Dream interpretation? mountains crumbling, gravel roads rising?

My son (8), daughter (12), and I are all standing on a large concrete platform with metal roof overhead, but walls are all open. We smell fire, and notice a large plume of smoke rising out of mountains in the distance. It is far away, so we are not worried at all; we just stand there watching the smoke billow up. Then we hear a loud thunder clap, and notice the mountains are crumbling & falling. Again too far away, not worried. But the mountain debris & rocks tumble onto our concrete slab & we realize it is closer than we thought. We run to the other side of the concrete slab, near a gravel road. The gravel road rises up like a giant wave in the ocean, and the 3 of us start scrambling to find a safe place to go, but we never leave the concrete slab. My kids disappear in the chaos. The gravel road recedes back, like waves of an ocean, and I see my daughter. She starts running towards me and I turn my attention to looking for my son, who is nowhere to be found. I panic & wake up.

My heart frantically beating out of my chest probably pulled me out of the dream.

Meanwhile my son (in reality) had crawled into bed with us & wedged himself between my husband and I. So when I woke up, he was nose-nose with me. Yes I hugged him, and this time he didn’t get in trouble for climbing up on our bed. I just snuggled him the rest of the night unable to go back to sleep.

Zoozu2015-10-21T12:36:59Z

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This kind of dream can be upsetting. It's good to realize that dreams often exaggerate to make their point. Emotions seem to be much more raw and we feel them more strongly in a dream, yet they can be referring to a familiar situation in life that does not, in fact, get out of control. But the inner feelings, the unconscious feelings, need to be processed. The big upheaval approaching you could be your daughter's adolescence, something that changes the family dynamics and that has to be adapted to. A teenager's issues can grab attention away from a younger sibling going through his own developmental phase. All changes can feel unsettling, so it's not really weird for these "earth changes" to be symbolic of family life. Certainly the idea of "changes ahead" doesn't have to be read as some sort of awful warning. It sounds to me as if holding your ground on the concrete slab is a positive symbol of steadiness even if there is chaos going on around you. At the same time, there is a road potentially taking you all forward once things settle down. Since your husband is not in the dream, this shows that the dream is focused on your own maternal relationship with your children.

?2015-10-21T14:31:21Z

Maybe you're worried that you won't always be able to protect your children.
Since the fire didn't burn the 3 of you and receded, it's a positive symbol. I wouldn't worry about it.