Tammy, I just read your post about your dreams. I think you have a very healthy mind to have such clear feelings and remembrance of your dreams. I've read that in Jungian psychology that all of the people in the dreams are actually portions of yourself. Any saving you do you do to yourself, any guilt you feel for not doing enough has to do with your feelings of not having tried enough to remain in "prison" where you really don't want to be. Saving someone who died is trying to save parts of yourself from the changes you're going through.
My father inlaw used to write down his dreams and then take them to a psychiatrist to dig into. I know this helped him tremendously.
I have discovered that things in your dreams can mean something different than you would think. I have looked up things in a dream dictionary like one time in my dream everything was white, I looked it up and it meant that I had made peace with what I was going through. This really made since since my dream also included everyone involved with the problem I was having and the problem was no longer a problem.
It may help give you a different perspective on your dreams and help you understand them. If you read the definition and it makes sense, then it is probably right. However, if it is completely off base, then do lend it too much credit. BEST WISHES.