Last night I had a very vivid dream that seemed steeped in meaning (this usually means I am about to get a migraine in the next few days). I wake up usually feeling quite emotional. This one was a nightmare (not all of them are). Anyway, in the dream I was waiting at my boyfriend's house for him to get back from getting carryout. Note: I was a different person in the dream, and it was a house not familiar to me in non-dream life, and the boyfriend I was waiting for was not my husband. Anyway, a man broke in (quite young and wearing red, plaid pants). From the get go it was clear he was there to murder me and then my boyfriend as well when he got home (I didn't feel like he was there to rape me, something else was going on I sensed, and it was very bad). My immediate goal was to make him feel both comfortable and thrown off course enough that I could escape. I noticed he had lower jaw dentures, giving me an opportunity to commiserate about dental problems in a way that didn't make him feel I was making fun of his teeth (I don't really have dental problems and didn't in my dream either). I told him to take his pants off and make himself comfortable in bed, which he did, looking confused. Then I offered to make us sandwiches and excused myself to do so. He was thrown off enough to let me do that. I immediately escaped from the house. It was raining hard. What made the dream really scary was that it all seemed to relate (in a way I couldn't connect in the dream or consciously) to the Oakland County Child Killings case in Michigan (also known as the Baby Sitter Killer case). The dream took place in the 1970s, I could tell by the decor and clothing. Whatever was happening in my dream related to that case, which seemed a backdrop to all the events of the dream. This probably has to do with the fact that 3 of the killings occurred the year I was born in an area quite near where I was raised. All the moms were terrified, and it was the advent of "Stranger Danger." Rationally or not, everyone was on the look out for a blue Gremlin (made by AMC). Even as a small child people were still looking for this car. Like I said, the events in the dream occurred at the time of the case and seemed to have something to do with it. The Oakland County Child Killings have still not bee solved.
Well, there ya go, and that is probably more than you asked for!