in my dream i was in college and living in a dorm with my best friend. the college was located in a city far away - possibly india. there was also an apartment building some of my other friends lived in attached to the dorm building. even though we, for some reason, were living in a dorm, i still was myself exactly as i am now and was working at my current corporate job with the same colleagues. my best friend had also just started working with me for the first time. one morning i went up to what was essentially a large corporate office conference room, but we were calling it a library. i went for a walk around the room & saw my manager at work was also walking laps around the room. i only walked one lap and then left because i wanted to be alone. as i was leaving i noticed his shoes outside the door to the room and thought it was weird that he must not have been wearing them. i arrive back to the dorm and see my best friend with dark blue bruises on her jaw and neck and a shocked look in her eyes. i ask what happened and if she’s okay. she tells me she also went for a walk in the library earlier this morning and that my manager assaulted and raped her. this assault lasted 8 minutes and he killed her by choking. i don’t realize at first that i must be talking with a ghost as she is dead. however, it starts to click that this is her ghost but this ghost or version of her stays with me. at first she seems visible to others as well. my manager walks by and sees us talking and tries to make excuses to her saying things like “things got out of hand earlier” but we both respond forcefully and make it clear that he was in the wrong and that we intend to make his assault of her known to everyone possible. we (i think really just i) first tell my other friends about what happened and they rush to help report the sexual assault and murder to the university. on our way to report the assault, we run into my manager in a stairwell we are both walking down and my friend julia starts recording him with her phone and asking things like “what’s wrong with you”, “why would you do that”, “how could you do that”. he picks up his pace of going down the stairs and so we are essentially chasing him. at first he tries to deny that he did anything wrong but eventually admits he made a mistake and that he killed her. then the dream shifts to us joining a large crowd of students gathering in support of my dead friend. it is a massive group of other students chanting “we will not forget” my friend, “she deserved peace”,. this group marches to where my manager is and a select group of dancers from the larder group be start performing dances around my manager. i join in briefly but need a lot of pointers on my dance technique. at the end of the final dance everyone is silent and walk past my manager who is cowering on the floor. the dancers had facial piercings and complexions of people from india. as they walked by my manager they would take a piece of jewelry off of their face and throw it at my manager sitting on the ground. no one looked at him or spoke as they did this. i followed suit and took out my earrings and threw them down as i passed him. after this i got back to my dorm with my dead friends ghost who was still with me. in the hallway there was a banner notifying the residents, in a euphemistic way, that one of the fellow residents had passed away. at this point i started to feel like i was recognizing that my friend wasn’t actually with me. we reached our dorm and it was locked and had a cleaning notice pasted to the front that no one could enter for 9 days due to biohazard. then i knew she was truly dead and spent some final moments with her before i woke up from the dream. i lamented the unfair nature of her early death and she responded with a smile in a wise, knowing way that it was okay and she was content because she’d lived her life the way she wanted to and had no regrets. then she asked me if i had the same feeling for myself about my life and mentioned with concern that it didn’t seem like i did. this was the last wisdom she imparted before the dream ended and i woke up crying.This dream may symbolize a desire for justice and empowerment in your waking life. The college setting represents a place of learning and growth, while the dorm and apartment buildings symbolize a sense of community and support. Your best friend, who is also your colleague, may represent a strong and trusted ally in your life. The fact that you are still working at your corporate job and your friend has just started may suggest a recent change or transition in your waking life. The library, which is actually a conference room, may symbolize a need for knowledge and understanding in a specific area of your life. Your manager walking laps around the room may represent a sense of control or authority in your waking life. The bruises on your friend’s face and her ghostly presence may symbolize the lasting impact of a traumatic event. Your determination to seek justice and make your manager’s actions known to others may represent a desire for accountability and empowerment. The large crowd of students chanting in support of your friend may symbolize a sense of solidarity and strength in numbers. Overall, this dream may be urging you to stand up for yourself and others, and to seek justice and empowerment in your waking life.
