It Felt Like I was Drowning in My Nightmares.

Two nights ago, I night managed for the last time.  I started to decompress from all of the stress that I had carried with me, unacknowledged, for months.  I came home and had a really hard time falling asleep.  When I finally fell asleep, I had nightmares.  Here's the worst part:  I knew I was dreaming.  Every time I tried to wake up and it felt like I was about to break through, I 'felt' something pulling me back down.  My wife had left relatively early in the morning to go to work.  She tried calling me 6 times and I never answered.  She got really worried and came home.  She came home to our daughter just starting to wake up.  She had a really difficult time waking me up.  I thought she had come home and I had neglected Caley's needs.  I was a mess.  I spent the rest of the day trying to figure out what the hell caused this 'nightmarathon' to happen in the first place.  I finally put two and two together and realized that there were a lot of little things that I couldn't change at work that I couldn't do anything about.  I also realized that leaving my current position to start a new one allowed me to start over and all of the pent up frustration and stress was relieved...All at once.  I guess I need to figure out how to decompress more effectively...