Nightmare: Spirit (?) Attacking Boyfriend While We Slept

[rickybutlersays]

I had a strange and frightening dream last night and I would appreciate the boards' input. Last night, after a perfectly normal evening of dinner in & a movie, my boyfriend (we'll call him "A") and I went to bed. At some point in the evening, I had the following dream: I heard footsteps coming up the hall to our room. I tried to wake A, but I couldn't. I was scared. Then, the all-white figure of a man glided into the room and started moving toward A's side of the bed. I tried harder and harder to wake A, but he didn't budge. I knew this man was going to hurt A. I could feel my dread increasing as the white man got closer. He was an older man, with a white beard and white eyebrows. At this point in the dream, I was frantically shaking A and begging him to get up. I was shouting something like "He's coming! Can't you see him? He's right here! Please wake up! Please!" Then, the white man pounced, jumping on top of A, and, as best as I can describe it: sucking on the top of A's head. A remained asleep & didn't seem aware of what was happening. I remember crawling under the covers to try and pull A away from the white man. It was then I made eye contact with the white man. He was drooling and laughing and I think his eyes were blue. The shock of seeing the white man's eyes woke me up. What do you think this could mean? Is my boyfriend in danger? Also, I want to note this dream was remarkably detailed and not distorted the way dreams sometimes are. All the details of my room were the same as waking life, right down to the quality of moonlight coming in through the window. I should mention a few days ago, I woke to what I thought were footsteps in the same hall. I know I was awake this time because I had to talk myself back to sleep. I had the same sense of dread that someone was going to walk into my room. My apartment is in a very old building. The heat has just come on for the season, new upstairs neighbors moved in after the apartment being vacant for a month and I have two cats who are very active at night. The "footsteps" could have logical roots in any one of those facts. I just thought it worth noting. Thank you for your time and for reading this post. Any of your thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

[Sammoyke]

Is your boyfriend recently been offered a some kind of promotional opportunity at work or maybe considering a new employment all together? Has he made complaint of work, being stressful if not work perhaps school. The image of this figure sucking on his head gives me the impression you feel someone is "sucking him dry" sorta speak, sapping his energy and making him feel drained or exhausted, perhaps an older male figure in his life, father, boss or teacher has been putting an excessive amount of pressure on him, and you are connecting to his feeling through your dreams, this figures laughter to you maybe an interpretation that someone is in interfering with your relationship with no regard to your own feelings and opinions , the dream itself could then be manifesting fear while your awake,before sleep, which is 100% normal I think , not all dreams are going to be distorted, mine are always usually very real and follow most basic laws of real phsyics, I have a few dreams that obviously don't but have dreams that feel very real and "awake like" isn't uncommon, it just generally makes the fear of what you saw more intense and more memorable