Sea Cucumber Dream
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i had a dream my family and i lived in Hawaii. we were supposed to meet somewhere for a dinner celebrating something or other, but it was an outside patio and it was raining, so i was the only one who turned up. crawling on the table was a green caterpillar-like creature, with large, fat suction cups for feet and two bulbous, round yellow eyes. in the dream, it was a sea cucumber.
i made the sea cucumber my pet. it would crawl over my clothes (sometimes making holes in them, as it would eat through them) and generally be kind of gross and kind of cute. i didn't actually like it but so much, but i didn't want it to get hurt out there (because what would the restaurant people do when they saw a giant caterpillar-thing on their table?) so i just ended up taking it everywhere.
then i ran into a group of kids (aged 10 to 13-ish) who always hung around me. they annoyed me, but people would always pressure me into doing things with them because they liked me so much. anyhow, i wasn't in any mood to entertain them so i tried to go about my way, holding my cea cucumber (whether to keep it from getting anxious or to protect it, i don't know.)
sea cucumbers were to them just another creature, even huge ones that walked on land, but to me it was still kinda neat. they thought i was too interested in my new pet to play with them. which wasn't true; i just didn't want to.
when i got home there was another dinner planned where we were supposed to meet. when i was about to leave, i set the sea cucmber out in the back yard. i remember feeling its suction cups holding onto my shirt and having to really pull to get it free. i set it far in the back yard, by a small creek so it wouldn't dry out. i didn't think it would go far, but i also didn't really care if it did go away.
when i was just getting back inside, i noticed the next-door neighbor open her back door to let her dog out. then i saw her run far, far to the back, maybe even as far as the creek. this kind of bothered me. my dad and i were the last two people still at home and he was saying that we should go, but i told him where i had put the sea cucumber and what i had seen.we went to the neighbor's house together, because i somehow knew by then she had already returned.
i asked her if she had seen my big sea cucumber back there, and her ignorance made it clear that she hadn't done anything to it. her dog hadn't found one either. however, it was odd that she could have missed it, as it was bright green (the color of an inchworm) and quite as big as my forearm, and fatter to boot. so my dad and i went to check on it quickly.
by now it was nearing dusk, and everything was tinted in a dull reddish brown. as i neared the spot i had left the caterpillar, i saw a few boys from that group of annoying kids. i also saw a short pillar which looked something like an altar. i had a bad feeling, and asked where my sea cucmber was. they said they had found it, and my father and i glanced around to see if any of the boys were carrying it; they weren't.
that aggravated my dad, and he shoved some junk from on top of the short pillar aside and asked, "well where is it?" underneath the things he upset, i saw two large, yellow spheres and what looked like some sort of tuber. i looked more closely at the spheres, and they were the sea cucumber's yellow eyes.
i asked them what they had done. one chunky kid stepped forward, saying that he had killed it because i liked it more than i liked him. the other boys sort of shrank away, as if to say that wasn't their reason, but this one asked them to help. the one boy was annoying and gross to me, with his needy unspoked love, and i felt nervy and sick. i remember thinking he had eaten the rest of my sea cucumber.
i don't remember the argument beyond that. i couldn't take my dreaming eyes off the sea cucumber's dead ones. i didn't love either of them, but i still felt guilty. i felt disgust at the depravity in people's hearts.
then i woke up.
Additional Comments:
I don't like to kill any sort of animal, even bugs. When there are slugs on the sidewalk, I move them.
Shortly before this dream my car was stolen. I wasn't feeling too keen on humanity just then.
