Schreber's Dream Birds

A doctor at the dawn of modern psychiatry. A judge whose visions of divine rays defy medical reason. An asylum where the walls themselves seem to breathe with hidden patterns. At the heart of early twentieth-century Germany, Dr. G. Weber directs the renowned asylum of Sonnenstein. His days are orderly, his reputation steady, and his authority unquestioned-until a single patient begins to unravel his certainty.
Judge Daniel Paul Schreber, once one of the most respected jurists in Dresden, has become equally renowned for his elaborate memoirs of madness. He speaks of divine rays that pierce his body, transforming nerves, altering reality, and announcing a cosmic renewal. Most physicians dismiss him as incurable. But when a letter from Vienna arrives, signed by none other than Sigmund Freud, Weber is drawn into a web of observation, ambition, and unsettling doubt.
What begins as professional documentation slowly transforms into something stranger. The asylum's clocks falter, always by the same exact minutes. Birds gather in impossible formations, reflecting the mathematical patterns Schreber describes. Dust and sunlight arrange themselves in geometric precision. Each session between patient and doctor feels less like treatment and more like initiation into a secret order.
Weber strives to remain the neutral observer-yet he finds himself observed in return. His father's legacy as a physician, his own ambitions within German psychiatry, and Freud's controversial theories all converge against Schreber's cosmic system. The borders between doctor and patient, reality and delusion, sanity and revelation begin to blur.