02.10.2021

Dearest Night Owls,

Does anyone else, besides me, remember dreams? How does your dreams usually play out? Are they so vivid that you feel like you're reliving memories from a past life? Does it feel like you're stuck in a movie, not knowing what the lines of the script are or what direction you're supposed to take? Does your dreams make you feel like you must have been drugged or have consumed something that makes you feel like you're in a bad acid trip? Maybe, perhaps, all of the above?

Me? I do remember the majority, if not all, of my dreams. I can honestly say that the majority of the time that I dream, I have what you might consider nightmares or just horribly depressing dreams. Today, ironically enough, I had such a traumatic nightmare that I am almost too frightened now to go back to sleep in fear that I might live through it all over again. I said "ironically enough" because this afternoon, I attended my weekly Trauma Informed Care course. Before the course started, I did briefly sleep where I also dreamed a dream. Except, the first dream was not nearly as horrifying as the one after.