Nightmare

[mtbc]

It is unusual for me to be aware of having experienced a nightmare. This morning's involved my hiding out in a couple of joined rooms in some kind of large building, avoiding roaming entities. I tried barricading the door with different furniture but the result was so ineffective as to seem futile. Eventually I gave in to what seemed inevitable and just opened the door to the corridor. I saw an entity approaching and shouted in despairing horror as I awoke. For some seconds afterward, I saw the entity in the dark of my bedroom, though at least had the presence of mind to regard it as a hallucination.

I am now reminded of a prior dream, not a nightmare, involving barricading and otherwise preparing defenses in a different building, probably a workplace, involving staircases and office furniture and suchlike. In that case, the threat was rather more distant in both space and time.