I had three different, horrible nightmares last night that were so bad they woke me up in the middle of the night. I haven’t had a nightmare in so long and I didn’t even watch a scary movie or anything. It just happened. I don’t remember one of them, but the other two were about dogs. One was a vicious dog at my house that had……egh….eaten another dog and had almost eaten my dogs. The other one I remember better, and it was much more gruesome. There was a man with his legs and arms tied to little stakes that were hanging in mid-air (which, now that I think about it, is impossible) and the his head was held by something. The rest of his body was hanging. (This is where it starts to get bad.) A dog, with very human like expressions, was going to jump up and down on this guys body until it detached from his head. Like I said, gruesome. I think it was some kind of torture. The worst part was, that this dream was so vivid. I never have vivid dreams; I always forget them.

 I’ve also noticed that most of my nightmares are about dogs (which I love, by the way). The last one I had was about two years ago. There was this evil, little bitty white dog with the most vicious teeth I’ve ever seen. Come to think of it, I think it ate some dogs, too. It had blood all over it’s fur and there was blood everywhere. I woke up so terrified of dogs that I was scared my dog (who was asleep at the end of the bed) was going to attack me if I moved. I actually cried when I woke up because I was so scared.

The bad thing is, these dreams stay in my mind. I constantly think about them. I have to consciously move my mind away from them and think about something else, something really, really good. If I don’t, I’ll never get back to sleep.

 Is it just me, or are there a lot of things disturbing my sleep lately?