Chased by a Jaguar
I had a super vivid dream - one of those that sticks with you emotionally after you wake up.
I was babysitting two girls (weird because I'm a 40yo mom of three) in their house and after the parents left I discovered they had a large, black, pet jaguar. It was clearly aggressive. I tried sheltering the girls on the bed but it jumped up. I tried running into rooms and barricading us in. But all the rooms had multiple entrances and doors made of paper. So the jaguar was always able to get in. I tried calling the parents but their number wasn't in my phone.
Eventually we made it out of the house and were running down the street. I tried to scream but had no voice. We ran to a trailer park surrounded by a tall chain link fence. The gate was guarded by a tall skinny man and his adult son with down syndrome. I was worried about the jaguar hurting them but they lured it inside and proceeded to beat it to death with sticks. I grabbed the girls and made them look away while it was being killed. After it was dead I was worried about the anger I would face from the parents over their dead pet.
After that my dream turned absurd. But that section was so vivid and specific and had a narrative structure not common for my dreams. Plus I woke up awash in the emotions of the dream that, hours later, I have still not recovered from.