I Quit!

Last night I watched the first episode of Law and Order SVU for 2007. Now, I'm not a big television watcher; there are really only one or two programs that I enjoy, but up until now SVU has been one of them.

I enjoyed watching one of my favourite characters Stabler, grapple with the moral dilemma of a case that didn't have a definite right or wrong. Although this episode wasn't a particularly gruesome one, the program is still about catching sex offenders and protecting the victims of heinous crimes.

It's easy to believe that this is harmless entertainment, but last night I had a really unpleasant dream that continued the plot of the episode - it wasn't a nightmare, but it was bad enough for me to wake up feeling relieved that my dream was over.

The really interesting thing was that the same thing happened last year! Except last year, after watching the first episode for the year, I had a full blown nightmare... and I woke up terrified. That experience was enough to shift me from a regular to an occasional viewer, but not enough to put me off the show entirely. Now... I QUIT!

It's important to pay attention to all sources of positive and negative energy in your life, not just the obvious ones. What was masking as an innocent form of evening relaxation was obviously having a toxic effect on my subconscious, and one that my poor mind needed to continue to work through while I slept in order to process its full impact.

So goodbye Benson, ciao Stabler...

I'm now back to enjoying just one solitary program - Grey's Anatomy... Hurry up and return to my screen Dr McDreamy!