So to start off I often have very realistic dreams, but never like this, I was 100% sure that I'm in reality this time. I would really really appreciate if someone could help me interpret it.
The dream started off by me going on vacation with my girlfriend and her mother, I don't remember much of this part, but we settled-in in an apartment and went to sleep (pretty sure I even had a dream). Later I woke up in the same apartment in the middle of the night in pitch darkness, my girlfriend woke up too and went to the bathroom. At this point I'm completely convinced that I am awake in real life, since I went to sleep, had a dream and now woke up in the same place. I looked trough the window to balkony and saw a small gap in the curtains held by a black hand with unnaturally long and skinny fingers. At first I wrote it off as still being sleepy since I just woke up, then my girlfriend left the room. I looked at the window again and once again saw two pitch black skinny hands holding up a gap in the curtains and the moment I looked at it, the hands went away I gasped from shock because this time I could see it very very clearly. I started crunching my brain to find a logical explanation and thought hey, I must still be dizzy from waking up not long ago afterall, the balcony windows don't even have curtains in the first place (looking back this should've ticked me off that Im still dreaming, but I was still fully convinced that Im awake and in the real world now). My girlfriend is still out of the room and the room itself is in complete darkness, so I decided to look for my phone and turn on a flashlight before going to check out the balcony. This part is not that relevant but really added to the whole frustration of the situation, I turned on my phone and noticed that there are new cool features such as an ability to add flashlight to home screen, then I realised that I'm just wasting time messing around with my phone even though i'm potentially being watched by someone or something, I got so upset and disappointed in myself, so I just simply turned on the flashlight and went to the balcony. The balcony was full of big boxes stacked in the corners, and there were also my pets sleeping there which was weird because I didn't remember letting them into the balcony (there was my irl dog, my irl cat and another unfamiliar cat in the balcony). Since it was complete darkness on my way to the balcony I accidentally knocked over 3 tiny plants. When I opened the balcony door, the cats tried to leave the balcony and since it was pitch dark I accidentally kicked one of them (I only mention this because I felt really really bad about kicking the cat as this is something I would never do willingly and I think that emotions I was feeling troughout the dream have a big part in the whole picture). The cats then went back in to the balcony and after I checked everything with my flashlight and didn't find anything else in the balcony I calmed down a little. Then I went to fix the plants that I knocked over earlier, one of the plants was fully intact, another one broke off right at the beginning of the stem and another one was broken in 3 places. While I was trying to put the plants back into the pots my girlfriend (who wasn't back from the bathroom yet this whole time) got into a huge fight with her mother, I remember them screaming very loud and my girlfriend mother crying, since it was literally middle of the night I decided to not get involved yet and just finish fixing the plants. The fight got so loud from all the crying that it was basically what woke me up, I woke up in total confusion because I thought that I was already awake before and tried to listen if maybe my neighbours were having a late night fight and thats why I heard it in my dream and what woke me up, but everything was silent and I was feeling really really shook.
I usually have explanations for all my dreams, because even if its a nightmare It's usually just a dream about situations I saw in a TV show or situations in my life just put in another setting, I'm also completely honest with myself so even if the dreams are pointing to some hidden fears or traumas/insecurities I can easily come up to that conclusion after some reflection. But this time I got nothing, I can't get the dream out of my head, I remember every single detail and it's mostly because It was very very real-life-like, the very majority of details stayed consistent troughout the whole dream, besides the (whatever the thing was peeking trough the curtains) everything was, very unusually for most dreams, highly true to reality even to the details, my phone was my actual phone irl, moving my body felt natural like it does in real life, but never feels natural in my dreams, it was very clear, not cloudy or disrupted and I just can't find any reason as to why would I have a dream like that. There is no new developing stress situations in my life, I am not currently fighting with literally any person in my life, nor is my girlfriend, I do not watch horror shows or pretty much anything of that sort (especially in at least the last year) that could explain the demon/creature/thing appearance in my dream.
This dream really shook me and up until now it is still making me nervous, which is frustrating me even more, I am pretty stoic man, I work a pretty tense job so occasional nightmares are not unusual, however I forget them almost immediately since I usually know exactly what inspired my subconscious to create something like that and I'm not scared of them even during the nightmare, but this time I was genuinely terrified and slightly am even now, even writing this is giving me goosebumps, I just think that maybe getting some clarity and closure could help.
I know this is an insanely long read, so thank you so so much in advance, any kind of help would really mean the world to me, I remember every single detail of the dream after the *fake* waking up, so if you think that I missed anything or that there is some context missing, feel free to ask.
The dream started off by me going on vacation with my girlfriend and her mother, I don't remember much of this part, but we settled-in in an apartment and went to sleep (pretty sure I even had a dream). Later I woke up in the same apartment in the middle of the night in pitch darkness, my girlfriend woke up too and went to the bathroom. At this point I'm completely convinced that I am awake in real life, since I went to sleep, had a dream and now woke up in the same place. I looked trough the window to balkony and saw a small gap in the curtains held by a black hand with unnaturally long and skinny fingers. At first I wrote it off as still being sleepy since I just woke up, then my girlfriend left the room. I looked at the window again and once again saw two pitch black skinny hands holding up a gap in the curtains and the moment I looked at it, the hands went away I gasped from shock because this time I could see it very very clearly. I started crunching my brain to find a logical explanation and thought hey, I must still be dizzy from waking up not long ago afterall, the balcony windows don't even have curtains in the first place (looking back this should've ticked me off that Im still dreaming, but I was still fully convinced that Im awake and in the real world now). My girlfriend is still out of the room and the room itself is in complete darkness, so I decided to look for my phone and turn on a flashlight before going to check out the balcony. This part is not that relevant but really added to the whole frustration of the situation, I turned on my phone and noticed that there are new cool features such as an ability to add flashlight to home screen, then I realised that I'm just wasting time messing around with my phone even though i'm potentially being watched by someone or something, I got so upset and disappointed in myself, so I just simply turned on the flashlight and went to the balcony. The balcony was full of big boxes stacked in the corners, and there were also my pets sleeping there which was weird because I didn't remember letting them into the balcony (there was my irl dog, my irl cat and another unfamiliar cat in the balcony). Since it was complete darkness on my way to the balcony I accidentally knocked over 3 tiny plants. When I opened the balcony door, the cats tried to leave the balcony and since it was pitch dark I accidentally kicked one of them (I only mention this because I felt really really bad about kicking the cat as this is something I would never do willingly and I think that emotions I was feeling troughout the dream have a big part in the whole picture). The cats then went back in to the balcony and after I checked everything with my flashlight and didn't find anything else in the balcony I calmed down a little. Then I went to fix the plants that I knocked over earlier, one of the plants was fully intact, another one broke off right at the beginning of the stem and another one was broken in 3 places. While I was trying to put the plants back into the pots my girlfriend (who wasn't back from the bathroom yet this whole time) got into a huge fight with her mother, I remember them screaming very loud and my girlfriend mother crying, since it was literally middle of the night I decided to not get involved yet and just finish fixing the plants. The fight got so loud from all the crying that it was basically what woke me up, I woke up in total confusion because I thought that I was already awake before and tried to listen if maybe my neighbours were having a late night fight and thats why I heard it in my dream and what woke me up, but everything was silent and I was feeling really really shook.
I usually have explanations for all my dreams, because even if its a nightmare It's usually just a dream about situations I saw in a TV show or situations in my life just put in another setting, I'm also completely honest with myself so even if the dreams are pointing to some hidden fears or traumas/insecurities I can easily come up to that conclusion after some reflection. But this time I got nothing, I can't get the dream out of my head, I remember every single detail and it's mostly because It was very very real-life-like, the very majority of details stayed consistent troughout the whole dream, besides the (whatever the thing was peeking trough the curtains) everything was, very unusually for most dreams, highly true to reality even to the details, my phone was my actual phone irl, moving my body felt natural like it does in real life, but never feels natural in my dreams, it was very clear, not cloudy or disrupted and I just can't find any reason as to why would I have a dream like that. There is no new developing stress situations in my life, I am not currently fighting with literally any person in my life, nor is my girlfriend, I do not watch horror shows or pretty much anything of that sort (especially in at least the last year) that could explain the demon/creature/thing appearance in my dream.
This dream really shook me and up until now it is still making me nervous, which is frustrating me even more, I am pretty stoic man, I work a pretty tense job so occasional nightmares are not unusual, however I forget them almost immediately since I usually know exactly what inspired my subconscious to create something like that and I'm not scared of them even during the nightmare, but this time I was genuinely terrified and slightly am even now, even writing this is giving me goosebumps, I just think that maybe getting some clarity and closure could help.
I know this is an insanely long read, so thank you so so much in advance, any kind of help would really mean the world to me, I remember every single detail of the dream after the *fake* waking up, so if you think that I missed anything or that there is some context missing, feel free to ask.