Before last month I can't remember when I had a nightmare. I'm sure I had them, I just can't remember any of them. I think the last time I woke up actually frightened and my heart pounding was a very long time ago.
In the past month I have found myself having the same dream over and over. Each the same nightmare with me waking up exactly the same time every time. And every time I wake up I'm scared for my life.
Here is the dream:
I'm sleeping on the couch in the living room. I'm sleeping on my right side with my head on the right side of the sofa (It would be the right side if you were sitting on the couch). I'm trying to wake myself up but it feels like something is preventing me from fully awakening. I think I hear something but looking back in all my dreams I never HEAR anything. I not only feel someone there I know someone is there. They are walking towards me, yet as hard as I try I can not open my eyes. My heart pounds harder and faster with each passing second as I desperately try to wake up. I can sense the intruder is almost to me. I finally can open my eyes as I find a stranger in black swinging a black bat at my skull. I try to duck my head as I move my hands as fast as I can to hopelessly block the blow. I can feel the the bat just a millisecond away from exploding my head. I wake up from my horror. I wake up as scared as I ever been. Each time I swear it feels so damn real.
It takes me a minute to get my breathing back to normal, and another minute to be able to get to my feet and feel comfortable enough to walk around. I have no idea why I'm having this dream or why this dream only happens when I sleep on the couch. Wait I take that back it only happens when I sleep with my head on the RIGHT side of the sofa. It never happens when I sleep on the left side or when I sleep on my bed. I know many of you will tell me to just stop sleeping on the right side, and maybe I should but I'm so curious why I have the same nightmare only when I sleep in that particular position.
It's now to the point where I'm thinking too much about it. If I lay down on the couch to read or watch TV it pops into my head. I'm even hesitant about writing a blog about it since I could be jinxing myself. I can see the headline now, "Man who dreams on couch foresees his own bludgeoning." It might not make any major papers but some tabloid would run with it. So if you ever in some supermarket and see that headline in the World Weekly News next to the story how Bigfoot has gout you know the real story.
Seriously, other than to no longer take naps on my couch, is there any other way to make the dreams end? I wonder what it all means.