Brain Stew

Good morning, my Lovelies! Happy Thursday! I hope the sun is shining in your corner of the world and that you are having an amazing week! My week, as usual, feels like it has been hectic and a little overwhelming. But, somehow, someway, I will survive. Please picture me with the back of my hand gently pressed to my forehead with a look of longing crossing my face as I stare off into the distance. I call this my Gone With the Wind, Scarlett O'Hara pose. After all, tomorrow is another day...

I have a confession to make. I have nightmares. I have nightmares often and sometimes I remember them, sometimes I don't. But each and every time I do have them, one thing always happens, I moan and/or scream loudly with them. My family has become accustomed to hearing these horrendous sounds coming from me in the middle of the night, sometimes even twice a night, and rarely think anything of it. But it is always a concern to me whenever I'm on trips with others, or when visiting family. 

It has happened when I've visited my parents and my mother has called me out on it. You see, she has suffered from the same thing for as long as I can remember. Can this be something that is generational? I wouldn't think so, but I can tell you that our nightmares have more in common than just the moaning/screaming loudly. You see, it's almost as if our nightmares are portents - harbingers of bad news or bad things to come. 

Laugh if you want but I've experienced it time and again. I've said for years now that we are psychic or have some psychic abilities and my husband laughs at me. But I truly believe this. (No, I'm not going to start reading auras and palms!)

I do feel that it happens more often when I'm mentally exhausted and lately, that seems to be my status quo. Between my job, my writing, the everyday things, preparing to send one child to college, my parents declining health, worry over both of my children...my brain never gets a break! It would be so nice to be able to just turn my brain off for a while and get some much-needed and long-overdue rest.

But that isn't going to happen. So, if you travel with me, be prepared. I promise you, the sounds of my nightmares are enough to make you have nightmares of your own.

Until next time, and as always,

Much love and affection, from me to you!

Shelly (a/k/a Dawn Love)

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