I had this dream last night. It's actually one that I've had before, in some form or another. Not exactly the same, but close.

In the dream, my mom and our 3 little dogs and I are more or less being held hostage in our own home by... *sigh* a giant dinosaur. It's loose outside for whatever reason and seems to have targeted our street, mostly the houses on either side of our end of the street, and most specifically OUR house. It's kinda like a Spinosaurus, but without the sail. And its body was very lean, and its legs super long. It's just really huge. And what's more, there seems to be intent. It's very angry. It WANTS to kill us. My mom is in the living room, watching TV while I stay out of that room because there are 3 large windows. The shade is pulled down in front of one of them, which, to my amazement, seems to prevent the beast from looking in.... It seems fixated on one window in particular--the one with the shade down.

I go over at some point and pull a blind down (somehow at that moment shade became blinds? Or maybe there's both overlapped??) and I peeked outside. I couldn't really see out at first cuz it was sort of dirty and/or fogged up, and there was a glare. But I tried to focus better and I saw the dinosaur standing there, staring in with nothing but hate in his eyes. His arms were up as if he was trying to put them against the sides of the window, but they just ended up sticking straight up (you know, like Raise The Roof, or "I'm Gonna Get You!"). It really freaked me out so I backed up. I wasn't sure if he'd seen me, as I had tried to be somewhat discreet, but I figured he did. I tended to stay in the part of the house where the dinosaur wasn't looking in, and I was sort of surprised (somewhere in the back of my mind) that my mom and dogs weren't causing any stir about it. In the past, I think we were much more actively trying to avoid all windows, as the dinosaur was much more actively trying to find us. This one was actually more passive than past incarnations, to tell the truth. He wasn't really looking for a way in--just standing outside being angry....

I was terrified that he would eventually just crack and tear the house apart, and I knew we had to get out before he did or we'd have no chance. And I remember that I suggested to my mom that he might do just that (but in a sort of offhand way, as I didn't want to panic her), and I said that I'd put the dogs' leashes and harnesses on so we could make a quick getaway. So I did just that.

And finally, I got everyone together and we snuck out to my mom's car, which is on the other side of the house from the front where Big N Bad was still glaring into my living room. We didn't shut the doors all the way, to avoid any loud sound. We sat there and I told my mom that there was a theory that T-Rex might have been able to run up to 45 miles per hour, and that this guy here was much taller with much longer legs, so that if we did leave it would have to be like bats out of hell. XD But don't freak and kill the engine I said, or we're really screwed. I told her I thought she could do it and we'd be fine. I didn't want to panic cuz then she'd panic, I feared. She asked me how I could be so calm, and I didn't really have an answer. But I told her that I really was terrified (and I was).

We were gonna turn the radio on at first, but I realized that the dinosaur would hear it. I also mentioned that it would be a good idea to think about where we were going because we had seen on TV that nasty mean dinosaurs were congregated in many places around the city. Mom said we'd be fine since they were grouped up and not wondering around EVERYWHERE. But I said they had legs, didn't they? Don't count on that being a safety net.

I was pretty much all the way awake by then and I imagined different endings. One was that we did drive off, and my cousins across the street were thankful because then they could leave without danger. I really was freaked out when I woke up. Scared. Not panicky or anything, but just out of sorts....