Dr. and a Tiger

Yesterdays dreams were quite interesting. I should have blogged them yesterday (when they happened) but i forgot.

I am an attending Doctor in an ER. I show up late, and go by the nurses station to pick up my case files but instead of thin manila folders they are large black bulky file folders. "isn't there anyone else here?" i ask, "couldn't someone else have picked these up before i got here?" The Nurse responds with a disgruntled look and says, "everyone else is either sick, or not on duty, perhaps you should be on time more often." I pick up the huge files and start to look through the hours and hours of charts. I attend to my patients, the whole time frustrated at myself and everyone else that these people went unattended the whole time. Then i'm in the parking garage (i have a limp. in real life my knee is bothering me, but in the dream it severely alters my mobility). Cindy is down there with a small boy. They are firing a sub-machine gun into the abyss of the garage. I suggest that they stop. They say there is no harm and keep on letting the bullets fly. There is a trolley coming through the garage, like the ones at disney world when you take the tours. It turns a corner and it is now a distinct possibility that someone on the trolley could get shot. I mention this nervously to Cindy and the boy, who shrug it off. Someone screams. The firing stops and so does the trolley. I hear the crisp words "we need a doctor!" I look at Cindy horrified and see she has the same look on her face, she is taking the gun away from the boy. I am running towards where a crowd is gathering just to the side of the trolley (my leg is letting me move only so fast). There is a young man thrashing on the ground, i yell at him to stop moving he could make it worse. He stops moving right as i crouch down next to him. He looks up at me, and it's Adam. I am instantly sad, and distressed. He looks like he's going to cry. I tell him it's going to be ok, and through my mind is pouring a list of anxieties. I should not be his doctor, i am far too close to the patient. Why isn't there anyone else here today? I look at the wound and it is near the base of his next over his left shoulder. Seems to have gone in between his collar bone and into his muscle. He is not bleeding heavily, but i realize that this could be a lot more serious than it looks if i don't act fast. I am holding his hand and telling him it's going to be ok.

I am with tim at a church. It is sunday morning, and we are headed to grab food. I forgot something in the building, so i walk around the building instead of cutting through. Tim tells me this is a bad choice, i say i want to avoid the crowds, he says yeah so does he. I go my way he goes his, and his was correct. I get stuck in the crowd. Adam is with us. Along with several other characters i have made up. we all go into the building to get whatever it is that i forgot, and suddenly we realize that there is a white tiger in there with us. It is after adam. From this point we are running and hiding around the church being hunted by this tiger. If we were to go outside, the pursuit would only continue and probably become more intense. So we are doing our best. We are in the hallway that is outside of the choir balcony. There are two stair cases one on each side of the hall. We see the tiger coming up one, so we quick run and lock the door. Then we realize the other is wide open, so we quick run and shut it. Just in time, because the tiger was coming up the stairs. It is Adam, guy 1, and myself holding this door shut. We realize that the door only locks from the other side of the door. the claws of the tiger are starting to come through this flimsy door. I look at adam and tell him i have a plan, and that he should run and hide. He says that if he doesn't help hold the door back, it will surely come through. I tell him that it doesn't matter, just go. He runs and i see the doors close behind him as he goes out on to the balcony. I hope he is finding a hiding spot that is high up. I decide it will be best to fake being knocked out, and hope the tiger ignores me. So i let the door burst open, i fall back. and i black out. I come to and the tiger has it's paws wrapped around me, it is intensely strong. It is also chewing on my hand. As i come to i realize that it hurts more and more. From this point on my brain altered the dream to avoid personal pain.