Loewenberg notes that if you are someone who deals with a lot of deadlines in your line of work, you may have to work on time management skills to mitigate some of that underlying stress. Or, alternatively, if your time management is just fine, perhaps you’re simply being too hard on yourself. And in general, “Once you are able to connect the dream to the issue that your subconscious is trying to help you with, and then you start working to correct that issue, the dream stops,” she notes.