Recovery - Thanks, all is well except I can't walk as well as I used to - the stroke. The top half of me is fine - the bottom half needs some work done on it
As for your dream, if you read
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/characters-or-people-in-dreams/ you will see that nearly always the people in dreams represent aspects of you, often not recognised because of the effect of
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/autonomous-complex/ So your attack on an apparently other person was an attack on an aspect of yourself that you were probably not aware of - thus you cried because in some way it was hurting you. It is common when we are angry about something or someone to turn the anger inwards.
So have you felt any anger recently - if so what or who was it about? Also the nerve damage is - in dreams - often caused by not being able to express such things as anger, sexual love, and unecpressed feelings about parents and others. In that way I suffered an intense chest pain for years until it was released by expressing it.
Try being the hurt person by using
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPersonOr imagine yourself laying your hands on him and healing him by feeling sorrow or love for him.In dreams we have remarkable powers, so give it a try.
Tony