HIV and dreams

Very interesting presentation by Dr. W today. Apparently one of the patients she was taking care of recently was a diagnosed HIV-2 case- one of a very small group in the US. As of the CDC page there are only 79 diagnosed cases in the US. http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/factsheets/hiv2.htm

So far am enjoying the HIV clinic experience- full of very nerdy, goofy, easy going docs and 8-5 workdays.
Maybe not so surprisingly, the patients are quite reticent when it comes to discussing their plans with a complete stranger. I do tell them that they can freely refuse to divulge anything they are uncomfortable about - and some of them give me attitude anyway.

On personal front, am having dreams - very vivid ones. Maybe the after-effect of finally getting to sleep as much as I want and completely giving in. Was on some sort of bone-breaking, climbing mountains, travelling arid lands kind of quest one night and owned a cute, quite-unknown-breed, of medium size grey (why grey?) haired shaggy dog in the other. Both dreams were not particularly unpleasant, had no daytime triggers that I could recall, seemed to go on without any particular end point and appeared to last through the respective nights.

A was sure the dog symbolized him - which I found very funny.

Efavirenz apparently is known to give vivid dreams to takers- hence Dr. S avoids it in people who have had difficult lives.