(if I posted this in the wrong place or something, don't hate pls, just made my account)

So to start off I sometimes have just plain old dreams, colourful and ones in which you can't remember upon waking up. I'm not a 'lucid dreamer' or anything alike. Infact I only just made my account because of a small but very confusing 'thing' for me..

About 1 hour ago I had woke up, the light wasn't on as usual so my room was dark, I literally looked around my room and thought to myself it seemed darker than I had ever really seen it. I also had the thought 'well wouldn't this be creepy if someone walked up the stairs to me now'. Before falling back to sleep it appeared I heard those 'eery footsteps', it creeped me out but I brushed it off as nothing.

However, almost instantly after I shut my eyes to begin drifting back off, there was a vision of someone walking straight through my closed door - I began to breath heavy at this point. The person got close to me, (about 0.5m to be precise, lol) and upon inspection it looked like my mother in her nightgown (who is alive, and I live with), although I cannot be certain it was her for sure. She began almost 'pointing and waving' at me frantically, and attempting to hit/touch my face and head, although she couldn't actually. She appeared to be holding something glowing in one hand also? I was so confused, I was breathing very heavily and got scared as it felt so real yet so fake at the same time. I couldn't get out of the vision, I tried opening my eyes and I couldn't, it almost seemed as if the 'dream' had 'locked' me in until it had given a message possibly?

But that is basically it, after I opened my eyes I was relieved yet very hot and sweating! I was in shock as a dream has never done this to me, nightmares never scare me, but this is different. I don't understand the meaning of it, I couldn't find any info on this and I came across this site hoping you people could help, I'm sorry if I nagged on too much haha, it's definitely a lot of writing lol.