Intruder Alert
Ever since I was a child I have had intruder dreams. I don’t know how common this is, though I suspect it is common enough. I have always put it down to where and how I grew up – the possibility of (violent) home invasion was a very real threat. The first time my family had a break-in happened when I was 14 years old; my parents have since been burglarised multiple times and had cars stolen, though praise be to all the gods/ancestors/guardian angels/land spirits that look after them, they have never been home when it happened.
Anyhoo.
So I’ve had dreams of my family home being broken into, maybe half-a-dozen to 10 times that I can recall. It always starts with me sensing that there is someone there, somewhere, then realising that one of the doors or security gates is unlocked and (usually) that my mother is outside. What wakes me is the smell. It isn’t any natural smell (garlic, sulphur, chili) I’ve ever encountered (ie. I am not gassing myself awake ha ha!) – the only way I can describe it is “violating”. I wake up with my heart pounding and the smell stuck in my nose.
I had one of these dreams a few months ago, after a very long time of not having them. This time, I was prepared. Thanks to my work on grounding and building shields together with being more “dream aware”, I banished whatever it was that was attempting to breach my boundaries, in-dream. I woke up with the same awful smell lingering, but I wasn’t afraid and knew that I had successfully warded off the attack. Then went right back to sleep.
Now I have to wonder if those dreams have always been rooted in real fear, or if they were some variation of psychic assault (dear me how dramatic). Or perhaps I was sent the most recent one as a form of training. Whatever combination of these things it might be, the timing is highly intriguing.
That smell though…
Fascinating! I love that this time you were able to banish/ward it off.
The smell part is very interesting to me. I sometimes have hallucinations / vivid dreams (narcolepsy, natch), but I don’t recall my sense of smell ever being involved. Usually it is sound and feeling, for me.
EXACTLY – this is the only time when smell is a part of my dreams. I can wake up and feel the warmth of a handprint on my back for days afterwards, but never smell. Only for this dream.
Funny enough, last night I had more “break-in” dreams – probably due to posting about it – , but the setting was different. I told whatever it was to stop banging the windows before the glass broke; I was tres unimpressed. No smell.
Very intriguing. A common recurring theme for me is tornadoes, although I’ve never been near one in real life. That smell thing is interesting, no idea what it is? Anything like burning circuitry? I don’t know what the ether smells like, does it have any sort of ‘electric’ sense to it?
For yeeeeeeears it was a swarm of mosquitoes. Every year like clockwork: end of February, 2-3 nights in a row. It terrified me as a child, then the dream just stopped coming sometime in my teens. Looking at it now, it’s also a dream of being attacked en masse and drained. Hmm.
Ugh, I wish I had a reference to describe the smell; it’s not circuitry or any other electric smell. Not burning rubber, not sulphur; not excrement or other bodily function; not rot or decay. It’s just… foul and… wrong. Maybe it’s the smell of fear? I don’t know; I’ve never experienced that level of fear in waking.
I used to have recurring tornardo dreams; in my mind they were about anger which I wasn’t expressing, probably even repressing at the time. I haven’t had any for a good long time, not since I’ve learned how to get mad!
Huh, both you and D.D. had tornado dreams. Good theory about it being (repressed) anger-related.