You walk into your house and it’s completely different — furniture, decor, all changed. And nobody’s home

I think it was probably a dream. Some dreams are so "real" and are quite disconcerting.

I too agree it was a dream..but actually a nightmare..can you imagine that really happening and thinking you were going out of your mind?..hold on were they after the brownies?

On balance, I think that you were dreaming. It isn't Hallowe'en and I doubt very much that your key would fit another house in the neighbourhood. I suppose that there's an outside chance that someone had sold your furniture without telling you but that's too scary to contemplate! I hope that it was a dream!

Oh think of all the endless possibilities!! Maybe it was a new house bought just for you. This is your first time walking in.

I'm hoping like others that it's just a dream. If its a Halloween trick or something, it's not a really funny or good one, but that's just me.

Well considering that looks like my place now as we are in bad need of furniture it would look quite familiar to me.

If you'd been gone for months and had no contact with friends and family then maybe your home had been cleared and your goods and chattels sold to pay bills and the bank had foreclosed for not payment of mortgage and your house was about to be sold. Maybe..

yes to me it sounds like some of the night mares I have had too It must re a dream a bad one scary one

From what I am gathering here this was a dream. Plain and simple. If it were real, the post would be way different than this. Strange dream though.

I think it was a dream! Or maybe you woke up in a parallel life where you had a different home and you've never actually lived there..

Maybe you still are dreaming? I would be halfway between freaking out and being happy so much was gone lol

Maybe it was a dream. It does make you think.

What an interesting hypothetical situation. I actually don't have that much furniture in my apartment to begin with. I'm getting divorced at a young age and haven't had much time to accrue possessions like that, so my living room is already just about bare. If I walked into my room and saw that my furniture was missing, though, I guess I would be just sad. I would assume that someone had robbed me of my few material objects, but I wouldn't stress, really. I don't have that much that I own that I genuinely care about, since they're just physical objects. I would just save up and start over like I always do.

It has been a dream, truly. Either that or walking into the wrong house.. But it feels so much more like a dream.

It's either a dream or I walked into the wrong house by mistake. I would love to have this happen and be my home.

Maybe your friend wanted to give your house a makeover. When she had thrown everything away she discovered that she couldn't afford new furniture

The worst possibility - squatters took it all, aliens came down to earth and took away the furniture to their land..earthlings plonk themselves on such things ..or ate it away because that is their food, termites! Yikes..ok best possibilities..you are dreaming and some television program hosts decided to give your home a new makeover. You choose.

It sounds like a dream! I really hope this did not happen in real life!

OMG Marcy, i'd be totally freaked out and pray that it was all a nightmare!

I hope it's a dream and not a prank! But I have to say I like Sandy's @rusty2rusty idea, maybe it's a surprise and someone just bought a new house for you!