Dream Interpretation?

[calidreaming28]

Recently, a friend of a close friend of mine passed away in a very tragic car accident. I didn't know him personally, but I had met him a few times.However, since he has passed away he is constantly appearing in my dreams and my thoughts. I'm not sure why this is happening, but the dream I had last night was the most haunting. I dreamt that he had served in Iraq, and we had all thought in our town that he died overseas. A few days after everyone heard, he was back home and at a bbq at my house with my friends and family, including our mutual friend. He was still dressed in his military clothes. I was talking to him a lot and he wouldn't leave me. He didn't even speak to our mutual friend in the dream, and they were close. I kept asking him how it was possible that he was here when he had been killed, and he kept saying that anything is possible. I asked him if we were going to lose him again, and he told me that he was stop-lossed and was going back to Iraq. What does this all mean?