When Nightmares Are a Part of Your Day By Terri Rimmer
From the time I was three years old, I’ve had nightmares. And I remember the very first one I had because it became a recurring one for a very long time. When I tell you what it was you’ll at first think it’s very silly and that it doesn’t sound like a nightmare at all but to a child it very much was. I asked an older woman if I could borrow a pencil and she handed it to me. Then I was going through a tunnel. Then my body became heavy, then light, then heavy, then light. But then it felt like I couldn’t breathe and everything was going in slow motion and she was talking very slow to me, then very fast. I remember running to my parents and trying to explain the dream to them and why it was so terrifying to me but they couldn’t understand. I would continue to have this nightmare periodically. Maybe because I was an abused child, nightmares would plague me all my life and continue through present day at the age of 52. I wake up every hour with nightma