What I see

Want to know something? Some of my scariest dreams involve sea creatures. This is the best I could do of a part of what I saw in a dream last night. These are mostly prehistoric sea things, so far as I can tell. I would paint up some pictures of the more detailed things, if I could do them justice.

Last night, I saw things like biomechanical octopi that could use short bursts of magnetic forcefields to grab prey. Other times, I have seen some of the scariest, darkest waters you can imagine with creatures to match them. I'll see fish, eels, and monsters who are slimy and deformed. They'll be impossibly huge with glowing points or bristle with teeth, fins, and spines. And often times, I'll feel as if they're sucking me toward them and I have to vacate the area very quickly.

I'm not sure why I have fish in my nightmares. I was never scarred by sea creatures as a child. I never watched the movie Jaws, and I never had a tragic incident with pet fish. But it never fails that if I see murky water choked with algae or shadows in a dream, I feel very inspired to run.