[Aleakim]

I keep having this dream of my best friend who also has a depression issue telling me to kill myself and her triggering me and etc. and backstabbing me. and just being something she's not. I'm really scared that it means she will end up like that, just making me worst instead of better.

Hey How have you been? I'm not one to believe in the supernatural (nor Freudian symbolism much) so I think a dream is just a dream. Maybe you have an unconscious doubt about your friend? Oops, sounds a little Freudian
To me it's just...a...dream But I hope you won't let it bother you too much.
I'm sure one of the resident dream interpreters will give you a more interesting answer.
11:33 PM 5/11/2013

[Thunder Bow]

The friend in your dream is really you. How do you feel?

[MusicMike]

Originally Posted by Aleakim

I keep having this dream of my best friend who also has a depression issue telling me to kill myself and her triggering me and etc. and backstabbing me. and just being something she's not. I'm really scared that it means she will end up like that, just making me worst instead of better.

I wouldn't worry about it as a simple premonition like that. As Thunder Bow says, the other people in dreams are usually parts of ourselves. You might start by thinking about the ways you are similar to your friend. And then maybe the dream is saying that you have these other qualities in you--that you have a depressed side, that you have thoughts and feelings that trigger you, and feel like you are sabotaging yourself in some way. Usually the dream is trying to bring something to your awareness that you don't normally acknowledge, so the dream is asking you to become aware of these qualities in yourself.

Oops... how could I have forgotten Jung

[MusicMike]

George,
Jung! Well in general, one thing about dreams is, although they use symbolism, I like the idea of sticking close to the dream in interpreting it. I ask myself, "What actually happens in the dream?" In this dream someone who is very familiar to her is displaying all these qualities that are threatening and don't seem to fit this person. You do have to make a few leaps into dream logic, such as the idea that "a familiar person" can mean yourself. Is it strange to choose other people to represent parts of ourselves? Not really, because these are usually parts that aren't fully integrated into consciousness, so they are experienced as "other." But ultimately it doesn't require too much BELIEF (i.e. unquestioning belief) into symbolism. You ask, "What happens in the dream?" And then ask, "What is happening in life?" Look for the patterns.
Mike