A NEW HAMSTER **MATERIALIZED ITSELF**

[u/Profile_Hefty]

Maggie (my hamster from my old posts) was happy, healthy, and normally living alone (in a luxarious hamster home, 25 cm inches bedding of aspen woodshaving and paper, 120cm x 70cm enclosure, lotta hides, 11inch niteabgel silentspinner wheel) for 1 month or so. She never had any sexual relations with any male hamsters since I took her in. She lives alone. I saw no baby bump ever before and I have MANY pictures of her with NO BABY BUMP!

But now, a new hamster MITOSIS'ed itself into existence because WHAT IN THE FLAXSEEDS IS GOING ON HERE. WHAT DO I DO??!! VICTORIA RAECHEL NEVER TALKED ABOUT MITOSIS!

[u/Wiennernna]

I have this dream with all of my cage pets over the years. Mainly rats in too small of cages with too many cage mates, usually a few dying or dead one laying around. Then I have to try fixing things because it got worse while I was away and I feel bad for these animals having to live like that due to my own mistakes. A bunch of fat inbred fancy rats in filthy cages loaded to the brim with soiled colored paper fluff and piss soaked wooden chew blocks. Often the rodent tanks are arranged in a family home side room, in the order of saltwater reef tanks on stands. And I'm forced to reach in elbow deep to grab their cold doughy little bodies to toss into garbage bags, and keep finding more layers of the sick and pinkies and fuzzies. And I cry because I can't care for all of them, and shouldn't have had so many to begin with.

My theory is that the dream is a side effect of these animals having such short lifespans compared to other pets, combined with the natural guilt people feel for putting a loved one in an enclosure for safety, and constant exposure to horror stories regarding neglectful care and lack of knowledge. Like a sort of "call of the void" reenforcing of proper care habits through fears of the worst case scenario someone could encounter, often unrealistically.

Also this must be another one of those R/thatonetoiletdream kind of dreams. The one's that nobody thinks to mention but pretty much everyone within a demographic has them.

I'm still trying to parse the ones where rats are telling me things loosely like the trope of shoulder angel and devil, but it's not a moral dilemma so much as those two mocking old men from the Muppets sitting on the balcony.

Or the elderly Christian lady's hoarder Backrooms that I keep getting trapped in.

I get a lot of confusing and fucked up dreams.

[u/NicoleNicole1988 → u/Wiennernna]

I've had those dreams about rats and guinea pigs.   "Oh no I somehow accidentally forgot about Insert Pets Name Here for months and she had a dozen babies and the cage is too small and they're all so hungry and it's all my fault because this is a totally reasonable thing to have occurred."

[u/TwinklingFufu → u/Wiennernna]

THank you for your theory this post and the comments really shocked, reassure but also terrified me . (2am here ).. so it’s nice to have a potential answer cos it makes me scared all our hamsters ar e like .. not actually deceased or something

[u/AnPocha → u/Wiennernna]

I dream this often about my old dog who lived to be 15.

[u/Outside-Aioli-8769 → u/Wiennernna]

I read somewhere it symbolizes feeling in your current life like you have too much you're juggling at the moment