Okay, so I rarely have nightmares, and this is probably the first time I've woken up panicked in over a year.

The dream starts with me, a guy I don't know, and another woman in a church, at the side exit that leads out to the side of the church yard, and a house far enough away it's not necessarily connected with the church. We needed something from the house, but I don't remember what anymore.

The house was haunted, and it was night time, but the woman agreed that she'd be the one to go get the stuff. I went to the roof to watch her, and the man stayed at the door. When she approached the house I could see a spirit manifest. I think it was of a woman in pioneer clothing. The woman getting the stuff didn't notice, so I shouted at her "RUN!" as soon as I saw another, more hostile spirit appear. She just barley heard me because my voice was choked and I couldn't get enough air to shout.

When she ran, a large black bird came out of the house, and flew to the roof where I was at. I went to yell at it to go away, knowing that this wasn't just a bird. For a moment I thought it was a raven. Again, my voice didn't come. I tried to banish it as one banishes evil, and again, I could not get the air to speak. So I tried to shoo it away, and hit it, and it came at me and I realized it was not a raven, but a black swan.

I fell off the roof of the church, but landed with relatively no injury right by the door. I rushed inside the church, the swan right behind me and tried to bolt the door. The swan however burst in, and the image right before I woke up was that of the swan, bursting through the door I'm still trying to hold closed, attacking my face.

Another oddity about this dream was that it was about me and was from my perspective, something that never happens in my dreams!

I've been searching from dream interpreters and stuff since I woke up and can't find anything that really helps with this one. The main points for me are the loss of speech (from air I think) and movement in a time of great urgency, the black swan, the church, and falling off it, and not being able to have refuge in it, the woman and man, and the haunted house.

I don't know why I'm so worried about this, but it's really sticking in my mind. Any interpretation you could give would help, even if it's none to pleasant (and from this dream it's likely not). Thanks,

K-Love