Hi all, I tend to experience dreams in series over two to three days. This new one however I can't make heads or tails of it. I'd love any insight. Here goes nothing:
Day one: it was a short snippet. Not many details to tell. I'm sitting in my car at a red light. Its raining very hard. I see a shadow through the driver side mirror. Someone opens my door and shoots me in the face. I instantly wake up. There was no face, only the flash and then black. I did not see any blood.
Day two: I'm in the car again. I look left but no one is coming. I look right and my boyfriend is in the passenger seat playing on his phone as he usually would (he was not there the day prior). I look forward and the light changes green. We drive to my families home. We meet up with friends of mine that I grew up with (however, I did not recognize these people). My boyfriend points out one female is slutty, one female is dumb, and the guy is a typical racist (this is strange bec these personalities are not typical of the people I grew up with). After having fun at the location (I don't know where we were or what we were doing. It was glossed over), we all head to the car. Everyone gets in and I'm locked out. I tell my boyfriend to stop playing around and let me in. He tells me in a very calm monotone voice "it's my turn now. I'm going to have fun and you don't need to come." I say please let me in followed by why would you do this to me? One of the girls says "C'mon now. You know if you saw these two boys you'd want to go too (which did not make sense to the context of the rest of the convo except that my boyfriend gets hit on a lot). They drive away. I walk back to my aunts house. This is an aunt I've never actually met. I've only seen her in pictures. So I am unsure of her personality. I tell her what happened. Her response is "well, you haven't been here that long and I'm already sick of your drama." (There was no drama. At least from what I saw). My boyfriend came back but we didn't speak. The entire trip he spent all the time with my family and friends while I sat alone in a corner. It was as if everyone forgot about me. The day came for us to go home. He said his goodbyes and never looked at me. I called out to him to wait as I literally faded away. He drove back home by himself. I woke up.

Dreams are symbolic expressions of your feelings about your waking life at the time of the dream. Also, feelings IN dream are never disguised, so how you feel IN the dream is how you are feeling about its subject. The symbols in your dream combined with the context elements of the dream (often the people and place) should help you confirm what it is about. Here are links to the definitions of your dream symbols:

1st dream:
car: dreamdoctor.com/dream-dictionary/definitions/car.html
driving: dreamdoctor.com/dream-dictionary/definitions/driving.html
shot: dreamdoctor.com/dream-dictionary/definitions/shot.html

2nd dream:
phone: dreamdoctor.com/dream-dictionary/definitions/phone.html
driver: dreamdoctor.com/dream-dictionary/definitions/driver.html
door (as in car door): dreamdoctor.com/dream-dictionary/definitions/door.html
abandoned: dreamdoctor.com/dream-dictionary/definit...ndoned-by-lover.html

The first dream reflect your feelings about being hurt emotionally. Your dream doesn't provide any clues, but the waking life background that generated your dream should provide the answer. Who "took a shot" at you in waking life... one that was "to your face"?

The second dream (which uses similar symbols, but may or may not be related) reflects your feeling that your boyfriend is not only in control in your relationship, but he's shutting you out and even abandoning you. In the dream, he's communicating with others, he's hanging with "friends" you don't admire, and he "drives off," leaving you behind. Your dream reflects how you really feel about your relationship, deep down. Your aunt in the dream likely symbolizes your family. Your dream reflects your feeling that they aren't particularly interested in what's going on in your social life. Your dream expresses how you feel, but that doesn't necessarily make it so. Bottom line, you feel as if your boyfriend's interest in you is "fading," and although you didn't say how that made you feel in the dream, the feeling of being abandoned is never good.

Armed with a better understanding of your feelings, you can try to correct the situation by talking to your boyfriend about it. This may be a passing phase in your relationship, but you deserve to feel better about it, certainly not "locked out" and/or abandoned. As your relationship improves, your dreams will confirm it. Take back control of "your car" and go get it!

Good luck!