I had two dreams last night. That itself is not unremarkable, nor is the fact that they were both nightmares. What puzzles me is that the first nightmare I had, I haven't dreamed that one for years. YEARS. The second one was brand new, which alarms me more.

Generally, while I have new dreams, I repeat my nightmares. It's part of my initial thought process within the dream that I recognize as a nightmare I've had before - "I've lived this dream before, I know I'll wake up, even though this might not end well."

So, it took a while for the second nightmare to build up to the point where I recognized it wasn't a dream, and that it was a nightmare, and that's when I got scared, because I did not remember having it before. I'm serious, the last time I remember having a new nightmare was my freshman year of college.

The first nightmare, we had to break into a military base and steal some sort of medical supplies for which we were getting paid a bounty. In this nightmare, shit goes to hell at the same time, every time. Just as we're leaving the base, agents capture us. The agents beat us, and I wake up every time after I'm handcuffed and getting thrown headfirst into the back seat of a car. I think the last time I dreamed this one was back in college.

The second nightmare, I learned I was the leader of a team hunting what appeared to be a yeti or abominable snowman. My best description of this yeti is basically Chewbacca from Star Wars, except instead of brown fur, it's a white that matches old, packed snow. What made the hunt ridiculous, even though yeti was white, we were hunting him in the summer, so he should have been easy to see. Eventually I start losing members of my team due to various dangers in the woods we're hunting in (falling off waterfalls, or getting caught by wolves, running off snipe-hunting style, whatever, etc). The dream ended when I turned around to check on a teammate, and rather than the teammate i was expecting, the yeti was in mid-lunge, about to tear my head off. Did the whole "wake-up-gasping-and-sitting-up" thing.

So that's how I'm starting my Tuesday. How about you?