{"id":587,"date":"2026-04-24T08:28:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/?p=587"},"modified":"2026-04-24T08:28:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:28:06","slug":"nightmares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/2026\/04\/24\/nightmares\/","title":{"rendered":"Nightmares"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am not going to lie &#8230; last night was brutal for nightmares. They seemed to keep coming one after another so I am tired. Nightmares do not make for good sleep. Perhaps one day I will learn to control my dreams. I am honestly surprised because I had a decent day yesterday. Time to move on though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I hope to hear from VGM today or Monday. I&#8217;d like to be earning more money and have more flexibility. First I have to try it and see how it goes. If all goes well, I will reduce the number of hours I am working as a security guard to 16 on the weekends. I am tired of worrying about money and $23 an hour is significant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t have any real grand plans for today other than going into work at 2:00PM instead of the usual time. This is okay with me and I don&#8217;t mind helping out the boss on occasion. I do have a therapy appointment at 11:00AM today which I am happy about because I need to talk to someone about some weighty issues. Perhaps I will find the concentration to work on my book, but if not, I won&#8217;t punish myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know that tomorrow I will have some good opportunities to work on my book. Since I seem to have writer&#8217;s block, I am going to try dictation. I just sent out a quick post on Mastodon to ask what tools might be available. Perhaps writer&#8217;s block isn&#8217;t <em>really <\/em>writer&#8217;s block but perfection being the enemy of progress. This is one of my mantra&#8217;s but I still seek perfection. Seeking perfection is blocking progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not going to lie &#8230; last night was brutal for nightmares. They seemed to keep coming one after another so I am tired. Nightmares do not make for good sleep. Perhaps one day I will learn to control my dreams. I am honestly surprised because I had a decent day yesterday. Time to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}