Dreams and The Alaskan Snow Fish
I had the weirdest dream last night.
You know how dreams have a tendency to be scattered, changeable and not make a lot of sense when you think about them in the morning? Well the dream I had last night was none of those things. Honestly, the whole thing could of happened it was that vivid.
We were at cocoa beach in Florida, the same group of us who actually went to to Cocoa beach in in June/July. For the beginning of the dream, it was pretty much what actually happened on the day, except this time I noticed a cave a bit further down the beach. Obviously I had to investigate!
So in the cave, which opened into a clearing about the size of a football pitch there was a waterfall flowing into a kind of shallow lake with a walk way up either side,leading behind the waterfall.
I climbed up and dived in from behind the waterfall and the ground beneath the water started to move. Hundreds of these weird creatures started climbing up the rock and through a hole behind the waterfall so I climbed up and managed to grab one of them. It was pretty dark so I carried it outside the cave to see what it was.
To describe it, it was a bright green colour, and very slimy. It had two big black eyes on either side of the top of its head and nostrils at the front of its body. It was about a foot long. It was sort of the shape of a manta ray, without the long tail and a bit more stretched out. At its widest point was 2 fins with fingers on them. Its tail also had claws on either side. It was flat like a manta ray, with a very wide mouth on the front with no teeth in it. It had wrapped its claws around my arm and was gripping quite tightly.
I called everyone over to have a look but they weren’t impressed. I put my arm near the ground and managed to get it to loosen its grip and jump on the floor. I took a picture with my phone at which point its fins and tail turned towards the ground and its hands/claw things let it run back into the cave pretty quickly (and quite comically. I remember Chris found its run hilarious). I tried to climb through the hole behind the waterfall but it was too small.
When we got back to the villa I uploaded the picture to facebook and received a message from some researchers who were interested in finding out more about it. I said I’d show them where I found it, so the next day I met them at cocoa beach while the guys went to busch gardens (which I was annoyed about missing).
The research team was bigger than I’d expected. They’d set up an ET styled tent/lab on the beach with all kinds of computers and science things. They were also wearing white hazard suits with oxygen tanks.
I showed them the cave and helped them catch three of them in perspex containment boxes. We got them back out and they dissected one of them, which I was not a fan of.
The main researcher (and the only one who would talk to me) said I’d discovered a new species so I could name it. I thought it would be funny to name it the “Alaskan Snow Fish” so thats what it was called.
I watched them dissect it. It didn’t really have any organs as such. They cut it down the middle, and on either side of its body were 2 bright blue tubes which felt like they were made of metal.
They did some tests on it and discovered that the blue tubes were made of Nitrogen, which meant the fish was 80% nitrogen. This apparently made it a nitrogen based life form, not carbon based like every other living creature, which was also apparently a pretty big deal.
They created a walk way from the tent to the cave and sealed off the entrance so people couldn’t get in while they tried to find out what was behind the waterfall.
Unfortunately, that’s when I woke up. I was a bit sad to realise that I hadn’t discovered a new species, or a weird cave, and wasn’t in Florida, but there is always next year, right?
