Dogfood

I had a bit of a strange experience last night.

I drive a tow truck part-time and had to do a DWI tow around 2:00AM this morning. When I got back, it took me about an hour and a half to get back to sleep.

While I was sleeping, I had some sort of dream that I don’t remember. After the dream though, I thought I had woken up and was just laying there with my eyes still shut in the hopes I would fall asleep again.

Now, we have a little white mutt-looking dog named Bubba and his kennel is just outside my bedroom wall. When it’s quiet in the house, I can hear him moving around or whining in there.

After I thought I had woken up and was in bed with my eyes closed, I thought I heard Bubba banging around in his kennel and whining. I was wondering what he was doing when suddenly…

BAM!!! Something grabbed my arm. I felt teeth sinking into my skin as whatever it was that was biting me began yanking my arm back and forth and tried to pull me off of my bed.

I honestly didn’t want to open my eyes to see what it was, so they stayed shut. This lasted for about ten to fifteen seconds and then stopped as suddenly as it started.

My heart was racing like I was on speed. My arm still felt weird, but I was really awake now. I was sort of anticipating whatever it was coming back for round two, but Bubba was silent (I don’t know if he ever really did make any noise) and nothing else happened.

Apparently it was all in my head, because there were no teeth marks on my arm or anything. I’ve been known to have some very realistic dreams, but seldom if ever do I ever feel pain in them (especially REAL pain like I did last night).

Very little has ever been able to freak me out since I grew out of my childhood years. Last night though, that got me.

When I was five I woke up one night and was sitting up in bed wide-awake and saw a big dog standing in the hallway of our apartment (we had no dog). My parents took me to Christian shrinks who basically said I might have seen a supernatural manifestation of one of the hounds of hell (or something to that effect). Maybe he came back to say “Hello.”