For the last two weeks, I've been getting very little sleep, and what sleep I have managed to fit in has been plagued with nightmares. At the very least, every other night I wake up in a cold sweat, and have an extremely difficult time reorienting myself; I can't close my eyes because of what I imagine is happening when I'm not looking, and I can't keep them open because I see strange things in the shadows. I'm a very light sleeper in the first place, so even normally, I wake up at least three or four times a night.

At first I just put it out of my mind, because I've been living with my aunt while taking this winter class. There's no light in the room I'm staying in, and my great-grandmother died somewhere in the house, so I imagined nightmares should be taken with a grain of salt. I'm still having them here at home, though, so I don't know what to attribute it to. Maybe not being busy enough.

Anyway, I took a sleeping pill about half an hour ago, so I hope this will do the trick. I can already feel a difference, and considering how sensitive I am to medicine, I'm glad I didn't take two (the recommended dose). We don't want to repeat the infamous nighttime benadryl episode, now, do we? Here's hoping for just one decent night of sleep.