Calling All Dream Decipherers — This One Has Me Stumped

Have you ever had a dream so vivid, that you felt real physical pain but couldn’t wake up? This was a first for me.

Normally I can decipher what my dreams are trying to tell me, or why they are happening, but last night's dream (or nightmare) was unique. I’ve been thinking about it all day, I talked to a couple of people about it, but I’m still confused and hoping there’s someone in this community with a fresh insight from a different perspective.

Important note: Last night my boyfriend and I got into an argument and we slept in separate rooms. – which isn’t abnormal for us, but we didn't speak at all before bed, which is very rare — I don’t think it’s ever happened in the three years we’ve been together.

We had a fight, I went for a walk to cool down and take space – but he came and found me, but we argued some more and then left it at that. We ignored each other all night until the next day.

Not ideal, but clearly a very ideal recipe for a juicy dream.

….and that it was, but I can’t make sense of it!

Some real-life backstory first:

The dream had an old friend in it, who is a hairdresser in real life, and she was a hairdresser in my dream as well.

She was my best friend in elementary school, we were really, really close — we spent every day…