Mutilated but I didn't care...looking for response

[Waxxer]

I won't be very graphic here, so don't worry.

Last night I had a dream that was odd for the reason of my emotions. In it, I was a girl and I was in a room with a guy. Someone I felt I knew before, but not as friends. We were in a hotel room with a closet - I was sitting in front of that; a minifridge; and a bed.

He must've drugged me or something as I wasn't struggling or anything. Or perhaps I was too depressed. Anyway, I didn't actually see this stuff happen - the dream was like flicking through a slideshow. He cut my left leg off below the knee, and my right arm off below the elbow and put them in the fridge (this was so late my friends could find me and reattach them).

Then he hanged me from the ceiling and sat there. My friends cam in once the rope had broken and I was lying on the floor, still drugged/extremely depressed and therefore not moving. One of them took the guy away - he went without fight, just a nod between us. The dream ended with my friends reattaching my limbs.

The weird part of this was that I remember a feeling of knowing and understanding exactly why this guy was doing this. I can't remember why, just the feeling that I knew why and because of that 'why' it was all ok. The nod between us at the end was one of understanding. I felt that, while we had not been friends, we had had a very passionate relationship (not lovers though) and understood each other well. We weren't related in any way, and I don't know his name.

I just wonder if there are any interpretations of this. Or theories about why I had this feeling of complete understanding with a guy who was basically torturing me.

[punxnotdead]

I could start making something up, but honestly, I'm not really sure. Gil is the expert, though I'll give my two cents.
Perhaps it portrays how a friend close to you has hurt you in some way - physically or emotionally, but yet you were such close friends that you found a way to forgive him?
Tell me if I'm way off.

[Nichael]

I'm basing this off of general patterns I've seen from reading other people's dreams, and from books and other junk. (I think books are only useful in the really basic definitions, beyond that, they're complete hokum.) Namely from my own experiences though. (My dreams have their own innate way of expressing simple ideas, and certain characters who tend to portray them. Yours certainly work differently from mine, but if I had this dream, this is what I'd figure it'd mean.)

If it was just a straight-up murder dream you'd have been less detached, probably felt some resemblance of pain, and probably woke up terrified.
Instead it was necessary, there was mutual understanding, no dread, and most importantly I think, put back together at the end. Kind of like you let yourself (maybe not your body, but your mind?) be pulled apart down to the basics and remade a little differently. Some of the old you was saved for after too. (fridges preserve stuff, pretty straightforward.)
Change is a really common theme in people's dreams that comes in all sorts of flavours. Maybe you've changed (everybody does over time), and this is sort of how your mind finalized it? The guy who helped you was probably just another part of yourself, or just a catalyst for the change.
Your friends though, I think they're there helping you because you guys trust each other well in real life, and they would be there to help you through times of change. I'm going out on a limb here, but maybe they have an impact on who you are too. Then again, they might just be there because they're a convenient symbol for trust and comfort.

...was I completely off the mark? :p I just like to point out that death and injury in dreams don't always mean the same as in real life.