Lights out

Date: 8/13/2016

It was a few years ago when I first had this dream, I had it again last night. It was not lucid but it felt real. I was at my old house, standing in the front yard. The front door slowing opened, revealing that the inside was completely abandoned. I walked inside slowly, shortly followed by the slam of the front door. Every step I took made my heart beat faster, I had the feeling something was watching me. I walked around, examining the rotting furniture, broken floor boards, and peeling paint. I walked to the room that once the held a desk with a computer on it and nothing else. The silence was bliss, but almost...eerie. The room had a bookshelf that I hadn't seen before and all the books were upside down, it was an unusual sight that slightly frightened me. After checking around that room, I walked to the basement door and heard a rustling behind the door. I slowly opened it to see darkness. I turned on the light and started carefully walking down the steps, it felt as if the stairs would collapse under me. When I got to the bottom, I noticed a flickering light in the room that was once a storm shelter. I walked in the room to see a large rat eating another rat, it disgusted me to the point of throwing up. I went back in the room to try to fix the light and when I pulled the string to turn off the light, nothing happened. Dust went flying everywhere but the light wouldn't turn off. I eventually gave up and walked out of the storm shelter. When I stepped out, I heard a click behind me. I turned around slowly, and saw a hand holding the string. It was pitch black in the room and I wasn't going back in there. So I turned back around and started waking up the stairs. As I walked slowly up, I heard multiple more clicks. I turned around for a second and saw the black figure pulling all of the strings, right behind me. I ran up the stairs as fast as I could but they started crashing. It was a race against time at this point. I ran faster until one broke beneath me and my foot got caught. I then had to saw my foot off and crawl up the stairs. When I got to the top, I slammed the door to ensure the shadow couldn't get me. I then heard a voice from the living room say,"Why are you slamming doors? It's going to ruin the house!" Confused, I got up and hopped into the living room to see my family sitting there. They were making friendly conversation amongst themselves and stopped when they saw me. My mother said to me, "Go to bed, it's past your bedtime." I was so confused, but I went anyway. I saw my leg wasn't sawed off anymore, which freaked me out even more. I went to my bedroom, which was just the way it was when I was a kid, and climbed into bed and fell asleep. I woke up (still in the dream) and I was standing in front of my house, when I heard the front door open.