Had to spend an hour in casualty with DS3 (11) last night following head injury- not serious as it turned out. Woke up this morning having had a dream I used to get very very regularly. I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas what it's trying to tell me, as I get it when under stress.
The details always differ, as does the story, but it always features the conservatory of the house I grew up in. It was changed (extended/ new windows etc) when I was 18- the week I met my DH- but in the dream it's as it was when I was a child.
In the dream I am always trying to shut and/or lock the back door. There is always a problem with the door so that it won't shut or lock, and there is always Something out there in the dark, coming down the path. (only once did I ever see It, and then it was an enormous black dog. I think it is usually a bad person). I am always petrified and desperately trying to lock this door.
This time my DS3 was upstairs asleep in my mum & dads bedroom- with my dad, who died 7 years ago. DS2 was supposed to be sleeping in the back room & I was in the kitchen, looking out at the back door & asking my mum why it wasn't locked. She said someone had put a screwdriver to the lock (which didn't explain why the bolt wasn't across). The kitchen door was locked up tight but the back room window was wide open & there was only a little flimsy bolt on that door. In the dream I was worried.
Outside on the lawn was a circus tent full of stuff, with a couple of strange kids taking things on a flat bed trolley. We tapped on the window but they wouldn't go away.
Weird or what? I would add that as a child I kept rabbits & guinea pigs. They lived just outside the back door & it was my job to feed them at night. I then had to lock the back door. I don't remember an incident where someone did actually come down the path & scare me though. Any ideas on this gratefully appreciated.