This is not a dream, it's a nightmare. I am unable to go back to sleep, so I found your site. Here goes. (BTW went to sleep at 11:30 and woke at 1:30)The dream starts off with me and my platoon on a bus with El Salvador troops. I am speaking in Spanish to one of the El Salvador troops about preventing something. (Can't remember what)Out the window of the bus is a huge, almost castle like house sitting in the distance on a hill. I do remember mentioning something about the drug cartels. Then in a flash, I am in a house (unknown home) with my mom. We are both very worrried and waiting for danger. Then my mom opens a door to a room and my brother is hanging there dead. (My brother was killed 3 years ago) My mom is freaking out, I'm freaking out crying and getting him down. I get him down and when I do he's in a bag. I opened the bag, and then it was my nephew in the bag. (My brother's son) My mom and I are in complete despair, crying and trying to figure out how we are going to tell his mom and talking about what this will do to her. Then in another flash, I am with my husband and we are in a hurry to pick my daughter up from school. It's late, getting dark and the school didn't call. (I said that in the dream) My husband and I are running, no car. We get to the parking lot and see her across the way. She's standing there holding a sign. (Don't know what it said) My husband runs up to her and is holding her like a baby. (She's 8) He looks at me and lays her on a bench. She was dead. I totally freaked out, he starts to cry. I am screaming that I will "kill every single one of them." I remember she was wearing a rain coat. The school was her school, but not her real life school. Throughout this nightmare I couldn't scream or yell. I kept trying to, but I couldn't. I woke up at this point. I might add that last week my platoon and I returned from a trip to El Salvador. I know this is probably just stress, but it was so vivid and completely crushing. I am so disturbed that I can't go back to sleep. Any help would be nice. Thank you.

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Anonymous,
I'll tackle your dream either later today or Sunday morning. I have another dream I need to address and it may take up the time I have to put toward my dream work this morning.

From what I see on first reading my impression is the stress from your deployment does have a lot to do with the dream. In the dream there is a lot of despair and fear from family members. Those may represent inner fears stimulated related to experiences El Salvador. In dreams family members would not only represent themselves and your relationship with them, but also your emotions or complexes {your inner family}. The 'nightmare would be related to the stress due to your deployment.

But there may be more to the dream than the stress of the deployment. Dreams always have more than one application, addressing both recent experiences as well as deeper emotional fears and conflicts. In particular I want to examination the relationship with your mother since she is prevalent in the dream. It may involve mother/daughter relationships since later in the dream there is your daughter and you as a mother. An example would be your daughter wearing a raincoat. That may suggest emotions related to shielding yourself from your emotions involving your own mother. You may want to give some thought to the relationship with your mother.

For a primer to help you understand dreams i offer these two things to think about.
1} Your dreams are about your emotions with family members either/and representing the relationship with them or aspects of your own 'inner aspects'. It is probably both {normal in dreams}

2} Dreams speak in a language of symbol and metaphor. Death is symbolic of something coming to an end {even though you mention the death of your brother 3 years ago}. It would not represent a real death per say.

3} Nightmares are a result of continuing emotional conflicts and/or sudden traumatic experiences

4} All dreams have at least two meanings or applications. In your case the nightmare could be addressing the stress from your deployment to El Salvador {recent experiences} as well as deeper issues with family members {long term emotional stress}.

I'll look at these possibilities and explain more about dreams in my examination of your dream.



Jerry

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