I have been prompted to write this blog, my first in far too long
after waking up in the middle of the night from a nightmare. We all get
them from time to time, we all fear them to some extent. (& if you
don’t, what’s your secret?).
For me this has changed. I have rarely suffered from nightmares in my
life, but those times that I have, I remember well… Despite being
really bad at remembering dreams… Tonight was my first in quite a while.
What differed this time was not the nightmare itself, that was as
scary as ever… But that I did not run! On the contrary, in this
nightmare I took control of the situation, armed myself and started
fighting back and hunting down what was supposed to be hunting me! When I
woke it was with adrenaline rushing through my system, the muscle
tension and rapid breathing normal with nightmares, but nothing more
than a mild anxiety to accompany it. No panic, fear or other terrors, I
felt composed and in complete control.
