A friend just related a recurring dream to me that has been bugging her for several years.

She's in a building with several other people.  They all take turns to crank this huge handle to make waves for the ocean.

Then they send her to the bathroom to get a capsule with a paper in it.

She doesn't know what the paper says though..

Thanks, y'all..

I agree with Alysia this one is pretty personal but obviously your friend has tried all the obvious connections to what things might mean.

it amazes me how inventive the dreammaker part is..I would never think up some of the things I dream about. They are sometimes strange things I have never seen before and I can't see how they could just be from my subconcious mind.

Turning a handle to get ocean waves is just too fantastic. How do you get a "handle" on that one? The moon and the wind are what move the ocean. Sounds like something you would see in a cartoon. We can't make (ocean) waves! We can make other kinds of waves. Though at the Musuem of Science there is a tank that simulates making an ocean wave and you can see it from the side of the wave (glass case). But that's my image; what's hers? What kind of waves would she like to be making?

Mostly we go to the bathroom to get pill capsules with written instructions in/on the box. Capsules with things in them sound like space ship time capsules, like the one with the message tablets sent way into space. Is there some movie with a message hidden in a capsule (like a message in a bottle)? I can't remember.

What happens when your friend free-associates like this? I'd like to hear the answer to that. Of course it is easier to free-associate with someone else's dream than with my own; I get attached to what things represent and miss the hidden meaning!

Would be interested to hear how your friend reacted to the comments here; did it make any connections?

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She's mulling it over..and is going to try and remember more details.