Surreal Experiences?

I had a surreal experience in my late teens that occasionally reappears in my dreams. When I was crossing a rural field, I was shot and a bullet was lodged in my neck. Whoever shot me was out of site.

When I got back to the place I was staying, and told the folks that I was shot and a bullet was lodged in my neck, they laughed it off and wouldn't take me seriously. That mark on my neck was just a scratch, they said. I even started to wonder if it really happened. It was a remote location, so it wasn't like I could just drop into a nearby clinic.

I did all of the usual stuff that had to be done. Chopped firewood and whatnot. But that wound in my neck remained. One afternoon, as I was by a river, I looked at my reflection in the water and could make out the mark on my neck. I gave it a good squeeze with two fingers. It kind of hurt but not terribly, so I persisted, and a 22 bullet popped out like a pimple. Feeling almost more relieved that I could be vindicated than for removing a bullet from my neck, I took it back to my temporary abode where I was being put up and showed them the bullet. They still thought I was just making it up and said it was just a bullet used to shoot a wild hare and to please stop telling tall tales.