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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder? (S&D)

by Anonymous
(Stanford, CA)

This dream occurred about a month ago, but I still remember it quite clearly because the content threw me off. I am a Resident Assistant (RA) in a dorm on campus and one of my fellow RAs is also in this dream.


The beginning of the dream is fuzzy - I have forgotten what it entailed. However, at some point, students are expressing grave concern, which then gave way to a general atmosphere of chaos and tension.

I walk down the hall, and I realize that the reason behind the students' behavior is because my co-RA is waving a gun around in the doorway of a room. He seemed to be moving his mouth and saying things, but no sounds were coming out.

Students were not exactly running for safety, but rather striding quickly away from him, casting backward glances at him. In the dream, I found out later that the gun he was waving around was unloaded, and that his behavior was probably triggered by his PTSD, a condition that none of us on staff were aware that he had.

I can't remember how it was revealed that he had PTSD. I found this dream just incredibly interesting, because the co-RA in question is quite possibly the nicest, most selfless and caring person in real life (and to my knowledge, does not have PTSD), and yet here he is in my dream, waving a gun around...

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