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Sometimes a nightmare is just a bad dream—isolated and disagreeable imagery with little emotional response from the dreamer. However, a nightmare can lead the individual to feel fear, terror, and anxiety; awakening the individual and causing disturbing emotional response, including insomnia or other difficulties in the sleep cycle, or even daytime distress. Fever can also bring on nightmares, as can ill health and poor diet.

I sat in the passenger seat of the 5 seated cab, on my way home in Miami, Florida. I had been to Natalies mother's, she was celebrating her birthday and we had been there a couple of hours. However, I wasn't feeling great, I had recently threw up in the trifle. It wasn't drink related either, I had only consumed a couple of Heineken's. I just felt like shit. Natalie insisted I went home, so that's exactly what I did. Natalie stayed at her mother's with our son, Aston, who was asleep. I told Natalie she might aswell stay at her mother's for the night and I'd see her tomorrow.

Here I was, still not feeling great, the window slightly down as the soft, breeze blew my face. I looked over at the cab driver, probably in his late twenties, early thirties? He quickly looked over to me. Back again, to then proceed to concentrate on the road ahead. I then noticed something in particular; A Stone Cold Steve Austin bobblehead sat in the corner of the dashboard, close to me. Glancing over to right, I notice a second bobbleheads figure... Was that? It was... Loverboy Vinnie Lane wearing his trademark leather pants. Obviously they wasn't made out of leather but you get my drift? It came to my attention that the cab driver was in fact, a wrestling fan. He seemed nervous, like he wanted to say something to me? I heard him mumble, "Erm....."

Just spit it out will you! I guess I'll have to say something first.

"Hey, I noticed you're a fan of wrestling?"

"I am yes! Me and my eight year old daughter watch it, I love the Xtreme Wrestling Federation. Jennifer isn't allowed to watch that until shes older but she knows you and she likes the WWE."

"Well that's cool. Who's her favourite?"

"At the moment, she's proper into Becky Lynch. She says she wants to be the woman's champion one day!"

"That's pretty sweet. Becky is The Man, so to speak.."

"Anyway I prefer the XWF to the WWE in all fairness."

"Really?" I asked, not really that surprised, why wouldn't you prefer the XWF?

"Anyway, so what do you like about XWF?"

"I love the fact that it's crazy and unpredictable. I'm actually a fan of yours!"

He would say that though wouldn't he?

"Maybe you should drop me nearby rather than at my actual address!" I said, jokingly..

"I'm not a crazy stalker, man."

Well he took that the wrong way, that was for sure. I looked up at his rear view mirror. Other than an air freshener, hanging was his I.D. Card. Kyle was his name.

"Hey Kyle, I was just messing with you."

Kyle huffed, "I'm sorry man. Been a long shift, ya know? Plus not everyday you have one of your faves in your cab."

"Well technically, it's your cab... " I said sarcastically.

"You know what I mean?!"

I did, obviously.

"So I see you're a fan of that divas, Vinnie Lane?"

Kyle laughed, "Vinnie is the best! A Rock n' Roll God. A wrestling God. I was gutted when you beat him for the XWF Universal Championship."

But he said I was one of his favourites?

"I was more annoyed when you lost to Peter Gilmour of all people, although it was good to see him finally capture the big one!"

"As much as I believe Gilly is shitbag, can't deny his work ethic. Who else do you like?"

"The Engineer, Rob Main is pretty cool. Used to like Gator, wherever he is and James Raven, of course. Dredzin sucks and so does that Ghost Tank guy though...."

I chuckled. I was close to home now, not far at all. Kyle continued....

"Listen Skull, that was an excellent match. You have nothing to be ashamed of, you were just unlucky and N.A.Z.I was just one step ahead. You'll get another shot and this time, you can win the gold."

The cab driver smiled at me, I smiled back and shrugged, "Maybe you're right, Kyle.. Sometimes I feel like giving up, ya know? Maybe I don't have it any more. Maybe the Uni title victory over Vinnie back in 2016 was a fluke?!"

Kyle shook his head, "I don't believe it was. You've just got to continue too....

WHAT THE FUCK?!"

Kyle shouted loudly as headlights of an oncoming large vehicle, shone towards us... Kyle tried to swerve but....

SMASH....

Scully immediately sat up his bed, sweat dripping from his forehead and breathing heavily. Natalie turnt over and placed her hand on his stomach. This wasn't the first time this had occurred... Scully had endured yet another nightmare.

Definition:

A nightmare normally happens in the later hours of REM sleep, or rapid eye movement sleep. Normally, people dream more than two hours a night. The dreamer often awakens from a nightmare with a good recollection of the imagery and content. Some researchers call negative dreams “threat rehearsals,” where we rehearse the possible threats we might encounter in real life; other researchers say that people are working through upsetting events of the day. Most garden variety nightmares are stress related. However, if nightmares become frequent to the point of dysfunction, the individual may be suffering Nightmare Disorder (formerly Dream Anxiety Disorder). Nightmares are more prevalent among girls than boys, with occurrences starting before age 10. Children and adolescents tend to suffer more, with less frequency among adults. About half of the adult population experience nightmares on occasion.

Scully had revisited the accident on multiple occasions, it seemed so real, like it was happening all over again. Natalie never said a thing when he had these encounters, she just let him know she was there. Natalie passes Scully the glass of water from her bedside drawer. Skull drinks the water as he continued to stare at the door in front of him. Natalie knew Scully would find it difficult to fall back to sleep and she wanted him to try to forget what happened. Skull passes the empty glass back to Nat, who places it back on the bedside table. Natalie gently pushes Scully back so his head gently touches the pillow. She kisses his lips and moves down to his neck. Her right hand rubs his genital area and she licks his nipples gently with the tip of her tongue. Skull closes his eyes and playfully pulls Natalies hair. Nat continues to lick his nipples, taking it in turns with either side, making him tingle all over. Her right hand grasps his hard cock, firmly and begins to move his foreskin up and down......

It's not rocket science as to what happens next....