Nightmares

This is the second night in a row I've woken up from a nightmare with a racing heart and a sick feeling in my gut.
Last night's nightmare need not be mentioned because it would involve digging up an ugly past best left buried deep and long forgotten.
Tonight's nightmare was about me contracting HIV. It was a horrible feeling! And you know how nightmares are worse depending on how your brain and body respond to them? Like- you can have a bloody murderous dream and wake up feeling great, and then you can have another dream about losing your car keys and wake up in a pool of sweat with your heart pounding out of your chest... Well, I woke up from this one really feeling like I'd just had one of the most terrible nightmares ever, and now I can't forget about it. I keep thinking about all those times I've pricked my finger in public places to get my blood sugar, and the possibility that some ugly virus crept right into my bloodstream. *shiver*. I wonder if it is really that easy to get HIV...
Man, now I just wanna go get tested, haha. Stupid nightmare!!