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Created on: June 05, 2008
"Midnight dreaming" Off goes the light, and darkness comes and hits me like a speeding train. I wait silently for sleep to come. My eyes open and close till I'm no longer aware of anything; it feels like death, but it isn't. Shapes take form in my head and start becoming real people, real places, and events. It all slips past me like a movie and here I'm in the audience watching everything unfold before my eyes. Then I appear in the midst of chaos and I envision something dark and unreal. The movie ends with me plummeting to earth. Day breaks through the blinds in he window and I wake up to another nightmare.
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