Birthday Month 2023 August 19: Saturday already?

[elisem]

My sleep was actually shifting into something not unlike "average sleep times" when last night I had a nightmare that completely derailed it. After nightmares, I don't usually need to stay up and calm down, probably because I've had lots of practice, but this one was unusually bad, so I read for a few hours afterwards to get the taste out of my mind, as Mike used to say. And I forgot to take the round of meds I should have taken then, meaning that now there's a bit of adjustment to be made. Complicated meds tetris. Sigh.

Today's perfume is Amber & Incence from Haus of Gloi. The bottle says "two nag champa blends, dragons blood (sic; apparently they do not believe in the Oxford comma) and Somalian frankincense" and it's pretty darn nice. I was discombobulated enough on waking a half hour ago that it filled my head with whimsical thoughts of the Somalian frankincense maybe feeling at home here because there are so many Somali-Americans in the neighborhood. It's a lovely perfume and much more delicate than one might imagine.

Today's ambitions include: get farther on the thing I am beta reading, put more pieces up im the Etsy shop, finish one bit of paperwork which involves going through the receipts I found in the grand paperwork quest I completed the other day (yay me!), get to the workbench, and whatever else on the to do list I can reach.

The air outside is better than expected, i.e. still in the yellow zone and not in the orange. Not good enough to open workshop windows when it cools down, though, unless it improves a lot,

It may be a discombobulated day, but enough sleep (finally) has left a feeling of deep calm, whichI am duly savoring. Add some workbenching to that, and it might get a person feeling pretty darn good, even in the midst of all the other things.

Do you have nightmares? What helps you, when they happen?
What are you in the midst of?
And when have you felt deep calm lately?

Comments

[azurelunatic]

I often have the Healing Power of Catte, who likes to sit on me if I'm the available human who is willing to pet her in the middle of the night.

[pameladean]

I was horribly plagued by anxiety dreams for quite some time, the ones where superficially the situation is not dire, but, not matter what you need to do, you cannot achieve it, and time slows down and slllooowwwwsss down until you are incredibly stressed. SLEEP SHOULD NOT INCLUDE stress, and that goes for regular nightmares too.

Much arghful sympathy on the medication tetris. Mine is driving me to distraction and I may have to talk to the doctor about it.

I am still in the midst of taxes and deep calm is a place that I hope to visit in a better time.

P.

[mrissa]

Yes, I do have nightmares, and what helps depends on the severity. The ones that are bad dreams, getting up and drinking a glass of water and reminding myself that I am not in that situation any more is enough. The ones where I scream, not much helps. I wish I had better advice.

What I am in the midst of oh gosh oh gosh well. [Count The Count voice] One. One whole lot. Ah ah ah. Two. Two whole lots. Ah ah ah....