deciphering dreams

I wasn't present when my father passed away, and lately I've been having really strange dreams in which my father starts out healthy and robust then suddenly experiences a health crisis.  The dream ends just as I'm coming to his aid, of course.  A couple of nights ago I dreamt that my father was a kind of cyborg—he had wires and nozzles on his body that otherwise looked fit and whole.  We were in a house full of people, and as my father slid into crisis mode—one of his wires got caught on...