Emmanuel Jal Quotes

I have a lot of nightmares.

Nightmares are releases.

I think my character's getting to the point where he can't even eat spaghetti with red sauce anymore, where he has horrible nightmares, he can't sleep anymore.

I very often have night terrors. Just think of the worst possible situation, and it's a regular thing for me. I've died in my sleep twenty-three different ways.

But even before I was in the military, I was extremely jumpy when asleep.

As much as I dream, I have nightmares.

I wake up 5 a.m. some mornings and hear the planes coming in at National Airport and I think they are bombing me.

I'm sleeping like a baby, too. Every two hours, I wake up, screaming.

I still feel I'm going to wake up any moment, and my skin's going to break out all over.

At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.

I have quite a lot of anxiety dreams.

When I was 15 or 16 - I slept really well then. Now I sleep on a bed of anxiety-tipped nails.

I have crazy claustrophobic dreams, weird elevator dreams where the elevator closes in and all of a sudden I am lying down - oh my God, it's a casket. Just freaky stuff like that.

If you said 'Boo' to me, I wouldn't sleep for two weeks! I don't like scary movies.

I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.

I'm afraid of the dark because I picture things; I see things. I'm a freak. I see, like, little demons coming out of the floor and other little things running around. It's scary.

But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.

I do tend to wake up in the middle of the night convinced I've made a disaster.

I've had sleep paralysis.

I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I'm not. No one ever really gets used to nightmares.

Nightmares end. That's how you know they're nightmares.

No one ever really gets used to nightmares.

Everybody has a nightmare, and everybody apparently has falling dreams, and everybody has the drowning dream, and everybody has certain kinds of sexual manifestation dreams, as well as our stress dreams; I didn't study for the algebra test, I didn't study for my driving test, you know, all those dreams. I still have those dreams, and it's just such an interesting thing that our mind can turn against us, our own mind, you know we all have.

I just can't wake from these scary dreams.

I don't sleep well. I'm a very nervous - by my nature - anxious, almost paranoid person and reporter.