Nightmare
[UPDATE: Video version here. Same story, a few more details.]
I’m subbing for an LSAT class this morning, and I only found out yesterday, so I haven’t prepped the lesson very well. I really needed to sleep tonight, but even though I went to bed right at midnight for what would’ve been a not-quite-adequate seven hours of sleep, I tossed and turned (not even thinking about LSAT or anything in particular, just unable to sleep) and didn’t drift off until around 2:00.
Now I’m up early, as you can see, but not by choice. I just had the most awful nightmare I’ve had in months. Most of the dream was a long, slow story that was of course quirky, but not very emotionally charged. But then all of a sudden things went all to shit and the last few minutes shot from boredom to confusion to worry to terror. I woke up right before I found out just how imminent my death was, but as I was waking up, the dream rewound itself and replayed the last minute or so, and this time IT WAS WORSE.
I’m going to try to go back to sleep now, though I don’t know how productive that will be, as my first alarm is set to go off in half an hour. Though I feel awake at the moment, I know that I’m nowhere near well-rested, and I can’t even imagine starting my day, not to mention teaching, on the sleep I’ve had.