Bearded figure and a small black creature

I know I should probably edit this, but I'm going to copy and paste the message I sent a friend concerning it. I just confirmed with him today that he had a dream with a similar figure about a week-two weeks ago. It isn't the first time we've had experiences like this, but it was the first time it had affected us so fiercely. I'm looking for any similar experiences or information someone might have. I will remove names for the sake of, well.. names.

As a general note, this is literally the first dream I have had in two years that I actually remembered to this degree:

I'm not sure if you saw what I saw, but after trying to sleep for the last two and a half hours I finally had a dream. we were attacked in it. I'm not sure exactly what we were doing or talking about. I think we were cooking, there was a fire and a table. we kept going in and out every few minutes. I don't know if it was where you are now or somewhere else-There were trees, we were infront of the place not in the back. I guess it could have been your house but it felt bigger.. and I think it looked like a big plantation house, kind of like the one on the corner by Parker's. We'd been in and out all day, it was getting dark. for some reason I kept bringing my laptop in and out with us, plugging it in each time. someone was outside with us. I don't know if it was ***** or maybe *****, or at least ***** when he was skinnier. I started getting a weird feeling so I started going in early. When I bent to pick up the power brick and looked up I saw some male figure from around the corner.. I think he looked old, had a beard, grey. might have been wearing dark colors but I couldn't really see him clearly. I asked him what he was looking at. It was pretty loud, a little urgent. I noticed both of you look up and then look where I was looking. By the time I got to the other end of the table he responded. It was kind of a cracked voice, but it was deep. He said he was wondering where I was going. That's when I saw something run past him. It ran toward us, but in a curve. I can't remember if it ran between the fire and the table or around the fire because the table blocked my view but as it came around I noticed it was inky black, wet looking. bipedal, hunched over with a curve to its back.. it had a narrow spine-pointed. the head was a little pointed, its fingers looked spindly. It grabbed my laptop and yanked it out of my hands and ran back toward the person. I bent to pick everything up and when I looked up he was closer. I don't remember how close, I don't know if he had something in his hand, I just know I thought I saw him smiling in that instant that I looked at him. And then I woke up. I don't know if I was breathing or not, I inhaled sharply the moment I woke up. my heart is still racing a little.