i dreamt i was in a hospital where i worked. i was on the evening shift, at change of shift time, i noticed there was a group of student nurses and one in particular stood out, they were all dark-skinned, Moorish, with Afros, but this one was albino and had a thin pale layer of translucent wax surrounding her, and she was perpetually sleepy, lying down often and unpredictably, stretched out across a couch or chairs or on the floor. i was trying to get ready for the next shift to come in, and my relief technician, normally a workplace bully in real life, was congenial and professional here, helping me get my stuff done before going home, and just so happens there was an emergent C-section coming down the hall and we hurriedly got the OR ready, helping somewhat clumsily to move the patient from the litter to the OR table, not getting any help from the nurses until we'd done it, only for some reason one of the patient's legs slipped from my grasp and fell down to the floor which irritated the bully and got the nurses' attention, and they all badgered me about that. then they noticed the aforementioned waxy sleepy student nurse lying down somewhat incongruously upon a large foot stool with her body stiff like a corpse, sleeping. the nurse gestured towards the sleeping woman and asked me "what's the deal with this person, anyways?!" and i shrugged my shoulders. next thing i knew, i was in the employee breakroom sitting at a round table, with a few other medicos sitting at other tables, we were all dressed in white smocks. the room had a large picture window overlooking a concrete canyon with a walkway down below, and a large white building about 50 feet opposite, also with large picture windows. then this large moorish fellow with luxuriant afro [cropped to about an inch, with high and tight sides and back], wearing bookish black-framed glasses, and wearing a grayish gold turtleneck and greyish brown sport jacket and gray slacks came in, he was trimly built like a football player and had a vague air of menace about him, accompanied by white-skirted white-hat-wearing dark-skinned assistants with clipboards, who just stood their with their clipboards by their sides, almost like statues. this man leaned in close and put his mouth almost on my left ear, telling me i was a research subject and to submit, then he painfully jabbed a red harpoon-like tag into my left cheek in front of my ear, and i yelped "OWWWWCH!!" which made him smirk. it REALLY was painful, stinging and burning hot, and i asked him "what the hell is this all about??! !" and he dismissively told me i had to wear this harpoon in my cheek for as long as the research was necessary, and i asked him "how the hell long must i keep this harpoon in my cheek?!" and he got mad, visibly reddening, and i told him "this hurts like HELL, YOU get it out of my head RIGHT NOW GAWDDAMMIT!" [which got the attention of the other medicos in the room who all were looking at us now] and in a fit of rage he bellowed "ALL FKING RIGHT!" and yanked it out of my cheek, barb and all, tearing a big bloody pulpy hole in the flesh, and blood poured out. that hurt worse. i was getting ready to go medieval on the jerk, when i awoke.