Can't Sleep. Jericho. Bad Dreams.

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Posted by x_flaire_x on Tue 4 Mar 08, 10:57 AM

I broke a personal rule last night. I posted between the hours of two and six am. I couldn't sleep. Honestly, I simply couldn't. I know why. It always happen when I'm just about to start on the rag.

So there I found myself, wide awake and restless. I didn't want to put the TV on, just in case I woke Altheus. But at least the cat decided to stay up with me and keep me company. Which is something I haven't told you all about. Back in August I wrote a blog about a little cat who paid me a visit. Well, she came back three weeks ago and she hasn't left since. I take her outside, but she doesn't seem very keen to go more than a few yards away from me. I think she's our wonderful cat now. If she left, I'd be heartbroken.

Anyway, there was I, unable to sleep, so I decided to visit a website I know (suggested oddly by Abbadon a few months ago - you see, he was useful!) which has films and TV programmes to watch. Naughty, I know. On the front page was a link to a TV show called Jericho. No idea what it was about so I linked through. Didn't bother to read the blurb. Started watching it. Young man goes home after five years away. OK. So many minutes in, he leaves. OK. Then all the TVs, radios, phones stop working, nothing but static. OK. Then two children are outside, playing. They're playing hide and seek. The little girl is counting down and when she opens her eyes she sees her brother standing and looking at something. She tells him he has to hide better than that. The camera pans round to behind the boy. OK. He's watching a nuclear mushroom cloud on the horizon. OK...actually, no, not OK.

You see, I should have read the blurb. I should have stopped watching. But I didn't. In fact, I'm rather hooked. Two episodes later before I decided to keep the rest for another day.

I have bad dreams about nuclear war. Once, they happened maybe a couple of times a year. Always left me shaky the next day. But recently, they're happening more and more frequently. Every few weeks. I don't know why. They're terrifying. I don't know what they mean - if anything. I don't know why they're happening so often.

Strange.

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Edited Tue 4 Mar 08, 3:39 PM by x_flaire_x


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