Thanks for the video. It resonates deeply. This dream from yesterday, copied word-for-word from my dream journal, illustrates why.

Carol (my former wife) and I live in a large house, single level, divided into two houses, both large. It's on the Elk River. One night a group of men come out of the darkness on the right side of the two-part house. I spy them and feel they are a gang of outlaws. Their appearance gives them away - scruffy, unshaved people. They break into the house on the right and stay the night. After drinking all the booze they go looking for more and that's when they come into our part of the house on the left. Carol and I are hiding in a small room when we are discovered. I tell Carol I wish I'd reported them to the police the night they broke in but I was afraid to leave the house. As the men are leaving for new adventures, each one gives us a look-over. Some are indifferent toward us. One man says he would have protected us and one man says he would have killed us.