I had a conversation with a lab rat in my dream last night.  I was also the rat.  The lab rat was voluntarily subjecting herself to experiments.  She wore a lab coat and being an experimental  rat was her job.

Me: Why do you let them do this to you?

Rat: Do humans not volunteer their bodies to science experiments?

Me: Well, yes… but usually for money

Rat: I am compensated

Me: You are?

Rat: Yes.  Every morning, I wake up and realise that the new day has requested my presence in it.

Me: Would you not get that anyway?

Rat: The work that I do makes it all the more significant.

Is that not weird?  I am not one to analyse my own dreams, but what do you make of this?