The Trauma of Being Trapped: A Dream of Powerlessness and Betrayal

The Trauma of Being Trapped: A Dream of Powerlessness and Betrayal
Me and some others were at some sort of waterpark but it was closed but we were going down water slides anyways. But anyways, we needed to get changed before we left and there wasn’t a changing room so I had to grab a towel and all of my clothes and go to the tower that you climb to get onto one of the slides. It had walls so I climbed to the top and started to change there, but then I realized I dropped my underwear somewhere and was trying to figure out what to do sense I was naked and I heard some random guy climbing the tower. So I got scared and shut the three doors around me and locked them. I saw the man’s shadow under the door and I yelled to stop cuz I was changing but he didn’t and he had a key and started to try to come in. I held the door handle and tried to keep it locked but he got in. I kept screaming for help but no one heard me and I was banging as loud as I could on the slide so someone would hear that but no one did. The man never even told me to stop yelling or screaming, but he raped me. Then he kept me up there for years and I was “missing” and he kept raping me and I would resist at first but over the years I stopped caring and would do whatever he said bc I gave up hope. Also over time the tower thing became more like a fortress. I tried to go down the slides a few times but it was like he had me tied up there or something. After a few years my parents and others realized where I was and I yelled for them from the tower and they yelled up at the man and police would constantly parole around the tower and try to find a safe way up to get me. He would shoot at them occasionally if they were too much of a threat but they rarely shot up here because it was a small room and didn’t want to shoot me. I asked why they weren’t sending the military and eventually military did get there, but they still did the same thing as the cops, only now they had 24 hr watch towers around us and men with guns. One time I escaped down the slide in my towel and I ran to the military base for help, but the man chased me. The military kept telling me something about his FBI file and how there’s this whole conspiracy concerning him being on bad terms with the government. The government has changed a lot sense I was kidnapped and it was much more aggressive and we were on the brink of a revolution, but they still cared about saving me but they just didn’t protect me maybe cuz he might’ve made a deal with them or something idk. He must’ve had a lot of leverage with them. So somehow the man grabbed me and drug me away from the tent and back to the tower and I looked up and saw my “mom” (she didn’t look like my real mom) in a watch tower on my way back. He brought me back to the tower and beat me and raped me again. So some sort of chaos was happening around the tower outside of the fences months later. There were giant maze stacks of storage containers ( like the giant ones you see on cargo boats today) and hay. It was under like 4 ft of water from flooding. And there was shouting and people running everywhere and even gunshots. The man had raped me and disappeared. So I ran out but sirens started going off. This was all very dystopian. Now suddenly the gov was against me. They were killing people around but idk why. There were some old friends around who told me to run and hide in the maze, so I tried but the gov was chasing us. I’m guessing the friends were part of the revolt. I squeeze my way through towers of storage containers and massive hay stacks and I keep trying to hide in little nooks and crannies. Literally running for my life. For some reason I can breath underwater and the water is really clear. I watch them kill multiple of the ppl I’m with. Once it’s night time me and another person is in a corner peeking out of the maze trying to hide and praying they won’t see us. We start fighting about if I was on his side or not. And they heard us and started shooting in our direction. So I fake my death. I make it look like I got my neck stuck on a wire under a bar and I “drowned” so I make my body limp and pray they don’t actually shoot me. My body is convincingly dead, it floats well so I can still sit up and see what’s happening. They come over and scan me and think I’m dead and they were keeping records. Then the other person gets taken away. And I stayed limp and still, trying to stay convincingly dead so that they don’t realize I’m alive later. My face is frozen in fear and I remember not knowing what I should do next, bc everyone I knew was probably gone. So I just float there and think about what I should do. Then I woke up.

This dream may reflect feelings of powerlessness and betrayal in your waking life. The waterpark symbolizes a place of fun and relaxation, but it is closed, suggesting that you are unable to access this sense of enjoyment. The water slides represent a sense of adventure and excitement, but you are forced to change in a vulnerable and exposed place, indicating a loss of control and privacy. The man who climbs the tower represents a threat to your safety and autonomy. Despite your attempts to protect yourself, you are ultimately overpowered and violated. This may reflect a fear of being taken advantage of or betrayed by someone in your life. The years spent trapped in the tower may symbolize a sense of being stuck in a difficult situation, unable to escape or find help. The involvement of the military and government suggests a larger power dynamic at play, where you feel like a pawn in a larger game. This dream may be a reflection of past trauma or current feelings of powerlessness and betrayal in your waking life.