Here is last night’s dream which has bugger all to do with our day to day life.

The dream starts with me talking with Simon about some pharma related drug discovery patents and that how they are written to include just about every possible variation of a functional group attached to a molecule. He notes that both  he and Chris were organic chemists and worked towards drug discovery. He wonders what has happened to Chris who was for a while in a drug discovery start-up. I say that I have not seen him for a while but will look him up. I say to Simon that I used the Glaxo drug discovery training game in some of my team development courses.

He shows me a patent application which is currently at the A1 stage concerning a new drug therapy and methodology. He says that to his eyes it is the most novel patent application he has seen for a while.

The scene changes and I am walking on a small beach in a rocky /sandy cove by the sea. I am with Chris. We can hear the waves. We are discussing his time as a drug discovery lead at a small start-up. He says that it is funny that all three of us were involved in intellectual property in  some way. He says that he misses it a bit and still scans the news of recent developments. He says that he was involved in several drug patents. I say to him that I had thought about writing a novel with a drug discovery theme. With a bit of research and fleshing out I could easily have a first concept idea. We laugh. The business is cruel with lay-offs timed to the drug discovery cycles

Next together with Simon we are outside a run-down research facility behind a wire fence. It is a bit derelict, a shadow of former glory. We go in to investigate in a Scooby-doo like manner. We pass what was the entrance foyer and go into some portioned off offices / laboratories. We go through a shower room and toilets. Vandals have spray paint tagged. It is a bit of a shit tip.

We turn the corner and I see a young dark haired woman in a white lab coat disappear through some orange plastic curtains hanging down in foot thick pieces from the ceiling. They are the sort of curtains which separate loading bays. We follow her in. I can hear a sub hertz laser firing every few seconds.

We go through another set of boundary curtains into an air-conditioned lab with a huge optical table in. The light from the table is being fed into a clean operating theatre style room where some medical procedures are being tested. We understand that it is some new optical based pharmacology research.

I explain to Simon and Chris that the laser set-up is over complicated for real-world use. It has a waveguide continuum generation stage for white light and various amplification stages. There are pulse shape chirping stages and both spectral and temporal pulse shape monitoring side arms. Whoever is using it wants to know what the light looks like at all stages. Were it to become commercial the laser side could be stripped back significantly. It would have to be made medic friendly. As we are discussing a man in a white coat with a medical blue scrubs style hat, comes in.

Simon says that they are trying to get a patent for this particular form of photo-pharmacology. We wonder what the target molecules are.

In the dream I know that if I want peace from all things technology based and outside interest I should let my current patent lapse. That way people will lose interest in me. They will be free to use the idea therein and leave me alone. Under no circumstance should I try to make any more patent applications.

The dream ends.