Ruined Night

Maybe it's the vivid descriptive language in The Red Badge of Courage "the youth saw that the landscape was streaked with two long, thin, black columns ... like two serpents crawling from the cavern of the night"; maybe it's seeing Harry Potter the other day - do they really need enormous snakes in a kids movie. Last night wandering around some house in my dreams, the fear came over me, the house was full of snakes. Not just normal garter or hognose snakse but big mean posionus snakes, cobras and coral snakes hanging from the rafters and crawling on the floor. When one dropped down right in front of me I screamed and woke up. What a wonderful deep sleep it had been, the waking up took a lot of effort. But who can go back to sleep when there are cobras in the bedroom? The good for nothing Kat curled up on the chair certainly doesn't offer any protection. So nothing to do but fully wake up and turn on the light until the sleep once again overtakes the fear.