Terror

Bad dreams can be so awful they put a pall over a whole day.

Dreams so real that I cannot imagine knowing them without experiencing them.

Yet I did.

Dreams so traumatic that it is vital for me to remember they are not real.

I cannot think of a movie, television show, or book that could have precipitated last night's dream, but I know it never happened to me.

What I don't know is how every experience in it was so real in every sense. I can still feel everything in it, even now. I remember the smells, the touch, the terror and futility.

It makes me wonder.