Can you help interpret

well with extensive calculation I have figured out what your dream means. The meaning is:

nothing because its just a dream

Your brain is creating a bunch of random hypotheticals to see how you would react, in a simulation like way to train you to be more versatile (or as the theory goes). I've had some incredible fucked dreams, like my sister using a spoon dig the skin around her eyes, or me killing and eating the remains of this person. It doesn't mean much, other then that i've been watching too many crime shows recently.

I haven’t read any of the comments. I constantly have nightmares about nuclear war and/or losing someone close to me. It’s scary. I took a psychology class several years ago in high school and we talked a lot about dreams. Although no scientist can determine what exactly dreams mean, there are some common themes that I encourage you to research. I.e. teeth falling out. I did have a dream a couple days ago (amongst the nuclear war I was dreaming about😅) about teeth falling out, and I’m fairly certain that means you are scared or anxious about an upcoming event.

Many dreams have no specific meaning.

Sometimes dreams are a way that your mind works out issues. In those cases there is a meaning to real life.

Most other times its just random stuff that doesn't relate to anything going on in your life.

I'd just relax about it and stop worrying about the meaning of dreams unless you have a series of reoccurring ones (those are where the mind is working things out - and it takes time).

Focus instead on the good things in life and what you are grateful about...

I wish you well with this,

maybe the man represents a partner or friend for your sister? Like they were together but he couldn't save her even though she saved him, might be why you were mad at first but then let it go

The ocean, and in this case probably sharks too, represents mystery/unknown, so it could be a way for your mind to give you a random unprecedented happening you'd have to deal with

I read something about dreams once, you know those dreams where you're being chased or falling? Apparently they're very common, and would have helped teach our cavemen ancestors how to handle such things

Also, dreams are one way our subconscious can talk to us, our subconscious being this like omnipotent and distant aspect of our psyche

Maybe the lone shark was there to prepare you for things that happen to you that you can't control or fix, like your sister's death

The lion could show you that life carries on, don't spend too much time caught up in things otherwise it could be your undoing

You found a way to escape, but maybe the dream was getting too real and your heart was beating fast and maybe adrenaline was being released into your system

Litelander has a good point, there's not really a definitive correct answer, but you can choose to look at things however you want to, whether as a dumb dream with no meaning or as some form symbolism

I personally would choose to look at the symbolism, to not would almost be like keeping an acorn from growing into a tree because it won't even be a real tree for decades and you can eat the acorn now

You also have things like archetypes and a collective unconscious, so there's definitely a lot of symbolism out there in dream land

I feel like it’s very clear.

You’ll battle for your sister against a shark. And wind up dealing with another evil.

Have you ever had a tarot reading? You’ll find that ANY reading has ENDLESS possibilities. It’s about how you analyze it.

Also, OP, what a great read. Thank you.

It’s just a sign of frustrating circumstances in waking life, maybe some hostility there too.

I've recently been thinking that maybe all dreams have meaning, since some clearly do. However, I am also led to believe that we are not supposed to attempt to understand the message that these dreams may contain until the message has already stopped being useful. Even then, we may or may not even realize the message that the dream contained.