head to toe (or perhaps, vice versa)

I have nightmares when my feet are hot.

Now, I've known for a while I can't get to sleep as long as my feet are cold. If I wander round our wintry-even-if-heated flat with bare feet for a short while prior to getting into bed, my feet are inevitably cold and I won't loose consciousness until they warm up. The temptation therefore is to wear thick wooly socks to keep the tootsies toastie.

Last night though, I made my occasional mistake of wearing them to bed, and feeling so nice and warm I just left them on. This has unintended effects. Last night I woke in the middle of the night, having just been attacked by an unfortunately enthusiastic cobra-style snake, somewhere out in a remote bush area... in Thailand, I think? Bitten and just about to find out if fatally poisoned, I believe, was the point my dream auto-escape mechanism kicked in and I woke up. With, I realised soon afterwards, sizzling hot feet in my hugely thick socks.

This is not the first time this has happened to me. Fortunately, as nightmares go that wasn't the worst possible one, I guess. But I've definintely noticed the pattern now... hot feet=bad dreams.

Who would have thought.