Date: 8/3/2021
By ChefRiggs
I was home in my old apartment drifting off to sleep when one of the little kids (about 5 years old) comes to my front door crying because a man walked past him outside making scary faces and taunting the boy. I tell him everything okay and that heās safe and set him up on the couch with a blanket to sleep. Iām later woken up again by the kid even more distraught than before saying a man was banging on the window making faces and yelling at the kid. I tell him he can crash in my room and I give him something to watch since he canāt sleep. I go to the living room to check it out and I donāt see anything. As I head back to my room I hear shouts from the neighbors apartment across the way. I turn and see two men with shotguns pointed at a family on the couch while a third is unplugging and lifting a TV. I pull out my phone to call the cops but wonder if that would only get someone hurt so I just decide itās better to lose some belongs than their lives. I got back to bed but when I wake up, the kidās family is around me asking about him. I bring him out which makes them all happy. I realize there are about 10 or 15 people (including the men that had them at gun point pretending to be family) all hanging out and excited to see the kid. Iām walking to my car (that had been broken into a few weeks ago) and notice some of my drawers, clothes, and dishes in the grass. Someone had broken into my house while I was asleep. In a rage I grab a plate and walk straight into the house where I saw the men and the family and I confront the men still wearing their bandannas. I went off on them swinging a plate in frustration asking if they had broken into my house and stole my stuff. They told me to F off and kept dodging anything I asked them. I tried confronting the family about the kid and who is protecting him but was met with ādrop itā and āidk what youāre talking aboutā pissed at the men and the family I storm out. I pass an old woman sitting in a lawn chair out front and she says ābest just leave it beā like she already knew everything. I told her what was going on and asked her what I was suppose to do. At that moment the three men come outside toward me. The one in front with his hand behind his back. I know what is coming. They come up to me and one pulls a revolver from off his belt and shoots at me twice. I hold the plate out to block it but it just shatters in my hand as the bullets fly into me. The first hit me on my right side of my abdomen and the second hit just below my sternum. Pieces of shrapnel from the ceramic plate pepper my body. I knew in that moment I was going to die. Screams fill the air but all I hear is ringing in my ears. Blood gushed out everywhere and I felt everything. Light fades to dark, I fell backwards and before I hit the ground I woke up.
AI generated interpretation This dream seems to depict the fear of threats to one's sense of security and sense of control over one's environment. It reflects the deeper anxieties and concerns about one's own safety and the safety of others in seemingly familiar settings. The dream starts with a little boy seeking refuge in your home, a symbol of safety, from a man who taunted him. This could represent the feeling of vulnerability and the need for protection, both for oneself and for others, from external threats. As the dream progresses, the situation escalates, and the dreamer is faced with the dilemma of whether to call the police or to simply lose some belongings to avoid injury or death. This could represent the conflict between wanting to take action against threats and the fear of the consequences that could arise from it. The dreamer's rage and confrontation with the burglars and the family could represent a deeper frustration with feeling powerless and unable to protect oneself and those around them. The old woman's advice to "leave it be" could signify the fear of retaliation and the idea that sometimes it is better to avoid confrontations or risk to one's safety. The climax of the dream, with the dreamer being shot and dying, could symbolize the ultimate fear of powerlessness and the loss of control over one's life. On a deeper level, it may reflect the fear of vulnerability and the ultimate fear of death. Overall, the dream seems to convey the message that there are real fears and threats in the world and that it is necessary to take precautions and protect oneself and those around them, but it is also important to be mindful of the consequences of one's actions and to avoid placing oneself in harm's way unnecessarily.