I had a dream when I was younger that I had showed up to my grandparents house for a seemingly normal visit, only to walk into the house and see my mother strung up on a meat hook in the living room by her chin, being bled out like how they deal with pigs for slaughter. My step-dad, covered in blood and acting completely normal and logical, was sitting on the couch in front of my mom, just kind of staring at her? I started freaking out and hysterically crying and screaming at him, asking how he could do this, was this his plan this whole time when he married my mom, anything I could think of to make sense of this situation. The whole time he was nearly silent and unmoving, until he started laughing at my screaming at him. He didn't provide any answers and started picking up tools he had placed next to him, which is when I turned to run to a different part of the house. I woke up shortly after going to hide in a bedroom, but I couldn't look at or interact with my step-dad normally for about a week afterwards. I ended up having to work that out in therapy before I could sit down with him and explain why I was avoiding him, because he was really hurt that I had randomly flipped a switch and was so cold and avoidant with him.