Stone Circle Take it and make it

The bad dreams were getting more and more frequent... she was lucky to have a night with no dream at all.  Every morning she would startle awake, fear in her eyes, as the terrors of the nightmare slowly ebbed away.  At first she had thought that overtime they might just go away... but now it just seemed that the longer and longer they went on, the worse they got.

Just now for example she'd woken up from one of these terrible nightmares, surrounded by darkness and hunted by an unseen enemy.

The other thing was these dreams weren't just affecting her sleep, they also affected her social life.  She didn't talk all too much, not that she ever really had.  She mostly just kept to herself.  So in a way these nightmares also affected her social skills as they filled her with anxiety and paranoia.  Then there was the fact that she didn't sleep as much as she should have do to this which slowed her reaction time.  Why couldn't she just be normal?