it segued into after the election stuff, I was trying to work...or was in math class (why?) but I couldn't get myself to work, my computer kept shutting off

people around me were sympathetic but ultimately distant

and then I found the place I was in had a lot of pets...cats, dogs, birds, bearded dragons, but something else was attacking them, biting all their limbs off

I identified the problem as a huge seagull -no, raptor- -no, cormorant- and figured I had to try and get it outside away from the pets

and I grabbed it around the neck and it kept biting me, I tried to get it out the door but the door was blocked by the other side and no family around seemed able to help me

by the time I got the door open and shoved the seagull out, I found I'd grabbed it so hard that I'd strangled and mutilated it

I woke up sobbing, and my alarm went off five minutes later

so apparently my brain saw me trying to rest and went "fuck you, I'm going to mourn now whether you want it or not"