I had some crappy, stupid, irritating dreams today. So annoyingly bland, in fact, that I repeatedly awoke myself in order to escape them. Not scary, not disturbing. Just stupid and foolish. Yet every time I went back to sleep, it was right back to the same stupid bullshit. I rested poorly. 

Waking up, I set about cleaning my appartment somewhat, and, surprise of surprises, I found a hand-written account of a dream I'd had some years ago. It was significantly more interesting, and I sighed wistfully, reading it, wishing my mind could have engaged itself with something this interesting during my rest. 

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I dream of being chased across the rooftops of some crumbling city by great hairless cats, with milky-white skin and empty eyes, their mouths filled wih teeth made of broken glass and rusty knife blades. Their paws make wet, slapping sounds as they pound against the shingles of the roofs they bound across, and I know - without knowing how I know - that they're herding me into the ocean, where something unspeakable is waiting for me. 

The sky above me is a muddy red, and the sun is nothing more than a smear of colour amidst the clouds, and as I run, I feels as though I'm lost in its morass, gliding through its clinging substance as the cats behind me grow ever closer. 

When I finally catch sight of the ocean, it's the greasy, oily stew of a grease trap that I see, stretching off to forever. A vast beast rises out of it, like a kraken, its tendrils oozing ashore, encircling entire buildings, crushing them into pulp, blood gushing from their windows as they fall, screaming. 

I am encircled; snarling cats behind me, sea creature ahead of me, and it feels as though the sky is suffocating m from above. I collapse into a fetal position, and I scream. 

It is in this position, screaming, that I wake up, drenched in sweat and shivering violently. 

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I wish I had dated this account, so I could look back and figure out what was going on in my life when I had this dream. I imagine I had some stresses in my life I was dealing with poorly.