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My Life Fell Apart From One Simple Nightmare
Four Year Old Me Didn’t Realize It Was Just A Dream
By Grace K. Bianco
***Trigger Warning: I talk a lot about vomit.*** My book will be linked down below if you are interested in learning more about my journey with anxiety.
I think we can all name one shapeshifting life event. The one incident that quite literally changed everthing.
My little incident happened when I was four years old. 90% of this life changing event happened while I was sound asleep.
In 2004, I had a dream that my older brother threw up all over me and my favorite Hello Kitty lunchbox.
I woke up screaming, “I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU!” Unfortunately, it was not loud enough to wake anyone else up. I woke up too scared to tell anyone, and I managed to fall back asleep.
“When my brother threw up all over me, it jolted a reaction in me unlike any other I had ever experienced before as a child. I felt a bone-chilling fear that night. I was still too young to process that a dream is not anything to be traumatized by. All I would have need that night was for someone to tell me, ‘It was just a bad dream. It won’t happen to you.” — Party Pooper: Growing up…
