Anonymous,
Anytime there are images of children in the dream, especially the beginning dialog, the dream is focusing on childhood issues. The hostage is you and your emotions which would be related to childhood experiences/influences. The young adults are probably you as a young adult {20 yrs old} and the affect your childhood has on you as motivators for personality and actions. The parents in the dream may point to parental relationships which could to do with how they treated you as a child. Parents in a dream usually symbolizes both power, shelter, and love, aspects that are needed for proper parenting.

The bad guy may be someone other than a parent but could represent inner masculine qualities which are trying to 'announce' unconscious energies/emotions about parental relationships that are now controlling agents over your emotional self. In your dream the parents are aware of what is to happen which may point to an awareness of the unconscious relationship with parents that need to be made conscious {so to know what they are and be resolved}. The innocent children would be about just that, innocent childhood that was affected by emotional turmoil. These past experiences would what be holding 'you' hostage. The parents inside could be a metaphor for the inner emotional relationship with your parents. Dead parents may point to non existent good parenting. Or inside you may feel dead toward your parents. Crying is a symbol for a release of negative emotions. Actual crying upon waking would suggest very strong emotional energies that need resolution.

Look back at your childhood and determine what issues there are that would be holding you hostage as an adult. What was the relationship with your parents, good bad? It could be there were experiences that negatively affected both you and your parents and the dream is focused on that. If the parental relationship was bad then that would be the focus. Something in your childhood seems to have robbed you of your 'innocence'. It could have been physical or psychological or both. Either way it affects you life as an adult and will continue to do so until the issues are resolved.

Jerry

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