Death Dreamer – I believe there is so much that is best for you to understand before I attempt to write about your dream. Without the proper introduction to dreaming, you perhaps would not believe what I write.
So to start - It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read –
http://dreamhawk.com/news/summing-up/ and also
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/ which has so much information in.
Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do this by practising what is described in –
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson or
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/Particularly Summing Up and Being the Person.
As I said you might not believe this, but the person trying to kill you is a part of you. It is a well trod path, and fortunately it is only in your dream, and hopefully you are not trying to commit suicide. Many dream characters – other people who appear in our dreams – may be thought of as a sub-personality. As such they denote aspects of our character or personality which do not denote our everyday behaviour, but emerge, sometimes unexpectedly in certain circumstances. For instance in a violent argument our behaviour may be totally different to what we would expect of ourselves, and may disappear – become unconscious – rapidly.
Traumas that occur to us when young are frequently blocked from memory, but nevertheless influence us deeply. You mentioned a couple of traumatic events, but we all have things we cant remember, and each trauma is a block in the way of our happiness and being able to express well.
The girl is dead and wants to kill everyone. A sign that a part of you has been badly hurt. The baby or child often feels murderous rage in connection with such hurts, but it is too small to effectively act on the rage. When an adult feels such rage however, it is highly dangerous and irrational. See
http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/opening-to-life/ Tony