Hi, Dr.Skipper, I find your dream really interesting. Sorry it was so upsetting.
One of the first things I noticed was the wedding versus rape attempt and that they were black men, your "darker," shadow side? Almost like you are trying to integrate (literally and/or figuratively) the two halves of you. Again, the cop and institution are the exterior/in charge parts of you, how you are in the world, trying to maintain control but your subconscious is not having that?
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We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women who pass by without exciting attention, and who betray to the world nothing of the conflicts that rage within them except possibly by a nervous breakdown. What is so difficult for the layman to grasp is the fact that in most cases the patients themselves have no suspicion whatever of the internecine war raging in their unconscious. If we remember that there are many people who understand nothing at all about themselves, we shall be less surprised at the realization that there are also people who are utterly unaware of their actual conflicts.
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~ Carl Jung, from:
http://psikoloji.fisek.com.tr/jung/shadow.htm
It sounds like in your actual life you are pretty overwhelmed at the moment! If you are "fighting" that, I would try to relax a bit, talk to friends and relatives that have not been part of your recent difficulties and see if you cannot find a little more comfort and support?