And after a perfecr night of sleep....

...comes a night of tossing and turning and bad dreams.

Last night was that night.

I couldn't fall asleep at first, but I was just so tired.  My left knee was aching, and my feet hurt, and I just couldn't get comfortable.

Finally when I fell asleep the dreams began.  Well, I am not sure.   I could have slept a while, the the dreams started.  Who knows?

But start they did and they were bad.

Being held down by an ugly man who said he was going to beat me.

Having huge blood bubbles on my feet, the a huge ugly lady pinching them off of my feet and biting into them, spewing blood everywhere.

Losing my copy of Little Women that I had had since I was a little girl.  I had put it, along with another book, on a table in a lobby while I was checking in (maybe to see a doctor) and when I returned, the books were gone.  I searched and searched and finally found the copy of Little Women on the floor in a dirty room but the cover was ripped off and many pages were missing.

Finally I was with a group of people, trying to help them in some way, and Kayley Cervenka Kasten had some type of cut or wound on her arm.  She was concerned because she needed antibiotics and needed to be moved to a safer place with qualified medical personnel.  She knew she needed the antibiotics because she had had a knee replacement and, she told me in a hushed voice, she was pregnant again and needed special care so the baby was not harmed.

Aren't these bizarre?

I always try to find connections for the reasons for my dreams and I might have some.

First - the beating.  Gary and I were taking a quiz that Greta sent me about marriage and family relationships.  Several of the questions dealt with abuse between marriage partners or within a family.  That could be the connection to the first part of the dream.  I woke myself up on that one, by the way.

Second - my feet had been hurting because of all of the walking at Disney World and they still haven't recovered completely.  Another connection to a dream...

Third - Megan and I had talked about seeing the movie Little Women. I would love to see it, but I don't think that Gary would enjoy it and there isn't time for the girls to see it with me.  I don't think Hilary would like it anyway.  I had been thinking about pulling my book out and re-reading it though.  Thus the book part of the dream...

Fourth - blood bubbles   A little bubble appeared on my hand on Saturday morning.  I am not sure whether I pinched my hand in some way or hit it on something but that little blood bubble appeared.   I have been watching it, and while it is fading, it hasn't completely disappeared yet.

Finally - Kayley.  We were just talking about her.  Gary had read an article in the Pulaski County Journal about Caston girls' basketball team breaking a losing streak against West Central that had been going on since 2001.  Hilary was playing then.  We were talking about Hilary's final conference game at West Central and how they had beaten TriCounty that night with Hilary nearly breaking Karlene's school record for three-pointers.  Gary mentioned that it was also the night that Kayley had gone down with a torn ACL.  So there you go.  Final connection.

But her being pregnant?  Maybe the dream is trying to tell us some news?

You never know.

It was a rough night for dreams, but I am glad I figured out why the dreams may have happened.  I just don't want another night like that again.