Dream Diary — "Attic"

At the end of the hallway in the upstairs of my house, right at the top of the stairs, there are two rooms. Immediately to the right, there’s the “attic” (though it isn’t an actual attic, just an unfinished space that we called an attic for whatever reason). And directly head on is my mom’s work room. The doors are basically right next to each other since they’re both right where the corner of the wall is; they just lead opposite directions.

I don’t remember the context for this, but my mom opened the attic door, (the work room door was already open) and I followed just behind her. As soon as she turned the light on, however, she suddenly appeared also directly behind me in the work room, turning on the light. When she then moved past me into the attic, I had to step out of the way to let her through. When I asked her how she got behind me without me having to move, she just laughed.

As we looked around the attic, I noticed a little hole in the floor leading to a laundry basket and asked, “What’s that trash chute?” (I’m not sure why I called it a trash chute.)

A man’s voice responded from somewhere off to my left. “Chute.”

I sarcastically thanked the voice, and turned to see nobody there. Just the side of the room being completely obscured in shadow. That was when my mom (who was behind me) started hurriedly whisper-yelling at me to run.

I ran out of the room, but when I turned around to say something to my mom, she was just completely gone, so I screamed and started running down the stairs.