When I was very young I had nightmares nearly every night. Extremely vivid dreams of ghosts, monsters, and daemons. Of these dreams there were a handful that were reacurring dreams. The one thing i remember about them all is that at the end of the dream, i would hear a loud howl or scream, and i knew it was something coming to get me, somthing i never wanted to see. I would hide and close my eyes in the dream untill it came for me. It would always find me and then drag me away taking off into the air to wake up with a ringing in my ear and my heart pounding out of my chest. This ended the worst of my nightmares for years until the howl at the end of my dreams became a sign that the nightmare was near its end, although i was still completly terrified of being taken away again. It came to the point where i finnaly felt as if something was rescuing me from my nightmares, and the next time it came, while being carried back to wake up i looked up at what i was so terrified to see. It was a skeleton with ragged clothes and a blank look on its face. it didnt seem evil or horrible, and i did finnaly feel a sence that it was there to help me. Ever since that dream where i faced my fear iv never had another extreme nightmare, nore have i seen the entity that carried me away. I always wonder if with the reacurring nightmares, the skeleton carrying me away, and then me facing my fear and never seeing it again didnt mean something.

in the begining it seemed more like something that wanted to hurt me, the thought that it may be someone who needed help from me doesnt seem right as the sound was just terrifying. this was when i was very young, like around the ages of 5 to 12. it reminded me of the grim reaper in a way, although he wore no black robe and didnt carry a scyth or anything. it also symbolized some sort of guardian after the last dream where i finally realized it was really saving me from the dream, but theres still a feeling that it had a darker motive such as to steal me for its own from my nightmares. im 24 now but the dreams are still so vivid to me and iv always wondered what they meant.

the fact that the entity represented both the grim reaper (death) and a guardian angel (life) is what i am so curiouse about. granted i was arround 12 when i had the last dream i dont feel like i even knew who i was then. iv tried researching a little about entities that would save someone from nightmares without much solid luck, which is why im here. would anyone know some good sites or sources i could use to research more into this?

I think it would be common to have dreams like this when you were young because when you are very young the world is a strange, unfamiliar place and there are so many dangers that you don't understand. You are very vulnerable and depend on other people to take care of you.

There is also a theory that says that the reason that we dream is so we can learn to defend ourselves from things that threaten us in waking life. When you are a child, you have more to learn.

There is more about that theory here:

https://www.dreaming.life/dream-theory/the-evolutionary-theory-of-dreams.htm

The skeleton that started rescuing you could have been your own "inner strength". In waking life, your skeleton provides you with a strong framework - it is the thing that holds up your body and supports you. As you got older, you felt stronger and better able to care for yourself and are less vulnerable.

Here is some info on children's dreams:
Children's Dreams

I had kind of the same dream but in my case nobody would help me, i would wake up when i was trapped and they where going to kill me.... all the time it was an evil doll

I don't know if any of you are old enough to have seen it, but when I was young I thought the Twilight Zone episode about the evil doll was one of the scariest things I had ever seen:

Living Doll (The Twilight Zone) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia