Passing Through Realms Or Realms Of Reality

I woke up in my room

At least it looked like my room

I was in the same house and same bedroom, but it looked like the future

It was clear, full-colour and as real-looking as being awake in this world

My bed is in a different position in the room. Set in the middle of the South end of the room, with my feet facing North

Where as my bed is now, normally (as it has been for 7-8 years) against the South wall with my feet facing East

I pick up a measuring cup next to my bed I use for feeding my tropical and native fish in the morning

I have a large tank with clown loaches, kuhlii loaches, black widow tetra, black neon tetra, runny nose tetra and guppies

But the tank also contains some beautiful and (relatively) rare native fish Mary River rainbowfish, only found in particular creeks off one particular river in the world and a school of threadfin rainbowfish that are only found in one particular swamp in the world

I say relatively rare, but the fish are not endangered, or as risk. It is just rare for them to be seen inside someones fish tank

I am probably one of the only people in the world that has them in a home aquarium

I tell you this, to give you context and understand why I freak out in a moment

For some reason I have left the feed cup by the bed, which I never do

And for some reason it has a dried version of the bloodworms I normally feed them in the bottom of the cup

As if it had been left out in the sun to dry out all the water and harden

I add water from another cup next to my bed to redehydrate the contents of the cup, and the dried contents on the bottom not only form hydrate back into food, it is live food. A small school of tiny fish

Something that confuses me for a moment. But the fish will love it

I walk out to do my morning routine and pour it in the tank, but now the cup of covered in ants as well somehow

The fish won't mind. They probably love eating some live ants off the surface of the water, so I tip the cup into the tank and wash it through the water

Then I notice the neon light is not working on the tank

Not just this, but the water-level is way higher than I set it to

My sister, who lives with me, is there and I ask her about why the water-level is so high and the the light isn't working, while I try fix it, by re-seating the tube

The light comes on and the tank water is milky

So milky, that I can't see anything in the tank

I instantly freak out, realising something very bad has happened

I look on the shelf above where all the food and medications sit, but they are gone

They must be in the tank!

I stick my hand into the tank as quickly as I can go pull out the bottles which must be leaking in the tank. There is formaldehyde and all sorts of different poisons that could be leaking in the water

Of course, in the real world, the bottles wouldn't leak, they would simply float in the water, but it all happened so quickly, I didn't have time to rationalise anything but what must have happened for the water to be so milky

But in the water I found nothing

I couldn't feel anything in the tank at all

"There is nothing in there" I told me sister. "No fish. No ornaments. No plants. Nothing"

As I'm standing there looking at the tank, reasoning how this could be possible, trying to work out what happened ...

Reality starts shifting

My vision flashes between layered realms and realities

I could have even been moving through time

The tank stayed almost exactly the same, but everything about it flashed between different realities

The contents of the tank shifted

I saw a tank with a turtle in it, instead of fish

Then flashes of different tank set ups

Some with different ornaments

Some with logs

Some with different fish. Different lighting

"Hold on", I said to my sister. "I think my vision is returning"

Though it felt a little strange to me that the dimensions of reality were visibly shifting in front of my eyes, it felt more as though I was confused, and a little annoyed, as to 'why' it was happening

I focused on the tank and it felt like I was concentrating on realigning the correct version of reality

Like manually tuning in an old television set

Returning myself back to my native world/realm and reality

The tank eventually returned to normal, like flicking through different channels, overlayed on top of each other

The turtle and all other versions of the tank disappeared and I was back where I should be

I woke up here, for real this time, in my bed

And immediately went out to check on my fish. Who were thankfully, all alive and happy