Torture orgy

This dream jumped around a bit, but the gist of it is as follows.


I was in a strange building at night time.  Behind a glass panel I saw lots of people, men and women who appeared to get a kick out of pain and torture.  Some of these people had blades attached to their bodies by chains and would shake their bodies around to spin the blades so they would cut each other and themselves.


The location then changed and I was standing outside this complex with a woman who was looking for her daughter called Whitney.  Whitney had been taken from her in a legal battle with her ex, the girl's father.  This did not appear to be connected to the torture that was happening before, but it was outside the same building.


The next thing I know, I'm in the building again and behind the glass panel, I see 6 men stood around a large table. Someone then drags a young black woman onto the table and take off her dress.  She is squirming and desperately struggling to break free, but cannot.  One of the men produces a large knife and stabs it into her open mouth, which produces a piecing scream and blood.  He then slices her open, cutting all the way from her jaw, down her torso and lower body to the tip of her vagina.  The whole time, she is screaming and writhing in pain.  The men then try to pull her skeleton from her body whilst she is still alive and manage to do so.  She dies in the process.


The girl's screams were so distressing, they woke me up.


This is probably one of the most disturbing dreams I've ever had.  And no, I haven't been watching any horror films.  Given the unusual and unsettling nature of this dream, I went here for help trying to figure out, and was shocked that it really described what I have been going through.


As the dream dictionary suggests, the torture was used as a symbolic device to represent certain emotions; in my case extreme stress and a dread of what is around the corner.  This is due to some family issues which again, I won't go into on here.  Either way, the day before, I was doing some very hard thinking and arrived at some conclusions which unsettled me, and I think this dream was just my subconscious mind's way of showing me just how difficult I'm finding things with my family at the moment.