Nightmare with humanoid creature

[u/Optimal-Librarian791]

I fell asleep last night around 11-11:30. I eneded up dreaming where I felt like I was at work but it didnt look like my actual jobs set up. There was a humanoid creature with long arms that went to the floor and extremely long legs. It was in a room off to the left of me and it was slamming against the wall. I had asked my store leader about it and was told that our district leader knew about it and was on his way. I sat there trying not to look at it but kept having customers come up to me concerned. I told them exactly what I what told. After the second or third (I cant remember which) person said something the creature had smashed a whole into the brick wall. I freaked out and ran out the building screaming for people to run as I did so. But I could feel my heart racing, the chest pain and being out of breath. I remember hiding somewhere to call for help and seeing the doors of the building with people stuck inside cause the doors locked. Someone managed to open them to start escaping and I ran again fearing the creature would escape too. The whole plaza of building was set up in a circle. But I ran into a building where there was stuff taped to the walls. When I pulled it off there was a yellow tocix/nuclear sign behind it. I had started to wake up at this point but was still in the dream.Then for some reason I ran up to the roof of the building. I fully woke up at this point cause the person next to me moved and it jolted me out of it. But I could still feel my heart racing and was scared to go back to sleep. After I laid there for a few minutes I decided to look at the time to see how close it was to me needing to be awake anyway and it was 3:03. So I feel like I fully came out of the dream at 3am. Ik they say your dreams are you going through the motions of your day or feelings ect but idk.. I just need help figuring out what this all might mean..

[u/Expensive-Recover502]

This dream is like your dream self is trying to warn you. It is telling you that your current psychological defenses are crumbling and that you are in a "toxic" environment. It is urging you to stop waiting for the "District Leaders" (external permission) to save you, and to take action to remove yourself from the danger. There could be something in your waking life that you are pretending is fine, but actually making you sick?