i mean, i guess at least i slept

i usually don't sleep very well, but last night i passed out after reading to mr smear and woke up this morning, and i don't recall there being much of the usual "not sleeping" going on throughout the night.

so that was good.

but i did have two consecutive nightmares just prior to 6am that were so awful that i jumped out of bed to get as far away from it as possible.

in the first, i was on a military base and we barely thwarted a night attack by what appeared to be a faction of our own side. there was a lot of bloodshed and, while i don't remember exactly who it was now, i ended up having to shoot someone i knew.

in the second, i was trapped in some little cottage somewhere with another couple of people, and we realized that this place was infested with horrifically oversized, hairy scorpions and crab-like spiders and other weird and dangerous creatures. i woke up in real life after having been woken up from a nap in the dream with one creature under my armpit and another biting into my hand, trying to get them off without flailing.