Dreams are powerful tools. Even animals dream. The dream world allows the brain to safely role-play. Animals dream about the things in their world and their body responds to the dreams. Dogs will move their legs as if they are chasing the prey. Humans have always done the same thing. We dream about things we hear on the news or things people tell us. Our brains think "What would I do in this situation?"

Dreams that repeat are the mind's way of trying to work through the problem in order to obtain a different outcome to a situation. We continue to have the dream until the brain "solves the puzzle" to its satisfaction at the subconscious level.

For the type of trauma you experienced I highly recommend finding a therapist who can process this with you in a safe way. Your dreams are becoming stronger and more powerful and vivid because it is an issue that your brain NEEDS to SOLVE. Even though the past can't be changed, the brain does not accept that as an answer. Even if the same situation can never repeat, the brain does not accept that as a valid answer. The brain needs to resolve the issue so it can move the problem out of the short term memory space and into the long term solution space. (*you can find research on that and how PTSD works).

My own healing includes EMDR.
https://www.pandys.org/articles/EMDR...alassault.html

The EMDR allows me to enter the event and then be guided by my therapist to change the ending by doing things like seeing my child self grow big and large and stuff the abusers into trashcans. I thought that was all silly and useless when we first began that therapy. But you know what??? My dreams started to change! By doing the EMDR work I was able to find my internal power inside the dream world.

When you learn how to mentally take charge of that horrid situation, when you find your inner war cry and with your entire soul yell it out and use it like a thunder bolt on your enemy, your dream work will be completed and you will experience powerful healing.

Dreams like that stink. Abusers are scum. But you are a precious part of the universe. You DESERVE your freedom from that past. You deserve your voice and your power. It is yours.