Nightmares - I can't be the only one, right?

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I know this is a bit odd of a discussion topic, but I can't be the only one who wakes up panicking they haven't fed the guinea pigs? I haven't had pigs for over 3 years now and I still wake up like...heck, I'm not even sure if it is nightmare related or if it's my brain just being a (insert swearword of your choice) while it's trying to wake up. It's been an ongoing thing, it's not new, but I'd kinda figured it would have to calm itself down at some point and instead, I keep waking up panicking I haven't fed the guinea pigs I don't even have.

Please tell me someone else has this problem. I'm gonna feel really daft if I'm the only one, haha.
 
That’s a classic anxiety dream. I still wake up thinking I haven’t brought the rabbit in from her run (and she died many years ago). It certainly confuses me when I wake up.
 
You are not alone! I grew up with piggies but when I left home I didn't have any for many years. During that time I often had a nightmare in which I would be back in my old family home and filled with terror at the realisation I hadn't fed the pigs for years. I would feel sick with guilt and be at the point of going out to see what I would find, when fortunately I would wake up.

The nightmares only stopped when I got some new piggies! That was 20 years ago and I've not been without piggies since or had any more nightmares!
 
Mine always revolve around giving/not giving medications or syringe feeds. It took me a very long time to stop jumping up in the night thinking I'd forgotten to syringe feed Treacle after she passed, and I still sometimes wake up thinking I've slept through Leonards Gabapantin alarm and hes been gone since Christmas. Seems to be quite common!
 
Pound Shilling & Pig said:
The nightmares only stopped when I got some new piggies! That was 20 years ago and I've not been without piggies since or had any more nightmares!
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I've had the nightmares for the last few years but I swear they've become more..frequent? I don't know, but whatever it is, it's been since talk's started about moving and getting pigs again. I'm guessing it's not a coincidence.

VickiA said:
That’s a classic anxiety dream. I still wake up thinking I haven’t brought the rabbit in from her run (and she died many years ago). It certainly confuses me when I wake up.
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You'd think by now my brain would understand, we don't need more anxiety-stuff. I cause enough of it when I'm awake :td:
 
When I'm considering getting a new animal I have nightmares that I forget I've brought one and they die from neglect because I forgot about them. This would never happen as I love and care a lot about my animals but this is the main thing putting me off getting millipedes.
 
When I had my first dental guinea pig and was struggling to syringe feed him I kept having nightmares about him starving to death, I couldn't really sleep.

When that boar was younger he escaped from his c and c while on neuter wait, just an empty cage in the morning. That gave me nightmares that burglars had stolen the piggies. Possibly overestimating the value a burglar would put on a guinea pig 😊
 
I've had a regular nightmare for several years that someone has left a box on the door step. When I open it guinea pigs jump out and run down the road. In true nightmare style there's hundreds of piggies in this small box they just keep on jumping out. I run up and down the road chasing piggies getting more and more upset until I wake myself up.

For several weeks after Peanut was PTS I had nightmares about forgetting his metacam or that I'd overslept and not given it to him.
 
My memories of the nightmares are vague, but I think what keeps happening is someone keeps asking after the pigs, are they okay, when did I last see/feed them etc. And of course I panic because it's been so long.

There's a small segment in a Stephen King novel (I'm deliberately not mentioning which one, because spoilers) where a child had a rabbit and suddenly realised, after an extended period of time, that he forgot about his rabbit and he races to her, to find her dead for some time.

I'm pretty sure my nightmares follow that line of thought.
 
At my secondary school in the mid 80s, the science teacher forgot completely about the school gerbils over the summer holidays and they died. Unbelievable :rant:
 
My piggies were very ill when I got them a few months ago and I had nightmares about them dying like every other night until recently. They were very sick, but we treated it immediately so it wasn't like they were in any real danger of dying or anything 🙄 I have nightmares almost every night though.... at least they aren't about the piggies anymore 😅
 
Lorcan said:
I know this is a bit odd of a discussion topic, but I can't be the only one who wakes up panicking they haven't fed the guinea pigs? I haven't had pigs for over 3 years now and I still wake up like...heck, I'm not even sure if it is nightmare related or if it's my brain just being a (insert swearword of your choice) while it's trying to wake up. It's been an ongoing thing, it's not new, but I'd kinda figured it would have to calm itself down at some point and instead, I keep waking up panicking I haven't fed the guinea pigs I don't even have.

Please tell me someone else has this problem. I'm gonna feel really daft if I'm the only one, haha.
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I often have nightmares that the piggies have escaped and I cant find them! And I still sometimes wake up in a panic that I've forgotten to take my daughter to school or pick her up from school or I cant remember where I left her... she's 27 now lol :)
 
Yes, when I didn’t have pigs, I used to have nightmares about having but forgetting the pigs and then, once id remembered, being too scared to go to them incase they were dead/nearly dead/zombie pigs.
I would also have dreams where there were too many pigs, and there’s keep being more pigs and how do I find ‘my’ pigs and what do I do with all of these other pigs and how will I look after them etc etc.
Oddly, although my general anxiety has got worse as I’ve got older and a lot worse in the last several years, these dreams all but stopped once I got new pigs.
 
You have no idea how happy I am to find out it's not just me, lol. Being able to give a home to a couple of boars, it can't come quick enough if your experiences (yeah that's all of you so far) are anything to go by.
 
Yes we're all as sane 🤪 as each other when it comes to piggies 😂
I did have a nice dream. When I lost my original boar, I dreamt there were baby black Abyssinians running about, his babies maybe. This year I adopted 2 floofs. When I saw their photo I thought it was the baby Abyssinians. They're actually undersized, 5 year old Peruvians, doh, but they look like the piggies from the dream.
 

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Had a dream actually last night, about putting the Guinea pigs in the garden and them escaping under fence. Was searching town and only found one of them.
 
I’ve had them for years too! Think my worst have been with the (RB) chins though, as they’ve been my most troublesome of the beasts!
Loads with me having seizures while on the train and someone taking the carrier, escaping from the carrier on the train and of course forgetting meds for days! I had loads with Pedro when I was flushing his eye too, either his infection taking over his face, me stabbing him with the needle and hurting him or him losing his other eye! 🙈
I have the occasional one now where they’re back again, and my Jess and Rosie the cat, have the odd tear when I wake up after those when I realise it isn’t real! 🤦‍♀️
Crazy dreamy brains! :crazy:
 
God if I haven't gone running home after I've left to catch a bus as I am sure I haven't locked their cages. I subsequently miss my bus but do confirm that the cages are in fact locked and my piggies safe.
 
I had an actual bad dream last night. My bestie, a woman who I think extremely highly of in real life, was picking up my pigs by their heads. I was shocked, told her to stop and then showed her the correct way to pick them up. She got angry and defensive about it. Like yikes, completely different from real life. Thank god it was just a dream, I have no idea where it came from, but now I have an image in my mind of her doing that to my piggies :(
 
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