Fishing dreams

On occasion I have dreams of fishing, something I used to love dearly throughout my life...
I gave up fishing a little after going vegetarian...  Funny thing is, it was way more difficult to give up fishing than giving up eating meat.  Perhaps because with giving up eating meat, there's a selfish benefit.  The benefit of better physical health.  Giving up fishing meant giving up a lifelong passion...

So in my latest dream I was fishing without a license in an area where it might have been prohibited to fish.  My cousins girlfriend was with me...  Some guy who lived at the beach muttered some spiritual sounding words that somehow comforted me into being okay with fishing in the area...

I found a little shallow area... I spotted my prey, gently lobbing my lure towards a large looking eel-like fish...  A smaller crayfish like thing grabbed my lure instead.  I reeled it in then started putting it in front of my cousin's girlfriend's face, teasing her and scaring her.  As I was about to return the little lobster-like creature to the water, it turned into a mini human doll that was alive.  Suddenly it expired, the life fading away.  The area I was supposed to return it to said "Scientists Here!"  I felt so incredibly guilty...  What had I done?  *Poof I wake up*

I had sudden thoughts and wishes to be more "monk-like" upon waking. LOL.  I wondered what it would be like to truly renounce worldly pleasures.  How does one live like that?