Dreaming of Scorpions & Terrapins

I had this strange dream this morning, while I was lazing in bed after a long hard week of work – a 60-hour work week is no joke. Saturday is just the day when I sleep till late in the morning & start the day slow. S-L-O-W is the way to go on Saturday, the only day of the week to slack at the coziness of my own home.

The Black Scorpion

Anyway, in the first part of this dream, there was a black scorpion in the toilet of my home. When I saw it, I quickly went to tell my Dad. Surprisingly, he wasn’t scared. He casually picked it up by its tail & at the same time telling me that as long as we hold it by its tail, it won’t sting us. But my Dad was overconfident, or at least wasn’t fully aware that the scorpion’s tail could curl… & he wasn’t holding the far end of its tail. So in a swift twist, the black scorpion curled its tail (while suspended in mid-air) & stung the top of my Dad’s hand.

It was painful & I was afraid for him, coz I have seen black scorpions sting rodents & spiders in the wild… & these stung creatures would usually die in a matter of seconds or minutes due to the deadly poison.

I tried to grab that scorpion by its tail, but I was too slow… & got stung by it too. It was painful. I can’t really remember what I did next, but if I recalled correctly, somehow I managed to catch it & threw it out of my house… or at least something like that. Surprisingly, I didn’t die from the poisonous sting. Not sure about it, if it happened in real life though. Hmm…

Terrapins Galore!

In the second part of the dream, I opened up the small sliding door where all the piping was & was shocked to see terrapins of various sizes and colors trying to squeeze out of one of the entrances of a big pipe!

I tried to block the door with my hand, but it didn’t really work. So there I was, looking at terrapins of various sizes coming into my home! Some were huge (I wonder how it managed to squeeze itself in the pipe) & others were smaller. Some were dark green & others were lighter green. I didn’t know what to do with these terrapins that had now entered my home through the piping.

For a moment, I looked at those smaller ones & started to think back to the time when I was keeping a few terrapins in a big tank in my home. Gazing at these smaller light green terrapins made me miss my terrapins which I had released. I pondered about the thought of buying just ONE baby terrapin & taking care of it all over again, like before… after all, I still have the big tank & some of the rocks kept in my storeroom. But… oh well… I don’t know…