Recurring nightmare from when I was a kid...?

Seems to me like something was in your life that you wanted to run away from or something that you wanted to depart from your presence but ended up sticking around longer due to matters beyond your control. The person sitting across from you is intriguing though... do you ever attempt to communicate with this person or do you really even acknowledge their presence? It could either be someone that you would like to help out by getting them away as well, or it could be the one person you want to rescue you but instead they just sit there. You don't have this dream anymore, do you? Just try to think back to when you last remember having the dream; about what age you were and what was going on in your life at the time, and go from there. Then again, I'm just speculating.