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Nightmares Before the Variable

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They say at night, sometime between last night’s evening chow and when the French and Indians forget to show, the bitch-shift of o’dark-thirty will get a nightly comedy and I’m the comedian.  Sometimes I’m a marionette, twitching on autistic strings.  Sometimes I’m the human FM, reciting weapon ranges and creeds.  Other times I might be briefing or even leading a mission.  I do not remember these things, at least, not usually.  Come morning, they’ll tell me about my performances and everyone laughs, myself included.  Sometimes though…sometimes I remember what it was that possessed me.  I do not tell them because on those rare times I do remember, I can recall only confusion, failure and panic followed by a long watch in the morning’s chill.  

I wonder how long it is before I dream of dead boys staring up at me with dead eyes.
Written after LDAC; in particular, the night before I was PL where I woke up twice, almost completely disorientated, due to nightmares. During Basic and AIT I also had had trouble with sleepwalking.
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