i’ve been having nightmares pretty frequently recently, which has been a bit unnerving.
in one of them, i’m in a nurse’s office in the basement of what i assume to be a boarding school, and there is a boy restrained, strapped to an operating table somewhere in the room.
he manages to free himself and starts repeatedly stabbing the nurse, and so i run upstairs. i see the other boys (it’s an all boys boarding school) in their little navy, red-trimmed blazers but for some reason i can’t warn them.
instead i just hide somewhere while the murderer comes up the stairs. i watch him approach one of the other boys (and i have a crush on this other boy even though i don’t think it’s anyone i would recognize in real life). the murderer’s holding a backpack and hiding a knife, and as the other boy unsuspectingly starts to approach him, he throws the backpack at him to stun him and starts to stab him too.
and then all the other boys start to freak out and the murderer hunts them all down.
this happens over and over again in a loop and for some reason i’m never able to warn anyone or stop it from happening.
then i woke up, went to the bathroom, and when i went back to sleep i had another nightmare, although it wasn’t as violent or as extreme as the first.
in this one, i’m on a bus on what i know is a long trip (it’s a greyhound bus or something), but my presto card isn’t working (for some reason i need to use my presto card) and i’m freaking out about it a little bit.
i don’t really remember what happens next but, i remember feeling really anxious and sressed out.
we finally get to our destination, and i’m off the bus with my luggage in hand, and i’m waiting for my boss wes for some reason and he’s taking forever.
eventually, he comes to find me and i yell at him and then he says “you should be grateful, if i didn’t pay all those taxes all three of us would’ve been thrown off the bus” or something to that effect, and i have no idea who the third person he’s referring to was.
the next night i had another series of weird nightmares but i can’t remember them at all.
i’ve been having pretty restless sleeps and i keep waking up too early, then trying to get back to sleep, and then waking up too late.
my mom says she’s started putting pink himalayan salt into her morning tea and it’s been making her sleepy.
maybe i should start having a cup of that salted tea before bed.