I have been struggling recently with sleep. I often fall asleep eventually but sometimes it is as late as 4:30 AM in the morning. I have bad dreams sometimes. In the past, they have been memories of things that happened that resulted in my having trauma. I bad dream this one is most likely different it is a repeated scene of a scorpion crawling up the wall and stinging me in my sleep. I had to move to sleep on my sofa last night instead of my bed. Today it's like I can't stop thinking about scorpions and like feeling a tag on my skin that is itchy and reminds me of this scorpion. I live in Seattle WA there are not any here I know this. Everything is made worst by lack of sleep. I have had one negative experience with scorpions that I remember while attending SPU. There I was bullied by another student to the point of leaving and I was also kicked out for being LGBTQA+. I can't quite remember I blacked out a lot of being at school there, I do remember something about my fear of scorpions being used to bully me but not actual scorpions. My older brother Joe has a fear of school shoots. I am also afraid of this and wail at SPU a classmate who had been bullying me about being who I was LGBTQA+ said something that concerned me about the possibility of a school shooting occurring. Knowing the school's history with there had been a shooting on campus before I was very scared. I reported my concerns to the admission and security they ignored this and made it clear to not speak up again. When I have had a lack of sleep and bad dreams like that it has been a memory of trauma from my past. I have some vague connected to scorpion memories but there are things I do not completely remember.