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I do have a lot of nightmares.
They have to do with what happened
out there, most of them.
Like the one that I always remember is, I was in the back
of a truck, we were moving away.
We were going in a convoy but I'm the last vehicle.
I was always the last vehicle out there.
And I see they're shooting rockets at me, I'm in the back
of the truck and they're shooting rockets at me
and I see rockets coming at me about to hit me
and then hit the ground.
But they kept getting closer and closer
and closer until I wake up.
And my wife sometimes says I'm loud or I talk
in my sleep and she knows.
She tells me, "You just had a nightmare."
And I don't sleep.
That's if I get some sleep and I don't.
I go downstairs and I wait one hour, it's one, two, three,
four o'clock in the morning.
She goes to work.
I sit on the couch and then I start feeling very sleepy
and I sleep for about 30 minutes, maybe an hour,
I'm back up and that's every day.
They gave me Ambiens for it.
I was taking Ambiens, two at a time, it wasn't working.
In Afghanistan I was drinking a lot of NyQuil.
I was buying five and six bottles a week.
One bottle would last me two days, maybe three.
I just chugged them because I had to get some sleep
because we were going to be on the road the next day.