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short hair. A nurse (healing influence) comes over
and says they need some strands of my hair for a culture they are making.
(Her new-style thinking would be in demand—it would be cultured!) I
can’t wait for the experimental culture to grow. I am excited to see if
it will produce the healing medication.
By changing her own attitude, she was able to get along better and become more useful, hence more appreciated, consequently happier at work. The following dream brought another person’s thinking about her job into better focus: My supervisor, fellow workers and I are at a meeting. The supervisor gives me many brown boxes of instructional cassette tapes and tells me how to arrange them in my office for distribution. I try to tell her that her idea is not practical for my situation. She insists I do it her way. I think to myself, "The only time I see her is at meetings. She never comes to my office to see what I’m actually doing. So ... I’ll arrange them my way. After all, I’m the one who has to work with them." As Susan, the dreamer, said, "I awoke feeling I’d been given a lesson in diplomacy. I could be agreeable with my supervisor when necessary, but at the same time do what I felt practical on the job. In theory her ideas may sound good, but I have to do what’s workable, so I will. I put this new-found wisdom into action, and felt surprisingly less guilty and more at ease about being practical while sometimes going against what the supervisor said. "Two weeks later I came to work one morning and found a large box holding 28 brown boxes of instructional tapes. The exact boxes I’d seen in the dream!! This was the first time I had ever received any tapes from my supervisor. When I organized them, I did it MY WAY." I don’t know where the term "workaholic" came from. I first saw it in an Ann Landers’s column. Anyway, there are many people in America who are overly addicted to work, and that is a good term to describe the next few dreamers—workaholics. Most often this affliction is the result of a parental influence which puts a high value on work. Many children are made to feel worthless unless they are productively occupied—if not with a job, at least with studies. The dreamer, hereafter known as career-woman, dreamed she was with a friend who was prominent in the same line of work: We are driving my parents’ car (parents’ influence is the driving force in this activity). The car is chugging and we are taking it to get it repaired. (This driving force 160
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