Dreaming.

i think my terrapin dreams.

on my way to the toilet and back at this unearthly hour, i see my terrapin with limbs splayed out, eyes shut and head slightly above the water.
i can even hear him breathing ever so softly.

he twitches his head every few minutes and his eyelids flutters a little - no, he's not having fits.
i believe it's called REM (click here for wiki link).


do animals dream?


what could the little movements of my terrapin mean? does he dream of frolicking in the fresh, clear ponds of some mountain in the land of Nod?
does he dream of chasing a fish, hunting down his prey before devouring it whole?

or does he simply dream of flying gloriously like a bird, or running on the savannah like a lion?


does he dream of escaping this prison in an unknown house situated far from a body of water - Bedok Reservoir, where his brethren are smashed mercilessly against rocks by step-macho dragonboaters, having their faces and skulls torn out by illegal fishermen and having their eyes burned by the chlorinated water?

does he dream of greater things?






or maybe he's just sleeping and feeling uncomfortable.