How can recurring dreams and nightmares affect your life? Then, I Awoke! was written in the hope that by sharing my own personal experiences with recurring dreams and nightmares, others may benefit from them and better understand their own. Then, I Awoke! is not a dream dictionary, it is simply based on my experiences. I describe the recurring nightmares and dreams, and connect them to my everyday life as they occurred or became intertwined in my cognitive life. The best way to accomplish this was to connect them with little short stories as they evolved in my life. Twenty-five years of recurring nightmares, visions, and sleepless nights related to the Apollo 1 disaster. Agonizing questions that remained unanswered, all of this and more at one point in my life left me standing alone in the middle of the "Bridge to Nowhere". I began my research to resolve many of these recurring bad dreams and some acceptable conclusions. This is my story, this has been my journey and these are my "Connections and Final Conclusions."