Bad Dream Monday night

I was sleeping in our bed, naked under a sheet, and could see straight through a door in front of me to a landing where steps when down to a first floor. The hole in the wood floor was round with a banister around it. The entire dream was seen just out through my eyes – so I couldn’t see Kent behind me, but knew he was walking around the room.

First, Kent came in and gave me a plate with two cooked eggs on it. I thanked him for being so sweet and held it in my right hand. Suddenly, in the half-dark, I could see a tiny light coming up the stairs and very slowly going around the hole in the floor. I started to panic and as the light continued around the hole a black line began to outline the eggs on my plate. I started to get cold and panicked because I knew this was some weird threat. Something was looking for us. Then I shot up sideways, rigidly, so I was standing on the bed. I was holding the sheet around me and leaned out far over the edge. Unnaturally. I was reaching toward the doorway trying to tell Kent that something was coming – something was happening. Even though I was leaning so far out and pointing, I couldn’t get any words out. Everything was coming out garbled. When I looked down again, the eggs were completely outlined in thick black and there was now a woman and her children sitting rigidly in chairs against the wall. They all turned to look at me.

The light kept creeping around the stairwell and I was totally panicked. I looked down again and saw a lamp on the nightstand. I picked it up, flipped it over and started bashing my forehead with it, yelling, “Wake Up! Wake Up!! Wake Up!” I was really hurting myself and could feel blood dripping down my face. Even though I was saying that, I didn’t know I was asleep – I was trying to make my mouth wake up, wake my brain up, and get words out. I kept doing it, smashing myself in the face and spitting out sounds and screams until I actually woke up and Kent was rubbing my arm.

I asked him what happened and he said I was trying to say something, but it was all garbled and he couldn’t understand so he thought I was having a nightmare. Weird. A very messy dream/waking experience.