#1512 – Aquatic
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
I loved laying down in the bathtub under the water when I was a kid. I liked the feeling of the warmth surrounding me and I liked listening to the sounds of my house filtered through the water. It’s just now dawning on me that this must be the source of my frequent dreams of being able to breathe underwater.
Tags: bathtub, bubbles, cats
and it’s an awesome dream, isn’t it ? got it a couple of times a month :p
I’d much prefer being able to breath under water than to fly what about you ?
My flying dreams were actully kinda strange. When I was younger I couldn’t actully fly, but was learning how to instead. I’d have those dreams once or twice a year and even though the dream itself was different the learning process seemed to continue from one to the next. Once could fly, I either couldn’t go higher than to tree tops or I would go so high the ground would be too far away and I’d be too scared from the hight to land.
Nowadays I can fly almost any height and can I can land from any height without too much problem. Strangly though, the “learning” to do things in my dreams has continued phazing though matter. I can currently move through windows with no problem but still have to close my eyes to move though walls.
I have had a similar sequence over the course of my life, but in reverse. When I started flying in dreams, I was immediately practiced and skilled at it, and have moved backwards through the learning process over the years. Nowadays my flights are generally low and clumsy, beginner’s flight, and I really have to push to get higher. Tree branches and power lines have become major obstacles.
I have that dream a lot, too, but I think it’s just dream/environment interaction. Your brain creates an underwater scene. Cool. But your body keeps breathing, because it’s supposed to. Your brain notices this, and interprets it to mean that you can breathe underwater.
I prefer the dreams where I can fly to the ones where I can breathe underwater, though both are kinda neat.
@Chuck
I’m not sure about that, or maybe my brain is really good at figuring out the details (it did manage the balance of having a tail in the dream where I was a wolf fairly well), but when I breathe underwater I can physically feel the force of the water entering and exiting my lungs, it’s not just being able to breathe while underwater, I breathe the water.
Never had a dream about having a tail, but a few weeks ago I did have a dream about having a pair of angel like wings. In the dream it took me a while to figure out how to actully flap them, but the weird thing was when I did I could actully feel both the wing itself moving and it brushing against my back like it was actully there. It was so relistic it took me about a minute after waking up to remember i didn’t actully have wings.
I had that dream a couple of times when I was a kid, but that can’t have to do with swimming or laying under the water in a bathtub, because I have never done either of those things in my life. I can’t swim, and I’m afraid of getting water in my nose and ears. So when I had those dreams about breathing underwater, it was more like as if I was “swimming” in dark blue air.
In the warmer months, always check the tub before drawing your bath. Cats will snooze on the cool porcelain and don’t like it when they suddenly get flooded.
One of my previous cats from my childhood used to sleep in the tub all the time……. I would always just draw my bath anyway. I figured it was the best way to teach the cat not to sleep in the tub because it drove my mother crazy when she saw pawprints in there. Unfortunately for us….. that cat enjoyed the water and was rather hard to persuade to leave without physically removing her….. and finding out her claws where not as dull as last time >_<
I think the horrible implication to be garnered from this comic is that the cat may or may not have been sleeping in the tub, like mine does.