Had some weirdly cinematic dreams as of late...like proper movies and my eyes were the camera but occasionally I'd play a character for a brief moment.
Last night/this morning, I had something happen at the tail-end of a dream....
In the dream, I woke up. My vision was a little blurry, but I could see what looked like mammatus clouds. I decided I wanted a better look, so went into the living room to look out my picture window. Something black and "scary" caught my eye, but I was focused on the clouds.
When I went to look at the black thing, it was...a gigantic, humanoid cat with jet-black fur and my head just screamed, "EVIL". It was maybe 6 feet tall, but its shoulders were at least that far apart, too. It was throwing something in a dumpster and it saw me noticing it. It raced to attack me.
My apartment was on the second floor and the thing howled, then launched itself at the side of the building and managed to get its head to almost the height of my window before it lost its grip and slid back down. I knew it was going to keep trying to get me.
I remember thinking that I was seeing something Fortean and should get my camera, but I just stood there, terrified. It's rare that this happens as an adult, but as a kid I would often get nightmares where I'd see something scary and try to get an adult to look but I'd lose my voice. Well, for the first time in years, I lost my voice in my dream again. As scared as I was, I was trying to yell at it to "Come get me!", "Just do it!", etc. All that came out was a raspy non-utterance.
Then I woke up.