Irene - Devil Snivel Havel - They are just words to describe human fears, fears put into us by a church thousands of years ago speaking of things it only had primitive words to describe what it saw. I have met the devil myself several time, sometimes in great fear, and then slowly in wonder and direct insight. In such meeting I saw and realise that devil was lived backwards. In other word it is the Light we are all born with that through fear or ignorance we have turned back on ourselves. In doing so we have created great chunks of stuff blocking the light causing depression, suicidal impulses, and all the many human pains and suffering. But it is not some evil person ‘doing it to us’ it is our own misguided actions that can be undone by understanding them.
The darkness in your case is different. In ancient traditions God was seen as ‘the unknown God’. In other words the basic cause of everything was beyond description - it was everything, and as such could never ever be a ‘THING’. So could never be a Him or a Her; a universe or a common ordinary human - but was everything we see around us at the same moment. We are seeds of the Everything.
But as real as your experiences was it was still a dream, and dreams are a halfway between the real and our everyday perceptions. The next step is bodiless experience. And that is often felt as darkness. Also it is often scary. We resist like hell the hugeness that we are.
Such resistances cause us to create awful dreams and fears as a means of avoiding our own inner world and its wonders. We feel that we will be swallowed up and we will die. It is important to say that when we meet the experience of powerlessness through becoming aware of the hugeness of your Life, which we are usually unaware if, it feels like something alien or attacking, and it is a shock. When we begin to meet the Hugeness that we are, we often react to it in our dreams or in waking with fear or panic. So we dream of being attacked by aliens or frightening creatures; or being swallowed by a whale or something huge, or even possessed by evil entities. If we realise that they are things we have created through our own fear we will pass on. But otherwise it will continue to haunt us as something that will get you; or you feel uncertain even lost in facing it! But it is only our small self image, our ego that reacts because it feels powerless, even though in reality the Hugeness is part of our totality. It is the enormous potential you have within you, it is Life you are frightened of or have been ignoring.
The sense of the being sitting on the bed is because a dream is the most amazing virtual reality that you are firmly in the middle of. Such dreams are the best we can do in receiving a communication that is essentially formless. Please read
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/what-we-need-to-remember-about-us-3/#Levels and
http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Symbolism Yes you were initiated into a new experience of yourself, an experience of your own wonder - remember that we are seeds of Everything. So you were waking up to a bit more of your potential, clearing a bit more of the chunks in the way of the real you. See
http://dreamhawk.com/inner-life/big-bang-and-god-are-the-same/ You have been ‘on the way’ for most of your life, but were held back by fears put into you by stories of the devil and darkness. You are Everything - light and dark, male and female - good and evil - yes and no - everything and nothing. See
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/mountain-path/Tony