stress: never sleep again…
I seriously think my dreams are trying to tell me something.. or keep me from sleeping.. or kill me, I dunno.
I don’t know if this was stress-related or just my subconscious having a bit of fun with me. After spending much of the day off tending to my wounds and going near scorched earth on a bed bug problem* that I’d been ignoring**, I was happy to just get some sleep.
The long and short of it is that I found myself walking “home” in strange city after dark through a clearly not-so-good area. This didn’t seem to bother me until I noticed that one pair of a smoking/loitering duo detached from him partner and started following me. For some reason, I was kinda dressed up, maybe I’d just left a party. He comes up and says, “Yo man, can you spare $100?” After I said no, he grabbed my jacket and said he’d take what I had. I remember yelling, “Oh hell no, not tonight!” but losing nonetheless. Then I realized it was a dream and woke myself up–with no ill effects this time.
It was about 5 minutes before my alarm for the morning should have gone off. I glared at it for not realizing that my dream self was being mugged and intervening sooner. Admittedly not as disturbing as waking up to a bloody forehead, but still it has me thinking about asking a doctor to prescribe some Hypnocil just to get some dreamless sleep for a few nights. 😛
* It probably merits its own blog entry, but suffice to say I now own both impermeable pillow and mattress protectors, I’ve practically boiled all of my bedding and seared it dry and have spritzed bed bug repellent/killer† all around the bed and sheets. My entire apartment smells of cinnamon, it’s like living in a pack of Big Red.
** I think I was more in denial as the bites did appear, but I seem to be immune to the itchiness that others report. For a while, I thought I was just allergic to my sheets.
† I got a tiny drop of the stuff on my finger and it stung/burned for nearly an hour. I hope it’s just as effective on the bugs.
Hopefully, this won’t be recurring. It seems like with the stress of moving, bonking your head, and now this, you’ve gone through enough in a short period of time.
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Please let me know if there’s something I can do to be helpful. Stress and moving and sleep deprivation are not good.