Hi,

I have not been able to recall my dreams for a long time, but last night was an exception.

I dreamt that I was in some kind of experiment facility with a lot of doctors or experiment leaders. It seemed to take place inside a big ship. The doctors were all elderly men with grey hair, badly shaven and scruffy looking.

I specifically remember going into a very narrow ship lavatory (as small as the toilets on an airplane) and the doctor I was currently talking to stepped into the doorway of the lavatory and continued talking to me as I sat down on the toilet to pee. He did not take any notice at all of what I was doing and it did not seem to upset me that he was standing there (He actually squatted down to talk to me face to face). He asked what kind of medication I was on and I said that I had never taken any kind of medication. He then said that: "- If you have never taken any anti-depressants you are not likely to have any benefits from THIS medication or need any medication AT ALL." Another old doctor walked past, as we spoke, and at this point I did try to close the toilet door a bit, but then this second doctor stopped and opened the door widely again, and then just walked on, as to say that "these doors should be opened."

Later on I got a hint of what the experiments were all about. It had something to do with "free love" and sexual experiments where the doctors paired togheter people to have sex with one another with no strings attached. I was paired up with the man I really like in awake life (on a distance) and we both pretended like it was "by chance" that we had been selected but secretly knew that this pairing up by someone else was our plan all along and the only reason why we both participated in the experiment. When the doctors found out that we liked each other "from real life", they said it ruined the experiment since it had nothing to do with "free love" with no strings attached.

Besides the fact that I knew this dream was about doctors and experiments, nothing in the environment was clinical or particularly scientific. It was dark and a bit dirty and messy on this ship.

Interesting dream and details.

My impression of the ship is something "adrift." Does this resonate with anything in your life?
Does the relationship you have with the man in the free love experiment fit this?

The impression I get of the old doctors are a representation of "old school" or "old fashioned." I see a cross between Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein. Both men had affairs and were considered quirky.

I like the feeling that the doors should be open. I take that as possibility or experimentation--not necessarily with drugs however. I get the impression you don't trust the pharmaceutical industry.

So, do you think the dream is related to letting go of old codes of conduct and releasing something in you that you would like to try out? A part of your personality perhaps?

Hello and thanks for your input.

I remember the line about the medecation very clearly; it is what stuck the most in memory from the dream. Yes, I am very suspicious of the pharmaceutial industry and I am also a sceptic when it comes to anti-depressants and a lot of the "pill popping" that I see people do, when in fact I feel they could make obvious changes in lifestyle, instead. If anyone would try to prescribe me a drug I would definitly refuse, so I suppose that part of the dream has a specific significence for me. The old, unshaven and quite scruffy looking men could be representations of my father who looks like that and who is also a typical "know it all". Or, like you say; symbols of something "old" or "old school". I suppose my life is very much adrift in the sense that I have gone through a lot of changes and I am still "free floating" although in a happy, hopefull sense. The only connection I have found about the open door symbole is that I have recently used the words "it is time to close the door" at many occasions, saying that it was time to close the door on a no-go promise of romance that I felt would never come true. I did "close the door" and instantly felt very much better, so it is hard to see why my "dream self" would like me to open that door again.

It's probably not the same door, but a new one!