hello, im a 20 year old female and have been having the same type of dream repeatidly for the past 4 or 5 years i think.
I either dream that i have been imprisoned in my own house (by family members or strangers that keep me hostage), or kidnapped and kept a prisoner in a house i have never seen or been to.
most recent one has happened yesterday, and i dreamed that my mother and older brother built a dungeon and have kept me in it for a long time, i cant think of a reason why they've imprisoned me but suddenly there are no guards and a staircase appears from nowhere , i take the staircase and it leads up to my own room, i jump off the window and run through a path (i always take the same exact path in all my escape dreams), its a hidden path that leads from my garden to a nearby forest and then i kind of hide in the forest near the street , being extra cautious i run through the same road i've ran through in at least 10 dreams sometimes by foot and sometimes by car but usually im very slow and scared and trying to run faster but cant, this time i got caught but sometimes i do escape and wake up suddenly.
in the dreams where im kidnapped im kept in a sort of one story building and i always escape through a window in the bathroom , it doesn't matter how small the window seems i always squeeze out, and my escapes here are always successfully.
i think 3 years ago, i had this mini series of dreams, once a week id have a dream and the next week id have a sequel of the dream if that makes any sense? and in it have been working as a slave in some kind of kingdom and ran away multiple times from the same kingdom and been caught in various ways,
i would just run out of the kingdom and hop on the rooftops of the commoners houses until i reached the kingdom's edge and be caught either by soldiers or once even the queen herself.
the emotion in all my dreams is usually of fear and just plain sick of being imprisoned and a slave and trying to break free with a rush of ecstasy while running away and either disappointment when i get caught or euphoria when i don't, the emotions are very strongly felt in all these dreams.
important things that happened through these years have been: well growing up i guess, transition from a teenager to a young adult, which havent gone quite as smoothly as ive thought (havent yet begun university, even after 3 years from graduation due to fear of comitting to one career or profession) and scared of growing up i guess. 5 years ago my brother and his family(wife and two kids) moved in to live on the floor under us, and we had our fair share of fights especially between me and his wife, on the most stupid of things. and 6 years ago my grandmother passed away (a grandmother who lived with us and raised me so i was very attached to her), also my other brother has mental illness and has alot of tantrums (sometimes even on a daily basis).
dont get me wrong we're a loving family but have had a rough few years. and i love my family dearly but sometimes i feel like ive been robbed of my teen years, also i was no ordinary teen , kind of a freak in the small very traditional town i live in, which ive always wished to get out of and live somewhere else but now it seems like i have no way out and even if i do figure out a way of doing something thatll get me out im too scared to take a step (like moving to another country)
i tried living in another country before and it has not gone well. but neither am i happy in my current country.
ps. sorry about any grammatical mistakes, english is not my first country and im kinda distressed