First of all, yes, this is a very disturbing dream. However, keep in mind that dreams often exaggerate and you do not have your waking inhibitions and moral values etc available to you in most dreams. Since you are going through a stressful time in your life, stressful and disturbing dreams become more likely.
One very useful tool in dream interpretation is to look at all of the dream characters as aspects of yourself. So if you look at it that way, your son in this dream may not represent your son, but rather an aspect of yourself. So in this dream perhaps you did not kill your son so much as killing the more innocent aspect of yourself, the part of you that is willing to believe that all is going to be ok, the part of you that has faith. The part of you that did the killing is approaching things more analytically like an experiment without emotion. It could be that this dream is saying that you have killed off the part of you that thinks everything is going to be ok, and now the part of you that is left is too analytical and not emotional enough. In your dream in fact you are dangerously close to being a sociopath. Now that's where the initial disclaimer that dreams exaggerate comes in: of course you are not a sociopath in waking life - your waking thought is to be appalled by this dream, and knowing that you would never harm your son. Perhaps this dream is just a warning that you need to make sure to balance your emotions such as love with your analytical side, and be sure to let the emotion of love drive your actions, and don't give up on the "innocent" ideals such as "everything is going to be ok." Hope is needed in waking life and in dream life. In dreams, expectations often or usually determine what happens, and perhaps your expectations are too pessimistic and hopeless right now. In waking life luckily expectations do not determine what happens usually, however even in waking life if one does not have enough hope and optimism, things are much more likely to come out worse or at least appear worse.
I hope this helps. If not, feel free to discard, and search for another explanation.
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