A recurring scary dream I had when I was a kid

Can anyone interpret this for me? I have vivid memories of an old recurring dream I had as a child. I don't have it anymore.

In my dream I'm the age I was then, about 6-ish or 7. I'm getting ready for bed. My brother walks past my room. I ask him, ask mom and dad if anything is happening tonight. He goes to the living room to ask them. They are there watching tv.

He says, is anything happening tonight? They say no, just the boogeyman is coming.

Now, I don't know if they actually used the word "boogeyman" in my dream. They may have just said "He is coming" or something. But my brother came back with the news.

I would get in bed, then after a few minutes get out of bed, lay on the ground face down and put my pillow over my head.

I would hear the "thing" come in the back door and ask my parents if I was in my room. They would say yes. He would come in and see me on the floor with my head gone (supposedly, because I'd put my pillow over my head). So, he couldn't take my head and would leave. He'd say "thanks" to my parents and leave.

 

This doesn't seem like a really unusual dream. Lots of children dream about monsters, boogeymen and boogywomen and so forth. These dreams represent the fears you have about the world.

What I like here is that you are able to outwit the boogeyman and survive. As you got older and braver, you didn't need this dream any longer.

 

Makes my childhood recurring dream look really twisted.

It would start off in what appeared to be a tall tower although there were no stairs going up, I could see up and it was a very tall round structure. There were no internal walls and no doors, just a small window.

I could see my family stood in a field through the window but they could not see me. There was no exit except a flight of stairs going to the basement where an exit would sometimes appear.

The basement also contained two huge spinning things (I guess about 2 meters in diameter) which I can only liken to white fluffy doughnut rings. These seemed to emmit some kind of forcefield which pushed me away. The exit which wasn't always visible would be located behind these spinning things