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A couple of thoughts...

Nothing in the first part of your dream really stuck with me. It seemed as if the dog, the truck, the school were just a replay of your daily events. Where things seemed to take a more dramatic turn was when the two guys and the bicycle showed up -- I was glad he wasn't following me like that, you said. What struck me as interesting about this passage was that, first you were observing someone else being "victimized" and then, you became the "victim". I wondered if there was a trigger in your daily life. For example, have you recently witnessed someone else going through an experience similar to yours which then, stirred up your old wounds?

The most predominant theme seems to be your sense of powerlessness, you are constantly looking to an "other" to provide assistance and rescue but no help comes -- not from the construction workers, 911, or your mother. In fact, the only time you have any respite at all is when you go into the school. Something about this act disempowers your oppressor -- The guy had stayed outside when I went into the school, but now he came in and breathed in my hair again, but went back out. ... the guy didn't follow me there, but I could still see him out the window.

A school is a place of learning so it seems to me that by educating yourself, you are weakening the hold of your oppressor and any attendant trauma. I think this is where you need to pay the most attention -- to re-empowering yourself, especially through education.

The dream also seems to hold a promise for you... I was looking for a city and county that both started with C. I was thinking Carbon County. It was a semi-rural area, with rolling hills and green grass and not a lot of trees, but it was rainy. All the buildings were very new, and there was a lot of open space. You seem to describe this place in positive terms and I suspect it represents where you're heading.

Overall, this doesn't strike me as a dream that says, "Hurrah! You're done!" It's more like, "Keep plugging away knowing you're going in the right direction."

My two cents.