How I escaped social anxiety & depression without drugs
This is a dramatized version of my first major synchronicity, which I've written about elsewhere on this blog in other forms I keep having the same nightmare. In my dream, I’m stuck in cold and dark place, completely alone; and thirsty, so thirsty…the dryness clicks and snaps in my mouth. In the dream I’m trying to fall asleep, but I’m shuddering and my teeth won’t stop chattering from the cold. I can’t get warm and I can’t get comfortable because I’m pinned behind a giant boulder—the only way to lay down is to lean forward and drape myself over the rock. Every time I start to fall asleep in the dream, I jolt awake in real life with a sense that I’m about to fall out of bed. It’s no mystery what’s causing this recurring nightmare…it was brought on by Aron Ralston’s memoir, “Between a Rock and a Hard Place”… I’m haunted by Aron’s story. He’s the guy who went hiking alone and had to cut off his arm after a boulder fell on him. He spent 5 days trying to engineer a way