Before the dream totally fades out... vivid woods, a landscape with a hill on top of which there were dogs that I could not be sure they were dogs because I only glimpsed them. I touched a tree and tore off a bit of thick bark like the bark of an elm tree. I peered into a fringe of woods, at a subdued fiery tone of light... autumn leaves? I wanted to enter but didn't. I feared something. I held a short thick-bladed knife. Then I put it back in its sheath, a pocket on the thigh of my khaki colored pants. I entered a house and watched a creature that was as small as a rat and had a humped back that was brightly colored on top like rainbow toffee candy but looked like blood. It scampered under a closed door--hence, its blood colored back from the scraping caused by going under the door.