I am one of those people that dreams almost every night and wake up remembering what it is that I dreamt about.  I sometimes wish I would write these things down because the longer I am awake afterwards the more of it I forget, just like most people.  Most of the time I can remember a great deal of what was in my dreams though and many times I realize that I am dreaming in the dream and then take complete control of it and do whatever I want with no consequences.  

Almost always my dreams are about something rather harmless or fun but other times my dreams can be scary.  In the worst situations, which thankfully don't happen that often, the dreams relate to something I hold dear in my real life and this can be really disturbing.   A few nights ago I had a dream that was so disturbing that even though it was 330 in the morning, I was unable to get back to sleep because of it.  

It had to do with a robbery, the absence of any sort of police help, and my dog, Nadi.

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Anyone who knows me a little in real life will say that I care very deeply about my dog.   She is the center of my world and almost every aspect of my life is designed around taking care of her.  I take her with me everywhere, I refuse to go to places that don't allow dogs and I also skip out on a lot of activities such as multi-day trips to various areas that I DO in fact want to go to, but I won't put my dog in a kennel for days at a time.   You could say that she is the most important thing in my world and I would do anything for her.   This dream that I had centers around exactly that.

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In the dream there was a robbery going on and the thieves were not just after the bank or the place that I was in's money, but in all the money and possessions of the people that were in it.  The thieves were calm and nice for the most part, but it was very clear that they were going to take everything from everyone that was in the place.  

The part where I realized that no one was coming to save us is when a SWAT vehicle went by the front entrance and was immediately destroyed by the culprits of the robbery.  They made it very clear to those of us inside the building that no one was going to be able to save us, so we may as well comply so that this can take as little time as possible.  

I am one of those people that doesn't often have much money on me so at first I wasn't all that concerned about handing over my 20 year old wallet that was completely devoid of credit cards as I never carry any.   The thieves were after much more than what we had on our person though.   Somehow, my laptop was in their possession and they knew all the various sites and wallets where all my money is kept.   They were going to completely empty out all of my accounts all over the world including crypto.   

At first I played dumb and acted like I didn't know what they were talking about but my laptop in the dream stored all of my passwords locally on a system like LastPass.  This isn't how my life actually is but there was a time.   When I refused to give them the passwords they weren't mean to me, didn't try to physically harm me but instead picked up Nadi (again, my dog) and at first were nice to her but then started torturing her, not me.   In the dream just like it would do in real life, I immediately complied - yet they now had their taste for blood and continued to torture her anyway if there was any sort of delay in what I was doing to give them all of my assets.   Eventually I got to work at transferring all of my assets to their accounts as quickly as I could as a burly man sat opposite me with Nadi crying for me to help her, but for some reason my attempted punches and kicks could never connect, just like in all of my dreams.   

I didn't stay asleep for very long after this began and I am happy that this was the case.  When I woke up in my bed with Nadi safely next to me snoring, I was extremely relieved.  One would think that I would be grateful and laugh this off but I couldn't shake that dread feeling that I had from the dream.   I was so angry and frustrated that I couldn't get the feeling that existed in my dream out of my head.  It was kind of like a temporary PTSD or something like that.

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I quickly realized that unless I downed a couple of Ambien that there was no chance I was going to be able to get back to sleep even though it was pre 4am, a time that I am never awake during unless I have to catch a flight or haven't gone to sleep yet.  

Thankfully, my dog was more than happy to get out of bed because she is a dog and after 9 years of basically the same process happening, she knows that shortly after leaving the bedroom, we go and get her something to eat.   Needless to say the afternoon hit me like a ton of bricks and I really wanted to nap but fought it off and waited until the sun went down before going back to bed.   I went to bed at Grandpa time at around 730pm.  

The dream was horrible.  One of the worst I have ever had in my life but they say that every cloud has a silver lining and I have to say that I quite enjoyed being that tired at such an early hour.   I really liked going to sleep so early and think I might do it more often!  

I wonder what this dream says about me or what a psychologist would say it means.  I mean obviously it means that I care about my dog a lot but does it also say that I am subconsciously worried about my digital assets being stolen?  I think that is too obvious an answer because everyone is afraid of those things.   

What do you think?