I was walking down a wide cobbled street with several people. The place looked like the place in 2Cellos' MV of 'Welcome To The Jungle'. I looked up and on top of one of the roofs there was a man strapped to a chair. He was shirtless but wore pajama bottoms. Another man was holding the back of the chair, they seemed to be arguing. I couldn't make out what they were yelling about but it wasn't long before the other man shoved the chair with the man still in it off of the roof. I was horrified.
Don't remember what happened in between but the next thing I know is that I had the dead chair guy's baby with me. Took the baby to my house for protection. It was night time. There's just me, Adi (my little brother), the baby & Kak Yanti (my maid). I was very nervous and ran around the house to secure the windows, and lock the doors. I yelled at my maid to lock the back door. Things got intense very quickly. I peered through a window and there were men milling into the frontgate. Bad men. They were dark skinned and had dark unkempt hair and beards. They were coming after us.
I hurried to my house's alarm control system to turn it on. I shook the window grills and front door several time to set the alarm off to scare the men away. It didn't work very well. The alarm's volume was too low. There was a volume dial next to the controls (which, in reality does not exist) and turned it up but it didn't have any effect. The alarm was still not as loud as it should be, the way I remember it. I peered out of the window again, the men were laughing at me. I could see them surrounding the house, making for the back door. I was petrified. A distinct feeling of fear for Adi licked my insides like flames.
Then my next door neighbour came home. They started coming ouf of their car so I screamed for help. My neighbour heard me, she looked at me for a while and merely smiled wickedly before entering her own house, ignoring me. I couldn't believe she would simply ignore me like that, I kept screaming and fumbling with the alarm controls. All the while rattling the grills and occasionally unlocking the door to open it and slamming it shut as quickly as possible (this scared me shitless, opening the door) to set the alarm off.
I figured the battery was low so I tried to pry the controls open to replace the battery and that's when one of the men smashed the window (the alarm controls is right next to the front door and the window is on the left of the door). He reached inside and started to grab me. I looked at Adi and the baby, they were scared too. Then my maid ran into the living room from the kitchen, the men already kicked down the back door.
They went up to me and told me the alarm doesn't work anymore so don't bother. They took the baby and left. At that point I knew I ought to feel sorry for the baby but I was just relieved they didn't take Adi too.
Then I woke up.
[What caused the dream is my roomie's phone alarm. It went off and she didn't wake up to switch it off. So, no wonder the alarm volume in my dream wasn't as aloud as my real house alarm. Talk about your dreams being influenced by noises you unconsciously hear huh? Anyway, I hate this nightmare.]
