{"id":7,"date":"2008-04-27T10:51:49","date_gmt":"2008-04-27T14:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilanddenise.com\/jobina\/?p=7"},"modified":"2008-05-03T11:44:56","modified_gmt":"2008-05-03T15:44:56","slug":"saturday-night-demon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wilanddenise.com\/jobina\/saturday-night-demon\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night Demon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I thought my days, or should I say nights, of bad dreams and nightmares were a thing of the past.\u00a0 The stats say that most Americans experience one to two nightmares a year on the average.\u00a0 PTSD people can have them every night as was my case some years ago.\u00a0 My latest demon, the Saturday Night Demon, quickly reminded me of how close those times can be again.\u00a0 Over the past year, my sleep demons have not crossed over the line into my conscious awareness; so I let them lie without much care.\u00a0 Wil woke me up at 3:45am because I was crying out in my sleep.\u00a0 Yes, I was crying out in my dream as well.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t think I was getting my voice loud enough in my dream due to my fear, so I tried to make my voice\u00a0louder.\u00a0 Apparently, it came out pretty loud in our bedroom.\u00a0 In the dream I was pinned down under some one in a car.\u00a0 I could not see him; but could only see the darkness outside the car window.\u00a0 I felt like I was being squished and I couldn&#8217;t breathe.\u00a0 Where&#8217;s Jack Bauer when I need him.\u00a0 Thanks to trazodone I was able to go back to sleep without much trouble.\u00a0 This dream seemed awfully vivid and strong to just be the average nightmare.\u00a0 Was this Saturday Night Demon just that; or is it an old memory launching its assault?\u00a0 All I know is that I feel tired from it today, just like I used to feel years ago when this shit reared its ugly head.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Until next time&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought my days, or should I say nights, of bad dreams and nightmares were a thing of the past.\u00a0 The stats say that most Americans experience one to two nightmares a year on the average.\u00a0 PTSD people can have them every night as was my case some years ago.\u00a0 My latest demon, the Saturday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-dreams-and-night-demons","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Dh6V-7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilanddenise.com\/jobina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilanddenise.com\/jobina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilanddenise.com\/jobina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilanddenise.com\/jobina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilanddenise.com\/jobina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilanddenise.com\/jobina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilanddenise.com\/jobina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilanddenise.com\/jobina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilanddenise.com\/jobina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}