I felt the earth shake.

Ever since the break up, I haven’t been sleeping well.  I’ve been having a lot of weird, bad dreams, sometimes they even wake me up. (Which is unusual because I usually sleep so hard that not even the smoke alarm can wake me up, and I usually don’t remember my dreams).  Well, last night was especially weird.  

I had like 3 or 4 really odd, bad dreams last night.  One that I don’t remember very well woke me up at 5:30 this morning.  Since I didn’t remember what the dream was about and was half asleep, I thought it was very odd that it felt like my bed was shaking.  I felt my heart thinking maybe it was just pounding really fast, and I was tripping out.  The shaking felt like it went on for a long time.  You would think my heart would ease up a bit after waking and realizing it was only a dream.  But my heart wasn’t pounding that fast, and I could have sworn my bed was really moving.  

I eventually fell back asleep and forgot about my mini episode until this morning when my sister asked me if I felt the earthquake.  Wow, that made so much sense!!  It was a relief to know my bed really was shaking, and that I wasn’t going crazy.  It was 4.4 magnitude, and the epicenter was about 15 miles north of Paso Robles, which is about 45 minutes north of my location.  Luckily no damage was reported.  

If you’ve never experienced an earthquake, they are very strange.  A few years ago there was an earthquake by Paso, (bigger than this one) that did cause some damage.  I was working for a farming company at the time, and it occurred in the afternoon.  We ran outside of our building and you could literally see the earth rolling across the fields.  It’s one thing to feel and earthquake but another to actually see it.  A lot of people say they could never live in California because of the earthquakes.  Well, they don’t happen that often, and I’d take an earthquake over a tornado, blizzards, hurricanes, and whatever else all you other people get!