As a young child, I used to have quite vivid recurring nightmares, and for a while these were the only dreams I was having. Then they just stopped.
They were always from a small set which included
>being in a dark, old house chased by something and sometimes hiding in a chest
>being in some kind of dungeon while my aunt chokes me to death remotely like Darth Vader (I didn't have any dislike towards her, might have just been because she smoked lots)
>being in a shopping centre looking for my mother while security tried to throw me out for some reason (I think once I managed to find her and she was getting a massage or something)
>probably a few others I've forgotten
There was also a common theme in my dreams of people being at higher places than me and being unable to find a way up there.
Further to that, it's been years since I've had a nightmare, that is to say one with scary imagery, and the ones I have now play on some kind of some kind of secret I don't want getting out.
Any ideas as to why I had them in the first place, what they maybe meant to me, and why they stopped so suddenly?