it's really not normal and it is a problem

I think I am slowly (?) going insane

   Usually I can list the things that scare me and wake me up from a dead sleep as fairly normal:  burglars, tornadoes, road rage, Jackie with any type of weapon, bears.
   But I have reached a new low.
   Last night I had a nightmare...again.  We were running out of oxygen and I had to swim through an underwater cave and pull the tail of a giant eel to restore Earth's oxygen levels.
   That was not the scary part.
    After swimming through the cave, pulling the tail, and getting out of the water, I had to walk back to somewhere.
   That was not the scary part.
   As I went down one embankment and headed toward the uphill side, an alligator crawled out of the weeds.  Then another.  Then another.  I was surrounded by alligators.
   That was not the scary part.
    As I scrambled up the embankment, they gave chase.  I was barely inches ahead of them when I hit the road.  As I ran down the road I could hear the clumptity clumpity, clump, clump, swish of their legs and tail as they actually gained on me!
   Ok, that was the scary part.  And at 3:15, I was convinced the alligators were catching me, at lease convinced enough to awaken.  So I checked the doors and went back to bed.  I heard the cuckoo at 3:30, 4, 4:30 and maybe 5 before I finally fell asleep.  My mind was racing...like it was on speed.  I could not stay focused on anything.  I would center on a happy place and bingo....I was far from it.
   I was at one of my favorite places today, but even the thought of that could not put me back to sleep this morning.
   I was helping a little girl who needed a hot glue gun.  I told her I would help her and her three friends because we have to be extra careful.
   Then I burned a hole in my arm.
   Seriously!!  I can look all the way through my arm.  That damn thing was hot!  My arm whistles when I walk because the air rushes through the hole!!
   Or maybe it's a puncture wood from a gator.  Could be either one.
   So tonight I am not going to bed at all.  That way I won't have another nightmare.
    Good plan, huh?