This morning, Sunday, when falling back to sleep in bed, during REM sleep obviously (our most vivid dreams, about 6 hours into deep sleep). I dreamt around 9:00am this morning, easter day, that I was wearing a black mask in my house and holding my family hostage. There was video game machines, like in pizza places, in my house. I was walking by the video game machines, busting them out (their screens) with the back-side of a hammer. My family was walking around as my hostages. I than planned on burning down the house, but my dad walked away quick, started calling the police, and I ran out of the house, ran down the street, etc. The dream than ended.

I than finally woke up in bed (with a jolt). My family and I had lunch at our grandparents house today for easter, etc. I told my family about the dream, and they were confused by it, too.

I have a question: what makes us dream stuff like this? Why, in a "dream," would I wear a black mask, bust out video game machines, and hold my family hostage in our house? The only reason I believe I'd have dreams of busting out anything, is because once (ok, ok, more than once), I popped out car tires when I was in a gang. I don't do that stuff anymore though. I know better now days.

Your opinions on these crazy dreams? Thanks.

Ryan and Dave---
this is how I responded to Judith and Dianna when they wanted to understand a scare they had when younger:
Deana and Judi--- Happy to send out positive energy to you.  Dreams have three ways to interpert them: 1st-- reality.  What happened to you in the past 24 hours that was interperted into your dream. Let's say you had a car in the dream. Well, you probably used your car earlier in the day.
2nd: symbolism.  what color was the car in your dream?  Let's say it was blue.  Blue is a soothing color and is both the throat chakra and the forehead chakra.  The throat chakra symbolizes communication. The forehead chakra symbolizes seeing through things. 3rd: spiritual. The car is a vehicle.  This vehicle may be interperted as a "medium speed" way of transporting oneself to the higher relams.   
You may use these interperatations for vision seeing, also.  Just as I "see" the helpers as not dark and foreboding, but as a way to frighten a child so that a greater danger won't occur.  For example, there could have been a rat running around in the house you were in, and by scaring you away with an image, you and your sister were safe from getting bitten by the rodent.  ---Hope this helps both of you.  Remember---there CAN be a positive to this negitive. Don't let a HUMAN start scaring you into
something foreboding  that doesn't exist. 
Hope this will also help to interpret some of the symbolism in your dream, Ryan.
Love and Light--cat