Dream: Glowing creatures in the house

I'm up in a bedroom upstairs in a house that sort of resembles my current place and my aunt & uncle's place in Petaluma. There are two single beds and I'm in the one closest to the door, which is open. It leads to an extended landing with a view to downstairs with a railing you can see through. I can see a bluish/greenish light is glowing from the kitchen, emanating into the dark house.

I'm frozen scared in this bed.. I feel very vulnerable here. Plus, it's really cold in this house. The blankets just aren't enough to really keep warm. I shiver a lot. It's almost as if the covers are too thin and a little short, like a kid's bed. There is someone in other single bed but I can't wake them to talk about what I see downstairs. I try to shake this person but they just groan a little and turn over and go back to sleep. I know if I was able to tell this person about what's downstairs, they would not be able to sleep either.

I tentatively get up to take a peek. I'm looking toward the source of the light. (It's almost same angle that I have at my current place when I look out from the bedroom, toward the kitchen.) The glow is constant; it doesn't seem like anything is moving in the kitchen but I sense something.


Then I see them come out, one by one. They're pretty big.. each one is about as wide as the door but only about half as tall. They walk on four legs. I am paralyzed with fear. They are glowing from within, almost cartoon-like. I can see them clearly in the darkness. The one I see most clearly has bulging eyes and an elongated face with flared nostrils. I don't know if it can see me but I can't take my eyes off the scene. I don't recall that they looked scary but they're certainly deliberate and ominous. They walk slowly out of the kitchen and round the corner, going farther into the house where I can't see them from my vantage. I retreat back into the bedroom.

Tangie is with me under the covers.. I grab a piece of wood for protection (it's one of the pieces from my shelves; about 4 feet long)  I'm worried about swatting too much at the creatures for fear of injuring Tangie but I practice a few times. Plus, I don't think I would be able to do much, if any, damage to these huge creatures even I I hit them edge-wise but it's all I've got to work with.

The house is eerily silent. I keep waiting for it to get lighter outside but it never seems to. I never get up to look out the window in the bedroom but I know it's still seems just as dark. I'm straining to a sign, a shuffling of paper, creaking floor, anything to signal they whereabouts.


I know those "things" are still down there and possible coming upstairs but there are no noises from the creatures. I don't know why I just don't venture downstairs to face my fear. Instead I'm cowered in this room waiting for the thing I fear to come to me. I really don't even have much of a defense.

I keep worrying about Tangie, afraid he's going to venture outside the bedroom and possibly get harmed.. 


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I wake up and my own place is bathed in the same kind of light. Tangie is also next to me under the covers. It fills me with an eerie sense inside.. I'm cold and hot at the same time. I feel sweaty under the blankets but I'm also shivering. It's freezing in this place.. the feeling is almost overwhelming. I have an emotional moment. The tears come and I feel sadness. I decide I'd better jot this dream down before what details I do remember begin to fade.