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Woke up from a nightmare just a little while ago. As a rule I get about one nightmare every two years or so, though I've had several this year. The anomaly's probably explained by the fact that I'm highly stressed. Anyway, I remember that the dream was a nightmare but can't remember much about it other than that some guy kept playing music that rendered people unconscious. Oh, and someone was apparently turned into a winter coat, as I kept talking to the coat as if it were a person. Maybe I was just crazy.

Woke up to a hideously overheated house--someone's been playing with the thermostat again. I did a manual override, so now of course I'm freezing. And now somebody's running the washing machine, which is making deep grumbling sounds full of menace. Yeah, I should go back to sleep. Good night.

Another dream

Here's another one I remember from last night:

Standing at the edge of a rough wooden balcony, looking down at the grassy plot of ground a little too far below. Buffy the Vampire Slayer comes into the scene, jumps off the balcony, then looks up and calls to her kid sister Dawn to follow. Dawn's voice is heard saying "I--I don't want to, Buffy, it's too high. Can't you bring me that ladder over there?"

Buffy, impatient, tells Dawn it's time she learns to do things on her own. Reluctantly, Dawn comes into view and jumps.

Camera follows Dawn down to the ground where she lands hard. So hard that at first it's difficult to tell what's being shown, but the view resolves into a Dawn who's been so compressed that all you see is her head, a leg about three inches long, and one very long, flat foot she's trying to get a precarious balance on. Dawn screams and whimpers, "Buffy! I can't do anything! I can't go anywhere! It hurts... it hurts..." Dawn looks up to where Buffy's face should be, loses her balance entirely and topples over backwards with her wide eyes staring upward.

What Dawn is staring at turns out not to be Buffy, but a demon with large, orangish feet covered with little horns. One horny foot comes down and stomps on Dawn, then prehensile toes fashion the goo-who-used-to-be-Dawn into the shape of a LifeSaver candy, complete with the raised lettering.

Commercial break. I woke up before the next scene.

Please don't analyze this. I don't want to know.