What are protecting dreams about?

I was asleep in my dream (already weird i know) I don't remember being asleep I remember being woke up. By so something glass like sounding slowly tapping the window next to my bed. It's a big main window and I'm on the ground floor. I pulled the curtain and this scary as shit demon was just looking at me. More appropriate wording would be looking into me. Then he took his hand, which had these long black sharp onyx coloured looking nails that were slightly glowing red at the tips. Like they were hot. He his claw nail things against the window and using heat pushed them through the melting glass, then started making a circle. Like he was cutting a hole in the glass. I was fucking scared and as I flinched to turn and run it was like he saw sonething on the windowsill and just took off. I woke up in a bit of sweat. The messed up thing was that because I'm my dream I was woken up I thought I was awake. It was a weird sensation, like an actual memory where I experienced the fear.

I looked on the windowsill after I gathered my thoughts. I have this old book I found in a charity shop (I always buy random old books, I find them cheap and sort of collect them. I just seem to be drawn to them, I ha e books fro. 1850s, over 170 years old about random stuff but I got them for like 50pence at a boot sale or charity shop)

Anyway it's a book of ancient and secret symbols used throughout history. A lot of celtic patterns and other stuff. I hadnt really read it but just flicked through it while watching TV with my GF. So I flicked through the book, a page had been once folded at the corner. It wasn't folded now but the crease in the page was noticeable. It kind of makes the page open at that page when you open it. On the page was a magjc word puzzle thing that is in a grid like a small suduko with words spelled the same backwards, forwards, left, right.

It says in the book that it's had different uses over the years. Apparently the devil was confused by it and it was used like a symbol to protect from evil. Then some religion used it because the central word makes a cross. TENET the N is the center of the grid and tenet runs up and across through the n. They draw a cross, write tenet up and across then fill in the other words which are rotas and opera.

I'll show a pic in the comments if I can find a link to one now

It's maybe just coincidence, or maybe because if the page I had skimmed through it and it was in my subconscious or something. But I can honestly say I only had a quick flick through it looking at the images I don't remember seeing that symbol/grid and didn't really read into anything beforehand.

Anyway I have the word grid drawn on paper and taped to the wall facing that window. No joking. That's how much this dream affected me mentally. It felt so real.

I feel like this old book saved my ass in some way

Everything written here was written in a dream book first.

“It was a dream within a dream at first. I was in a park at night. I was in a field with a full moon above me, I saw a man walking in the distance beside a brick wall. I was suddenly dragged at unbelievable speeds. I woke up in my dream with a dark force putting weight on my chest. It felt like hands on my chest. I tried to scream but I couldn’t. I couldn’t move at all, I felt stuck. Eventually, the dark force stopped and I ran into my moms room crying. All I could say at this point was ‘mom’. I tried showing her what happened while she was getting ready for work. I went into my room and my light was on. I didn’t switch on my light originally when I ran out of my room. I went back into my moms room to try to switch on the lights. The lights wouldn’t turn on and I started to panic. I started shaking and crying while saying ‘mom’. My mom just stared at me and then I was tossed against the wall by the dark force. My mom showed little to no emotion toward what just happened. She then kissed me goodbye and left. I went back into my room. My light was off and I still felt evil in my room. I woke up this time for real when I heard my moms car drive away from the house. My chest is heavy, I’m mentally drained, I’m out of breath, I prayed to god to protect me, my mouth feels like it’s been open for a period of time.”

I woke up and journalized this dream about an hour ago (6:30AM EST). I still feel scared, I don’t feel like going back in my room. I’m currently in the kitchen about to cook breakfast to take my mind off this “dream”. If anyone knows what this could be please let me know. Hope everyone has a good day today.

This has never happened to me before and its kind of freaking me out. Im wondering if anyone else has experienced this before because nobody in my circles that I asked ever had.

This is the dream:

This was a few nights ago and im still fucked about it.

I was at my childhood home, my parents were really old and frail (75/80’s, they’re actually in their 40’s irl) I felt like i was 24/25 (Im 19). The tv was on and I was cleaning not paying attention when the tv had a really loud alarm. The news guy said that america has fallen and showed huge street fights with fire everywhere and people getting shot and falling by the hundreds. The same dude came back on with another alert and said that the outsider countries that were waiting to attack have just declared war too. The phone rang and I watched my younger brother (18) answer it and hang up. I couldn’t hear him or anything else. He didnt say anything but him and my other brother (17) went upstairs, got a bag and left the house. I knew they got drafted to fight and I knew they didnt say anything bc they weren’t going to come back. My dad got up and hobbled to the door and said he had to protect the family, but I knew he didn’t want to go. He was doing it out of duty, and everyone knew he was too old he would die for certain. My mom was crying and so was my little sister (9) and so was I. Then there was another emergency alarm on the tv to immediately get underground and put something between your teeth and bite down, North Korea was coming. I got my family to go the basement and I was coming behind them, still upstairs when I looked out the window and saw a blinding white light growing and I knew I was going to die right then and I had this huge feeling that I had let it get to that point. It was MY fault that it did.
The light became everything and then it became all dark and my eyes adjusted to see that I was in a moving hallway of sorts. It in space, made out of space, and I could see outside of the area but I was confined to the inside. It was like a black space snake and I was inside riding it like a train. Some of the space scales of the snake worked as doors and I could go into points of time in the future/past, of my life which was a tiny section of it overall and in general too. I looked inside one room but I didn’t go in. It was just trees in a swamp. I opened this other door that had a vibe™️ to it and instantly I was met with this warm yellow glowing light that filled the entire room (which had no walls, it was just the light) and it had the MOST loving feeling ever. It felt like the ultimate motherly warm love ever and I could just melt into it and be happy and safe forever and I was about to step in when the light shifted and formed the face of a lady. The lady opened her eyes and looked directly dead in my eyes and without opening her mouth or anything she said loud and clear: Speak. The sound was in my body and everywhere at the same time.

And then I woke up. And I remained fucked up because I’ve never died in a dream and continued dreaming ever before.

Also my interpretation of the dream was: i have to speak on what ive been meaning and KNOW i need to speak on in order to not let bad things happen. Im trying to write a book and Ive been too scared to start.

I dreamt that I was watching a Brown horse run through the forest, it was scared and it was being haunted by humans. In my dream it was my horse (I don’t have a horse irl).

It’s night and everything is dark, and gloomy weather.

Suddenly the horse dies and then turns into a black dragon. It lays on top of a fort on a mountain and it tries to protect itself from people shooting at it.
The dragon is friendly and isn’t attacking anyone, it just lays there.
I am standing next to the people attacking it and I feel devastated, I want to make them stop but I can’t.

I remember seeing the dragons tail fall off. I scream and cry in the dream, and I wake up actually crying irl as well.

I had a very weird vivid dream about random stuff but what I remember the most is seeing a friend of mine crying like someone was hurting her, I went and I started defending her by yelling and insulting that person, we had a physical altercation in the dream where I felt at some point that he over powered me, then he started vomiting, and his puke was weird like he was vomiting different colors on a table. I literally just held his head with a lot of anger behind and I started rubbing and cleaning up his vomit with his own face.