"Doctor, I just don't know what's wrong."
"Tell me about it, just sit down on the couch."
"Well, I know that I've been feeling out of sorts for a few days now. I wake up during the night with nightmares of someone with a baseball bat chasing me, and for some reason, I have a red baseball hat on my head."
"Interesting. Tell me more."
"Well, it always looks like I am going to survive, then at the last minute, this guy comes in with the baseball bat."
"Hmmm."
"Oh, and something I noticed last night, there is a lot of ear-splitting noise throughout my dream."
"Really?"
"Yes, and the ground is grassy, with some dirt paths."
"Oh?"
"And the guy with the bat had a baseball hat too, a blue one."
"Aha!"
"Doctor, do you know what is wrong? I can't believe you solved this so fast!"
"It is not something you get over quickly, and may take years."
"What is it, Doc?"
"We call it, in the profession, PTSD, or Post Traumatic Sox Disorder."


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