Perchance to dream -- about nursing

Abstract

“To sleep, perchance to dream- Ay there’s the rub. William Shakespeare Hamlet (III, I, 65-68.) Hamlet wasn’t in good shape when he spoke those words. He was contemplating suicide (to sleep) but thought perhaps he might dream in these dire circumstances. Nurses don’t spend much time dreaming, at work anyway. Now I am not talking about dreaming as a trance or a daydream. Sometimes that happens in the midst of it all. It can be hard to stay focussed 24/7. Then there is the giant, Carl Jung, with his interpretation of dreams and symbols. His complicated and fascinatingly layered world of dreams is still not where I am going either. Nor am I going to the place where dreams are a flight of fancy or a castle in the air. Pipe dreams are not what I am talking about.