Although I'm not sure whether to put this in the 'nightmares' section or here, I think this section is more appropriate since the gore level is low. I've pretty much interrogated and squeezed out every detail what my GF could remember about her 'nightmare', and perhaps we even have the interpretation. But I would like an 'expertise' view, just in case we're missing out details that could have a meaning. Hopefully you guys can help us.

Her dream time-line had pieces with fast forwards, but this is what we have come up with:


My gf vaguely remembers me having a verbal fight with bad guys inside the dream. The dream takes place in her former home which is a standard house with a hallway. The entire environment is the same as it was back then.

A bad guy stands outside the front door in daylight, but the hallway is very dark, lights off. I come to see and tell my GF to head to the living room, because I know he is the bad guy. I looked like a spy in hero stance and stood in front of the opening of the living room, promptly shooting down the bad guy outside. He doesn't find back or say anything, just drops dead. Thinking I have won the fight, she sees me getting shot in the chest by another bad guy couple seconds after, he was hiding in the dark hallway. She doesn't remember how I reacted.

*fast forward*

My gf walks into the living room, seeing a box with a lid. She walks towards the box and sees me inside it. The box isn't from my length, but half of it, therefore I probably have only half my body from the gut up. I lie in the box with a blue (dead) look but with eyes open. She sees no blood. It doesn't bring my gf to emotions, but she does puto me next to the coffee table in front of the sofa.

Then her mom walks into the living room. She sits down on the sofa and starts eating (probably grapes, my gf's family eats lots of fruit), my gf looks at her mom and sees her mom looking from the corner of her eye at me in the box. But her mom doesn't respond or say anything.

Then my gf says calmly: "Mom....-enjoylife- is dead..." and starts explaining that I got shot in a gunfight, in the hallway etc. Her mom doesn't respond.

*small fast forward*

Now I lie in the box with the lid off at the other side of the living room but more in the middle. My gf comes up to the box and starts cutting strawberries (her favourite fruit) in half and surrounding my body with the cut strawberries. She then heads to her room.

*fast forward*

In her room my gf sits behind her desk and then it starts to sink in that she has lost me. From that moment she feels emotions. She now knows that she would never see me alive ever again. She tries to keep herself together but it feels like she is going crazy of the loss. My gf tries to find pictures of us together while talking to herself.

Then she wakes up in real life, still thinking she's inside the dream. She remembered in that moment a Chinese proverb: "Enjoy the people in front of you". Then she text messages me with the dream she had with a horrible feeling of missing me. The following days she can still see the image clearly of me laying in the box.

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We talked about it and figured that it probably has something to do with a recent verbal fight my gf had at home with her family. There were frustrations among every family member and they had a family meeting about it. They concluded that she and her lil sister needed to communicate their lives more with her parents.

Therefore she thinks it has something to do with having to communicate more with people and cherishing the people who are in her life at the moment. She also wants to stand up for herself, because she lived inside a shell, protected by others but also people who made choices for her.

So I told her that's probably her answer while looking up for symbolic meanings of dream elements.

I protect her by shooting down the bad guy promptly, but get shot too in the chest. A way of hurting and getting hurt, perhaps my aggressive way of defending (like an electric fence on high voltage).

She seeks in my death a quality that I possess, probably my rock-hard way of standing up for myself. Wanting to protect me inside the box after me getting injured. Her mom stands on the sideline, which she sees as someone who she can turn to. But her mom stands on the side line, being neutral.

The strawberries are the feelings she has for me, and a process of saying goodbye to me. Then she heads to her room, into her safe environment. Then realizing she lost me, knowing she won't ever see me alive again and goes crazy. Thus a fear of losing me in real life.

Then she tries to find our pictures, trying to keep hold of us together. Unwillingly to let go of us being together. However, the meaning of photos is that she is reflecting our 'perfect' relationship and trying to preserve it. Unwilling to see that it is not perfect?

But perhaps that is explained by the need of having to cherish her important people in life and a need to communicate more? After all, that could explain why she suddenly remembers that Chinese proverb and interpreted it this way.


I hope you guys can help us with this. Thx in advance!!