the maybe-acid-reflux-but-maybe-not thing is bothering me today, threatening to flare up, cramping back muscles & feeling a bit nauseous. Need to clean out the ratties, I even had a dream about it last night. Hopefully will have the energy soon!
@Damage I have two kinds of stress dreams: failing university classes that I've obviously already long since been done with, and my aquarium being overgrown and overcome with fish I didn't put in there that have mutated and eaten all the old fish.
@vjgoh interestingly, I used to have a stress dream where a fish tsnk/bowl would get smashed and I'd be walking around with the fish trying to get someone to give me water to put it in. Or for years I had dreams that I'd forgotten about a small pet and hadn't fed it or cleaned it out and it had mutated...because obviously thats what happens when you don't feed something?!
@Damage Yes, these dreams exactly! They're really distressing. I usually get used to the mutated fish and spend time watching them, but I always feel bad and need to clean the tanks.
@vjgoh weird how the internal logic is so similar! Pet neglect mutation dreams. Wtf?!
@Damage I thought part of it for me is I've seen many fish die for many reasons over the years, and I have assassin snails in my tank, which are weird little predators (that I put in specifically to eliminate the pond snail problem I had—it worked!) so I've seen what aquarium ecosystems can be like. But if you get them too, maybe it's just a thing? Maybe the brain is good at extrapolating that sort of potential future? (If that's true, how do polluters sleep at night?)