Thread: Whats with all the bloody fish?

As you may have guessed, I have a fishy issue.

I cannot stop dreaming about fish. I've come here to see if anyone in the know can make any sense of it, because I really cant.

For about a year Ive been having dreams that start out as normal (I say normal but all of my dreams are completely mental and when I talk about them people tend to gawp at me like I belong in a lunatic asylum). Im flying my cat at the park or talking to my house bricks when all of a sudden I'm presented with a problem. There are fish where there shouldn't be fish and its my job to rescue them. Usually they have a tank and are floating above it and I have to round them up and get them back in before they die. Sometimes they are flapping about on the floor and I have to scoop them up and get them back in. At one point it wasn't even just fish, it was fish and frogs that had fallen from a net above my back yard (we had an aerial tank, of course) and I was running around the back yard trying to hose all of the little amphibious creatures down before they dried up in the sun. Things generally start out ok. I get all of the fish back into the tank and there are only a few minor casualties (Its generally a LOT of small pet sized domestic fish, never tropical or the kind you find in a lake) but then things go wrong, the walls of the tank disappear and the water holds its shape but starts sliding slowly, or all the fish go crazy and start jumping out the top before I can get the lid on the tank.

Whats strange is that I used to find it really stressful because I quite like fish - as far as organisms go I think they're pretty cool - I used to wake up feeling all unsettled and the whole process was quite harrowing, but now its like, the minute I come across a fish tank in a dream I'm like, oh god not this again, and I just go on with the motions, putting the fish back in the tank but not taking too much care because I know most of them will end up dead and Ive done it so many times before. Its like Im remembering my dreams within my dreams. Im actually getting better at saving them.

Ive read up about fish in dreams but most of the symbolism doesn't match up to me. Im not a christian so its not a loaves and fishes type thing, work is fine, Ive started my own business which is fine (the dreams started before I started the business so I don't think its to do with that). My love life is fine, I have zero issues with my parents and my friends are the loveliest bunch of folks you could ever hope to meet.

So. Whats with all of the bloody fish?????