Omega – First, I am sorry it took ages to answer.
A bridge can depict connection between yourself and another person, a relationship, a link between self and opportunity, yourself and change in your life and relationship. Being high up shows that you have a good view, not too entangled in everyday life.
You friend is not often your actual friend, but an image you create out of your feelings and thoughts you experience about him. Your feelings about the rope may reflect what happened between you previously, the lack of strength in the connection.
Diving into the river suggest you are ready to face what life brings - the current, the struggles, other people who may be in the river with you. But you experienced the fear that if the person holds on to you it will lead to drowning.
In dreams you cannot drown or die, but of course you dream is illustrating something else. But the healing path you are on eventually leads to becoming more independent of others influence on us. But such independence does not mean you are absolutely impersonal otherwise your sight is coloured. For you can exist in the great river of life experience without being drowned in it or swept away. Hard lessons but possible.
(In being the thing I just get anger and jealousy as him. For me the overwhelming emotion is betrayal and grief)
These show that in fact you were caught in the huge current in which as humans we are swept along by. Slowly, as you are on the “healing path” things drop away. For you do not have to fight and struggle with them, for real growth ripens the fruits of yourself, and when ripe they drop away.
You have learned the lesson of ‘being’ the images of your dream, so now you can add another one. You asked and received a response, which allows you to gain a response with questions you ask. For example you could ask, “Okay so I felt anger, jealousy, betrayal and grief, but what is the best way to deal with them?” Or any question you wish to explore.
Tony