I normally don’t get scared by my dreams or really remember most of them but this one is sticking with me and I can shake it. In my dream I am a teenager again and I am running from something I can’t see, only I am not scared more like hyper aware. I run home and up my stairs then it is night time and I am ready to go to bed. I lie in my bed and look over and see my ex-boyfriend. I asked him what he was doing in my room, just as I asked him that whatever it was I was running from all day grabbed my ankles and tried to pull my up into my ceiling through a crawl space opening. I was pulled to about my waste when I was able to kick the thing off me. I remember I wasn’t scared at this point either more mad that I couldn’t see what was grabbing me. I fell onto my bed and my ex-boyfriend tried to roll over on me when I kicked him off me telling him he was gross and needed to leave. This is when I left my room and went looking for my mom. I started to hell for her only I couldn’t yell out it was like my voice was strangled off, this was the only time in my dream I felt scared. I then found my mom in her room on her bed reading a book to the light of a TV. When I walked through the door I was no longer a teen but a child of about 5 or 6. I told my mother what had happened and she looked at me and don’t worry everything will be ok. This is when I woke up and started to cry not from the dream but because my mother passed away 9 years ago.
Can someone please shed some light on this for me.

It sounds like this dream is trying to get you to face something that has been frightening you, even if you don't acknowledge it consciously. I think you being a teenager/child and your mother being alive and there to reassure you has to do with the idea that when you are younger, you have your parents to protect you and face difficult things for you, and when you are an adult you have to face things on your own. What was your relationship with your ex-boyfriend like? You seem to have had a very negative attitude toward him in the dream; that's why I'm asking.

I have a negative attitude toward him in waking life to. If this is a fear I have I wish I could figure it out cause I am still dreaming about being ripped up by my feet only now its in my home. Also my children are now the ones telling me to got back to bed everything will be OK. The dream doesn't scare me more like I wake up angry with what ever is ripping off my bed.

I think it is good that you are going from being scared to being angry. It means you want to take control of things.