I dreamt of being put in a really small cell with my friend (a 17 year old girl) underground (like under a house). It had a dirt floor and black bars/locked exits. There were multiple people in different cells and each of them (including me) were going to be physically hurt in some way. I was trying to avoid this for as long as possible by making the others go before me somehow. 

I think we were there and going to be hurt because we had been ‘bad’ in some way and my parents were punishing us for it. I think my parents lived in the house above these cells.

 There was talk of ‘if you do something bad, she’ll [my mother] put you in there [a cell under the house] and shut the door and leave you in the dark all night’. 

At one point my mother and I were up on a ledge and I grabbed her and hung her over it so that she couldn’t do the same to me or push me off. However, then she complained to my father (who has on the ground) so I put her back to where she was before and stayed close to the wall behind me so that she couldn’t push me off or anything. This ledge is one located in my house. Everything was mostly white here. 

I didn’t feel much of anything during the dream, just fear at certain points but even that was dulled. Also annoyance at my mother during the ledge part because of her complaining and my having to defend against her and dread at the prospect of being physically hurt but again, these feelings were dulled. It was just kind of like a movie, but I was avoiding being harmed in it. I felt things to an extent but it was mostly like a movie.

I’m a sixteen year old girl who still lives with both of my parents. My father has been away working most of this year because of the coronavirus and is coming home soon. I have not seen him or spoken to him very much at all throughout this time.

 What does all this mean?