DO YOU EVER HAVE RECURRING DREAMS?

Murder. I have recurring dreams about murder. It's almost always a murder I can't stop and is either about myself or somebody else. Unlike in the movies, however, the inevitability is no illusion. The person always dies either shortly before I wake up or I wake up before it happens but there is absolutely no doubt in my mind what happened after I left the dream to itself. I toss and turn in my sleep, slide the socks off my feet, sweat and talk anxiously and none of it goes anywhere because some way or another I always miss a step. My dreams, like my writing, have themes of their own without my choosing: murder, animosity, regret, failure, and helplessness. Blood is optional.