What are creature dreams about?

For me, I had a nightmare recently, probably back in December, that was inspired by Lovecraft’s stories, for it had the image of a monster in it that reminded me of his works. It was probably something like the Shoggoth, with flashes of probably other Lovecraftian creatures I don’t recall, with the scream of a person who is falling into insanity! I’ll be honest, the dream itself made me afraid that I was going mad myself!

This dream was in what I like to call “video game perspective” - where I am watching something happen but also controlling a specific “character” in the dream. Sometimes it can feel like this even in first person perspective, where I am somehow disconnected from being the person, even if I am the person, not watching a screen or using a controller.

So in the dream there was this giant worm creature. It wasn’t really a worm, more wormlike, as in it was oblong and had no limbs and wasn’t reptilian enough to be a snake. First it chased me through a corridor (this was in the perspective of a 2d sidescroller video game) trying to I think eat me or at least somehow kill me and I ran from it and it would smash stuff behind me. Sometimes I was really close to being caught by it but I managed to get ahead. Then I got into a chamber place (it was more in first person now) and it was at the bottom of some stairs. When I would go down the stairs there were smaller worm things that would attack me. I felt like I was struggling with fighting the worms and I thought I was not strong or skilled enough to fight the big worm.

When I am awake and I think about the worm it reminds me most of a Dark Souls boss since it was very strong and big and it was sort of eldritch horror-like. Through the whole dream I was scared of the worm and I felt like I was not strong enough to fight it but I was progressing forward anyways. I also was fighting it in some sort of ruin, like ruined stonework everywhere and stuff. The closest I can describe the ruin as is maybe the Arbiter’s Grounds dungeon from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, but not as dark.

I was camping when I had this strange dream around 2 years ago and still remember it clearly as it felt very important:

In the dream I wake up on the tent floor in the morning, and there is a creature standing next to me in the tent wearing a thick coat of feathers that goes down to the ground and a deer skull head. (Note: I felt this was a person dressed like this like a kind of shaman or something, not an actual inhuman creature)

I am not scared and have a sudden feeling of greatfulness and respect, as if it's an honour to be visited by this man/creature. He doesn't say a word but hands me 3 objects:
- A piece of deer antler,
- A human hand (real hand, but no blood)
- A quartz crystal.
In the dream I remember I understood the meanings, but when I woke up all I could remember was that the deer antler represented something good, the human hand something bad, and the quartz a sort of neutral balance.

Then he left and I woke up for real in the tent

I have been trying to figure out the object symbolism but no success

About 20 years ago, maybe a little less, I had an extremely vivid dream, and I would call it a lucid dream but for the apparent lack of control over the content I had.

I came to awareness while pulling my face away from this table-like thing that looked like a window that was pointed down and it was about the size and shape of a snooker table. Recessed below the top and everything. My hands, which I failed to get a good look at, were planted on the edge of the table, where I was pushing against it. As I said, it looked like a window and I could see the Earth far below as if I were in a spaceship in orbit. There was a great resistance to me pulling my face away from this, portal, you might call it. As if it were trying to suck me back in. I was in a room that was all white and had long vertical panels along with a white ceiling where all the light was coming from.

I turned my head to the right and saw what had the appearance of a typical grey alien you see in popular media. But this creature was laughing at me, and it had the same personality, even spirt and soul, as my father. I recognized him even though he looked completely different with this alien body. And the Laughing was not vocal, but was telepathic, more of a Rippling vibration communicating mirth. He said, (again, telepathically) "It's a bit much for you, huh?" and laughed again. All this while I'm straining to keep my head away from the portal. And I felt no "otherness" about him. In other words, I was of the base assumption that he and I were the same sort of being. There was no surprise in me to see the one I know as my dad in this life as this lifeform.

Just after that, I lost the struggle, and my head was pulled back to the portal and it felt like my face was being submerged in lukewarm water. Immediately, I woke up, experiencing no gap in lucidity. I just stared at the ceiling, horrified for the moment at what I had just experienced.

My alien dad was spot-on. I was going through a period Of deep depression and was desperate to escape my life. Suicide was not an option for me for reasons that I won't go into here, but suffice it to say say they are not the typical moral reasons.

As a last note, my depression was mostly cured in 2016, and completely cured as of July 18 of last year. So don't trouble yourselves to wish me well for that 😁

it begins like that: i was playing games at midnight until someone called me at the phone, it was a girl who asked for help and wanted to meet me at my garden, without thinking, i jumped off the window and landed on the grass, she was there, kinda looked like an astronaut, she had my same age... but she had no body, there wasnt a face behind the helmet, She was just the suit itself... i feel like she looked cute trough... she talked me about a big journey she had to make the next day to another world, she told me that the route was dark and she was afraid of "creatures", she wanted to bring me with her, "to have someone to hug when im scared" she said, i accepted, she gave me her number, and we talked all the night at the phone, she was very shy and didnt want to sleep with me because she was afraid of my drunk parents, i told her i could give her everything i have to make her happy, i could hug her whenever she wanted, i could sacrifice myself for her, and other sweet things i dont remember, and then she said, " [my name] , im in love with you", then i said i wanted to meet and talk at my garden, she told me that she was running thoward my house, i sit on a bench outside and waited for hours, then i saw her, she was running on the street, i screamed to come there and then something horrible happended, she had been run over by a car, and then, i woke up. I felt lonely and guilty for the rest of the day... life sucks.