Members and friends (even though I've never met some onf you, I still regard ya'll as friends),
OK, I have a serious question (believe it or not, since I usually don't take a serious tone on most things).
Before I pose the question...which you can get the hint at from the topic thread, let me explain how this question came up.
I've always wanted a dog, however, I love reef-keeping. With the financial and time contraints (I'm a commuting full-time college student and hold part-time job 20-25hrs a week), I feel that I can only either keep a dog or maintain a healthy, thriving reef-tank. And most of the times I wanted to get out of this hobby was becuase of the income and also, because I wanted to use it to get a dog. However, almost everyone at home, with the exception of my little brother, is against me getting a dog.
The Dream
Ok, for those of you who gets easily spooked, skip the following paragraph in Italics.
This dream just occurred (fell asleep at 10 pm, woke up around 12 midnight), and maybe because of my asian background, I find dreams to hold some sort of supernatural/ominous characteristics.
Now, to warn you, this is a sort of scary/ghost story(my only fear in life...or afterlife of that matter)...here goes:
In this dream, my mother had to go somewhere so the apartment was empty with the exception of my two brothers (which I actually have in real life) and another sister (whom just showed up in this dream) and me. The apartment in this dream, which is totally differrent from my current apartment, has two rooms: one is my mothers/youngest brother and the other is for my older brother, sister and me. So the room that I stay in is ridden with ghost, but there are 3 particular ones that keep on appearing and re-appearing (I guess one for each of us who stay in the room). But of the 3, there is this one ghost of a girl that scares the !@#!@$ out of me. The scariest part about her is the way she moves. She moves from place to place by appearing, disapperaing, and re-appearing across the room. And everytime she does that, she'll leave a zig-zag across the space she travels. So, my mother had to step out for something and only myself and my siblings are left in the house. My sister is watching TV in the living room, and my other two brothers are chilling in my mother's room. I'm alone in the room I share with my sister and brother and I fell asleep and now just waking up. So the room is dark, and I see that girl ghost and she's moving from place to place (remember the way I told you she moved?!...yikes!) and I get soooooo scared. But I can't move! I can't even speak! I try to hell and fidgit my hardest but nothing happens. So the more violent I try to be, the more hopeless it is. And I see the girl ghost zig-zagging closer and closer to me. So, I close my eyes and try to calm myself and lie perfectly still. Once I did that, I could move and I yelled at the top my lungs. My sister hears me and runs into my room from the living roomand ask if I'm ok. I'm all shakened and scared SH*TLESS. Then, she and I go into my mother's room and there we join our other brothers. Then, I woke up....
So when I wake up, I hear and see two things (no lie). First, I see my fish tank, since my tank lights are still on because I have them on I night-time schedule (4:30pm -12:30 am), that way I can enjoy my tank when I get home from work/school. And the other thing is that I hear my neightbor's dog barking, madly and viciously, but for some reason, it felt very protective and comforting. And there was my fish tank, just glowing and casting a shine over my room, but I found no comfort in it at all. In Vietnamese culture, we believe that dogs have supernatural powers and one of them is being able to hear and chase-away ghosts. Now, to be honest, I'm madly afraid of phantoms and ghostly stuff. Aside from loneliness, they're my only other fear!
So, here comes the question (although it may sound silly), in its seriousness,
Should I:
a) Keep the tank, forget the dog
b) Get a dog, and forgo the tank
c) Try to maintain both, knowing that I'll inevitably come across this decision again
A few reminders: Always wanted a dog. Love reef tanks. Can't afford both. Bad dream: wake up fish tank, feel nada but hear dog, find comforting. What to do?!?!
P.S. This would probably be the strangest reason to quit the hobby or go on a temporary hiatus (considering the nightmare and all
) , but it's really true!
OK, I have a serious question (believe it or not, since I usually don't take a serious tone on most things).
Before I pose the question...which you can get the hint at from the topic thread, let me explain how this question came up.
I've always wanted a dog, however, I love reef-keeping. With the financial and time contraints (I'm a commuting full-time college student and hold part-time job 20-25hrs a week), I feel that I can only either keep a dog or maintain a healthy, thriving reef-tank. And most of the times I wanted to get out of this hobby was becuase of the income and also, because I wanted to use it to get a dog. However, almost everyone at home, with the exception of my little brother, is against me getting a dog.
The Dream
Ok, for those of you who gets easily spooked, skip the following paragraph in Italics.
This dream just occurred (fell asleep at 10 pm, woke up around 12 midnight), and maybe because of my asian background, I find dreams to hold some sort of supernatural/ominous characteristics.
Now, to warn you, this is a sort of scary/ghost story(my only fear in life...or afterlife of that matter)...here goes:
In this dream, my mother had to go somewhere so the apartment was empty with the exception of my two brothers (which I actually have in real life) and another sister (whom just showed up in this dream) and me. The apartment in this dream, which is totally differrent from my current apartment, has two rooms: one is my mothers/youngest brother and the other is for my older brother, sister and me. So the room that I stay in is ridden with ghost, but there are 3 particular ones that keep on appearing and re-appearing (I guess one for each of us who stay in the room). But of the 3, there is this one ghost of a girl that scares the !@#!@$ out of me. The scariest part about her is the way she moves. She moves from place to place by appearing, disapperaing, and re-appearing across the room. And everytime she does that, she'll leave a zig-zag across the space she travels. So, my mother had to step out for something and only myself and my siblings are left in the house. My sister is watching TV in the living room, and my other two brothers are chilling in my mother's room. I'm alone in the room I share with my sister and brother and I fell asleep and now just waking up. So the room is dark, and I see that girl ghost and she's moving from place to place (remember the way I told you she moved?!...yikes!) and I get soooooo scared. But I can't move! I can't even speak! I try to hell and fidgit my hardest but nothing happens. So the more violent I try to be, the more hopeless it is. And I see the girl ghost zig-zagging closer and closer to me. So, I close my eyes and try to calm myself and lie perfectly still. Once I did that, I could move and I yelled at the top my lungs. My sister hears me and runs into my room from the living roomand ask if I'm ok. I'm all shakened and scared SH*TLESS. Then, she and I go into my mother's room and there we join our other brothers. Then, I woke up....
So when I wake up, I hear and see two things (no lie). First, I see my fish tank, since my tank lights are still on because I have them on I night-time schedule (4:30pm -12:30 am), that way I can enjoy my tank when I get home from work/school. And the other thing is that I hear my neightbor's dog barking, madly and viciously, but for some reason, it felt very protective and comforting. And there was my fish tank, just glowing and casting a shine over my room, but I found no comfort in it at all. In Vietnamese culture, we believe that dogs have supernatural powers and one of them is being able to hear and chase-away ghosts. Now, to be honest, I'm madly afraid of phantoms and ghostly stuff. Aside from loneliness, they're my only other fear!
So, here comes the question (although it may sound silly), in its seriousness,
Should I:
a) Keep the tank, forget the dog
b) Get a dog, and forgo the tank
c) Try to maintain both, knowing that I'll inevitably come across this decision again
A few reminders: Always wanted a dog. Love reef tanks. Can't afford both. Bad dream: wake up fish tank, feel nada but hear dog, find comforting. What to do?!?!
P.S. This would probably be the strangest reason to quit the hobby or go on a temporary hiatus (considering the nightmare and all
) , but it's really true!
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