About 7 or 8 years ago my life was a lot different than it is now as I had the entrepreneurial bug in me and was opening businesses left and right in Thailand.  During that time it seemed like tourism was so incredible that you could open almost anything and it would make money if you were in the location that I was in.   

I first bought an existing guesthouse that came with a restaurant and bar and after a few modifications, it became wildly successful to the point where we were one of the highest rated budget-lodging establishments in the entire region.  It seemed I could do no wrong.   However, this all changed as a number of problems started to emerge that are quite common in the hospitality industry and these things plagued me every day of my life.   I haven't been involved in that industry for many years but I still dream about something related to it on a regular basis.   The dread of ownership haunts me to this day and it is something that invades my dreams on a regular basis even though I haven't been involved in it for a long time.

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I dream almost every night and I look forward to it because to me it is like a feature presentation and I never know what I am going to get when I finally achieve sleep at night.   I've struggled with sleep most of my life and these days I am just happy to get to that point - if I dream it makes me happy and normally I can remember quite a lot of what happened in that time.

Well last night I was somewhere in the world and once again found myself the owner of accommodation.   The place in my dream was not the actual guesthouse that I owned in real life but it had similar problems.   One thing that was a constant problem in Thailand was the threat of two major things:  Bedbugs and people wrecking stuff in the guesthouse.  

In my dreams I am constantly afraid that there is going to be a bedbug outbreak just like I experienced multiple times when I was an owner of such an establishment and I am always nervous, in the dreams just like in real life, about certain rooms that have had problems before.   

In the dream the people I am checking in are normally people I know and I am not pleased about the state of the rooms that I put them in.   In the dreams the rooms are always in a worse state than my actual guesthouse was and in many instances the rooms are basically falling apart.

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In addition to being afraid that the customers are going to not like the room or will be attacked by insects I find myself constantly battling with people vandalizing the property as well.   This is normally just people writing their names on the wall and this starts some sort of trend to the point where it appears as though the guests seem to think that it is a theme of the room.   This was true in real life as well when I owned a real guesthouse.  People would take it upon themselves to vandalize the walls of the rooms and even the bathrooms with a marker and since the CCTV wasn't in the rooms (of course) we would never be capable of catching them.   

In a real hotel the staff will often check the room before you leave but we were such a low-cost place that we never did this.  If someone vandalized the room I normally wouldn't find out about it until long after they had left.  In my dreams I walk into rooms to find that graffiti is all over the place and this is a reflection of what happened in real life.   It got so bad in my actual guesthouse in Thailand that we changed the theme to be one of street art to try to cover up the fact that the walls were just covered in messages.  

While the actual guesthouse has not been a part of my life for a very long time for nearly a decade it was something that would stress me out every day, especially once online reviews became part of everyday life.  I remember the feeling of dread every time that my phone would alert me that a new review had been posted.  I do not recommend this life for anyone out there.  

It's funny to me that even though I have not had that life for a long time I guess I was traumatized enough that it sticks with me in my mind to this day to the point where my brain feels compelled to remind me once ever couple of weeks or so.  

So thus far there are things that constantly recur in my dreams and while this one is a little easier to figure out because it actually happened to me the others are not so easy.  They consist of the following.

* dead fish, mostly in aquariums that I own 
* possessing counterfeit money 
* flying in broken or poorly functioning aircraft
* the sudden ability to fly like superman, only poorly and sporadically 
* the inability to fight or if I can, very slow moving punches
* frustrating reminders of previous jobs I have held

These are things that I can count on at least one of them being in almost every dream that I have.  

What about you?  Do you have anything that you consistently dream about?