and I have a few creative
1:03.5	outlets. I've got a great husband. I've got a comfortable home and friends. Like everything
1:08.1	feels like I'm content in my life.
1:11.9	And I continue to have these dreams that I'm still back at work.
1:16.6	And in the dreams, I'm sick and I'm trying to, or I know that I'm sick or could be sick,
1:22.8	and I know that I won't be effective.
1:24.8	And so I'm maybe not quite panicked, but I'm anxious because I don't know how I'm going to be effective.
1:32.1	And another common theme in the dream is that I have nowhere to sit.
1:35.7	There's no desk for me.
1:37.5	And I'm basically trying to find out where I can fit in, how I can be effective.
1:43.7	And, yeah, that's basically it. So I'm just
1:46.7	wondering if you had some insight on that. I believe I do, and one's a small part and the other is
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