My wierd dream staring Dr. Hoefnagles

I have always been one of those people who have very vivid dreams, often ones that I can control to some extent, and I usually remember them the next morning. Lately I have been having a lot of sleeping problems (doctors think I may have sleep apnea) and even more recently I have started having major insomnia, despite the fact that I am exhausted beyond belief. This is probably being caused by the antibiotics that I am on long term and it is really becoming miserable. For these reasons, I have not been dreaming as much lately. But last night I apparently slept really well and had dreams all night. One of them had Dr. Hoefnagles in it.

Basically, in my dream, I was taking some sort of weird intro chemistry/lab techniques course with my fiance and Dr. Hoefnagles was the professor. Everyone in the class was given a big tub full of various pieces and we had to sort through and find the pieces needed to put together a filtering apparatus. My tub was missing a piece needed to put it together and when I told the professor she started yelling at me and saying that it was in there and I needed to find it because I was running out of time. Eventually I was able to prove that the piece was missing and I had to "MacGyuver" a piece to replace it using a drinking straw! I know, this is a wierd dream. Anyway, I finally got my apparatus together and was told that I had some extra time to finish the filtering since I had lost time due to the missing piece. Then I had to do some filtering using different sized filter papers and I guess that is where the dream ended.

So, I am definetly not a dream interpreter, but here are my thoughts. First, I really doubt that Dr. Hoefnagles would yell at a student the way she did at me in this dream. However, my advisor would, so maybe my dream got confused on who should be in it. Second, one of the big problems in finishing my experiment has been filtering issues, so I guess that is why I dreamt about it. I am sure the big tub of pieces means something, but I have no idea what. Also, in the dream, my fiance had no issues with his apparatus and was "perfect" as usual. He acts like that in real life to and I was pretty pissed at him about some things yesterday so I guess my resentment came out in my dream. That's about it. I really wish I could go back to my more action packed dreams where I am part of the squad on Law and Order: SVU so I can chase people and shoot them. I think some of my stress gets released in these dreams and I could really use that right now....