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I lie awake at night wondering what I would do if I had insomnia. I also wonder if the nightmares are worse than the insomnia.
I will not tell you what the worst nightmares are about. What I am going to tell you is bad enough.
A local villain took an iron to his girlfriend - he ironed brown paper on her back. Can you imagine how painful that must have been?
Another cut through a woman's collar bone with a hacksaw. The fact both the victims were women does not make me feel any safer!
I don't seek out these stories but I don't ignore the news either.
I met a woman whose son was kidnapped and taken to Guantanamo. He has been there for five year and tortured or "subjected to rigorous interrogation" so badly he was blinded.
And finally a man was kidnapped by the CIA and put on a plane to Syria where he was thrown into a cell like a grave and tortured for a year. (This is in the book "Static" by Amy Goodman and David Goodman)
And worse than all of this and more frightening in a way is that anyone should find out how frightened I am. I am not a kid, I am 55 years old.
H'm. So that is me. As I say I don't know how useful this is to any of you.
I lie awake at night wondering what I would do if I had insomnia. I also wonder if the nightmares are worse than the insomnia.
I will not tell you what the worst nightmares are about. What I am going to tell you is bad enough.
A local villain took an iron to his girlfriend - he ironed brown paper on her back. Can you imagine how painful that must have been?
Another cut through a woman's collar bone with a hacksaw. The fact both the victims were women does not make me feel any safer!
I don't seek out these stories but I don't ignore the news either.
I met a woman whose son was kidnapped and taken to Guantanamo. He has been there for five year and tortured or "subjected to rigorous interrogation" so badly he was blinded.
And finally a man was kidnapped by the CIA and put on a plane to Syria where he was thrown into a cell like a grave and tortured for a year. (This is in the book "Static" by Amy Goodman and David Goodman)
And worse than all of this and more frightening in a way is that anyone should find out how frightened I am. I am not a kid, I am 55 years old.
H'm. So that is me. As I say I don't know how useful this is to any of you.
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um... thanks? Where can I get this book?
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So all of these are nightmares you have? Have you had these thoughts your whole life or just recently? If just recently, do you think there was something that triggered them?
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