Why I started this blog

One day in the wee hours of the morning, when I was around eight years old, my mom awoke to the sound of barking. The sound was emanating from my room, loud and clear, and my mother would have quickly dismissed it except for one very weird fact: We didn't own a dog.

She opened the door to my bedroom and peeked inside, only to discover that her dearly beloved only daughter, ME, was the one doing the raucous barking...while I was fast asleep.

Since then, I have awoken many a-brethren with my audible nighttime sojourns. Now that I'm older, I no longer bark in my sleep (thank God); however, I do from time to time find that I have the most intense, theatrical, and sometimes downright humorously absurd dreams. And I have them often, too. I know it's probably due to the fact that I'm a very light sleeper, and that my neighbor's dog two houses down giving a yawn is enough to startle me awake because SOMEONE YAWNED SO LOUDLY. I know I have issues with sleep, and there have been many nights when I have poked Darling Hubby awake and asked him if heard that yawn and he'll tell me to shut up. It's this thing I have, inexplicable, annoying, and weird.

I was talking about one of my more crazy dreams to one of my friends, explaining the aliens and cane-wielding gun slingers (yea, you think I'm joking?) my brain had conjured up the night before, when, between chuckles, she said to me, Y'know, you really should blog about this.

And I thought, yeah. Why not? Why not take something so very personal as my dreams (and nightmares) (believe you me, I've had plenty of the latter as well) and expose it all here? If anyone ever asks what it is I'm doing right now, I can just simply say, SMEARING MY SOUL ACROSS A WEB PAGE, thankyouverymuch.

If anything, it will help me to see just how truly INSANE I really am. Chronicling my neuroses might even shed some light onto why I feel the way I do during the daytime, and how those fears are manifest during my night time.

Nighty Night is not meant to interpret dreams in any way, form, or manner. My belief is that my dreams are just my brain's way of sorting through the stresses and messes of my waking hours and sometimes communicate to me a fear or desire that I am just not up to facing at the moment. I don't want to hear interpretations, or how the purple unicorn in my dream is symbolic of my latent fear of toenail clippings. However, if you ever want to share something funny / interesting / not too (too) scary that you've recently dreamed / thought of / randomly coughed up this very second, please. Feel free to share. It would honestly be nice to know I'm not the only nut job here.