Although in order to provide a more accurate interpretation it would usually be best to have some additional general background information about you (and a description of events just before this very frightening dream), it looks like the dream, although horrific, is trying to expand on and make sense of the apparently recent concerns you’ve had about caring for your future child.
For example, it maybe is taking you further into your situation beyond the already upsetting realities of the high cost of living where you are and the expectations of employers that new mothers return to work once the baby is born.
This would be symbolized by the drive into the dark woods to see the secret indie rock show, where the woods and darkness represent your lack of awareness about certain issues, and the music of the rock show, although unheard, could signify a kind of frenetic atmosphere that surrounds the values (music) of most societies in to-day’s world.
The fireworks could possibly denote something like the “flashy” atmosphere of high stress jobs as a whole where various spectacular successes are admired and applauded, but as the dream points out, such “fireworks” can at times kill people whether psychologically or physically.
In the dream, you then become someone else, possibly the dream’s way of saying that you should be careful not to be “brainwashed” and to lose your personal identity in any such highly charged atmosphere.
From the dream’s point of view, this would be a terrible loss to say the least (e.g. the new you is an addict and sex slave).
To help to explain this frightening symbolism, here is an excerpt from “Dream Child: Creation and Life in Dreams of Pregnant Women” by Jungian analysts Regina Apt, Irmgard Bosch, and Vivienne MacKrell:
“Dreams of expectant women frequently comprise particularly fierce attacks directed to woman or child on the part of a man (often a stranger, sometimes the dreamer’s own husband). He will often try to force her to make love or will actually rape her.
… on the subjective level, we are dealing with an autonomous, negative, unconscious complex that is trying to take control of the ego. Contrary to the differentiated ego of woman, the ‘male aspect in woman’ has often archaic, primitive features and has remained undifferentiated.
[This inner figure who takes the form of a rapist] seeks to control her, to make her pregnant himself. This way he could force on her his negative and destructive rigid opinions and destroy the nascent life in her that, on the subjective level, signifies the most recent opportunity for her own development.
The negative animus is therefore not merely unnatural but actually hostile to life…”
In your dream, this is shown in an appalling way by having a “mother” killed and left hanging from a tree.
Also, any expression of a natural emotion is instantly punished by death (e.g. you scream in horror and are shot dead by the man and his assistant).
A contrast then occurs where you’re apparently calmly observing the scene from above (e.g. probably from an intellectual point of view) and make what appears to be a doubtful deduction in believing that by being obedient to such a man, he would have set you free.
The way the dream ends is probably saying something like “It would be a good idea for you rethink this overall situation more carefully”, leaving it up to you, the ego, to make whatever changes in your attitudes etc. may be appropriate in the circumstances.
Anyway, I hope that these brief ideas can be helpful in exploring more fully this frightening dream which all the same is trying to help you at a central transition point in your life.
Please feel free to ask any questions or to make any comments about this particular way of looking at your dream.
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