RE: "Could my dream help me get a promotion at work; is there a message for me in it?"
Sleep doesn't judge you. It only offers options that exist as potentials. It's like a door you're invited to open if you want to. The dream hints, gently and lovingly, that you have not yet finished developing as a person and as a professional. And, by the way, their professional growth doesn't have to be through formal studies alone. Maybe it's really worth consulting with your husband and thinking about the situation.
We can say that the dream is not going to give her a promotion at work but it is telling her that she has endless possibilities outside and she just isn't seeing? Maybe this person is focusing his energies very badly and until his time, to the point of forgetting his food as well as forgetting to eat, is giving more than he can but not in the best way, yesterday he read a blogger who said that despite having a lousy job, set clear goals for her, instead of using his energies in complaining like his colleagues, she dedicated herself to work the way she felt and talked to his superiors expressing his wishes in the company, she got them to open the position she needed for her...then the dream won't tell you you'll get a promotion, but if it does, you can get one!
Indeed.
No dream, no true angel, no deity, will ever tell you what to do. It's our mission, as humans, to grow and be sovereign. Dreams can only assist. 👍