A title this would be, had I the originality.

Had some *really* fun nightmares last night, which meant I was all tired in the morning from lack of sleep. Still a pretty productive day though.

Think this is because I'm unused to this big bed, which makes me end up lying on my back a lot more That's the position I tend to get the awesomest nightmares in.

Nightmare the first: Anaconda!
Can't remember this one very well. But there was some kinda big python, and it was trying to crush me, and I think in the end I got eaten. I woke up and was not tangled in the blankets, either.

Nightmare the second: Zombies!
This is awesome, I don't think I've ever had a zombie dream before. Can't remember much again, but I think it started out as my ruminating about the latest Resident Evil movie as I fell asleep again, and became a dream. Myself and some other guy (Lee or Al maybe?), were holed up in a house, and I had left the shotgun in the porch. We were out of shells anyway, but still, I regretted leaving it there because getting it would be risky.

The house turned into a car, the porch was the boot (trunk, area behind the back seats), but it was still risky to get the gun because that meant poking my head up in the back seat, and maybe being seen by the shambling (well, running) hordes, who could be seen and heard chasing the last few survivors down and killing them.

And then my companion stuck his head up - there were others there at the time, a woman (my sister? fiancee?) and they were sticking their heads up too. I tried to make them duck down again but they wouldn't... the zombies came for us, and smashed the windows. We were doomed.

Nightmare the third: Mad Steampunk Scientists!

And if zombies and giant snakes wasn't enough awesome, when I fell asleep the next time, I was a mad scientist in a steampunk laboratory, a laboratory large enough to house a zeppelin, if it were not for all the scientific equipment and telescopes and other mysterious mad-scientist paraphernalia cluttering up the vast space.

I was urging my Egor-tastic assistant to help me pack quickly and flee, as I had decided to leave my evil fellow scientist, and knew he would be unhappy. But he found out! As I prepared to leave, a huge pipe came crashing down onto the appliance I most wanted to escape with, some gleaming assembly of brass and lenses and stuff, the size of a washing machine. My partner in madness was not happy with my desertion! He left the building, having fired the self-destruct, and the whole laboratory started to collapse, the domed green-glass roof shattering and falling down. In the distance a spinning chunk of ceiling-struts and glass began began to fly across the vast space of the laboratory towards me. The laboratory's scale was deceptive, and I did not realise the size of the fragment, thinking it was only a handspan across, easily dodgable. I realised its true size, and the danger it posed, far too late. I turned to run, treacle-dream-slow, but it caught up with me, fifty feet of arching, riveted cast iron and thick glass shards, spinning as it tore through the equipment around me, striking me and shattering my spine (the phrase "shattering my spine" came through my mind).

I knew that somehow I would survive past this setback, but I would need to craft myself some mechanical legs for the day I faced my new nemesis again!

Yes, this one definitely from too much http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php and http://www.boingboing.net. That and moving out from sharing the house with Lee, my business patner, and rather feeling I am leaving him in the lurch. But hey, I get a whole flat for the same money, so I can't feel too guilty.

I feel really lucky to have had three awesome nightmares in the same night - normally I can go a whole year without ONE! I love this new bed!