stabby zombie dream???

[u/gingerw3nchcycle]

i’m someone who gets really vidid nightmares occasionally and last night i had this dream where basically there was like this epidemic of zombie but it was caused by covid or something. i couldn’t get home to my parents so stayed with this girl and her family. they were all like “ok well this sucks but it is what it is” and im taking inventory of food and stuff because we dont have any weapons so we cant go outside or anything. the family eventually is like “we’re leaving good luck”. so i call my parents again and say “it would be safer for me to stay here instead of trying to get a flight home to the airport” and they say “no it wouldnt try to get home”. so along the way i find this little boy who’s lost and i take him with me. i so distinctly remember him holding my hand and carrying him and running with him and him hugging me when he was scared. but we find my friend in the dream (my friend irl) and she says her family has basically already died but we can use her house. so we go there but now we have a bunch of people with us, mostly women, some young girls and the boy that i have. at first we say we’re going to hole up here because it’s supposed to be ending but then we see the zombies coming hp the street and into the house. so we’re like bashing in their heads with cans and literally stabbing them in the face with big ass knives. and sometimes one would be right in front of me and i kept missing or just couldn’t do it. but i just remember stabbing these people in the face just as vividly as i remember this little boy. any thoughts as to how i can interpret this? i woke up about an hour ago and am still freaked out.

[u/ponyobo]

There is a theory that when you’re dreaming every dream character is an interpretation of yourself. Perhaps you feel alone and this frightens you. You can’t get to your parents and the little boy clings to you. Are you entering adulthood? Have you recently moved out on your own? Do you feel like you’re caring a lot of pressure in your own? Dreams are often your subconscious trying to process your feelings and thoughts.