I´m sorry you had such a bad dream.
It is a typical "dark man" dream, that people have. It is very terrible and frightening, often also accompanied with body paralysis.
Not sure if you are familiar with the term, so here is a Cass Wiki page:
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In short:
It basically means to stay alert, aware of your surroundings, pray, keep good mental hygiene, also what you eat, etc ...
But, as you can se also from the quoted, it can be stimulated by the outside forces.
Looks like lately people are edgy, anxious, and have problems sleeping and bad dreams; i.e. see latest posts here:
Thought I'd start a thread here on this seemingly very general topic. The reason being that, from time to time, members have posted in other threads (or started new ones) to express odd feelings about the state of the world or the society in which they live, and how it may be impacting them psychologically and emotionally. I also noticed a few notable people on social media mentioning that they were feeling particularly weird or negative in recent days/weeks, with one or two saying that they had been unusually waking up at 3am recently with dark or "demonic" thoughts.
Anyway, that's what...
For more on the topic of a "dark man" dream, search the forum; i.e. here is one:
I laid down to take a nap today after gardening out in the heat all morning, and had a dream that bothered me a lot. I suppose it was the common "dark man" dream, but I'm not sure how to interpret or apply it to my life to identify my predator, if there is one.
(I'm pretty sure the beginning is largely irrelevant, but here it is.) It started out with my boyfriend and I just moving into a new house, which was next to a church, and which happened to have a pool in the basement. I go for a swim, and see a door I'd never noticed before. I can see a lady standing behind the frosted glass doors...
I hope this helps.