Fishy

Last night, I had a dream that I was at some sort of EFY-type event. We were sitting in an amphitheater, but the cement structure was in the middle of the JFSB quad. Instead of the "holes" or walkways to get into the quad being on the east side of the building, they were on the west side, and the hose was coming through a huge walkway in the middle of the building. The leaders sprayed our whole group with a fireman hose. It was a really strong flow of water and we were trying to push against it, but eventually were blown back by the water. I vaguely remember that we were supposed to be filling our water bottles with this water. People had been complaining earlier in the day that the honors students, athletes, and younger students who were attending BYU (like the 10-year-olds) got to use these special spigots hidden into the sides of the JFSB, and that everyone else had to go without water. I guess this was their way of showing that they would give everyone water, and that the students/EFY participants should probably stop complaining. I don't know what the point was exactly. The best part about this dream was that I have never attended an EFY-type event ever. Anyway, that was only half the dream...

When I got home from this week at BYU, my fish tank was missing! I don't have a fishtank of this variety in real life, but it was a standard, rectangular glass tank. In my dream, I wondered where it was, but I was too tired to actually go find it, so I went to sleep (IN MY DREAM). When I awoke, (still dreaming), I went looking for my fish tank and found it in the kitchen next to a clean fish tank identical to the first one. My fish tank was very dirty, and had algae and other things growing on the inside of the glass. I looked for my fish in my fishtank, but it wasn't there. It was in another tank that was shaped disturbingly like a blender. My mother came in, and poured some packets of colored stuff into the blender fishtank and turned it on! The fish that was inside the blender was no ordinary fish. It almost looked like a jellyfish, but it had eyes, and fins as well as tentacles. I thought it was going to get blended, but it just hung out in the water above the blades, and turned from a deep purple color to a very bright orange. My mom explained that it was a treatment that had to be done to the fish because it was so special. I guess I was the only one who could transport the fish from one tank to the next, so my mom gave me the fish catcher (a net on a stick) and told me to put it back in the dirty tank. (At this point, the clean tank had disappeared... what?) I caught the fish and was about to plunge it into the dirty waters of the tank when it launched itself out of the net and onto the counter. It fell off the counter onto the floor. The uncanny thing is that it could breathe and function outside of the water. It was dragging itself along the floor when I caught it in my hands to put it back in the tank. It slipped out again as I was lowering it into the water, and started slithering (flopping, pulling itself along) across the family room floor. At this moment, my dog (in real life too!) Lynx, came in the back door, and the fish jumped into my hands while giving a little shriek. Its eyes looked at me in fear and I could tell it had given up the chase. I lowered it into the fish tank and transported the tank back into my room. Then I woke up. I expected this amazing fish thing in a dirty rectangular glass fishtank to be in my room. And it wasn't. There was just my sister's fish, Jaws, in a smaller plastic fishtank, swimming around frantically opening and closing his mouth. I don't know if he does this all the time (thus the name... Jaws) but I felt bad for him and gave him some food. Maybe, just maybe, the fish influenced my dreams so that I would feed him... he looked really hungry.