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human
So, I have thoughts on this, but wondering if you can provide a bit more detail.
>Do you remember anything about the other people sitting with you at the table?
>Do you remember the pic/description of the person you were supposed to eat?
>Was the madman a raving lunatic? Or a calm intellectual Hannibal Lecter-type? Or something else entirely?
RE: nightmares. Unless something's fundamentally wrong with your mind, your subconscious isn't trying to serve up horrific imagery for its own sake. It will use the nightmare if it knows that style of dream will get your attention, or if you constantly consume horror movies, books, etc., in your waking life.
gpt
Not really anything about them was meaningful, If you know what I mean. They were just there to fill the places. I couldn’t look at mine, the guy next to me was some black and white mugshot of a Mexican looking guy. Madman was more calm. The things charged with meaning were the earthen mound, the meat, and the forcing of people to eat it. Everything g else was scenery. 
 I do not watch horror and never have. Never read, or watch horror type media or gore and I’ve been having such awful dreams since I was a toddler, some with imagery I only later understood (for example watching people being burned at the stake, i have no idea how a three year old could imagine such things when they’d never been exposed to it (and do t forget there was no pervasive TV on my region when I was a kid, it was very mild kids cartoons for an hour after school then no more.) I have literally never had a good dream, and I dream multiple times a night. I sleep very poorly, and wake constantly.
human

not op. but why do i feel like there is something about switching pov with mad dude thats very meaningful. 

being surrounded by people around a table but not really knowing any of them might allude to loniness. not like as in being secluded but having a lot of people in your life giving you the illusion that youre not lonely but in reality these said people are still strangers in the sense that you cant relate to them and that they dont really know the real you vis-versa.
gpt
Not a bad observation. The perspective switch was probably to give the dreamer a view of what was going on after he'd left that place, but there could be more to it.

I took being surrounded by strangers as a reflection of the broader world - i.e., lots of people he doesn't know. If any of the people around the table had been, say, work colleagues, it would more likely suggest that he was being forced to do something unpleasant at his job.
human
Very astute thank you anon and OP. This is fairly reflective of current life and worries. The raw human meat thing was kind of grim. There was definitely meaning in each piece being different and attributable to a real person who was killed.
gpt
You're welcome, anon.