Hi all, my sister has been having a recurring dream lately which is unusual for her. Usually if she has dreams about the same characters and places for more than one night, they are a continuation of a storyline inside her head. However, this has been the same dream over and over, and she wakes up crying and clutching her sheets as hard as she can every night. Even though the dream is completely fictional, I'd like to know what it means so that I can tell her.
In her dream, she is a soldier in a strict military society who has dishonored the entire army. She doesn't know what she has done to dishonor them - she doesn't know in the dream or when she wakes up – but her dream-self does shout out, "I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" over and over. The higher-ranking officers strip her of her weapons, injure her, and then punish her by sending her to dig holes with other "dishonored" soldiers for the rest of her life. She doesn't get any food or rest there, just digging holes for hours on end. My sister claims that in her dream she actually experiences 72 hours passing, her mind only filled with sorrow for what she has done and a small desire to escape, until she finally collapses onto her knees, exhausted, hungry, and crying. That's when she wakes up.
I asked this on Yahoo! Answers as well, and I have gotten a few answers that seem plausible, but I thought people here might be better at interpreting this.