I fell asleep early (9 pm?), but at 11 pm I woke up after a dream where a person was trying to smother me with a pillow. At the very end, I heard "I love you." whispered. When I woke up, I jothought it was for some reason my husband that did that, but of course it was just a dream. Why would I even dream such a thing and think it could ever be him?

When I woke up, it was just me and I was fine, but I got up and looked around, all the same. I am sleeping downstairs on the sofa and Hubby, already asleep, is upstairs in the spare room because our master bedroom is freshly painted. I even looked through the door of the basement down the stairs. The lights are all on, but that's common. Hubby often leaves them on by accident, plus he and his friend had been hauling stuff down there earlier in the evening. I didn't want to go down to turn off the lights, because I have a little fear about the basement. In recent years, I can go down, but at night and after that dream? No. I went up and Hubby is sleeping, peacefully.

Stress. Symbolic dream? Weird one-off? Trauma dream flashback (I once had amnesia awareness when paralyzed with muscle relaxant)? Run of the mill nightmare? A little sleep apnea and/or one or two of others?

It is hard to sleep now. My cell phone is low on juice and my laptop, too. I'm using data because our internet is on the fritz. My power cords are buried somewhere amongst the mess.