Young man at the building site

This dream took place the night of Sept. 7, 1994, my birthday, and 8 weeks after our son died.
I was with a group of people at the building site of a house. We were being threatened by a young man with a gun. There was a screen set up on the side of a hill, like a tall fence. The young man was on one side of the screen and we were on the other side. I was trying to hide from him. Somehow the conflict was resolved and we continued working at building the house, the young man helping us. During the course of the dream the tension centered around the young man eased. At the end of the dream he and I were sitting on a bench, arm-in-arm.

At first when Gabe was in dreams he was not immediately recognizable. In early dreams he had a great deal of difficulty accepting his death, as he seems to have in this dream. The image of a curtain or thin veil between the livng and those who have passed over also appeared in a number of my dreams, as did the theme of construction. In this case we are all trying to grow spiritually and construct new understanding and new lives after his death. At the end of the dream Gabe and I are much like we were when together in life.