Mar 31
I have been getting into the habit for the past few days of sleeping for 9+ hours each night. However, to say that I am actually asleep for 9 hours wouldnt really be true. I wake up 3 or 4 times throughout the middle of the night and stay awake each time for 5-20 minutes, so by trying to sleep for 9 hours I am managing to actually get 7-8 hours of sleep. Actually making an effort to sleep has led to an unexpected side effect, I have had long, intricate, and extremely vivid dreams every single night. They say that everyone dreams every night but we simply don't remember most of them. Whether that's true or not, it would seem that my nightly adventures have taken a turn towards the powerful. Every morning I wake up feeling seriously impacted by a dream I can remember with startling clarity. Hours later I still remember the details that I would usually lose within minutes of waking. In a way it's pretty cool. In a way, it isn't. Last night I had a pretty intense nightmare that forced me awake three different times. Around 4am, even after waking I felt scared. The desperate attempts to convince myself that there actually wasn't a creature in my closet were generally unsuccessful. I began imagining scenarios where a psychopath would choose my apartment as the next target of their horrible rage. Again, I thought to myself, “What are the odds that a maniac would choose MY apartment, of all the apartments everywhere?” That helped for a while… but only until I realized that every killing spree has to start somewhere, and it would just as easily be my bedroom as anyplace else. I had a rough go of it for thirty minutes but somehow managed to slip back into a dream slightly less terrifying than reality. Ultimately I awoke 5 minutes before my alarm was set to go off. I love that.
Nobody Cares Yet.