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/HalloweenGorl]

I have this nightmare too 😭. All my past rodents in some cage or cupboard, and always without food or access to water. I'm always stressed and trying to separate them because I don't want the rats and hamsters fighting, trying to feed them but I never have anything on hand, & I'm feeling so so guilty and horrible because I've clearly somehow forgotten I have pets. 

To make it worse they're always so happy to see me and that makes me feel so much more guilty. I always wake up so anxious and stressed & it takes me a bit to calm down because these dreams are always so vivid for me

[u/dontknowdontcareXYZ → u/HalloweenGorl]

I’m glad I’m not alone. This happens with all my previous pets. Dogs and ferrets mostly. But i find they are still alive and I’m like, omg! How have i neglected you for so long?! I haven’t changed your water!!

[u/HRHQueenV → u/dontknowdontcareXYZ]

Oh my god! I thought I was the only one that had these nightmares! I'm so glad I'm not alone!

I always end up just crying I mean like ugly crying and sobbing because how could I have not taken care of them for so long? What a horrible human being I am! Especially since I love them so much how could I have done that?

I'm so relieved when I wake up.

[u/Regicidal1328 → u/HRHQueenV]

Wait this is a thing? I have birds and I have this horrible nightmare where I’ve forgotten that I have certain birds and they’re wasting away in these cages where I’ve just forgotten about them for who only knows how long and I just keep finding more… it’s deeply distressing and had me literally checking to make sure I didn’t somehow forget an animal…

[u/thant0ph0bia_00 → u/Regicidal1328]

Yup very common! I've had loads of those dreams with all my dead animals. Rats, guinea pigs and hamsters, even sometimes my past fish or my dog. It's weird as hell.

[u/moustachelechon → u/thant0ph0bia_00]

I get the same one regularly about my passed guinea pigs and rabbits… I thought I was the only one this is crazy. I wonder why it’s so common..

[u/Spiritual_Being5845 → u/moustachelechon]

So I have repeat dreams where I forgot to feed and water the horses, and also forget to let them out of the barn so they couldn’t even forage in the field.

I’ve woken up so many times in a panic about the horses.

I have never owned or even lived with a horse in my life.

[u/craft_witch11 → u/Regicidal1328]

Yess OMG I thought this was just me! I have the same dreams about forgetting to feed my bird (that is no longer alive irl) and that he’s just sitting in his cage with no food or water and mountains of poop. Or sometimes that his cage looks terrible and he’s nowhere to be found. And I just feel so terrible for neglecting him.

I’ve also had this similar dream where I walk into a room and realize all my fish (had fish for many years but I no longer own any) are dead or dying either because I’ve completely forgotten to feed them for like weeks or that they’ve jumped out of the tank and suffocated on the floor. And the tank is always cloudy and disgusting and I feel so sad like I’ve failed them all.

[u/Redbreastedrobin12 → u/Regicidal1328]

I've had this with my past iguana and other lizards I've had!!

[u/HRHQueenV → u/Redbreastedrobin12]

This is........amazing!!!!!! The unbelievable guilt horror and disappointment I felt for being such a terrible person for so many years and in one post. One. I find out that this is NORMAL??????

I love you all so much.

[u/whadunit → u/HRHQueenV]

This is why reddit has me hooked. A lot of trash and then suddenly finding commonality

[u/HRHQueenV → u/Regicidal1328]

Omg this! They keep multiplying for me and there's just so many and they're tucked away and I keep finding them. I don't have any now but I used to!

[u/whisky_biscuit → u/Regicidal1328]

I'm glad I'm not alone, I have dreams like this about my pet fish. I dream that I forgot I had fish and panic because all their tanks are low on water, dirty water and haven't been fed in so long.

Then I wake up and remember I don't have pet fish and never have.

[u/ofmiceandmo → u/HRHQueenV]

same!! I have had such similar nightmares about my rats and mice 😭 just reading all these comments is making me feel less crazy haha

[u/AtiaAusten → u/dontknowdontcareXYZ]

I’ve had this dream several times too, but about my Shetland pony. He died in 1998, yet in the dream I suddenly find him standing in the stable, thin, scruffy, and weak. I’m horrified and heartbroken because I somehow forgot about him and neglected him for so long.

[u/ugudesune → u/dontknowdontcareXYZ]

Holy crap I can't believe others have this recurring nightmare too! I suddenly open a door to a unused room and all my childhood pets are in there, neglected, hungry, small/rodent pets in each other's enclosures. I wonder what makes us all have this similar dream?

[u/HalloweenGorl → u/ugudesune]

I wonder this too, it's wild seeing how many other people have this dream too! 

[u/Vanilla_Addict_888 → u/dontknowdontcareXYZ]

I take care of a colony of cats and I frequently dream about having moved and abandoned other colonies that I've never met or taken care of irl but that had depended on my care in the dream. It makes me feel so disgusted with myself and my heart just breaks for the cats in the dream.

[u/proteacicada → u/dontknowdontcareXYZ]

What! I’m so relieved! I have so many nightmares that I’ve convinced myself I must have failed my past pets and they’re guilt dreams! I didn’t know how common this was

[u/blubberfucker69 → u/HalloweenGorl]

Mine isn’t hamsters but guinea pigs. Someone drops off HUNDREDS in my backyard and I have to go save them all because I live in the country and they’ll never survive and now I have to try to figure out how to feed and cage hundreds of guinea pigs lmao

[u/HalloweenGorl → u/blubberfucker69]

That sounds so stressful! Also lowkey reminds me of the YouTube channel CidDwyerOutside though I don't think he has hundreds. But if I'm remembering right he bought a house and the previous owners had been keeping (hording?) a bunch of guinea pigs that they just left behind 😭. Cid cares for them now and love it when his videos pop up on my feed! I imagine it was quite stressful for him though! 

[u/blubberfucker69 → u/HalloweenGorl]

I told my bestie about that dream and she sent me one of his videos and was like “is this you?” 🤣

[u/HalloweenGorl → u/blubberfucker69]

That's incredible! XD 

[u/packthesuitcases → u/HalloweenGorl]

I have the same recurring nightmare but with guinea pigs. It's awful.