Thread by @AlexandraErin

So the good news is after going to bed at eleven, I was asleep by like midnight or shortly after.

The bad news is I woke up around 3:30 after dreaming about my boyfriend being dragged down into a lake by (mutant clip art) alligators.

In my dream we were helping a mob doctor we knew dismember the corpses of mob family members who had taken an illegal youth drug that caused monstrous reanimation at some point after death.

And at one point we got distracted by visiting family members with one corpse remaining, and then we heard bellows and ran to investigate, and discovered it was (mutant clip art) alligator mating season.

I had no awareness these alligators looked weird. In my dream they were supposed to just be alligators but they looked like weird gecko pictures copied and pasted Birdemic style. I guess the VFX budget for this dream went to the mob zombie monsters.

I only thought about how weird they looked as I was waking up, which was also when I remembered that in the rest of the dream, I had been telekinetic, which is why our mob doctor friend had wanted us there.

And the bellowing noise was really a repetitive scratching noise in the ASMR track that had been playing on my sleep playlist, intruding into my dream.

Anyway. Guess I am getting out of bed, having stress pancakes, and trying again... probably at around the time I had been falling asleep lately anyway. Hopefully I won't sleep till noon.