Relaxing

     I know this isn't a new phenomenon, but that moment when you're trying to calm down or relax before bed and your imagination runs away from you. For instance: trying to sleep and I keep tossing and turning and think, I can just visualize myself to relaxation. I think, calm as the ocean, but then immediately question myself. The ocean isn't calm, it's always moving. Okay then, breaths like wavelets lapping the shore. For a little while my breathing is slow and even. But then I wonder if the tide is coming in, and the waves start getting bigger and faster and my breathing follows suit. Soon I can see a giant wave forming on the horizon, and storm clouds are boiling in to shore. Finally I'm laying in bed wide eyed having survived an apocalyptic storm. Scavenging for bread I wonder if soon I'll have to eat the bloated corpses of farm animals and what were once house pets. When I finally get to sleep my dreams are all horrifyingly graphic scenes of deciding whether to eat a rat or a cat raw since there's no dry wood for a fire and rolling blackouts abound.