Tell your therapist about the dreams.

Don't try to interpret dreams. Just pay attention to them.

When I was a college freshman I witnessed a shocking death. Then I forgot about it. I always remembered such a thing had happened but years later when I knew I was just like my (ptsd) refugee students I couldn't imagine how or why.

I always had dreams that I was in the mailbox area of the student center lost and confused and unable to find my way to dinner although I could hear the dining room noises. I "interpreted "these dreams as meaning I was anxious and felt I was being graded or evaluated, as we got our exams and papers back through our boxes. Eventually I remembered that the dream was literally true and accurate. I had received a note in my mailbox concerning the traumatic incident. I had frozen or dissociated and gotten eo confused I couldn't find my way to dinner.

That is why I say don't interpret dreams. Just work with them at face value.

Everyone has trauma. Life is trauma. Every person alive has post traumatic stress, if only fro the birth experience. Post traumatic stress DISORDER is something else. I wouldn't worry about that. Your relationship with your father goes much deeper than ptsd. Here's hoping you alter it sorted out and have a great life.