Dream about a home invasion

[AGV]

So this is a dream I had about a home invasion but it starts of with me and some friends trying to get to my house. About a block away from the gatehouse of my gated community we had to walk because some hooligans were causing havoc to the neighbourhood. I've passed this way a million times in my car but I rarely had to walk it. So while walking I notice that it was really dark and there were hooligans running around but they weren't really minding us. I don't know how we got home but the next thing I remember is that we were in my house and some streetkids were trying to get in. We weren't really panicked about it but we tried keeping them out. I closing the windows and the intruders keep opening them but are unable to get in because there are iron grills on the windows. I tell my friends that I should complain this to the mayor of (who lives in the same gated community) and then I recall that that mayor lost the last elections and a new mayor had taken office a few days prior which made me think that all this havoc was being brought about by that last mayor. Then all of a sudden one of the streetkids was inside the house but we caught him (he really wasn't trying to escape or anything but was just idly standing by). The kids outside were telling the one who got in to let them in. My brother wanted to just let the kid outside again but I didn't want to because he would show the others how he got in. So we decided to tie him up. So I go looking for something to tie the intruder with and then I went to my dad to ask if he had any handcuffs and he said yes (which is weird because my dad isn't the kind to own handcuffs). My dad said he would get it after he was finished doing what he was doing on the computer. Then I went to check the other doors to see where the streetkid got in. I saw that one of the main doors was unlocked so locked it but I noticed that the bolts were taken out, not destroyed but removed. So I ask my dad if knew that the bolts were taken out and then thats all I remember

[JoannaB]

Living in a gated community implies that one is keeping the others out, so there is a fear of home invasion built in to the system. That said, I think it is normal for anyone to sometimes have a dream of home invasion. I have had two in the last few months that I can remember, and I certainly do not live in a gated community. However all of us who have homes, worry about others getting in uninvited sometimes, I think, that's normal. The question is just how important that fear is to one, how much it is on one's mind. In my case when I dreamed of home invasion recently part of it had to do with examining stereotypes of who is the other that I may be afraid of, and also in my dream I had some stuff stolen and then I thought that was about considering which stuff I am attached to to an unhealthy degree (mostly electronics, I am a tech addict and my dream was reminding me of that). Sometimes when people dream of home being invaded the home is not the literal home tough, but more of a sense of invasion of self or of one's ideas or of family by the "other", I think. Sometimes our dreams challenge us to reexamine out us versus them mentality, I think. And our ideas may feel invaded by strange ideas, a mental territory that we felt was "home" is no longer "safe." For example, for me I might have such a dream when my values are being challenged, or my views and opinions, if I am beginning to wonder whether I was wrong. Of course, your dream may mean something completely different, and if this does not sound right, please disregard.

[Superman1]

A CHANGE OF RULE It seems, after you changed a governing rule in yourself a few days ago, it caused potential havoc in you and you couldn't get back to yourself. This time you couldn't go home the usual fast, powered way in yourself, but had to go slow under your own personal effort. Like your power was taken away. ENTER CHAOS Once you did get back to yourself, this mild chaos was trying to get in. You closed your view to it, to no avail. But you had strong security within so the undesirable couldn't enter. You wanted to complain to what ideas are newly governing you. Then the unruliness got inside you, and in its typical mild fashion you caught it easily and it wasn't a threat to security. But more wanted to come in. EXIT CHAOS You wanted to put it out, but feared that would not fix the cause and more would enter. So you restrain this part. You needed the higher authority in yourself to cuff him, which would do it after computing this issue, or thinking on it properly. Your change in thinking would restrain this unruly part. SECURITY CHECK So you check your other mental entry points for how this bad bit got in. You saw one of your main mental doors was unlocked, or insecure, so you locked it and saw you had taken the security measure out in some way. So you ask your guiding or higher authority if it knew. That must be the end of that experience, or line of enquiry, because that was the cause and you found it. No need to answer. CONCLUSION It seems you changed a governing idea in yourself that let your security down - which might mean your sense of security itself, or knowing yourself, or clear thinking to keep bad or negative ideas out - and when you came to realize that, your problem was fixed. Or maybe an outer experience prompted this, such as associating with new people you may not trust, or just you.