Dreams 03.17.16

A tangle of 'lab' scenes, though the setting seemed to be partly 'outside' (located in the back garden of my childhood home), and partly inside a rambling warren of a 'laboratory', in a space not as immediately familiar.  As usual, I felt I was a 'lab tech', and was under the direction of a couple of older fellows who seemed to me to be 'PIs'*. Lots of people about.   Was looking for cell culture supplies; I felt I'd been told by the PIs to feed some cell cultures, and so was looking for media.**  Went 'outside' as per some directions I got to look in what seemed to be fridges and freezers for the correct bottle of media.  Found something, went and (presumably) used it, but bizarrely, some unclear time later, found myself possibly having some of it as part of lunch (-!), though said lunch seemed to be an onion-heavy soup (Brotchan Foltchib?).

So, essentially, was with a bunch of people in a rambling place, feeling I had duties to perform, though it wasn't really just a 'lab', I think.  At one point, some people seemed to be moving things around, perhaps making space for something.  There were a couple of women near by me, one of whom thanked me (for having just done some task, apparently). Meanwhile, I had this 'Well, I'm not doing much, or not what I'm really supposed to be doing' insecure feeling.


*Principal Investigators; the heads of a lab
** In so many dreams of this type, I'm back in an unfamiliar lab, and trying to carry out my duties, but uncertain/anxious about where to find things, not certain I can carry out my duties properly. I'm also usually 'fuzzy'; recall fades in and out, which adds to my uncertainty about my fitness for duty. I'll find myself vaguely anxious that I've neglected something; that cells may be dying (lacking enough nutrients, getting too acidic from build-up of their waste products, etc.) due to lack of proper care/feeding, or from getting too dense, from not having been split out and expanded into additional dishes to avoid over-crowding.