Originally posted by Laire Blackthorn
Thank you very much for your help!

It's nice to finally know what that dream meant - it was nagging at me!

There are still two things that I'm wondering about - my one friend cooking in the kitchen, and my other friend shooting me. Do either of these mean anything?

Again, thank you for your help.
Your friend cooking shrimp in the kitchen is meant to tell you that your friends have their own emotions (living things from the sea, as 'water' symbolizes heart and emotions) and agenda to work upon... that they are looking for themselves while you are looking for you own self.

Your boyfriend shooting you was the first manifestation of his willingness to 'help' you. What you were looking for was your True Self. By 'shooting' you, he was freeing you of your Illusion of Body Image Identification.

In all of our Dream Careers, perhaps the most important point which we each must pass before we can go forward is to die in a dream, and then stay in the dream long enough to come back to life... to realize we had not fully or completely died... and therefore concluding that we cannot die in a dream. This makes us Fearless and is our Initiation into Immortality. Before we die and come back to live again in a Dream, we are only human. But after we die and come back alive, then we become Heros... we become like lesser Gods. So, by shooting you, if you had died and then stayed in the Dream long enough to come back to Life, to realize your Dream Deathlessness, he would have been doing you the greatest of favors.