Feeding the fishes
I’ve not been having any really vivid dreams lately. The ones I have been having, haven’t been that interesting. Just a few days ago I had a rather strange one which I felt may merit sharing.
As anyone who reads my blog will know, I own pet gerbils. Having exams just now means that they are not getting played with as much just now, to make room for study, this seems to have lead onto my dream. In the dream I have pet gerbils as they currently are, a pet cat and an aquarium full of tropical fish. When I was a kid we used to have tropical fish in the house and these fish seemed to be the same ones I had in the dream.
I was looking at the fish, sitting statue like in the tank (none of them moving at all), when I realised that I couldn’t remember the last time I had fed them (a number of months). Suddenly shocked I grabbed a tub of fish pellets that were sitting next to the tank and dumped some into the water. I then picked up a carton of fish flakes which I was also intent on feeding to them. When I opened the carton I saw that all the fish flakes were similar in decoration to the fish, some had silvery scales, some looked like they had spots and others with stripes. I fed these striped, spotted and shiny flakes to the fish and they all seemed to slowly come back to life, eating all the food and swimming around the tank as if I had been feeding them every day!
Think this dream was brought on by my erratic sleep pattern just now and the fact that I can never remember if I fed the gerbils yet (I usually feed them at a specific time, but that has been erratic since the exams/revision started). Anyway, the gerbils are fine and the dream fish seemed to be Ok. No harm done then.
- Chris