Same dream every night for the past month..Help interpret

I know sometimes it can get confusing what dreams could possibly have meaning and which ones are just regular dreams but not the ones I have ben having. For the past 3 weeks I have been having dreams that all have the same theme. Heres how they usually go: I am at a random place with a HIGH emotion of needing to save someone. In every single one the fear of loosing that person is so intense i feel like i am going to have a heart attack. Now heres where it gets weird, in every single one I MUST have a gun to save this person. For example in one dream I know that leatherface from texas chainsaw massacre in chasing my mother trying to kill her, Iam so scared for her and so pissed that I can’t find a gun so that I can go save her it makes me feel like I am going to have a heart attack, as I am searching for a gun images of my mother mutilated keep popping in my head. I look everywhere for a gun, I ask someone where a walmart is so I can go buy one. So basically there are three things in common with every dream. I am trying to save someone or something, My emotion to try and save them is very very EXTREME, and I feel the need to have a gun to save them. I wasn’t going to type this here but I can’t take it anymore, I have no idea what I am being told but I have had at least 30 dreams likes this, sometimes more than to a night. Heres a summary of three of them to give you a better idea.

-My girlfriend calls me from a payphone from somewhere telling me she needs to be saved, while she is talking on the phone I am actually watching her and not really in any sort of body myself, kind of like clarivoyance, which is a common thing in most of my dreams, I don’t think she ever says any words I just know she is telling me to save her. I and extremly upset and worried that I will not be able to find a gun in time to save her and look everywhere for one. I dont remember what happens after that ( I think I woke up).

I am running from Leatherface from the texas chainsaw masacre trying to save myself, I look everywhere for a gun but I cant find one. I eventually wake up in fear.

(This is the strangest one yet). I am trying to save my baby from this evil woman/creature that keeps trying to kill him, While I am looking for a gun images keeep popping of him in my head of being mutilated by her and its VERY disturbing, I actually find a gun in this one nad barely manage to shoot the woman in time to save the baby. Where it gets strange is that this baby is actually myself, exactly how I looked as a child and I just “felt” that it was me, but not realizing in the dream thatit couldnt be little michael (my name) because I am already grown up and trying to save the baby myself. Every time I save the baby by a matter of seconds i pop up somewhere knew trying to save him again and barely save him again, it never stops until I wake up in a high state of emotion that sticks around for a good five minutes.

last night I dreamt some meathead killed someone in my family right in front of me, I ant remember it all but I eneded up once again trying to save myself, this time from cops, I killed one cop and took his gun and shot another and was just trying to save myself, I have had other dreams where I am trying to save myself rom cops as well but needed a gun.

I want to tell you about one more i had lastn ight as well, it didnt involve a gun but it was so gruesome and disturbing I have to tell you because it might help wit hthe interpretation. I was sitting in a car in a parking lot and see a car drive over someones arm, I couldn’t believe what had just happened so I got out and saw a body, and another car runs over it, the body is very mutilated and (chills are running down my spine typing this because it so was real and disturbing) the body turned hald way upwards like it had no spine and was all mangled and it was my friend, I could tell he was trying to say help me but he was so badly mutilated he couldnt even get anything out, I yelled his name and it went back to me being in my car and seeing him again, his eyes were bulging and it was so sick he was saying help me and I couldnt help him. Then it ended and i woke up completly freaked out for the next 15 minutes.

I don’t know what God, or my subconcious is trying to tell me but I seriously need help. I want these distrubing dreams to end and I want to know what they mean. I read somewhere that dreams of guns have to do with the male penis/ feeling of inadequicies, etc… well that just doesnt apply to me at all so I and stuck. I never have any scary or distrubing dreams so this is def weird for me. the only thing I can say that has happened that may have triggered something is the recent suicide of my best friend/ roommate, not only did he die but I saw him die, he jumped from the 12th story of our dorms at school , maybe this triggered something that I am conciously unaware of… i dont know but it has been about a month since this happened.

any advice or interpretation would be great. thanks.

I have a family member that is plaqued with bad dreams, and I wish I could help. I believe it’s a personal issue that the person must decide to end themself.

I’m one of the people that no longer have nightmares, and I think it’s hard for me to give advice. … but I have read this literature from LaBerge that I think greatly helps.

Lucidity.com FAQ-nightmares

it links to a chaper in EWLD here:
EWLD - Chapter 10: Overcoming Nightmares

The advice found here is to face your fear.
As you try to go to sleep, think of past nightmares and play them out in your head. Only this time, think of approaching the “bad” and imagining a positive outcome.

For example; Imagine your girlfriend calling, but have her realize the panic was in mistake … and her father calls her away to take her shopping :tongue:

Or imagine running from “leatherface” and tripping and falling down … and letherface reaches down and tickles you as he giggles like a little girl. :lol:

Lucidity.com also has this link,
lucidity.com/nightmare.html
but I think I just gave you the main points of what they preach.

Goodluck!!

DreamAddict comments are pertinent. Being lucid can help you tho overcome this nightmare.

In my opinion, this dream doesn’t try to “say” something to you. It just describes the emotional situation you’re experiencing now. It means that you’re unconsciously searching ressources against a situation which could have hurt you.
It’s obvious that the suicide of you best friend is important. I experienced two months ago the suicide of a good friend and co-worker, and it’s very traumatising and culpabilizing.
If you knew the reasons of his act, you can perhaps wonder if you have enough ressources, enough fighting spirit to react differently against such a situation.
It means also that you’re in anger against this event which deeply struck you. Your reaction is healthy, and you don’t have to worry about these dreams. They will disappear anyhow.

I hope you won’t find my analysis wrong and boring too much… :shy:

Thanks for your replies. The reason I am asking for guidance is because I have tried to interpret it myself and just can’t. Its also very unlike me to EVER have nightmares, much less reoccuring ones. I just find it very strange that I keep having dreams about a handgun that I MUST have and something I must save. Keep the replies comin.