Ok I have had a reoccuring dream quite a few times now that slighty differs but is generally the same. I am always with somebody, a friend, brother, girlfriend, etc. The situation/place is different every time and I never really know why we are being chased or running from people trying to kill us, but they are shooting at us. After some Intensity of running from the killers and dodging bullets, and some close calls. there comes a moment when I realize the person I am with is about to be shot. I take the hit for them everytime and we seem to get away after that, but I feel myself bleeding out and dying and fading out, telling the person I am with to just go on without me and that Im not gonna make it...than I wake up. I usually have intense pain in the spot where I took the bullet and was bleeding out. Wake up in a panic/anxiety state of mind and sweating. In my dream I feel like i need to stay alive as long as I can, I fear without my help the person with me will not make it out. Its like I take the hit so that they can get away.

These dreams do usually occur when I am in a depressed state of mind too and feeling kinda of worthless and down on myself. They are very scary, real, and intense dreams as well. The pain is so real that sometimes I wake up disoriented thinking i have an actual bullet wound. On one occasion I can remember waking up thinking I was bandaged up in a friends living room and thought i felt real blood and was somehow alive. It took a few seconds to realize it was a dream. Like i said i wake up often disoriented from these nightmares.

I am just curious if anyone can provide some insight on to what these nightmares could possibly mean.