Traumatizing Events & Dreams. Help Please?

As much as we push things into the back of our mind during the day, they are free to creep back at night into our dreams. It's a hard situation with your boyfriend because he needs to deal with this in his waking life if he is to get any sleep. The only thing I can suggest is going to see a counselor to talk about what happened. If he has already done this then unfortunately however hard it may be it will need to accept that what ever happened, happened, even if it wasn't right etc. It's acceptance that whatever happened was then, but he is a new person now and if he can almost imagine his life is a book and that the past was a previous chapter. He will now turn the page to the new chapter.