Sunday, April 03, 2011

Bad dreams caused by stress

I've been having some rather nasty bad dreams lately that I really, really wish would go away, but I know that the only way to get them to leave is to stop worrying over rather or not I can save my parents' house from foreclosure in the reverse mortgage.

Last week I got to a point, for the first time in a long time, when I was not worried about money. The bad dreams went away and I was able to sleep the full night and wake up rested and not crying.

Then things snowballed a bit and I ended up where I am trying hard this week to scrape together $500.00 to get the bills paid up, I go to work in just a couple more weeks here, FINALLY! It's taken 6 months to get everything sorted out, but the lady at the State office said that within three days of her getting this last bit of paperwork that I should get around mid-month, I will be working. So around mid month, I'll have a job, be being paid, things will be going much better for me, however... right now, I'm stressed out because I have hit the end of the emergency funds me and dad had set aside for me and I don't know what in the heck to do to get the additional $500.00 I need, so... bad dreams are back.

Why do the bad dreams stress me out so much? Because the one thing my parents wanted was for each of their kids to have a home, and this was to be my home, so by failing to save it I'll be failing them. Or at least that is how it feels, and that is manifesting in my dreams as a repeating filmstrip of all of the ways I failed them in the last few days of their lives. I keep ending up dreaming of being in the hospital watching them die, over and over in my dreams. Not something I want to be going through, and I know that the only reason I am having those dreams is because of stress about the house and trying to save it as they had wanted.

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