I'm dreaming... Of a big fish tank (documenting fish keeper's dreams)

[megwattscreative]

Hi all, I realised after a post on my journal that lots of us seem to have unique and terrifying fish-related dreams.
I thought I'd compile them here and see if anyone has any others to add... Partly so we can all see our dreams are very ridiculous, but also so I don't inadvertently trip across nightmare fuel in my journal 😂

I had a dream (recurring nightmare) last night that Id massacred a tank of corys and Otto's that all had severe fin rot, so seeing an extra Cory this morning has thrown me for a bit of a loop. Now I don't know what to believe 😂

I also have dreams about killing fish, usually because I have forgotten about them and discover that I am the owner of a whole tank of dead and dying fish. 😩

Get this all the time, though usually I have somehow acquired some huge tanks filled with all sorts. Totally genuinely, last night for some reason there were also several monkeys living in the emersed parts who I had neglected. They all escaped into the house and were quite bitey trying to get them back in. Fortunately, I managed to make contact with the previous owner and they turned out to be quite social around the kitchen table once I knew their names 😂

My aquatic stress dream is that I neglected a tank for some period of time and, while everything is still alive, the tank is also now inhabited by a very large eel like creature that scares the hell out of me. I can’t get the eel out so the dream never resolves, just remains high anxiety until I wake up.

Less cheese before bed time.

Feel free to add/discuss 🙂

 

[hypnogogia]

This thread is going to be a psychologist’s dream!

 

[megwattscreative]

@hypnogogia I did wonder about that 😅 if I'm being honest, my therapist and I have given up interpreting my fish-related dreams... Turns out it really is just tank anxiety (tankxiety?), and not pointing towards a deeper psychological issue 😂

 

[richardcunliffe]

(tankxiety?)

You heard it here first

 

[ElleDee]

Not all my fish dreams are nightmares! Occasionally I go to cool fish stores. I don't remember too much, mostly just images from a few different dreams, but I do remember there was one that had a cool restricted area that you had to be "in the know" about and climb a ladder up to a hatch to get access to. I remember thinking during the dream that the exclusivity seemed like a gimmick as it wasn't really that much of a secret. You could see people climbing up the ladder!

My brain was giving me a fantasy fish store to explore and I had to be all cynical about it! How ungrateful of me! 😂 Better than dead fish for sure.

 

[Marcia]

Tankxiety is real 😅 I’m yet to dream-nightmare about my fishes. My worst nightmare is always about my indoor cat escaping and me madly chasing after him 😭 Perhaps it just means how much we care for our pets ❤️

 

[Wookii]

Oh its always a leaking tank for me - always. I've woke in the middle of the night plenty of times, and rushed downstairs to check a tank wasn't leaking everywhere.

 

[MichaelJ]

Before seeing < this post > I never had an aquarium related nightmare.

Cheers,
Michael

 

[ianmianmianm]

I did once have a fish version of this classic and I didn't even have a tank at the time.

 

[SamTheMan]

I often have dreams about tanks cracking or exploding. Not very fun!

 

[richardcunliffe]

I'm remembering now my reoccurring dream of leaving the tank lid open and all the fish just swimming up into the air and off down the street.. Seems to be less frequent now I have an open top tank 😀