I am the QUEEN of strange dreams. I'm only gonna list the herp-related ones for now, else I'd write a book. They're fairly creepy and in some cases disturbing, so if you're squeamish, you might not want to read.

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A while ago I had a dream that I'd somehow been bitten by a rattlesnake. I calmly told my parents I'd been bitten and they told me to go ahead and go to school, and if it started to act up, to come home, like I had a cough or something. So I went to school and we had a really nasty sub. I didn't say the Pledge of Allegiance and when the sub asked me why, I told her I'd been bitten by a rattlesnake. She told me to hurry to the nurse's office. So I did, and told the nurse what had happened and she basically said "huh, well that sucks". Don't remember the ending.

Back in April, I dreamed I'd bought a bunch of baby snakes of various species and had them all in one container. There were 4 or 5 random colubrids and a rattler. Realizing this was NOT a good idea, I started looking for a place to put him. Somehow the tanks in my room got all mixed up, and my leo was in one of the glass ExoTerras with just the foam back and NOTHING else. I put the rattler in that tank, not realizing my leo was in there, but when he started moving toward my leo looking like he was gonna strike, I pulled it back out again. Not knowing what else to do with it, I brought it to my dad and told him I found it in my room. He told me to take it outside, so I grabbed it behind the head (I'd been using a tripod as a snakehook until now) and brought it to the back deck (the yard was that of the house I lived in 3 years ago, oddly enough). It freed itself enough to scratch my hand with one fang. I dropped it and my dog came over but I pulled her away. I told my dad I should go to the hospital and he refused.

The next night, I dreamed that my mom and I were setting up a snake tank (in the house I lived in 6 years ago). We were discussing heating and my dad asked why I couldn't have 2 heat lamps on it, and I told him it would cook the snake. I looked back at the tank and saw a plastic container inside the tank, filled with water, RIGHT under the heat lamp, with my leo upside-down on the bottom. I started yelling at my dad and telling him he'd killed him, but my dad just seemed amused. I told him no replacement would make me feel better, and he told me about a girl who got a new lizard and renamed it, and I said I didn't care. He put the tank on the chair and said "I'm gonna get a lizard and name it Mojave and he's mine!".

Two days later, I dreamed that I, my parents, my aunt and uncle, and my grandma were in a hotel room. I walked out into the hallway and saw a dark-haired little girl in a white dress looking down a hallway with light coming from it. I knew she was looking at a woman but I couldn't see her. Suddenly I was Pyramid Head (I dunno XD). I stepped toward the girl, but she said “You said you wouldn’t come closer!” The woman said “Don’t come closer”, to which I responded “I’m not.” I was myself again and went back to the room. The hotel was very dark and creepy. We decided it was too much and began to pack our things. As we were doing so, Pyramid Head appeared in front of me with his arms out, as did a few other monsters that were not very detailed. I ran back and told my family we had to go now. We grabbed our things and, since we seemed to think he’d find us if we went in the hallway, we snuck out through the ventilation system. When we got to the car, I remembered that I had left Mojave and Ramses in the room and I refused to leave without them. I ran back up and tiptoed down the hallway toward the room. Pyramid Head and the monsters were gone, so I grabbed Mojave and Ramses, put them in my pockets, and walked back. I remember being noticeably calm, and without the feeling I get when sneaking around dark, creepy hallways (I'm terrified of them, honestly).

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Those last 3 all happened the weekend my grandma (the one in the last dream) died. For that reason, the fact that she was in one, the fact that my reptiles were in danger for all 3, the fact that my dad was uncharacteristically uncaring, and the fact that I NEVER have nightmares leads me to think they meant something.

To end on a positive note, I once had a dream that my friends and I rented a limo and kidnapped Emma Watson and Dan Radcliffe. Emma didn't know the plot of the HP movie she'd just been in, and Dan decided that since the birds weren't flying, they must have been tied to the trees. We drove them back to my house and the Christmas tree was up XD