Falsely accused by a large crowd of random people

Last night I had a terrifying dream. Me and my husband were walking on a street in a new city. I go into a shop to buy some stuff, which they do not have. So I leave and join my husband.. everything is normal till now.

Suddenly I hear random people saying that someone called <my name> has created a huge ruckus in a shop and behaved badly, verbally abusing the shopkeeper. I do not understand why they are saying that, I felt confused. I thought they probably mistook me for someone else.

My husband and I then walk into a building and stand in the balcony of an upper floor. Suddenly we hear a huge crowd of people below screaming out my name and claiming that I should be arrested for my behaviour, while I did no such thing. They were searching for me not knowing that I was inside the building.

I felt confused about how such a rumor was spreading. I wanted to go down and explain to the mob that I did nothing wrong, but I was afraid that they would lynch me. I woke up at this point.

My mind usually never moves bad dreams to their conclusion - I always wake up abruptly before the dream's problem is solved :).

I rarely have a clear memory of dreams after waking up. Today I remembered the main scenes of the dream a long while after I woke up.


A bit about my real life mental state -

I'm a young wife and a software professional. I have been seeing a rough patch in my career this year. I have also been asked to leave by my last employer, which is not really my fault as downsizing is being done. Even then I feel guilty for being unemployed. I'm very confused about my goals and abilities to achieve, even though I have been a reasonably successful professional for 7 years.

This problem has been in my mind for over 3 months (even since I was asked to leave) but I have never had this kind of a dream till yesterday. The only significant difference last night was that I let out a lot of these feelings - of guilt and confusion - in my journal. During the process of writing my journal I understood that these negative feelings were blocking me from trying hard for a new job.

Also, in the dream, I was accused of fighting and verbally abusing the shopkeeper. I did no such thing in the dream and I don't behave like this in real life too. I'm usually very polite and humble, especially outside my home. Rude behaviour occasionally surfaces when I'm arguing with my husband :)... I don't show it toward anyone else

I suppose that my dream is a result of my confused guilt. Could there be other possible reasons?

Thanks for your time in reading this! Appreciate your response

Perhaps your dream symbolizes your guilt, and you feel like you're the target of being fired/accused. Did you get fired for a good reason, or not a good reason? Perhaps the dream is telling you that you were wrongly let go of your job. As you have interpreted, it seems you have an idea of your dream.

But what you must do is take charge of things. Your dream is showing you what will happen if you continue on your path, you probably need to make some changes in your life to secure yourself into a job without the same results. Since the conclusion of the dream is never shown, that indicates that you can still make a difference without there being any definitive result. It could either be bad or good depending on what action you take.