What are psyche dreams about?

I don't dream often, let alone remember them, but this dream left such an impression on me I simply had to share it somewhere.

I dreamed that I was on a trip with some friends from college. I was with a guy, and we wandered into some trees next to a paved street, and we found a Torii (a kind of "holy gate" in many Japanese shrines (I'm half Japanese and live in Japan, which is why I believe my psyche used the image of the Torii)). Beyond the Torii, just to the left, was a great city. Dozens of buildings in a European architectural style. To the right was a gaping abyss that fell away into nothing, and beyond the abyss, on the other side of the gulf, was a green hill covered in fog that gently sloped down to the right, and at the bottom of the hill were two towers. These towers were roughly equal in height. One resembled a more sharply tapered Washington Monument, and the other the Empire State Building.

What was more interesting to me in the moment, though, was a church/bell tower that was visible over the tops of the buildings to me left. There was a giant orb at the top of the bell tower, floating up and down as if it was suspended in air, and it seemed to alternate between being a giant metal ball, and a red paper lantern (chochin) everytime I looked at it.

Something about the scene was so beautiful that I almost felt like crying, and I asked my friend if we could just check out the tower in the city to the left. Just as we were about to start walking (and therefore cross the threshold of the torii), I was woken up by my alarm.

I just woke up from a horrible dream. I dreamt that I was still living with my foster parents but it was the worst time of my life.

I was constantly berated, constantly yelled at, critiqued, threatened and harrased. They threatened me to submitted to a psyche ward. Something they have actually threatened me with irl

They threatened to take my things, something that they alao did irlBut this berating was constant,day in, day out, every day, for every little thing I did.

I didn't go to school one day, and they called me pathetic. I cut my hair short and preferred wearing black. They called me mentally ill and weird.

Eventually I was so distressed that I smashed a plate and decided to slit my wrists while we had an afternoon snack. And it wasn't the self harming way, it was the fatal way.

They screamed and berated me once more as I stood up and left the house, dripping blood and almost passing out

Crazy stuff

Hey guys, please help me analyze what this dream means for my psyche/future
-Mom plans my birthday party
-The day of, I am Anxious that no one will show up
-Out of nowhere a whole group of old High School friends show up in my backyard
-Soon more and more randoms start showing up
-The party starts getting larger and larger
-We start dancing, moshing, DJs sick as fuck
-I get trapped in a circle of baddies dancing, I try to escape the circle but can’t, making me a little claustrophobic
-Suddenly the music stops, everyone stops dancing, and I here a bunch of gasps
-I see a man in the front right next to the DJ, with a gun pointed straight at a dancer
-Everyone runs except for the DJ
-The gunman turns around and points the gun straight at the DJ
-Everyone at the party runs to a nearby bunker-type hallway and hides
-the gunman makes his way to the hallway, and starts shouting crazy shit
-I’m scared shitless
-Eventually the cops show up, take care of the gunman
-No one is hurt or injured and the gunman never fires a shot

I often have a reoccurring dream about a male friend (although he is gay in real life) and (I am a straight female) but in my dream we are in love and intimate. Like, truly in love.

What does this mean?

For the record, I am single and have been for some time so it could just be my psyche using a male figure to project something I want. But why him?

So, I moved in to my friend's house while I'm waiting to start school in August. From Day 1 when I moved in, I have been having this strange recurring dream every night. My bedroom has a door which connects to the attic entrance. In the dream, I'm sitting in bed and the door opens. A large dog (roughly 7 feet tall so definitely not a normal dog) comes out of the room. The dog is entirely brown with glowing green eyes. Following the dog is a small female child. She is tanned and has a pixie cut haircut black hair and green eyes. Then another dog follows the child out of the room, identical to the first dog.

The dogs do absolutely nothing at all, and the girl stares at me for some time, before walking back into the closet. An adult woman then emerges from the closet, and I can tell it's the same person just grown up. She has long black hair now that goes to her mid back wears a thin black gown and she is barefoot, her feet look muddy and she is holding two torches. She also stares at me for a while before returning to the closet. Then an old woman comes out, grey hair in a messy bun, wearing a floor length gown, and again, I can tell it's the same girl just as an elderly woman, but the torches are gone now. Again I'm stared at for a while, then I wake up from the dream.

This dream happens every night and it's the most vivid dream I've ever had. I'm not sure what my psyche is trying to tell me. The only variation in the dream is that occasionally the clothes change colors, the dogs are always there and never do anything, and the girls always have the same hair / faces. Clearly something is going on that my subconscious is picking up on, any clues folks?