Hi and thanks for your comments.

Personally I have been thinking that it could be an animus dream since the dream contains the “faceless” man in the basement about to be killed, an entire sect following me, the serial killer and the serial killer dad. I have managed to read in a Jungian book that it is not uncommon that animus is represented by a mob or a collective of men, sometimes hostile, negative or faceless. I know that soil, pebbles and plank are symbols of death (or burial) and thinkt that our escape out of the ground is kind of a “rebirth”. I have also heard that sects could represent negative or bigot or limiting thoughts or values that influence your life. My rescue of the (very passive) male from the serial killer and the basement could be a rescue of a male side or attribute in me. Many people had been killed in that basement before, and that could represent that usually this male side is “killed” but this time it got out.

I don’t know. It does seem plausible, but I am still not sure what that “male side” would be, what the sect/negative thoughts would represent and what the serial killer and his dad is all about – translated into my life. It is possible that it is both a shadow and an animus dream but then I am definitely lost and do not know what represents what! I only know that I usually need other people and input before I finally “see the light” and understand what a dream was all about.