Insomnia and nightmares. Serves me right for reading scary ghost stories while in the house alone. Slept with lights on, fitfully, drugged with valerian and passionflower, until I remembered how extremely psychically warded Adam had made our house. Nothing can get past the oak tree, not malevolent spirits nor benevolent spirits. I knew this, I tried to remember this. Silly imagination was silly, I said. Luna slept on or against my legs all night, purring.
I do very, very badly with irrational fear. One frightening tale or film and I huddle against my headboard for hours when I should be sleeping, waiting for Something that grins a skeletal grin to creep onto my bed and touch my face with a decaying hand. Can't watch trailers or previews for horror films, particularly Japanese horror or remade Americanized Japanese horror. Can't read horrifying ghost stories that read in the second person. Not without dealing with a screaming, shivering, shell-shocked inner child. I should have left that webpage after the first few stories, really, but morbid curiosity is morbid. Particularly when I must sleep completely alone.
I'll go for a quick walk, to clear my head. Need to take the bus to the CVS, to refill a prescription. Seeing people will calm me.
Tomorrow calls for snow showers. Sigh.
I do very, very badly with irrational fear. One frightening tale or film and I huddle against my headboard for hours when I should be sleeping, waiting for Something that grins a skeletal grin to creep onto my bed and touch my face with a decaying hand. Can't watch trailers or previews for horror films, particularly Japanese horror or remade Americanized Japanese horror. Can't read horrifying ghost stories that read in the second person. Not without dealing with a screaming, shivering, shell-shocked inner child. I should have left that webpage after the first few stories, really, but morbid curiosity is morbid. Particularly when I must sleep completely alone.
I'll go for a quick walk, to clear my head. Need to take the bus to the CVS, to refill a prescription. Seeing people will calm me.
Tomorrow calls for snow showers. Sigh.