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Unsettling Night
Oct. 28th, 2007 09:59 amIt's always interesting to me what constitutes a "nightmare". I think a nightmare is not about whether or not the dream images are explicitly scary, but how it makes you feel. I've had dreams that could have been nightmares, but felt more like satisfying adventures. And I've had dreams with non-scary images that left me with a pounding heart and my light turned on for the rest of the night.
Last night was unsettling. Readers of my primary journal know that Friday night and Saturday morning were very hard for me as I continued to process LM's death (May 31st). I had a nice afternoon and evening with a friend, but when I went to bed around 10:30 I was very tired and feeling very, very lonely. Going to sleep was made more difficult by the fact that I kept hearing what I thought could be sounds of someone trying to get into the house: like a key in my front door, or rattling that could be my garage door. Each time it proved to be nothing, but it left me edgy.
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Last night was unsettling. Readers of my primary journal know that Friday night and Saturday morning were very hard for me as I continued to process LM's death (May 31st). I had a nice afternoon and evening with a friend, but when I went to bed around 10:30 I was very tired and feeling very, very lonely. Going to sleep was made more difficult by the fact that I kept hearing what I thought could be sounds of someone trying to get into the house: like a key in my front door, or rattling that could be my garage door. Each time it proved to be nothing, but it left me edgy.
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