Clowns will eat me
Published on April 23, 2006 By pseudosoldier In Life Journals
Or at least very large dog-things.

I'm playing a game, and someone has an unfair game piece... it's hard to explain, but it seems to "break" the game until upon further inspection, it's not that broken a piece at all, it's just kind of innovative. You think it's not fair, but it's not unfair it's just different.

And my sister's there, or maybe it's not my sister, but it's a woman that I know and I have deep affection for. Something's wrong, so maybe it's my sister, and I sympathize and I empathize with her, but I can't fix her problem.

And then I'm in a car and it's dark and I'm frantic to lock the doors because this is (one of?) the thing(s) that happened to my sister(?). And I've got the doors closed, and I just finish locking them when the dog or wolf or whatever starts pawing at the handle, and somehow begins opening the door little by little (how is that possible on a car door?) and I feel myself moving with the car's shaking...

And I wake up. The movement was real. For whatever reason, I started rocking my body and shifting down on the couch away from the pillow. My right shoulder blade still feels the pressure of whatever that thing was pounding on the door though.

And then I'm awake, and I have a (diet) soda and a bowl of generic Lucky Charms and watch a movie.

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on Apr 23, 2006
I can never remember my dreams in such detail....but reading this, I'm actually quite glad. No wonder you can't sleep now! When I can't sleep I have this little thing I do, that is quite strange. I only wear one sock....one sock on, one sock off (slightly karate kid, hehe). I have no idea what it does, but it works for me!

Hope you manage to sleep soon!
on Apr 23, 2006

and I second Sally's good wishes for you regarding sleep!

Isn't it odd how in our sleep we have feet that turn to clay? how we can't run away no matter how hard we try?

I had nightmares last night tooo,  about monsters ( ghosts and ghouls!)  and woke up about 45 minutes ago really agitated! 

Let's pray we both get some solid sleep tonight!

on Apr 23, 2006
I got up at about 0130, did those things I mentioned, and started some laundry. I went back to sleep just after 0430 and slept off and on until 0900 when I got up to get ready for Mass.

I was waking up every half hour on the half hour at the beginning of that with more weird dreams. I woke up at 0900 with another one... my sleep cycle was stuck in REM sleep until about 0600 it seems. Guess it's the stress.

I don't remember those later dreams well at all, and it's because I just rolled over and went back to sleep. The one at 0900 I have a pretty good idea of what it was about, but I started thinking of other things immediately so I'm not certain. Those are the two biggest obstacles to remembering my dreams...

Sleep well.