I'm a teenage girl is senior year of highschool. I haven't had a nightmare in at least seven or eight years, and I nearly always remember my dreams. I can also almost always control my dreams (so basically if somone ever came at me with a knife, it turned around in midair and went back to them) which may have something to do with why I never have nightmares. However, last night I had the following dream:

I was at some club (or sorority house or something) with these nicely dressed guys and girls who all looked in their mid-twenties. I was some 26 year old girl, I think, but either way, I literally wasn't myself. I felt really anxious and I wanted to leave the place, but for some reason I stayed. I walked over to a girl dressed in a black hostess outfit and asked her something. We started a conversation and I mentioned I'd never been here before and she said something along the lines of "Yes you have. Don't you remember? This is the third time you been here." And I started accusing her of giving me some sort of amnesia pill, but then I stopped and decided to play dumb until I figured out what was going on. Some guys walked past and I let them hit on me, then one man with dark hair, a blue shirt, and black pants came up to me and placed his hand on my shoulder. I pretended like I remembered him and that it didn't bother me that he seemed to want to make out. Then he started pulling off my clothes and, in the dream still, I woke up, and I was in "my" bed wearing shoes and someone was strangling me and I couldn't breath. It was then, I think, that I realized I was dreaming and I remember trying to force myself to wake up. I felt like I was pulling myself out of my body.
When I finally woke in real life, I felt sick. My head hurt and my stomach felt awful. I was so scared. I'd never be so terrified in my life. I'd only been asleep for an hour. I called my friend and we talked for like ten mins. or so, and I was completly back to normal. I went back to bed and slept fine.

Now, right before I went to bed that night, I had gotten in a slight arguement with one of my friends over the phone, and I was really mad. But I'd had nearly an identical arguement with this girl before and gone to bed just as mad, but it had never affected my sleep so I don't think that had anything to do with it.
Anyway, the whole thing was really scary and really weird and I have no idea what it may have meant.

Hi and Welcome!

The part where the waitress tells you you've been here before and you don't remember could be your subconscious trying to tell you that you are stuck in some type of behavioral pattern that is detrimental to your personal relationships. Or you are consciously aware of it but repeat the behavior anyway. Even though you feel the argument with the friend may not be related to the dream, the reason for the argument may offer a clue here.

Do you feel "strangled" by any of your personal relationships, either at home or at school?