Thread: Leopard dream

I had this recurring dream when I was younger (about 5 years old), I had this dream so often that I still remember every detail of the dream now almost 20 years later and I still can't figure out what it meant.
It would begin by my family (parents and younger brother) having a normal dinner at our dinner table and I would notice all of a sudden that there were leopards sitting in our living room. I would feel very scared and try to warn my family without startling the leopards and we would try and move down the hallway away from the leopards as fast as we could and I would notice the walls were lined with carpet and I would feel a lot of anxiety about trying to get my family away from the leopards because I felt like they were following and we would get the my parents room at the end of the hall and hide behind my dad and the leopards would come I and close in on us and my dad would pull out this crucifix (we were not a religious family at all, possibly picked this symbol up from tv or something) and he would thrust it forward and it would freeze time for a few seconds so we could back away more, this repeated with building fear and anxiety until I woke up.

Any interpretation would be appreciated! I had this dream so often with not one detail changing that it's really freaked me out.