A waking nightmare...

What do I mean by a waking nightmare?

Have you ever had a dream where you are doing something, saying something - which is innocuous and decently pleasant by itself but then you wake up.
You wake up with no familiar sensations of a nightmare...no cold sweat, no racing heart...
Until...
Until...you somehow remember the dream... realise that the dream was perhaps some part of sub conscious is trying to tell you something, dig up something which you've put away - something you've dealt with and you're happy about how you've dealt with it. You've modified your thoughts until your head wins over the heart... and then you go to sleep... your heart and your head conspire... like the Sirens' song and then you wake up!
And the nightmare begins...
You wake up and realise that what you were dreaming about is a nightmare... should be a nightmare and if you hadn't woken... you wonder about what you'd have heard, what you'd have seen...
And then the heart starts racing and the sweat starts beading...

*That* is a waking nightmare...


(Well, all of that is true except for the sweat - that was just caused by too many blankets on me :P )