Nightmare!

Unfortunately when we lay down to rest and slip into the world of dreams there is a chance it can all go wrong. Recently that happened to me. One night I awoke having had what you would call nightmares. :( they were very short but they were enough to make me want to wake up. When you get to the feeling that this cant be real and you just want to wake up, and somehow your brain listens and you do. 

The first of these short nightmares consists of what I can only describe as a very big pterodactyl, if you have seen the movie Evolution it looks something like the one in that. Anyway the pterodactyl is tearing up the place and needs sorting out, somehow it comes to be that the only way to stop this terrifying monster is for me to dress up like something similar and fight it, bizarre I know. As you can imagine I'm not feeling too optimistic about this idea but I go ahead with it anyway and strap some form of winged instrument to my back and away I went. Luckily this is where my brain kicks in and thinks it's time to wake up. So I do, but this momentarily bliss does not last long...

because before I know it I am being chased by a huge crocodile, that can stand on its hind-legs and run like humans can, round and round my house. Not fun as you can imagine, this game of cat and mouse, or more appropriately human and crocodile, goes on for while until my brain seems to get bored and ups the intensity. Suddenly I become aware that my mum is in the living room and has no idea that her life is in danger. I try to call out to her. At first she doesn't believe me but after entering the hallway and seeing the crocodile she decides to join me in running for my life. That's when again I don't want to hang around to find out the ending to this nightmare and choose to wake up! :)

But funnily enough I would rather have these kind of nightmares every night if it meant I didn't have to have the kind of dream I had last night! Or should I say nightmare. It has got to be one of the worst ones I have ever had and I have had some pretty nasty ones. Just ask my friend Becca, I once woke up after having seen her head impaled on a stick!? But this dream didn't feature my friends it was my family that was in danger, and there is nothing worse than dreaming about those closest to you being in trouble. 

I won't go into too much detail as this was more of a novel than a short story, like the other nightmares. This dream took place on the moors where I work. My Mum, Dad and brother Andrew were all up on the moors with me. My Mum and Dad were with their cars in the car park where I work, when suddenly a huge fire broke out on nearby buildings. At one point in the dream one of these buildings collapses and sends down burning rubble down the hill and straight for me and my family. I duck behind my car as it comes crashing down either side of me, I can feel bits of the rubble burning me. I wait anxiously as the last pieces fall. At this point, I am scared to get up again to see the damage caused or worse to see that my parents didn't make it to cover in time.

 Eventually after what feels like an age I get up and with a huge sigh of relief I see that my parents had managed to get to their car as well. I take in my surroundings and see not everyone was as lucky as we were. After this, panic really sets in and my Mum begins screaming for my brothers name. All we know was that he was the other side of a huge section of heather. Dad being the hero that he is forces my Mum to get into my car so we can drive to safety and get out any more danger. We leave my dad behind with the other car to look for Andrew. This is where my brain kicks in as I can't bear the idea of leaving my Dad and Brother behind, and I wake up. I feel so sick and my eyes are prickly from the emotions this nightmare caused. 

Having such vivid dreams isn't always a good thing, the pictures are still so clear in my head and it still makes me sick thinking about what I saw. It's not often I get such scary dreams but this definitely was one of the worst. The only good thing I actually saw in this dream was that my car happened to be a gorgeous mini cooper S (instead of the Citroen Saxo I actually drive) but even that got battered with burning brick, so all in all not a good week for dreams! :( Hopefully next weeks will consist more of handsome men and fluffy kittens!