Hope Rides Alone

I seldom get nightmares. I have bad dreams, yeah, mostly to do with being stuck in the ground while my cat waltzes out the door into the big bad world (she's an indoor cat and I live in a place that's dangerous for small pets to be outside alone at night) or things that are upsetting or disturbing in the dream but not frightening when I wake up.

When I do have a real nightmare it's very rare, and it tends to be me being slightly awake and thinking there's some shadowy shape watching me. 
Like just now. I screamed a LOT. And once I realized I was awake I realized I was about to fall out of my bed. That wouldn't be that big a deal for most people, but my bedstead is very old and thus very high off of the ground. So that was scary too. And I'm all shaky and stuff. And Facebook is down so I can't talk to my friends from college who are no doubt up right now too. 

I was trying to do the right thing and go to sleep at a semi-decent hour. Now I don't want to go back to sleep. 

I'm gonna find something nice to watch. Then listen to an audiobook. And maybe sleep again. I'm so tired.