The other day I woke up from a dream (that I do not remember), scratching across my ribcage with my pointer finger. I felt a strange burning, as if a cat had scratched me, but it was 5am so I was way too tired to worry about it. (Also worth mentioning: the Klee Irwin colon cleanse informercial was blasting on my TV.) I woke up later that morning with a chunk of skin under my pointer fingernail, and I instantly remembered waking up scratching myself. I got in the shower, the scratch swelled up and burned under the warm water, like a fresh wound. I'm kind of confused, dreams and realistic pain have been a theme with me lately, though I always believed the pain to be mostly imagined (such as the pain in the teeth dreams). It's really strange to realize I actually inflicted pain upon myself in a dream, most people are in a semi-paralytic state during dreaming. I am a former sleepwalker, and maybe I am capable of dreaming and overcoming the restraints this semi-paralytic state places on the human body.
Regardless, ugh.... unsettling.
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